Bird flies 500 km off course and tries to make its winter home at impossibly cold lake mountain before firefighters come to the rescue.

'Six die' as bridges swept away and 7,600 evacuated after heavy rains.

Five belugas were stranded on the same beach by the Sea of Okhotsk within less than a week.

The navigator, who served in the Navy of Peter the Great, gave his name to the Bering Strait, the Bering Sea, Bering Island, Bering Glacier and Bering Bridge.

The pink bird was 5,330 kilometres off course when it landed in subzero Krasnoyarsk region.

Intense search reveals no sign of Mil Mi-8 lost early Saturday with 12 people on board.

Not only did they pull the hefty 600-kilogram pregnant cow out of an ice hole, but they massaged her frozen limbs back to life.

Siberian airline tycoon - the Richard Branson of Russia - explains why he is stepping in to rescue stricken Transaero.