Forest infernos will be extinguished by the weekend, pledges government, as wildfires become political issue in Moscow.
Plane schedules disrupted, residents warned to stay indoors, sailors had to use GPS to get back to land because of thick smoke fumes from raging forest fires.
Hi-tech technologies have been used to track smoke plumes from forest fires burning across eastern Russia as they cross the Pacific.
'All forest wildfires extinguished' in Siberian Federal District, say officials, but peat flames still raging.
Hunting inspector Vladimir Malkov rescued the wild animal as a baby after its mother perished in wildfires.
With smoke having blown as far as the US and Canada, experts now say 'the trend is positive' in controlling fires raging from the Urals to the Pacific.
Lena Pillars, a World Heritage Site, hit by the rampant flames, as calls grow for greater efforts to tackle infernos.
Local photographer captures pillars of smoke rising above the underground peat fire.
‘Taiga burning’ - as scared bears are driven out of their natural habitat towards settlements where they are shot as danger to people.
Locals in north of Yakutia said daylight was completely gone for several hours.