A gargantuan investment in economic development across many eastern Russian regions was confirmed in Irkutsk by En+ Group.
The 152-inmate prison will be in Yeniseisk, 3218 kilometres east of Moscow, said a senior official.
Pictures show 1,835 men, women and children 'smash record' in the Siberian sun.
Giant airships seen as ideal way to transport heavy lifting equipment to remote mining locations.
Photographer Svetlana Kazina shows off washing day in the Altai Mountains - and her loo roll with frostbite!
Teenager is set on fire before diving five floors into a pile of snow.
To the outside world, the resort of Sheregesh is as well known for Yeti as skiing or snowboarding.
Journalist Kate Baklitskaya today begins an epic 3 month tour of some of Siberia's most iconic places.