All ice crossings shut in Irkutsk region, local emergency service on top alert.

Up to 300,000 people a year expected to pass through Sabetta International as region gears up to become a gas powerhouse.

So far the only hotel in Akademgorodok, Novosibirsk's educational and scientific satellite community. Its name in Russian is 'Zolotaya Dolina', with locals quite often referring to it as 'ZD'. 

The Golden Valley is ideally located for more than 20 research institutes and the House of Scientists which are all in walking distance. Ob sea beach on the bank of the reservoir filled in 1959 is also just a walk away through some stunningly beautiful pine and birth tree forests. 

Unpretentious, The Golden Valley hotel offers ‘an excellent possibility for inexpensive but comfortable shelter for travellers’.  

A production of Wagner's opera 'Tannhauser' seen as offending devout Orthodox believers.

Government announces $1.8 bln package, while volunteers from all over the wolrd collect more than 450 tonnes of trash from the shoreline of the unique lake.

Skin and skull of rare animal was hidden in the suspect's car.

A shocking image of a tortured dog - killed after being tied to a rope and pulled by a car around a village - has appalled Siberians.

Yevgeny Mezdrikov wounded after two men posing as couriers  entered offices of Tayga.info website.

Amateur photographer who takes samurai sword for protection in lonely taiga captures the stunning majesty spreading its colours in the sky.