Among those hurt are eight children, say the emergency services.

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.

Russia is to launch an unmanned mission to the Moon as the first blast-off from the new Cosmodrome currently being constructed in Amur region.

In fact, the 'rain’ turning all cars red in a Norilsk parking lot is a sign that pollution IS finally being tackled.

Airline Rossiya paints unique livery of an endangered Amur leopard on a Boeing 777-300.

Almost poached to extinction, these pictures highlight the way the endangered species is recovering thanks to Russian preservation measures.

Many dozens of skeletons, bones and coffins from old graveyard found as water level lowers.

Before Yuri Gagarin conquered space for humans, some 29 flights took place with dogs, the unsung heroes of man's arrival in the cosmos.

Clocks change for the final time, except in Kemerovo, Kamchatka and Chukotka. Confused?

The remarkable annual Beringia dog sled race will go through some of the planet's remotest and most challenging territory in Kamchatka.