Previously unknown subspecies confirmed by DNA tests and probably numbering around 400.

A methane explosion at  Mine No. 7 in the Prokopyevsky district of Kemerovo region led to the deaths of four miners.

New discovery of rare crystal Rosenbergite at 'burning ice' site where earth is hot despite temperatures of minus 35C.

Harry Potter joins Vladimir Lenin in coal-mining Kemerovo.

The quake could be a world record for a tremor caused with involvement by humans, it is claimed.

The 5.3 tremor was felt over a wide area but was centred some 21km from Belovo in Kemerovo region.

Found 30 metres underground at a coal mine, they're dubbed 'Jurassic pearls' or the marbles of a Siberian colossus. 

Once the coal mining capital of Central Kolyma, it was ghosted after the 1996 mine explosion.

29 carriages with coal went off the rails on the Trans-Siberian line in Irkutsk region.

Separately, 18 frozen bear paws hidden in coal cargo train nabbed by customs.