Your guide is the Chairman of the Tuva Republic's government, Sholban Kara-Ool.

New cities and industries could be created from construction of high-speed railway and motorway routes spanning whole of country.

Welcome to Mariinsky Pass in Altai Mountains, all ready and waiting for your admiration. 

Notorious former prison opens hostel for guests complete with solitary confinement and mandatory gruel.

Photographer seeks crowdfunding for trip to this little known natural wonder so remote that almost no pictures exist.

The Baikal Pulp and Paper Mill is to be shut down in a victory for environmental campaigners.

Economic crisis to blame for delay in plan to breathe new environmentally-friendly life into former Lake Baikal polluter.

Adventurers from Irkutsk's A1team spruce up the giant lake's shoreline, before showcasing its stunning scenery - and ancient rock paintings.

Andrey Solovyev keeps a lonely all-winter vigil in Yakutia in search of the legendary Labynkyr Devil.