The freeze is so deep that horses - and even Rudolph - is brought indoors to warm up.
Gas bubbles from waters filling crater hole on Yamal peninsula two months after volcanic-style explosion in thawing permafrost.
Getting to Siberia for foreigners has never been easier.
The discovery of an ice-preserved female mammoth comes amid a debate on whether scientists should try to recreate the species using DNA.
Aware of accounts of mysterious relic reptiles lurking in the deep, here are the first pictures from a record breaking dive.
Real-life adventurers to a 'professional blonde' queue to participate in the ultimate brutal television reality contest, where 'rape and murder' are not banned.
Winter comes to summer including freak hailstorms, mega-flooding but also wild fires.
Olga Kurochkina has spoken out after hearing confirmation that cannibalised human remains found in the taiga were those of her husband.
Would-be participants accuse Yevgeny Pyatkovsky of cheating them over the ultimate reality game show combating bears and wolves on an Ob River island.