The skill of ivory softening was used more than 12,000 years ago to make tools - or decorations - that still puzzle modern science.
Prehistoric people developed a technique for making a playdough-like material from mammoth ivory
Cows in the world’s coldest inhabited place have to wear mouton bras for outdoor walks
Beauty of frozen methane bubbles on the world’s deepest lake shown in stunning video
Lifelike face of a tattooed Tashtyk man seen for first time behind a stunning gypsum death mask
Next ‘stop’ Kara Sea in the Arctic Ocean?
Alfresco art gallery ‘shows woolly mammoths and rhinos depicted by our ancestors 15,000 years ago’
Mystery of unique 2,100-year-old human clay head - with a ram’s skull inside
The day the world’s most polluted city was in Siberia
The Leo Express: a rescued Amur leopard is sent on a 9h flight across Russia to cure back tumour
A peer traveller falls knee-deep in ice-cold water
Flying with the wind and climbing ice poles
I'm on the frozen surface of the world's deepest lake - and then there is an earthquake
The ‘Iron Lady’ of Siberia invites you to visit Yakutsk, the world’s coldest city
Siberians to get a taste for Pad Thai, Tom Yum Goong and Som Tum
Cannes? No, Kansk!
Awakening after winter, Siberians pour cold water over themselves
Beauty Against Cancer: inspiring pictures show women fighting back
Coming soon: 'Chateau Permafrost', wine from Siberia
200-plus agreements worth $27 billion at forum to 'open up Russian Far East'
Cleaning Baikal, then enjoying the gleaming nature of its surrounding mountains
Accent on age: fashion blogger sets up Russia's first oldie modelling agency
Hundreds of volunteers joined police and turned every stone to find scared and frostbitten Yana.
Only a handful of such cubs worldwide have been successfully nurtured in captivity.
Sardana Avksentyeva, 51, is known across the world as The Iron Lady of Siberia.
Tomsk journalist created stunning tropical island image in -25C snow to cheer up locals during Covid-19 travel restrictions.
Up to six more people are feared to be buried beneath the deep snow in temperatures of -25C outside Norilsk.