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'Kolchak was 'like an Englishman'-the analogy oddly recurs in an official Soviet account of the execution'
Peter Fleming, 'The Fate of Admiral Kolchak'

World’s northernmost Palaeolithic settlement found on Kotelny island in the Arctic

Ancient hunters butchered woolly mammoths at Taba-Yuryakh site some 26,000 years ago.

So who made these amazing ancient artefacts - prehistoric Homo sapiens or Denisovans?

Sledding dogs are far older than previously thought, enabling man to hunt hibernating polar bears

EXCLUSIVE: Siberian scientists announce they now have a 'high chance' to clone the woolly mammoth

Ancient bison allows scientists to travel back in time - 9,000 years

Leading Siberian scientists protect Winter Olympics from threat of bio-terror virus attacks

US scientists hail a 'Siberian microorganism' that can double the speed of cellulose digestion

Bubble trouble for East Siberian Arctic Shelf

39,000 year old brain starts to give up its secrets

Siberian scientists create anti-cancer vaccine 'which significantly prolongs life'

Astronomers in Siberia locate asteroid heading towards Earth in 2065

24,000 year old boy from Lake Baikal is 'scientific sensation'

Siberian financial whizz-kid appointed to lead Russian science

Is this unnamed Siberian tetrapod the missing link?

Siberian alert on dangers of new virulent HIV strain

Space rock finally fished out of lake in the Urals

Cancer 'cure' being developed from human breast milk, say Siberian scientists

Chelyabinsk meteorite is 'as old as the solar system', say Russian scientists

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Lifelike face of a tattooed Tashtyk man seen for first time behind a stunning gypsum death mask

Aged 25 to 30 when he died 1,700 years ago, he is from the mountainous region of modern-day Khakassia.

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Alfresco art gallery ‘shows woolly mammoths and rhinos depicted by our ancestors 15,000 years ago’

Petroglyphs some 7,000 years older than earlier thought with ancients artists using same style in Siberia and Mongolia.

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Mystery of unique 2,100-year-old human clay head - with a ram’s skull inside

Modern fluoroscopy identifies sheep bones inside the Tagar culture death mask.

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Neanderthals made two epic invasions of Siberia, says new study

Cold-defying conquests traced to 120,000 years ago when they crossbred with Denisovans, and 60,000 years ago when they collected sparkling crystals.

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Giant sauropods lived in polar conditions in world’s coldest region, say scientists

Evidence of the dinosaurs found at Teete locality in Yakutia, just 450 km south of the Arctic Circle.

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Russian birch trees are ‘climbing mountains’ due to climate change

Forests on the march thanks to global warming, says new research by Krasnoyarsk Science Centre.

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Sent to Siberia

Rookie FSB agents are punished for 'indecent' graduation jinx in Moscow
Gelandewagen parade videos leads to 'career change' as Russia demands highest standards from secret servicemen.

Born in Siberia

Up-close laboratory pictures of ancient mummy as scientists recreate his life and times
Probes taken by South Korean experts will reveal lifestyle of this Arctic boy from 800 years ago.

Voice of Siberia

Siberians mark end of the snow season with swimsuit skiing day
Locals undress to impress at resorts across four time zones.

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Lake Baikal 'holds key to new advances in antibiotics'
Scientists make crucial new discoveries of bacteria, up to 30 million years old.

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