The successful bid was at one of Siberia's most popular winter sports resorts - Sheregesh.
We take a trip to Mount Mamai in the Republic of Buryatia, well-known to local snow fanatics, but still a secret to many outsiders.
A two-tailed comet should be visible with the naked eye on Friday and following nights in Novosibirsk, say astronomers.
Amazing new pictures show a endangered Amur leopard with a cub.
It's an udder way to travel as prize winner is chauffeured home.
It's minus 25C but Vlad and Sasha find a scenic spot to practice, inspired by the Winter Olympics.
In distant times, parts of California and Hawaii were administered from the city of Irkutsk.
Techno-capital Tomsk goes global to advertise for students.
Male students from a dormitory block in Yakutsk, in north eastern Siberia, wanted to do something special to mark International Women's Day