architecture

Viktoria Povesma, 20, went missing after night out with friends, and later her severed head was found in a plastic bag.

Reputed to be the largest train station in Russia, it takes an area of almost 30,000 m2, and can simultaneously host 4,000 passengers. 

Novosibirsk Glavniy Train Station is designed like a steam engine, heading East, with interiors which one of the visitors described like: ‘Huge and decorated like a concert hall in Vienna...high ceiling, big chandeliers, the architecture - it is unique!’

Kamvari Architects won an open international competition to design information kiosks along the world's most famous rail route.

Sculptor Dashi Namdakov pays homage to extinct woolly giant in innovative design aimed at becoming Buryatia's 'brand'.

Ekaterina and Yulia popularise yoga in Tynda but taking it into the great outdoors.

Spaso-Zashiverskaya has survived wars, permafrost, and a smallpox outbreak that wiped out its congregation.

This is a small 3* hotel compared with some of Novosibirsk's cavernous options, with 33 rooms -  studios, luxury rooms and apartments available as well as standard singles and doubles - aimed mainly at the business traveller. 

The hotel offers conference hall, sitting 120 people.  

There is a round-the-clock grill bar and several saunas with billiards. All rooms are air-conditioned, with television and minibars. 

Pioneering research in Novosibirsk can help formulate cures for depression in European people.

Experts still divided over mysterious 1,300-year-old fortress-like structure located on island in middle of lake.