As well as her amazing 'modern' footwear, this Mongolian 'seamstress' went to the afterlife with four changes of clothes, her sewing kit, a horse and a ram's head.

The Russian government has ordered the evacuation of North Pole-40 Arctic Station.

Russia’s coldest region struggles to tame fires intensified by lengthy heatwave in extreme north.

New technology to be tested on heating stations in eastern Russia.

Alexander Chepurnov had already recovered once when he re-infected himself in an experiment.

But how did they get to landlocked Kurgan region, 2,400 kilometres from the nearest ocean?

Mummified potentate and wife were found in burial mound 42 metres in diameter, and they went to the next life alongside 9 geldings, saddled and harnessed.

Russia is poised to present the United Nations with the scientific arguments for extending the continental shelf in the Sea of Okhotsk.

New geological evidence shows polar 'submarine elevations' as 'natural components' of Siberian continental land mass.