Novosibirsk Archipelago

Its residents will live in a vast man-made 'igloo' to protect them from polar temperatures and some of the most biting winds on the planet.

Russia has been made officially larger following the chance discovery of a previously unknown island off the northern coast of Siberia.

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

Remnants of this land mass still exist in Russia, the US, Canada and Greenland, says groundbreaking new research.

Across the Russian polar regions, these eye-catching pictures show how thawing soil leads to territories being washed away.

Valuable obsidian travelled during Early Holocene times from Lake  Krasnoe in Chukotka to Zhokhov Island deep in the Arctic.

After this year's discovery of uncongealed mammoth blood, experts are confident of new discoveries.