No economy class tickets to and from Moscow available 'for three weeks': travel by train takes a week.

Marooned men went for up to 3 weeks without food on island in Laptev Sea in temperatures of minus 15C.

Tourist camps to be built at Stalinist camps where millions perished in the Soviet era, under new plan.

Drivers and passengers escaped their sinking lorries but oil is leaking into the world’s 11th longest river, prompting a local state of emergency.

Sixteen runners braved extreme temperatures at the Pole of Cold.

The distance between capital city Moscow and key Siberian cities could shrink in plan envisaged by the Kremlin leader.

New cities and industries could be created from construction of high-speed railway and motorway routes spanning whole of country.

Brain of young female Yuka, preserved in permafrost for 39,000 years, is 'identical' to today's elephants, say scientists.

This animal and its lost mother wandered some 700 km too far south 'because they couldn't go north' and got confused.