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'Lake Baikal's ability to purify itself is down to an endemic microscopic shrimp called epischura baikalensis'

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Porsche gears up for electric road trip across Siberia

Drivers take 12 days covering 7,000km to see how new 'plug-in' rechargeable cars cope with climate and landscape.

First pictures of US warplane lost over Siberia in 1943

The Douglas A-20 Havoc (DB-7) loaned to the USSR under the World War II Lend-Lease programme.

Saluting air heroes as US wartime planes land again in Anadyr after seven decades

The Alaska-Siberia flight recalls historic Second World War supply route which helped defeat Nazism.

Picture that proves Man hunted the woolly mammoth

This is the clearest evidence that our ancestors speared and killed the extinct giant.

Like commuters in Beijing metro: Chinese tourists walk to hotel across frozen Baikal

Police warn that the foreign visitors are 'risking their lives' on world's deepest lake.

First skeletal animals on Earth 'lived in Siberia 20 million years earlier than previously thought'

New find expected to 'change our understanding of the evolution of animals'.

The remarkable church that has somehow withstood three centuries of turmoil

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

Where in Siberia is the last Tsar of Russia's 'missing' gold?

This year sees the 400th anniversary of the House of Romanov, the Russian royal family thrown on the scrapheap of history in 1917.

Now Siberian craters could provide energy of future

High levels of ‘fire ice’ trapped in permafrost may turn Russia into a global leader of new gas sources.

Probably the best sunsets in the world

Welcome to Mariinsky Pass in Altai Mountains, all ready and waiting for your admiration.

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Rookie FSB agents are punished for 'indecent' graduation jinx in Moscow

Gelandewagen parade videos leads to 'career change' as Russia demands highest standards from secret servicemen.

Born in Siberia

Up-close laboratory pictures of ancient mummy as scientists recreate his life and times

Probes taken by South Korean experts will reveal lifestyle of this Arctic boy from 800 years ago.

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Siberians mark end of the snow season with swimsuit skiing day

Locals undress to impress at resorts across four time zones.

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Lake Baikal 'holds key to new advances in antibiotics'

Scientists make crucial new discoveries of bacteria, up to 30 million years old.

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