Ancient 'wealthy' young woman was found laid to rest with her horse and weapons by workers who accidentally dug up her burial mound.

Economic crisis to blame for delay in plan to breathe new environmentally-friendly life into former Lake Baikal polluter.

Pictures show 1,835 men, women and children 'smash record' in the Siberian sun.

In distant times, parts of California and Hawaii were administered from the city of Irkutsk.

The Denisova Cave in the Altai region has given up another riveting secret to modern science, this time equine, say researchers from Novosibirsk.

Norilsk is home to the world biggest mining and metallurgy complex, and is shut off from the world in more ways than one. 

Reindeer herders find more craters in the far north in a deepening puzzle for scientists. 

Arctic permafrost is degrading much faster than expected, warn scientists from the extreme north of Yakutia.

Thousands of years ago woolly mammoths came here to die: but why?  The macabre ancient remains haunt local residents to this day. 

Chained to a tree and bitten, five-year-old Masha is used as bait to hone skills in a competition to find the best hunter.