Russia is believed to have 20,000 abandoned ... silence settled upon Kadykchan - today the largest ghost town in Siberia. A walk through the abandoned town offers such apocalyptic sights as ...

A large crater in Siberia is getting bigger due to the way permafrost interacts with the environment. It is helping scientists understand more about past climates and how the permafrost is ...

Research teams from Russia and the United States are racing to find out what this means for Siberia, and potentially the rest of the world. Based on the BBC Future article 'The mystery of Siberia ...

Every winter in Russia's east, rivers that vein the enormous open spaces of Siberia freeze solid. Once the cold begins to bite, life for most people in the region turns inward. But for one group ...

TASS/. Four Persian leopards brought up at Russia’s leopard reintroduction center in the North Caucasus, have successfully passed exams and are ready to live in the wild, the director general of ...

A video, which earlier appeared in the Internet, showed a group of rotation workers ruthlessly running over a wild bear with a truck. Russia’s Administrative Code stipulates a fine anywhere in ...

Located in southern eastern Siberia, Russia, Lake Baikal holds the title of world's deepest lake, with a maximum depth of 5,315 feet. It's also one of the Earth's oldest freshwater lakes ...

Russia plans to build the world's longest undersea tunnel, a 64-mile transport and pipeline link that would run from Siberia to Alaska and supply the United States with oil, natural gas and ...