Giant ramparts guarded Altai Mountains against attack from the north, says leading archeologist Professor Andrey Borodovsky. The wall complex - now almost hidden to the naked eye - is believed to ...

There are a lot of theories over mysterious 1,300-year-old fortress-like structure located on island in middle of lake. With its island location and towering square walls that were once ...

A weird medieval 'dancing skeleton' has been unearthed in Russian Far East, and amazed archeologists by his pose. The 'Dark Ages dancer' is believed to have been aged around 30 when he died between ...

Find-of-the-year by Novosibirsk archeologists is a toy that entertained prehistoric babies. The remarkable discovery of one of the oldest toys in the world came from excavations at a Bronze Age ...

Irkutsk powerlifter Oksana Kosheleva, 34, cheered on by locals, is claiming a new world record. Siberia's strongest sportswoman dragged the trams some 5 metres along the rails in the deep cold in ...

Have you heard of the term ‘quasicrystal’? Well, you might have had, in some science journal, research paper or the Discovery channel. There are many attributes about these things. However, before ...

A mysterious 2,400 year old Ust-Taseyevsky stone idol with distinctly European features underwent extraordinary 'plastic surgery' in the early Middle Ages to make it more Asian looking, ...

The small town of Oymyakon, Russia is generally regarded as the coldest permanently inhabited place on the planet. The temperatures here have been recorded as low as -58 degrees Fahrenheit and only ...

The Siberian soul, Yenisei River in the hero of many legends, it is translated from the Evenki language as the “Great River.” It rises in Mongolia and flows northwards where it drains a large area ...

The intriguing find of the remains of a 4,500-year-old 'noblewoman' clutching a young child in a grave was made was made in the Republic of Khakassia. This discovery from ancient Okunev Culture is ...

All people know Russia is a Northern country with snow, frost, cold winter. All keep in mind pictures of taiga, Siberia, polar bears and vodka. It is true that 65% of the country is covered with ...

According to the Russian Security Council, they have presented a draft of a transport and logistic corridors connecting Siberia, the Far East and The Arctic to the government and now waiting for its ...

South Korean specialists are opening the new Mammoth Center in Siberia, which is dedicated to nothing else but bringing the ancient creatures back to life. The cloning guru professor Hwang ...

Sakha Republic - or Yakutia in Russia gets very cold indeed. Temperatures can dip to -70 °C (-94 °F) and its capitol, Yakutsk, is the coldest city in the northern hemisphere. There is life in the ...