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Transbaikal diaries: Up and down the bear tracks

Transbaikal diaries: Up and down the bear tracks

Let a Siberian travel expert take you to the Kodar Mountains

Visiting the Evenks: Daily life in Eastern Siberia

Visiting the Evenks: Daily life in Eastern Siberia

How this indigenous people lives in the past, present and future

Tofalaria: How people and deer coexist in the Siberian taiga

Tofalaria: How people and deer coexist in the Siberian taiga

Stories of the Eastern Sayan indigenous peoples

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Folk holiday in Surgut, Siberia

My Town: Natasha's Surgut

In our new series, My Town, ordinary Russians introduce you to their...

Lake Baikal, Siberia

From Lake Baikal to Altai Mountains: Russia’s Siberian UNESCO treasures

RBTH takes a look at Russia’s 26 UNESCO heritage sites.

Volunteers particularly seem to enjoy lectures on local culture

Why do Russians and foreigners go on archaeological expeditions to Siberia?

For several years now dozens of volunteers from Russia and other countries ...

Go into the wild: a ski journey through the Siberian taiga

Into the wild: Skiing through the Siberian taiga

The fabulous Siberian taiga – the glittering snow piled high in banks, the ...

Daursky nature reserve, Siberia, Russia

Dauria: In the heart of the ancient Eurasia

Dauria is a fascinating destination in Siberia at the southern edge of the ...

Don't let the cold get you down: go underground to one of Siberia's wonderful winter caves

Sometimes it’s warmer underground: Siberia’s most beautiful winter caves

In the depths of a Siberian winter you can find warmth in cafes and...

Peer into the Soviet past at Marble Gorge, a living museum to the Gulag

In search of Soviet history: Northern Siberia's living Gulag museum

Many of the most interesting and extraordinary places in Siberia are often ...

A view of the Kodar ridge from the Chara sands, Siberia

A walk in Siberia’s northern desert: Hot sands, taiga and mosquitoes

Did you know that there’s a desert in Siberia? The Chara Sands area north...

The most famous temple of Irkutsk designed in neo-Byzantine style

Irkutsk to Krasnoyarsk: The road between two of Siberia’s most thriving...

The highway between the cities of Irkutsk and Krasnoyarsk passes through...

Falling in love with tundra while visiting Surgut is inevitable

Surgut: Reindeer riding and oil tourism in the middle of the Russian tundra

There arguably is no other major city on earth where oil is so wrapped up...

Snowboarding u bikiniju u alpskom planinskom rezortu Šeregeš/ RIA Novosti / Aleksandar Krjažev

Sheregesh: Alpine skiing in the heart of Siberia

Pursuing a yeti, snowboarding in a bikini and exciting freestyle skiing...

Permafrost is widespread, especially in the north of Krasnoyarsk Territory

A journey to the northern edge of the world: To Igarka by the Yenisei river

The northern edge of the world, or “Kraesvetsk” is what Victor Astafyev...

The snow leopard, or irbis, at the Sayano-Shushensky Reserve

Protected Siberia: Encounters with wild nature

Riding the Trans-Siberian Railway and seeing the dense taiga through the...

Totem poles in the village of Okunevo, the Omsk region

Healing waters, dead lakes and Cossack sites: A trip around the Omsk Region

These remote and mysterious locations in the Omsk region offer exotic...

Wooden church in Taltsy open-air museum in Angara

Siberian open-air museums: Perfect for fall sojourns

Siberia is often associated with frost, thus it is hardly surprising that...

Insider’s guide to Yekaterinburg: A journey through space and time

A city view of Omsk

Traveler’s guide to the city of Omsk, Western Siberia’s secret gem

Omsk's industrial suburbs look off-putting but the gently attractive...

Novosibirsk. A brigde across the Ob river

A traveler's guide to Novosibirsk, the unofficial capital of Siberia

One hundred years ago this megapolis was a tiny settlement near the Ob...

Optina Monastery

The most incredible journeys taken by the greatest of Russia’s literary...

From Tolstoy’s final journey, to Yerofeev’s regional tour: the greatest...

Oymyakon: How do you survive in the coldest place on Earth

Residents of the village of Oymyakon are used to the many contradictions...

Krasnoyarsk Pillars national Reserve, Siberia

The master of the taiga: the perils of life where the brown bears roam...

Why do bears still wander the streets of Russian cities and how should you ...

Russia's Nessie: 5 places to search for Lake Monsters

Deep-water dives in the icy, Siberian depths of Yakutia’s Lake Labynkyr...