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Autumn at remote Wrangel island. It was here that the world’s last woolly mammoth died some 4,000 years ago; now its Russia's northernmost nature reserve, a weather station, a Russian military base - and the world's largest maternity hospital for polar bears
...and now the North Pole. 'This week, wildfire smoke has travelled more than 3,000km (1,864 mi) from Yakutia to reach the North Pole, a feat that appears to be a first in recorded history' -https://t.co/2CNtnlDjse #wildfires2021Russia
First pictures of today's solar eclipse from Yakutia via Boris Semenov, Kate Volobuyeva and News Yakutsk
Long-term plan of socio-economic development of Norilsk, Russia’s capital of nickel, palladium & copper in the north of Krasnoyarsk region is to be ready within months, local authorities said. The draft plan assumes investments of 217.6 billion roubles. Pictures by Vitas Beneta
Train engine and railway traffic lights cold weather light show in Norilsk, pictures by train engine driver and photographer Sergey Dokukin
Cold evening in Norilsk, north of Krasnoyarsk region, pictures by Demyan Bulavinets
The discovery was possible thanks to a tiny fragment of a little girl’s finger bone, found inside the Denisova Cave in the Altai mountains. An artistic impression of the Denisovan Girl is shown in these cards - below pix are of insides of the cards
December evening in Tomsk, pictures by photographer Yevgeny Malinin
Natalia Polosmak, one of the leading experts of Pazyryk nomads speaks abt this unique Iron Age culture for New Archaeology. In 1993 she found 'Ukok Princess', a mummy of tattooed Pazyryk woman with the world’s best preserved & most elaborate body artwork https://t.co/GzZmYHRF8m
Gateway to lake Baikal, Irkutsk during the time of #Covid19 pandemic drawn by Roman Bayanov. Roman's works are currently exhibited in Viktor Bronshteyn's art gallery in Irkutsk