Frozen Lake Baikal: Kristina Makeeva’s Photos of Cracks, Bubbles and Ice
White cracks branch across deep blue ice, and pale bubbles hang frozen beneath the surface like scattered coins. Photographer Kristina Makee...
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Simon Beck’s Snow Dragon in Yakutsk: Footprint Art on Snowshoes
Up close it is just a field of trampled snow. From above, the footprints resolve into a dragon coiled inside a giant circle. British snow a...
Inside the Yamal Crater: Photos from the 2014 Descent into Siberia's Hole
On 8 November 2014 a team from the Russian Centre of Arctic Exploration lowered itself on ropes into the giant hole that had appeared on Si...
Igarka Plane Push: Passengers Move a Frozen Tu-134 in Siberia at -52°C
On 25 November 2014, at minus 52°C in the Siberian town of Igarka, a group of passengers climbed off their bus, walked up to a Tupolev Tu-1...
Novosibirsk Hailstorm 2014: Golf-Ball Hail Hits an Ob River Beach
On Saturday 12 July 2014, a hot afternoon on the Ob River in Novosibirsk turned into a scramble for cover. Within minutes a thunderstorm sw...
Chara Sands: Siberia's Ice Age Desert Below the Kodar Mountains
In the Chara valley of Russia's Zabaykalsky Krai, a field of golden dunes rises straight out of the taiga, with the snow-streaked Kodar...
Yakutsk in Winter: Life in the World's Coldest Major City
Yakutsk is the coldest city of more than 200,000 people on Earth. The capital of Russia's Sakha Republic sits on the Lena River in easte...
Lake Baikal in Winter: Clear Ice on the World’s Deepest Lake
Lake Baikal in southern Siberia is the deepest and oldest lake on Earth: 1,642 m at its deepest point and around 25 million years old. In w...