That’s how he ended up in Yakutsk, Russia. The capital city of the vast (1.2 million square miles) Siberian region known as the Sakha Republic, Yakutsk is widely identified as the world’s ...

Samuil has lived in the heart of the Yakutsk forest five hours away from civilisation ... The 67-year-old even moved away from his former small village in Russia because life was ‘quite boring’.

YAKUTSK, Russia -- Flooding in the Siberian region of Yakutia has eased after Russian bombers blasted a massive ice jam. The jets rained explosives on the 29 km (18-mile) plug of ice on the Lena ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived on Monday in the country’s eastern Siberian city of Yakutsk to meet with students and faculty of a local university and visit the construction site of a ...