However, during summer, Yakutsk can get warmer than the UK, with average temperatures climbing after late winter and thawing out by May. July sees highs of 26C, while August varies between 22C and 9C.

Yakutsk is a remote city in Eastern Siberia (population 200,000) famous for two things: appearing in the classic board game Risk, and the fact that it can, convincingly, claim to be the coldest ...

YAKUTSK, Russia, July 18 (Reuters) - Russia's state forest agency said it was fighting 222 separate blazes across 20 regions on Thursday as an unusually hot summer fuels forest fires, ...

Smoke from fires raging across Russia's vast forest wilderness has engulfed the far eastern city of Yakutsk, forcing citizens to close doors and windows despite the summer heat, ...

Aurora Airlines, together with its operator partner KrasAvia Airline, is increasing the number of flights on a socially significant route from Krasnoyarsk to Yakutsk for the summer period of 2023.