In other words, the megaslump is "slowly encroaching upon the landscape like a living thing", said Treehugger. Locals in Siberia have mixed feelings about the unusual chasm, said Yahoo News.

MOSCOW, January 16. /TASS/. Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov believes that the idea of relocating Russia’s capital city from Moscow to Irkutsk in southeastern Siberia is simply not practicable.

Irkutsk is in fact the dam that holds and controls this huge expanse of water, uniting parts of the whole of Siberia in a special version of the ‘one indivisible Russia’. The Irkutsk ...

Every winter in Russia's east, rivers that vein the enormous open spaces of Siberia freeze solid. Once the cold begins to bite, life for most people in the region turns inward. But for one group ...

Siberia, with its long, brutal winters, has been a favorite spot for Russian leaders to send convicts for labor-camp sentences for the past four to five centuries. There are large expanses of ...

Russian scientists have uncovered the remains of a 50,000-year-old baby mammoth in Siberia, preserved in the ... by local residents living nearby. "They saw that the mammoth had almost completely ...