Siberia

Neanderthals who lived in Siberian cave millenia apart were distant relatives, study finds

Further analysis of the genetic similarity showed that Neanderthals in the Altai region likely lived in groups of fewer than 50 people.

|ByMIRIAM SELA-EITAM
World's oldest Neanderthal fingerprint found on 43,000-year-old pebble in Spain. Illustration.
Rescuers work at the scene after a tour bus carrying Chinese tourists plunged into the ice‑covered waters of Lake Baikal in the Irkutsk region, Russia, February 20, 2026.

Seven bodies recovered after Chinese tour bus falls through frozen Lake Baikal in Siberia

The ministry said rescuers had conducted an inspection of the scene using an underwater camera and that diving operations were planned.

|ByREUTERS
A piece of tissue from a woolly rhinoceros that was found inside the stomach of an Ice Age grey wolf puppy discovered in permafrost near the Russian village of Tumat in northeastern Siberia is seen in a laboratory in Vienna, Austria, in this handout picture taken in 2020.

Scientists recover genome from woolly rhino eaten by Ice Age wolf puppy - study

Researchers have extracted DNA and recovered the rhino's genome from a chunk of undigested meat from the stomach contents found in a wolf puppy's remains.

|ByWILL DUNHAM/REUTERS
Belarusian citizen Sergei Yeremeyev, who is accused of carrying out an act of terrorism and of planting explosives on two freight trains in Russia's Buryatia region on the orders of Ukraine's intelligence services in 2023, attends a court hearing in Chita, Russia.

Russia jails man for 22 years for blowing up trains in Siberia at Ukraine's behest

A Russian military court jailed a Belarusian man for 22 years over two 2023 bomb attacks on freight trains in Siberia that Moscow says were ordered by Ukraine’s intelligence services.

|ByREUTERS

A synagogue in Siberia has a 10-foot menorah made of ice

The menorah was made by Seva Mayorov, a local non-Jewish artist whose work also features regularly at the annual Tomsk Ice Park exhibition.

DECEMBER 10, 2020ByCNAAN LIPHSHIZ/JTA
Snow falls on a Hanukkah Menorah made of ice in Tomsk, Russia on Dec. 8, 2020.

Russian opposition leader Navalny in hospital with suspected poisoning

Navalny, a fierce critic of President Vladimir Putin, had started feeling ill when returning to Moscow from Tomsk in Siberia by plane on Wednesday morning.

AUGUST 20, 2020ByREUTERS
Alexei Navalny 370

Woolly mammoth skeleton found in lake in Russia's Arctic

Part of its skull, several ribs and foreleg bones, some with soft tissue still attached to them, were retrieved from Russia's remote Yamal peninsula above the Arctic circle on July 23

JULY 28, 2020ByREUTERS
Skeleton of a mammoth, in the George C. Page Museum, Los Angeles, California

Book review: Dressed for a Dance in the Snow

A complex story of suffering and hope from women who survived Siberian imprisonment

FEBRUARY 7, 2020ByPAMELA S. NADELL
Dressed for a Dance in the Snow, By Monika Zgustova

Majestic ice menorah ready for Hanukkah in freezing Siberia

The menorah is expected to stand outside the synagogue in Tomsk until it warms up around Pesach.

DECEMBER 23, 2019ByROSSELLA TERCATIN
Ice menorah for Hanukkah in Tomsk, Siberia, December 2019.