SIBERIAN TAIGA, Russia -- Agafia Lykova emerges from the thick forest on the banks of the Abakan River like an image from Russian folklore. Dressed in ragged black sackcloth with a tattered head scarf ...

With more than a month still to go in Siberia's annual fire season, more than 1.5 million hectares (3.7 million acres) of Yakutia's swampy coniferous taiga has ...

KEMEROVO, December 11. /TASS/. The authorities of Russia’s Kemerovo Region are taking measures to warm up the house of Old Believer recluse Agafya Lykova, who has been living in the taiga all alone ...

We invite architecture students, professional architects and designers to take part in the international architectural contest of ideas for Siberia “ARCH_TAIGA”. The project “ARCH_TAIGA” was created ...

Beginning 8,000 years ago, hunter-gatherers in the forests of northern Russia built some of the world’s earliest fortified settlements This aerial photograph shows the western Siberian taiga ...

A new study finds that, contrary to previous beliefs, large amounts of aerosol particles can form over vast areas of the West Siberian taiga in the spring. When temperatures rise, this can have a ...

MOSCOW, October 7. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin went for a walk in the Siberian taiga and climbed a mountain ahead of his birthday on Monday. As it was promised earlier by Russian ...

Russian Agafia Lykova lives in solitude in a remote part of southern Siberia where her family moved before her birth in 1945 to escape religious persecution under Soviet dictator Josef Stalin. Her ...