Lake Baikal is the world's largest freshwater lake by volume, known as the "Galapagos of Russia." However, the unusual body ...

Imagine a vast lake that could easily engulf the combined water of all the Great Lakes in North America and then some. That's ...

In the study, scientists provided the genetic data for 13 Neanderthals from two Middle Palaeolithic sites in the Altai Mountains of southern Siberia — 11 from the Chagyrskaya Cave and two from ...

MOSCOW (AP) — An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.4 struck Russia’s Altai Republic in southern Siberia on Saturday morning, according to Russian seismologists. The quake occurred at 8:48 a.m ...

A style of primitive stone tools named for the French site where they were first discovered have shown up half a world away.

This story appears in the July 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. In the Altay Mountains of southern Siberia, some 200 miles from where Russia touches Mongolia, China, and Kazakhstan ...

Across Siberia and Russia's far eastern regions, more than 120 memorials to participants in the invasion of Ukraine have been installed at a cost of at least 500 million rubles ($5.6 million) over ...