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Our intrepid Far Eastern explorer gets it into his head to trek through uninhabited wilds in order to ascend his region’s tallest peak. Not all goes to plan.

Russian scientists are researching the cause of a massive die-off of marine life off the coast of Kamchatka in October.

How one sparsely-populated region in Russia's Far East became a hotbed of protests in 2020.

Some of Russia's less-traveled regions are hoping to grow a booming ecotourism sector.

A Lenin statue in Russia's Far East temporarily sported a new 'do.

This week's Odder News features three survival stories: survival in the Russian wilderness, on the internet, and in a world filled with cell phones.

What was the spring of 1969 like in the Soviet Union? A cloud of gloom had descended on the country, enveloping both those who could not see it (or at least thought it had nothing to do with them) and those only too aware of it.

In 1947, on the 17th day of February, one of the largest meteorites to strike the Earth in the twentieth century fell in the Russian Far East. Its landing site was a perfect spot from which to watch the Geminid meteor showers.