The Siberian Times

A lone roe deer in a burnt forest of Churapchinsky district of Yakutia, east of Yakutsk. The wildfires are still active; more human force/equipment & much cooler, rainier weather should help. The current area burnt by Yakutia's wildfires is over 7mln hectares #wildfires2021Russiapic.twitter.com/1vxW0JDuvw

The Uymon (Uymonskaya) steppe in central Altai mountains, the Altai Republic. Pictures by local guides and photographers Alexei Salamatov and Katerina Rudykhpic.twitter.com/ncrvMRVOIP

19.7 billion rubles of Norilsk Nickel’s record $2bn fine over last year’s catastrophic Arctic oil spill will be used to resettle residents of Norilsk from old housing. Norilsk is Russia’s capital of nickel, platinum, palladium & copper. Pix by local photographer Demyan Bulavinetspic.twitter.com/gcYP0rq8pP

Block of flats in Yakutsk that broke apart last summer is getting demolished, residents are receiving new flats. Most of real estate in Yakutsk is built on deep piles sunk into permafrost, to allow for ground to cool down in winters. Our earlier story https://siberiantimes.com/other/others/news/two-storey-residential-building-breaks-apart-in-yakutsk-russias-permafrost-capital/ …pic.twitter.com/UMjfNCszTF

Most experienced pilots of Yakutia’s Polar Airlines continue working on wildfires in four of republic’s districts. Weather is getting cooler and rainier, since the end of August is basically start of autumn for Russia’s coldest region #wildfires2021Russiapic.twitter.com/BTEeH657p1

Bodies of all eight victims of 12 August Mi-8 helicopter crash were lifted from Lake Kurilskoye at the Kamchatka peninsula; rescuers are working on the plan of lifting the helicopter from the depth of 110mpic.twitter.com/O7vXlq2UqG

for last year's festival Grisha collaborated with Russian artists; more on his instagram @etosharovpic.twitter.com/aXpPTFjAXk

Super cool street-art festival in Irkutsk region, with local Grisha Sharov ‘inviting’ artists from all over the world to Bratsk. They won’t be travelling to Siberia, but Grisha will be painting their works around the city - like these by Alex Senna/Brazil and R1 from South Africapic.twitter.com/9c1PKSIkWS

Dozens of wood bisons were saved from Yakutia's wildfires thanks to new equipment fundraised by supporters of @wwfRU Fire was 700m from the wood bison reserve at the Siine park; now animals are safe. Video via Yakutia’s Ministry of Ecology/WWF Russia #wildfires2021Russiapic.twitter.com/BiM3AvAGBz

and unreported scores of the ones that couldn't be rescuedpic.twitter.com/r85OhuzYlS

A young Great grey owl (Strix nebulosa) rescued from a wildfire at the Suntarsky district of Yakutia, west of republic's capital Yakutsk. Yakutia, Russia’s coldest and largest territory has been fighting devastating wildfires since early May #wildfires2021Russiapic.twitter.com/c2osT0ZOOM

Scientists to deploy neural network to assemble a database of endangered (in Russia) walruses; teams of Nenetsky nature reserve, @wwfRU & Moscow Institute of Physics & Technology spent 3 weeks gathering data from photo traps at Matveyev Island, one of the largest summer rookeriespic.twitter.com/fhaBR9212h

First railway bridge between Russia & China is complete. Final metres of 2.2km crossing known as Tongjiang–Nizhneleninskoye railway bridge across river Amur were finished today. Chinese partners finished their part 3 years ago. First train will cross the bridge later this monthpic.twitter.com/T4QxrhpC1n

Last days of summer on the streets of Tomsk, one of the oldest cities and home to the first university not only in Siberia, but in all of Asian Russia from the Urals to the Pacific. Pictures by local photographer Alexander Petrovpic.twitter.com/5tpWzBpihR

Artists of Yakutia’s Opera & Ballet Theatre join fire-extinguishing efforts as volunteer firefighters. This week’s forecast is a cooler +20C air t for Yakutia, with rains. Yakutia, Russia's coldest republic has been fighting devastating wildfires since May #wildfires2021Russiapic.twitter.com/1XtjhtmC6M

Aerial view of a wildfire currently raging at the Namsky district north of Yakutsk; more than 170 fires are still active across Russia's coldest region, Minister of Emergency Zinichev arrived to Yakutia several days ago #wildfires2021Russiapic.twitter.com/QUBX1WZkdQ

40 flights delayed at Yakutsk airport as visibility is 150+ metres due to heavy smoke from wildfires and mist. Ferry service across river Lena paused, too. Yakutia, Russia's coldest and biggest republic has been fighting devastating wildfires since early May #wildfires2021Russiapic.twitter.com/s7SOk4iYFF

Happy Archeologist Day on Russia’s informal professional holiday celebrated every 15 August. Can’t wait for results of this year’s season at The Denisova Cave, the Tunnug-1 expedition in Tuva, the Volchya Griva mammoth graveyard & all Khakassia and the Yamal peninsula expeditionspic.twitter.com/4Vyp5uzdFn

New picture of the cave bear found last year in the thawing permafrost of Yakutia. Hopefully this autumn we’ll get more details like the exact dating from the scientific team... and likely after this summer there will be more finds; our earlier story here https://siberiantimes.com/other/others/news/first-ever-preserved-grown-up-cave-bear-even-its-nose-is-intact-unearthed-on-the-arctic-island/ …pic.twitter.com/ti5psFZHnR