Located in 20 km from Sukkozero lake in Karelia, Vottovaara mountain is famous for its boulder strewn landscape. As glacial ice retreated about 10,000 years ago, it left behind strange boulders, known to locals as Seida, Seyda or Seid (Finnish…
Located near the small Russian town of Orda, 100 miles east of the city of Perm, Ordinskaya Cave is an extensive gypsum cave system with very brittle rock and no flow inside. Conditions were harsh with temperatures reaching -40C outside,…
This old mining outpost, called Pyramid and abandoned in 1998, is on the Arctic Ocean island of Spitsbergen. An anomaly, it is a deserted Soviet town that is in fact in Norway, just 1300 km from the North Pole. And…
People have been hiding things beneath Moscow for centuries: Byzantine libraries, Ivan the Terrible’s secret torture chamber, and Catherine the Great’s underground canal network. So it’s unsurprising that Stalin got in on the action. Metro-2 is the name given to…
Since ancient times, the vast Lake Baikal has been known as deeply mysterious, but in the closing years of the Soviet era, and since, it has been the location of a number of alleged sightings of aliens and UFOs. Initially…
The woolly mammoth could be brought back from the dead and placed in a real-life ‘Jurassic World’ in Siberia, under proposals put forward by eminent scientists. An international team of experts has managed to catalogue the entire mammoth genome, an…
One of the biggest mysteries in Russia remains the ‘missing’ gold of the last Tsar of Russia – worth ‘up to £50 billion’ at today’s prices – which is believed to be stashed or lost in Siberia. Missing Gold Some…
Russian ape woman Zana – Was she a real life Yeti? Professor Bryan Sykes of the University of Oxford claims a towering woman named Zana who lived in 19th Century Russia – and appeared to be ‘half human, half ape’…
The strange stone like object that is thought to be Older than Mammoth Bones was discovered recently in Siberia. Archeologists were able to check the stone but have yet to reveal their analysis, said one report. The object is almost…
Satellite images revealed dozens of craters in Russia’s northern region of Siberia this year, a phenomenon that has been perplexing scientists since 2013, the Siberian Times reported. Prompted by safety fears, Moscow-based scientist Vasily Bogoyavlensky called for an urgent investigation…
Russian grave-robber hailed a genius ‘kept mummified female corpses dressed as dolls’ Anatoly Moskvin is said to have dug up the corpses from hundreds of cemeteries and took them to his small, three-bedroom flat in Nizhny Novgorod, according to local…
Another enormous hole has been discovered in Russia, bringing the total now to three. Just last Friday, a hole was discovered in the Siberian Peninsula of Yamal, as reported by The Inquisitr. The first hole was discovered over two weeks…
