Siberia on Vice

Happy 69th Birthday Agafia Lykov, from Your Friends at VICE

Agafia Lykov, our favorite Siberian hermit, turned 69 today. Born on the Erinat River in Siberia in 1944, Agafia has lived all of her years in the Siberian taiga, roughly 160 miles from the nearest sign of other humans. Full story

Meet the Last Lykov

Not Many Other People in the World Have

When I asked 70-year-old Agafia, the sole surviving member of the Lykov clan, if she wished that the geologists who discovered her family in the isolated wilderness of Siberia’s taiga forest had never found them, she shook her head. “I don’t know if we would have survived [withou… Full story

What Really Happened in Russia This Morning?

As you've probably heard already, a meteor exploded above the Chelyabinsk region of central Russia earlier today. It injured over 900 people, at least two of them seriously. But what the hell was it? UFOs? A missile test gone wrong? Or... an American invasion!? We talked to an as… Full story

Siberia's Most Depressing Town Is Actually Quite Nice

Semipalatinsk, or “Semey,” as it was recently renamed, is a town in Kazakh Siberia so desolate that being sentenced to exile there was thought to be one of the cruelest penalties the Soviet Union could dole out. It was considered such a shitty place, in fact, that in 1949 the tow… Full story

Question of the Day

Question of the Day - Is It OK to Be Lazy in an Orgy?

Putin made a joke about Pussy Riot, "Some fans say that group sex is better than one-on-one because—like in any collective work—you can take it easy a bit.” We wanted to find out what everyone else thought. Full story