siberia

  • Satellite Images Show Siberia Burning

    It's incredibly remote terrain, and many of the fires will burn out on their own as they're both hard to get to and not near anything but wild land.

  • 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.

  • Agafia's Taiga Life

    In the fourth and final part we see how the outside world has crept into Agafia's life.

  • Agafia's Taiga Life

    In part three we meet Agafia's neighbor, Yerofei, who has lived by the river near her cabins for the past 16 years.

  • Agafia's Taiga Life

    In part two, we see that despite the fact that Agafia is nearing 70 years old, she works tirelessly to keep up her home as she starts her morning with prayers and then tends to her animals, collects firewood, and even fends off the occasional bear.

  • Meet the Last Lykov

    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...

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  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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.

  • Bad News: People Are Taking Krokodil in Norway

    Or good news, if you're a Norwegian who wants to take flesh-eating, soul-destroying drugs.

  • The Hangover News

    We learned that there are still racist British police this weekend, but you were too busy getting arrested to notice.

  • Siberia: Krokodil Tears

    Russia is the biggest consumer of heroin in the world. Nowhere are the country's drug problems more evident than in the Siberian town of Novokuznetsk, which lies on the Kazakhstan border.