Yakutsk, home to almost 200,000, is the last large settlement in the path of the river Lena, which tracks northward for about 860 miles through the Siberian tundra into the Arctic ocean.

YAKUTSK, Russia -- Emergency workers are racing against time to strengthen dykes protecting the Siberian city of Yakutsk from the swollen river Lena. Viktor Beltsov, spokesman for the Emergency ...

Svetlana Romanova and Chelsea Tuggle traverse grassy meadows birch forests and snowy taiga through rural stretches of the Central Yakutian Lowlands a transition zone between Central and Eastern ...