Archaeologists in China’s Yunnan province unearthed stone tools crafted in a style associated with Neanderthals that hasn’t ...

The Altai mountains in southern Siberia form the major mountain range in the western Siberia biogeographic region and provide the source of its greatest rivers – the Ob and the Irtysh. Three separate ...

This story appears in the July 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. In the Altay Mountains of southern Siberia, some 200 miles from where Russia touches Mongolia, China, and Kazakhstan ...

Despite the assimilation of the Soviet times, the Central Asian traditional sport of goat dragging has survived, and one of the oldest Turkic games is still practiced in the mountains of Altai.

The number of people evacuated from flood-hit areas in Siberia’s Altai region has reached 1,682 BARNAUL, March 29. /TASS/. The number of people evacuated from flood-hit areas in Siberia’s ...