Strong winds fanned the flames of dozens of forest fires in southern Russia around Lake Baikal in the third week of May 2008. The Russian Emergency Situations Ministry warned residents that winds were expected to pick up in the middle of the week, spreading fires dangerously close to cities, including Irkutsk and Bratsk, and threatening the regions’s many dachas.
Published May 17, 2008
Several large forest fires burn in the forests of southeastern Russia in this image from June 1, 2011.
Published Jun 2, 2011
Large, smoky fires were burning in the forested mountains of Russia’s Buryatia region and Mongolia’s Belenge province on May 21, 2009.
Published May 21, 2009
Widespread forest fires veiled the forests of Siberia in a thick curtain of smoke on July 18, 2011.
Published Jul 18, 2011
Several pyrocumulus clouds are lofting dense smoke high into the atmosphere.
Published Jun 25, 2017
Smoke from several large forest fires pooled against the base of a mountain range in eastern Russia on July 21, 2009.
Published Jul 21, 2009
Russian authorities grapple with fires near Novisibirsk.
Published Apr 19, 2012
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