The population of Dikson, Russia's most northerly port, has dwindled from 5,000 in the Soviet era to some 300 today. The development of shipping routes through the Russian Arctic offers some promise ...

May 7—DIXON — The Dixon Sister Cities Association has retired its charter with its first established sister city — Dikson, one of the world's most northern settlements — in Siberia. Dixon officials ...

Being the northernmost post of Russia, Dikson experiences days of total darkness, especially during December and early January. The port city has an Arctic tundra climate with winters lasting for 10 ...

MOSCOW, September 20. /TASS/. The polar bear rescued from Dikson Island in the Krasnoyarsk Region died in the Moscow Zoo, the zoo said in a statement on its Telegram channel. "The Moscow Zoo mourns ...

Dikson takes its name from a sparsely populated arctic port located in northern Russia. And its music, though heated by strong individualists, largely reflects that origin, embodying the powerfully ...

What keeps people in remote and seemingly adverse places? That is one of the questions Swiss photographer Beat Schweizer grapples with in his new book, “Mikhailovna Called” (Kehrer Verlag, 2019).