It looks as if Neanderthals may have been living in the far north of Russia 33,000 years ago. This is a lot farther north than previously thought and provides more evidence they survived much later than previously thought. The stone tools look to be Mousterian (Middle Paleolithic).
http://news.discovery.com/archaeology/neanderthal-last-stand-tools-ural-mountains-110512.html
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/332/6031/778.summary
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/332/6031/841.abstract
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