The baby boy was conceived using the frozen sperm of a man who had died nine years earlier, the station reported.
The man's semen, frozen and stored at a Tel Aviv hospital where he had been treated for cancer, was brought to Yekaterinburg by his mother.
Local reproductive specialists fertilized donor eggs with the sperm using in-vitro techniques and then implanted the embryo into a surrogate mother's womb for gestation.
The newborn, named Georgy, is the image of his father, his grandmother told reporters. She said she would be raising the boy by herself and would tell him the story of his birth when he was old enough to understand it.
Reproduction using frozen genetic material from a deceased parent is banned by law in some countries, but Russia currently has no such regulations.
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