Kolyma Road in winter is in perfect condition. However, in mountain area, especially, it is highly recommended to be all eyes, drive slowly, watch ahead to see if there are cars coming towards you, in order to escape the situation when two cars meet each other in the narrowest way over a cliff and cannot go backward to let a car pass through. Read more…
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Actually, Lake Labynkyr is easy to find but hard to reach. Read more…
A Korean is asking, whether it is secure in Yakutia. The question is simple, but requires much efforts to answer. So I decided to narrow the reply and give tips for Yakutsk only. Read more…
Oymyakon weather info you may see in the right sidebar of the website. To learn what’s going on now in the Oymyakonsky region, especially in mountain area follow the link “More” and see new photographs taken in the early October 2008. Read more…
In the previous post “Verkhoyansk Info Wanted” it is said that Verkhoyansk is located 650 km north-east of Yakutsk. Is it the same distance to go by a vehicle? Read more…
Right. That’s a little bit strange that the map of Yakutsk is still unavailable online in English. Read more…
Winter roads (zimnik as we say in Russian) are the roads that exist only in winter and run on iced rivers. Further, please, find Michael Zakharov’s photographs of a winter road leading to the Kobyaiksy ulus/district from Yakutsk by the Lena River. Read more…
In emails I am constantly asked about nationalities living in Yakutia. Further, please, find demographic info. Read more…
A U.S. scientist wrote, “I found a newspaper reference to a 1929 Soviet expedition in search of a village in Yakutia which had not changed since the 1500s. Do you have any information about this expedition and what happened to it?” Read more…
