By bolot | Published:
March 3, 2010
An Austrian traveler Hannes, who visited Oymyakon, the Pole of Cold, this past January, was so impressed with the Yakut folk music that he asked me to provide him links to online resources, where he could download mp3 files with Yakut songs and music or purchase CDs or mp3 files somewhere on the web.
By the [...]
By bolot | Published:
February 20, 2010
Received a request from Jenanne, a Scotland University of Aberdeen PhD Student. Her major is Social Anthropology, so all her questions sounded accordingly. Mainly she wondered how popular the Sakha (Yakut) language was on the Internet. I said I had a friend of mine, who’s hobby was to write in his native language everything and [...]
Also posted in Answers, General, History, Science, Social | Tagged anthropology, Culture, dictionary, Internet, language, online, Sakha, Siberia, Yakut, Yakutia, Yakutsk |
By bolot | Published:
December 16, 2009
One of the first questions I hear from new non-Yakutian friends of mine is “What are your traditional meals?” I started my answer from the short sentence “We love frozen horse meat and frozen Arctic fishes.”
Well, I decided to start publishing posts about traditional cuisine in Yakutia. The one is dedicated to stroganina.
Stroganina is [...]
By bolot | Published:
September 9, 2009
This question I hear very often from international website visitors. The last time it was a Turkish 4WD adventure traveler Ali Eric, who is making his world-around trip Istanbul2Istanbul. A few days ago, while seeping the Russian beer at a local grill house, he said to me:
“You know, before my start, I told friends that [...]
Also posted in Answers, General, History, Locations | Tagged Cold, Culture, history, life, people, Siberia, winter, Winter Exotica, Yakutia, Yakutsk |
By bolot | Published:
August 31, 2009
Andrew I with a creative studio “A Novigator” announced a descent to the deepest well in the world, Shergin’s shaft, to take place in Yakutsk on October 20, 2009. Update, 21.10.2009: The even was postponed till November 04, 2009.
An exclusive speleological tour into the unique well, that is 116 meters deep, as long as a [...]
Also posted in Announcement, Events, History, Locations, Photo, Press Releases, Travel | Tagged Andrew I, Culture, deepest, deepest well, descent, event, Far East, history, permafrost, Republic of Sakha, Russia, shaft, Shergin shaft, Siberia, Travel, Yakutia, Yakutsk |
By bolot | Published:
August 7, 2009
Actually, the question received recently from Frank, who is currently somewhere in the neighborhood, sounded this way:
I am very interested in contacting some of the wonderful khomus craftsmen from Yakutia, especially Innokenty N. Gotovtsev. It seems that NONE of these guys have email contact information. Do you have any advice for me?
I would like to [...]
By bolot | Published:
June 16, 2009
More pics of previous Ysyakh at Flickr.com
This summer Yakutsk’s Ysyakh (Ысыах), Yakut national holidays, will be held on June 27-28, 2009. Location is Ys Khatyn (Yс Хатынг), 20 minutes by car northward from Yakutsk, near the settlement of Zhatai (Жатай). The opening ceremony will take place on the first day, Saturday, at 12.00.
Note: Yakutsk Ysyakh [...]
Also posted in Announcement, Editorial, Events, Photo | Tagged Culture, customs, event, Photo, tradition, Yakutia, Yakutsk, Ysyakh |
By bolot | Published:
January 19, 2009
It happened for the forth time. Since 2006 on the Day of Epiphany the Orthodox Church in cooperation with the Russian Emergency Service arranges the swimming in a ice-hole on the Lena River. This year was not exclusion and what is more this time it was the most ever visited event. People, who wished to [...]
Also posted in Answers, Editorial, Events, Locations, Photo | Tagged Coldest City, Epiphany, event, extreme, ice-hole, Orthodox Church, Photo, swimming, the Lena river, Travel, winter, Yakutsk |
By bolot | Published:
January 14, 2009
An interesting request arrived from Ulan Bator, Mongolia. A couple is planning to visit Yakutsk and asked me about available opportunities to meet local shamans in the city. That was an unexpected question. I don’t have friends among shamans to ask them about meetings. But, Praise God, my mom has a few contacts :)
Also posted in Answers, General, Locations, Services, Travel | Tagged apartment buildings, car, civilization, Culture, healing, Nerungri, religion, roads, shamans, taiga, Travel, ulan bator mongolia, Viluisk, Yakutsk |
By bolot | Published:
December 21, 2008
Further is all one wanted to know about Andrei Borisov’s movie “The Mystery of Genghis Khan” known initially as “By the Will of Genghis Khan”
