By bolot | Published:
April 11, 2010
Good news to all travelers, who are interested in Sangar (the Kobyajsky region) and Verkhoyansk. I visited the 2010 Sakha Travel Exhibition held at Polar Hotel in Yakutsk on April 9-10, 2010. Finally, I acquainted with travel enthusiasts from those places. You can see them in the photographs.
The Kobyajsky region is famous for its [...]
Also posted in Answers, Editorial, Photo, Travel | Tagged Aurora Borealis, Batagai, Cold, contact, Editorial, event, exhibition, mountain, Oymyakon, Photo, Pole of Cold, Sangar, Siberia, summer, the Lena river, tourism, Travel, Verkhoyansk, Verkhoyansky, winter, Winter Exotica, Yakutia, Yakutsk |
By bolot | Published:
December 2, 2009
The Copenhagen Summit made climate changes topical in news. Interesting, but Yakutsk and I felt this fever as well. A couple weeks ago five western journalists arrived in Yakutsk to make reportages about the affects of global warming in Yakutsk. In the summer I helped two photographers Mathias Braschler & Monika Fischer, who searched persons [...]
Also posted in Answers, General, Locations | Tagged climate change, Cold, Coldest City, Copenhagen Summit, global warming, melting, permafrost, Permafrost Institute, Siberia, Yakutia, Yakutsk |
By bolot | Published:
November 29, 2009
In the beginning of November 2009, I wrote the post “Descending into the world’s deepest shaft in the permafrost zone.” In a few days after I received a message with a lot of questions from a Hungarian scientists Adam Soereg.
He wrote “Data from Yakutsk is extremely important, because this is the longest dataset in the [...]
Also posted in Answers, General, History | Tagged Cold, permafrost, Permafrost Institute, Siberia, temperature, warming, weather, Yakutia, Yakutsk |
By bolot | Published:
November 13, 2009
It must be a great honor for me. It’s not the first time when I am asked to post a press release. This time the 2009 Yakutsk Mammoth Tusks Auction organizing committee addressed me with the request to share the event announcement. Well… Here we go.
1. Official name and address of the Auction organizing party
Open [...]
By bolot | Published:
November 5, 2009
On Nov. 4, 2009, in Yakutsk, the capital of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), a group of three people descended into the world’s deepest ice vertical tunnel, Shergin’s Shaft, that had been buried and forgotten for more than half a century. It was the important historical, scientific, cultural event called “The Storm of Shergin’s Shaft” [...]
By bolot | Published:
September 8, 2009
Yeah, what does the West know about Yakutia? This question a RIA Novosti correspondent asked Eric Hoesli, writer, journalist and Editorial Director of Edipresse, Switzerland, who arrived to Yakutsk with the purpose to participate in the meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club. His answer was interesting. Partly I agree, partly not. Check yourself.
By bolot | Published:
September 4, 2009
Three Valleys Innovation Technopark invites international companies to join the permanent online exhibition “New Technologies and Innovations for the Economy of Sakha Republic (Yakutia)”.
Also posted in Announcement, Answers, Economy, Press Releases, Services | Tagged contact, Economy, Editorial, event, exhibition, innovation, tenchnology, 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, Culture, 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:
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, Culture, Editorial, 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, Culture, Editorial, Locations, Photo | Tagged Coldest City, Epiphany, event, extreme, ice-hole, Orthodox Church, Photo, swimming, the Lena river, Travel, winter, Yakutsk |
