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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 takes place traditionally on the last weekend of June.
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 clear from sins by dipping three times in blessed waters, should stand in long line. Outside temperature was -26C – 32C, but river water was warm, about +6C.
See the photographs taken at 9.00 pm on Jan. 19, 2009. Read more…
Megaprojects of Russia Yakutsk Economic Forum will be held in Yakutsk on September 6-7, 2008. Read more…
‘We would like to know the exact dates of the “Ysyakh” event in the year 2009,’ says another request. Here’s the answer. Read more…
Received an e-mail from Jakarta. A woman whose son departed for Yakutsk to participate at The 4th Children of Asia International Sports Games, is asking judo competition schedule so to know, when her son will compete. Read more…
First, we need to say that Youth Olympic Games started from and inspired by Children of Asia International Sports Games held every four years in the Republic of Sakha. Read more…
As never before. We live by EURO 2008. Due to time difference (7 hours), we watch matches live broadcasting late at night, at 2 am and 4 am. Praise God, we have white nights in June. Read more…
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