By bolot | Published:
March 12, 2010
Yakutsk Permafrost Institute with its underground laboratory in the form of tunnel is a sort of a must-to-see sight in the capital of Siberia’s Republic of Sakha (Yakutia). It is the most visited by international guests.
The last year before The Copenhagen Climate Change Summit it became a real Mecca to international journalists, who wanted [...]
Also posted in Answers, Locations | Tagged climate changes, global warming, permafrost, Permafrost Institute, Photo, Russia, science, Siberia, Viktor Shepelev, Yakutia, Yakutsk |
By bolot | Published:
February 24, 2010
See how frozen carcass reindeer meat will be cut into small pieces. Photos and video were done by Artem Petukhov and Katya Ipatieva (they stand behind the Adventure in Yakutia blog http://adv.yktv.ru, in Russian) specially for eYakutia.com . Thanks, guys.
Yeah, we, Yakutians, love meat. We eat them a lot. To save money, we usually buy [...]
Also posted in Answers, Photo, Travel, Video | Tagged Cold, Coldest City, meat, Photo, reindeer meat, Siberia, Video, winter, Winter Exotica, Yakutia, Yakutsk |
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, Culture, History, Science, Social | Tagged anthropology, Culture, dictionary, Internet, language, online, Sakha, Siberia, Yakut, Yakutia, Yakutsk |
By bolot | Published:
January 9, 2010
Amazing! I received questions from an American lady, whose given name is Summer. It’s like “Hello from summer to winter.” She was asking:
I found some amazing stories about people who were there lately as tourists and I was wondering: Somebody on a web site who was there suggested highly the North Face Himalayan suit and [...]
Also posted in Answers, Travel | Tagged clothes, Cold, cold weather, fur, fur boots, fur coat, life, Oymyakon, Pole of Cold, reindeer, Siberia, tips, tourism, Travel, winter, Winter Exotica, Yakutia |
By bolot | Published:
January 6, 2010
A month ago the message arrived from Sweden. A horses breeding enthusiast Karl wrote:
First of all, I want to tell you how fantastic it is of you to put up this opportunities to ask questions about Yakutia.
Thanks for your positive feedback :)
Well, I´m very interested in the Yakut ponies. There is actually not so much [...]
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:
December 8, 2009
As far as you know, there is no bridge over the Lena River at all. Therefore, to cross the river, locals are forced to use ferryboats from June till October and ice roads in winter, officially from the midst of December till early April.
Late April – May and late October – November are considered [...]
Also posted in Answers, Locations, Travel | Tagged car, Cold, Coldest City, ice road, Khandyga, roads, schedule, summer, taxi, the Lena river, Travel, 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, Events, Locations | Tagged climate change, Cold, Coldest City, Copenhagen Summit, global warming, melting, permafrost, Permafrost Institute, Siberia, Yakutia, Yakutsk |
By bolot | Published:
November 30, 2009
The following post can give answers to many questions regarding Oymyakon, the Pole of Cold in Siberia. The author of the post is Jordi Marqui, a Catalonian cold weather enthusiast, who has its own WP blog AmazingSnow. The article was initially published on my partner blog ColdUnited.com. Thanks, Jordi!
Talking about Ojmjakon involves talking about the [...]
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, Events, History | Tagged Cold, permafrost, Permafrost Institute, Siberia, temperature, warming, weather, Yakutia, Yakutsk |
