By bolot | Published:
August 4, 2010
Address: 21 Lenin Avenue (проспект Ленина, дом 21), Yakutsk/Russia.
How to get: From the airport by a taxi (~20 min, 150-250 rubles, max. 300 rubles, don’t pay more for the ride) or by buses # 4, 14, 109 (30-35 min, 15 rubles for one way, bus driver might ask to pay extra for huge luggages).
How to [...]
By bolot | Published:
July 23, 2010
Magadan drivers compiled the so-called road legend (description of roads) for the route Magadan – Yakutsk – Bolshoi Never – Chita. They gathered information on settlements, distances and availability of gas (fuel) stations, cafes, repairs shops, places to stay for nights, road police stations, roads condition, etc.
Everything is presented in one .xls file in [...]
Also posted in Answers, Travel | Tagged bike, car, Chita, GPS, Kolyma Highway, Magadan, maps, Never, road legend, Road of Bones, roads, Skovorodino, Yakutsk |
By bolot | Published:
July 6, 2010
Though I am based in Yakutia, I am often asked about the availability of any GPS maps for the roads of Magadan Oblast. Well, here are a few links for downloading such files.
Also posted in Answers, Travel | Tagged bike, car, GisRX, GPS, GPS navigator, Kolyma Highway, Magadan, maps, Navitel, Road of Bones, roads |
By bolot | Published:
June 27, 2010
Here is information about where to stay for night in Khandyga. There are three hotels, but I recommend to stay at Nina & Nikolay Stenins’ place.
Back to hotels. One is called Presidential Hotel (the official name is different, but that’s the way, how people call it). It is a few-storeyed concrete hotel, where the [...]
By bolot | Published:
June 15, 2010
Watch the real Siberian video done on the Kolyma Highway (the Road of Bones) by Oisin Hughes, an Irish adventure biker, who yesterday made it to Magadan from Yakutsk just for 4 days only. In this vid you will see, how close to the edge he was biking in the Verkhoyansky mountain area. Fantastic and [...]
Also posted in Answers, Travel, Video | Tagged bike, biker, Kolyma Highway, Magadan, moto adventure, motorcycle, mountain, road condition, Road of Bones, roads, round-the-world, Russia, Siberia, summer, Travel, Ust Nera, Video, Yakutia, Yakutsk |
By bolot | Published:
May 7, 2010
An American Ian was asking me recently, “I am wondering how the lack of sunlight effects people in the long winter months. How many hours of daylight do you have, and it is dreadful? In summer, are the days extremely long? I am fascinated by your home.”
Also posted in Answers, General | Tagged Arctic, Arctic zone, daylight, life, Russia, Sakha, Siberia, summer, white night, winter, Yakutia, Yakutsk |
By bolot | Published:
April 24, 2010
Received questions from Montenegro’s Round-The-World Motorcycle Expedition (www.theridearound2010.com), that plans to go through Yakutia (Sakha), Magadan Oblast and Chukotka to Alaska. Here is what they wrote:
“Three of us will be traveling around the world on our motorcycles. Somewhere around July 10th we will be in Chita and from there we want to travel to Magadan. [...]
Also posted in Answers, Travel | Tagged airlines, Anadyr, bike, car, Expedition, flight, Kamchatka, Kolyma Highway, Magadan, motorcycle, Road of Bones, roads, Siberia, summer, Tomtor, tourism, Travel, Ust Nera, Yakutia, Yakutsk |
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, General | Tagged climate changes, global warming, permafrost, Permafrost Institute, Photo, Russia, science, Siberia, Viktor Shepelev, Yakutia, Yakutsk |
By bolot | Published:
February 24, 2010
Marat Zalyalov, a local mountain cyclist, gave quick tips to an Italian biker Dan, who had written to me as follows:
“Your site is really useful, but I didn’t find anything about cycling… So hope you could help me… I’m used to travel by bicycle in hard conditions, and your country looks amazing… Questions: what do [...]
Also posted in Answers, Travel | Tagged bicycle, bike, Cold, cycl, Expedition, Khandyga, Kolyma Highway, mountain, Oymyakon, Photo, Pole of Cold, Road of Bones, roads, Siberia, summer, Tomtor, tourism, Travel, Video, winter, Yakutia, Yakutsk |
By bolot | Published:
February 18, 2010
This road was built by the inmates of Gulag camps, most of them were buried along the way. That’s why it’s named the Road of Bones.
Also posted in Answers, Travel, Video | Tagged car, Expedition, Khandyga, Kolyma Highway, Magadan, mountain, Photo, Pole of Cold, Road of Bones, roads, Siberia, tourism, Travel, Verkhoyansky, Video, winter, Winter Exotica, Yakutia, Yakutsk |
