By bolot | Published:
February 11, 2010
GULAGs researcher always asked me whether I had a map of GULAGs located on Siberia’s famous Road of Bones. I answered that I didn’t have. Now I have it on the blog.
The Road of Bones is the part of the Kolyma Highway constructed by GULAGs prisoners between Khandyga and Magadan in Stalin’s time. Many innocent [...]
Also posted in Answers, History, Photo | Tagged history, Khandyga, Kolyma Highway, Magadan, maps, Oymyakon, Photo, Pole of Cold, Road of Bones, roads, Siberia, Tomtor, Travel, Ust Nera, Verkhoyansky, Yakutia |
By bolot | Published:
February 8, 2010
In a previous post “How to get a taxi going to Yakutsk at the Neryungri railroad station?” I mentioned Matt George, a UK backpacker. This is a guy, who asked me about how to get at the Neryungri railroad station a taxi going to Yakutsk. My answers you can find in the mentioned publication. Here [...]
Also posted in Answers, Travel | Tagged car, Coldest City, Nerungri, Oymyakon, roads, Siberia, taxi, tourism, Travel, winter, Yakutia, Yakutsk |
By bolot | Published:
January 15, 2010
As far as you know, I decided to organize a road trip to Oymyakon, the Pole of Cold, from Jan. 17 till Jan. 21 for my friends. Today we, trip participants, gathered and had lunch in Yakutsk at the Chicago Bar.
There were alll of those mentioned in travellers list, including a German photographer Bjorn [...]
Also posted in Editorial, Travel | Tagged car, Cold, Editorial, Expedition, Khandyga, Kolyma Highway, Oymyakon, Pole of Cold, Road of Bones, roads, Siberia, Tomtor, tourism, Travel, winter, Winter Exotica, Yakutia, Yakutsk |
By bolot | Published:
December 28, 2009
A Jordi, of Catalonia, is asking:
I have been reading the last report about Norwegians’ accident [in Yakutia/Siberia], and I want to ask you something… Is this a recent story? I haven’t found the piece of news relating to this.
Nowadays I know some people who want to make the journey to Oymyakon [the coldest place in [...]
Also posted in Answers, Travel | Tagged car, Cold, Khandyga, Kolyma Highway, Magadan, mountain, Oymyakon, Pole of Cold, rates, Road of Bones, roads, Siberia, Tomtor, tourism, Travel, Ust Nera, winter, Winter Exotica, Yakutia, Yakutsk |
By bolot | Published:
December 22, 2009
A few weeks ago I received a question from an UK backpacker, who is coming to Yakutia in January 2010. He asked “Is there an ice road to the Lena Pillars? Is it possible to make it there in January?”
Btw, a request was sent via the Facebook group “Ask-Yakutia-Today,” everyone is welcome to join [...]
Also posted in Answers, Photo, Travel | Tagged car, Cold, ice road, Lena Pillars, maps, Photo, roads, Siberia, the Lena river, Travel, Tumul, winter, Winter Exotica, Yakutia |
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, General, 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 5, 2009
That’s what I see on my way home in the evening. In the last Friday evening, Dec. 4, 2009, we had -41ºC and fog and no winds. So the frost was almost dry and burning, and my quickly frozen camera was slow to take pictures. Many unfocused shots were just deleted. See the left pics.
That’s [...]
By bolot | Published:
December 3, 2009
Yeah, it’s cold, but not so cold as it can be. Waiting for -50ºC.
See more my pics. Some of them are not sharp. My camera got frozen in a moment. The lens were so slow to focus.
By bolot | Published:
December 2, 2009
Check ExUmira2’s video. Here’s info:
Also posted in Video | Tagged Siberia, song, Video, Yakutia |
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, General | Tagged climate change, Cold, Coldest City, Copenhagen Summit, global warming, melting, permafrost, Permafrost Institute, Siberia, Yakutia, Yakutsk |
