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An Italian cyclist about his pedalling on the Road of Bones (the Kolyma Highway)

Shot today. Edited today. Broadcasted on the famous Yakutsk News Channel today. Daniel Robino is a superstar!
Daniel’s URLs: his website, his expedition facebook fan page

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The hostel “Vostok” in the center of Yakutsk

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 [...]

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Road Legend: Chita – Bolshoi Never – Yakutsk – Magadan

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 [...]

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The Road of Bones: GPS maps for Magadan Oblast

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.

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A hostel in Khandyga

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 [...]

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Summer 2010: Biking the Kolyma Highway (the Road of Bones) – Mountain Area

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 [...]

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An Irish motobiker arrived in Yakutsk from Tynda

Oisin Hughes, an Irish Giant, is the first adventure biker of summer 2010, who arrived on his motobike to Yakutia on the way to Magadan. Yesterday he made it to Yakutsk from Tynda. He spent two days on the road. Really fast! This morning (pretty early, at 8.00 am) on my way to the office, [...]

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Long Walk Plus Expedition: Walking up the Lena River from Yakutsk… to Calcutta, India

“..Long Walk Plus Expedition has just started! Two weeks ago we set out from Yakutsk to Olekmnisk. Since that time we have dozens of adventures but what’s the most important we met extremely a lot of wonderful people. Every place we visited we were welcome with great hospitality. We traveled by bus, car, motor boats [...]

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UPDATED: Travelling through Yakutsk, the Road of Bones, Magadan, Chukotka & Alaska

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. [...]

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International journalists & the Russian visas

Often I receive requests from foreign/international journalists, who are coming to Russia and being confused about the required type of the Russian visa. Their questions usually sound like, “I’ve got an assignment and I plan my travel to Russia. What type of the Russian visa I need and how can I get it?” The last [...]

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