Happy New Year !!!
Comments OffWish you bright warm days all the year round, your dreams come true, health, prosperity and happiness not leaving your beloved and you!
Photo Report: Another Day in Yakutsk, December 2008
Comments OffYeee, we are in the midst of intensely cold weather. December is prominent here for minus 40 degrees Celsius (-40F). The first day with registered -40C was December 5, 2008. Praise God, there were no strong winds, otherwise we couldn’t stand it.
Video: When it is below - 40C. Yakutsk, Dec. 2008
Comments OffReal winter arrived in Yakutsk. Fog, cold, slow driving became a part of our daily life. Watch the 30-sec video shot on Dec. 7, 2008. That’s the view on the intersection from my window.
Download the Kolyma Highway travel map
Comments OffIt happened. The travel map for the Kolyma Highway is available online now. Designed for adventurers who are not afraid of driving the Kolyma Highway, well known as the Road of Bones.
It is presented in PDF on 7 pages (the A4 format.)
Available maps for:
(1) Republic of Sakha (with Kolyma Highway),
(2) Yakutsk,
(3) Nizhnyj Bestyakh - Churapcha,
(4) [...]
Video Reports: The struggle against the cold
Comments OffToday I was interviewed by a RussiaToday TV Channel reporter. The channel has the program “Russia Close-Up”. It’s a unique series on RT, travelling to hard-to-reach places, revealing the answers to your questions. Last 20 days a RT team was travelling across the region and has aired many videos. Some of them are available on [...]
Photo Report: One Day in Yakutsk
Comments OffJust decided to take pictures of what I see daily on the way to my job place and back home.
Adventures in the Pole of Cold
Comments OffStumbled upon an amazing blog. Her owner is Susan Hicks, an American researcher. She is conducting research for her PhD dissertation in cultural anthropology in Oymyakon, the Pole of Cold, where she has been living since January, 2008.
Photo Report: The Coldest City on the Earth
Comments OffLast December Shaun Walker, The Independent’s Moscow-based correspondent, wrote a great feature story about Yakutsk. He depicted how locals managed to live in the city that reminded more as a Siberian freezer. I gave him some support while he was in Yakutsk. Then he sent me his photographs attached to the mentioned story and gave [...]
Ayaal I. Stepanov, Deputy Chairman of Government
Comments OffPROFILE: Ayaal I. Stepanov, Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)
Yuri S. Koupriyanov, Deputy Chairman of Government
Comments OffPROFILE: Yuri S. Koupriyanov, Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)
