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:
April 11, 2010
Good news to all travelers, who are interested in Sangar (the Kobyajsky region) and Verkhoyansk. I visited the 2010 Sakha Travel Exhibition held at Polar Hotel in Yakutsk on April 9-10, 2010. Finally, I acquainted with travel enthusiasts from those places. You can see them in the photographs.
The Kobyajsky region is famous for its [...]
Also posted in Answers, Editorial, Events, Travel | Tagged Aurora Borealis, Batagai, Cold, contact, Editorial, event, exhibition, mountain, Oymyakon, Photo, Pole of Cold, Sangar, Siberia, summer, the Lena river, tourism, Travel, Verkhoyansk, Verkhoyansky, winter, Winter Exotica, 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, General, Travel, Video | Tagged Cold, Coldest City, meat, Photo, reindeer meat, Siberia, Video, winter, Winter Exotica, Yakutia, Yakutsk |
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, Locations | 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:
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, Locations, 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 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:
November 11, 2009
I have a German friend, Bjorn Steinz. He is a pro photographer based in Prague. Two years ago he visited Yakutsk in November. He spent a few days just walking around on streets and taking pictures of people. Since then I promote his works and website oka2 Photography on every occasion, and I am grateful [...]
By bolot | Published:
November 5, 2009
On Nov. 4, 2009, in Yakutsk, the capital of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), a group of three people descended into the world’s deepest ice vertical tunnel, Shergin’s Shaft, that had been buried and forgotten for more than half a century. It was the important historical, scientific, cultural event called “The Storm of Shergin’s Shaft” [...]
By bolot | Published:
November 3, 2009
In March 2007, a few friends of mine, Yakutsk-based adventure cyclists, Marat, Maverick & Scorpion (don’t know why, but they call each others by nicks), traveled from Yakutsk to Oymyakon, the Pole of Cold. A funny thing. They documented the expedition pretty good. They’ve got a lot of high resolutions photographs, perfect videos and… Since [...]
Also posted in Answers, Locations, Travel, Video | Tagged bicycle, bike, Cold, cycl, Expedition, Khandyga, Kolyma Highway, mountain, Oymyakon, Photo, Pole of Cold, Road of Bones, roads, Siberia, Tomtor, tourism, Travel, Video, winter, Yakutia, Yakutsk |
