By bolot | Published:
April 2, 2009
Actually, international visitors’ first question sounds in another ways. Like, ‘Do I need to get an entry permit for visiting Yakutia.‘ Answer, ‘No.‘ But an inviting organization or person needs to point in invitation applications which settlements within Russia including Yakutia international travellers intend to visit. That’s the ordinary procedure. So to visit Yakutia, foreign guests are required to have only valid Russian visas.
The next question I always hear is whether this or that region of Yakutia is open for foreigners. Read More »
Posted in Answers, General, Locations, Services, Travel | Tagged Arctic zone, entry permit, frontier zone, issue procedure, migration service, required documents, Russia, Siberia, Travel, travel agency, visa, Yakutia, Yakutsk |
By bolot | Published:
March 25, 2009
Sorry for my keeping silence. Was out of the city. Made a few trips. The first one was to Moscow where I had three-week study, the other was a journey to Ytyk Kyuel, East Yakutia. Plus I was in charge of one big kids’ event in Yakutsk. And I received the message from my hosting company saying that the previous WP theme’s scripts were incorrect and they overloaded the server pretty much. So I needed to fix the problem first and then find enough time for giving the answers I received before. One of inquiries, by the way, regards the Valley of Death. Now I am back.
Posted in Editorial | Tagged site, update, WP, Yakutsk |
By bolot | Published:
February 3, 2009
Received a request from a traveller of Croatia: “I am interesting about the road condition in the winter. I mean main road from Yakutsk to Moscow and Vladivostok. Are there any traffic? How about supply, trucks…? Is it possible to go from Moscow to Yakutsk by regular car or 4×4?” Read More »
By bolot | Published:
January 25, 2009
A lady, of Transilvania, Romania, whose hobby was to research the Turkic languages, asked “As far as I could see, the Sakha language has short and long consonants and vowels. Is it true? How many vowels does it have?” The asnwer was as follows: Read More »
By bolot | Published:
January 20, 2009
“I am planning on moving to Yakutsk and need information on housing, cost of living and the average yearly salary?” asked a foreigner. Read More »
By bolot | Published:
January 19, 2009
It happened for the forth time. Since 2006 on the Day of Epiphany the Orthodox Church in cooperation with the Russian Emergency Service arranges the swimming in a ice-hole on the Lena River. This year was not exclusion and what is more this time it was the most ever visited event. People, who wished to clear from sins by dipping three times in blessed waters, should stand in long line. Outside temperature was -26C – 32C, but river water was warm, about +6C.
See the photographs taken at 9.00 pm on Jan. 19, 2009. Read More »
Posted in Answers, Culture, Editorial, Events, Locations, Photo | Tagged Coldest City, Epiphany, event, extreme, ice-hole, Orthodox Church, Photo, swimming, the Lena river, Travel, winter, Yakutsk |
By bolot | Published:
January 19, 2009
“Yakutsk, Cherrapunji, Hammerfest, La Paz… these are the cities that top the charts. They struggle doggedly against the toughest environmental conditions on our planet to provide their populations with an acceptable level of existence. These cities persist and continue flourishing in places where normally only traditional villages would be expected to survive…”
That’s how the description of France-based Zadig Production’s documentary film “Extreme Cities” starts. It was the ZP crew I did assist a little in terms of information and contacts prior to its visit in Yakutsk a year ago. In my turn, I am proud to share the promo video of “Extreme Cities: Episode One YAKUTSK” with a film’s annotation. Read More »
Posted in Answers, Editorial, Locations, Video | Tagged car, Cold, Coldest City, documentary, extreme, life, Travel, Video, winter, Winter Exotica, Yakutsk |
By bolot | Published:
January 14, 2009
An interesting request arrived from Ulan Bator, Mongolia. A couple is planning to visit Yakutsk and asked me about available opportunities to meet local shamans in the city. That was an unexpected question. I don’t have friends among shamans to ask them about meetings. But, Praise God, my mom has a few contacts :) Read More »
Posted in Answers, Culture, General, Locations, Services, Travel | Tagged apartment buildings, car, civilization, Culture, healing, Nerungri, religion, roads, shamans, taiga, Travel, ulan bator mongolia, Viluisk, Yakutsk |
By bolot | Published:
January 12, 2009
Another portion of questions regarding Oymyakon, the Pole of Cold, I received from a Hungarian journalist, who was also wondering how people could live in such extreme weather conditions. Read More »
Posted in Answers, Locations, Services, Social, Travel | Tagged car, life, Oymyakon, Pole of Cold, roads, Travel, weather, winter, Winter Exotica |
By bolot | Published:
January 4, 2009
Recently Yakutia was visited by Germans’ Land Rover off-road vehicle expedition “Paris – Moscow – New York: Transcontinental 2009.” Everything went smoothly. Two vehicles entered Russia, expedition members spend a few days in Moscow, gave the press-conference and did much work with cars preparation, then a few weeks on the way to Yakutsk. Eventually they arrived in our city. Precisely, one car reached the city only, another stuck in Aldan after unpredictable accident on the road. The repair took another few precious days.
And, you know, what happened next?.. Instead of forwarding to the Pole of Cold and Magadan, adventurers flew back to Germany in order to get another Russian visas with the new period of the visit to Russia.
How much time the visa procedure will take, nobody knows exactly. Two weeks (including flight time), for sure or maybe. So… To avoid such sitautions, when you didn’t manage to fit to the restricted visit period, and any problem with Russia’s Federal Migration Service in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), you must keep in mind a very important thing. That’s the importance of obtaining appropriate visas. Read More »
Posted in Answers, Locations, Services, Travel | Tagged car, Expedition, Kolyma Highway, Magadan, migration service, Oymyakon, Pole of Cold, roads, visa, Yakutsk |
