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 [...]
Posted in Answers, Events, General, Locations | Also tagged climate change, Coldest City, Copenhagen Summit, global warming, melting, permafrost, Permafrost Institute, Siberia, Yakutia, Yakutsk |
By bolot | Published:
November 29, 2009
In the beginning of November 2009, I wrote the post “Descending into the world’s deepest shaft in the permafrost zone.” In a few days after I received a message with a lot of questions from a Hungarian scientists Adam Soereg.
He wrote “Data from Yakutsk is extremely important, because this is the longest dataset in the [...]
Posted in Answers, Events, General, History | Also tagged permafrost, Permafrost Institute, Siberia, temperature, warming, weather, Yakutia, Yakutsk |
By bolot | Published:
November 28, 2009
Once I published long-distance taxi rates that can be taken into consideration while traveling within Yakutia. But I’ve never written a post about pecularities of using such a ground transport, precisely about advantages and disadvantages of going from Yakutsk to Magadan via the Road of Bones (Kolyma Highway) by taxi.
This time I decided to [...]
Posted in Locations, Services, Travel | Also tagged car, Khandyga, Kolyma Highway, Magadan, Oymyakon, Pole of Cold, rates, Road of Bones, roads, Siberia, taxi, Tomtor, Travel, Ust Nera, winter, Yakutia, Yakutsk |
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 [...]
Posted in Answers, Locations, Photo, Travel, Video | Also tagged bicycle, bike, cycl, Expedition, Khandyga, Kolyma Highway, mountain, Oymyakon, Photo, Pole of Cold, Road of Bones, roads, Siberia, Tomtor, tourism, Travel, Video, winter, Yakutia, Yakutsk |
By bolot | Published:
October 16, 2009
This is a good question asked by a friend of mine from Fairbanks, Alaska. He is a big fan of photography and off-roading. His Flickr nick is rpiereck. Wonderful pictures he has. So… Frankly saying, it was me who first asked him “How do you prepare your Jeep for the winter in Alaska?” In his [...]
Posted in Answers, General, Photo, Social | Also tagged 4WD, Alaska, car, Coldest City, Fairbanks, heater, Jeep, life, oil, Photo, roads, Siberia, UAZ, winter, Winter Exotica, Yakutia, Yakutsk |
By bolot | Published:
September 23, 2009
Frankly saying, this week I thought “Well, on the next Monday we are promised to see the first snowfall in Yakutsk. Winter is really at the hand. It’s time to think about the cold.” Besides, I noted that, according to the latest Google Analytics statistics, Oymyakon, the so-called Pole of Cold, became one of the [...]
Posted in Answers, Locations, Travel | Also tagged car, Khandyga, Kolyma Highway, Magadan, Oymyakon, Pole of Cold, Road of Bones, roads, Siberia, Tomtor, tourism, Travel, Ust Nera, winter, Yakutia, Yakutsk |
By bolot | Published:
September 20, 2009
I found this question in the list of keywords that have brought some traffic to my weblog, and I recalled Nick Middleton, an Oxford geography lecturer and the creator of the four-series TV show “Going to Extremes.” The first part, btw, depicted his travel to Oymyakon, the Pole of Cold. While staying in the village, [...]
Posted in Answers, General, History, Locations, Travel | Also tagged Expedition, Kolyma Highway, life, Oymyakon, Pole of Cold, Road of Bones, Siberia, Tomtor, Travel, winter, Winter Exotica, Yakutia |
By bolot | Published:
September 18, 2009
I digged a nice story made by the BBC correspondent Bridget Kendall. It’s about Yakutia. She shares with her short impression on the region.
“Climate change is having an impact in the vast and remote region of Yakutia in Siberia which, in winter at least, is still the coldest place on earth. Bridget Kendall reports.”
Posted in Answers, Locations, Travel | Also tagged Coldest City, Culture, life, Oymyakon, Pole of Cold, Siberia, the Lena river, tourism, Travel, winter, Winter Exotica, Yakutia, Yakutsk |
By bolot | Published:
September 15, 2009
At my Flickr account I received a good question from an Australian user, tanetahi. In his comment to one of my first autumn pics he wrote:
Do people get depressed or complain much about the cold as you progress from summer to winter in Yakutsk, or is the severe climate just accepted as an inevitable part [...]
Posted in Answers, General, Locations, Photo | Also tagged Aldan, life, Photo, Siberia, snow, winter, Yakutia, Yakutsk |
By bolot | Published:
September 12, 2009
Walter Colebatch, the UK Sibirsky Extreme moto adventure project leader, returned to Yakutia from Baikal. He said good bye to his fellows Tony and Terry, who went back home to England. At that moment, he thought “I still harboured a burning ambition to get to the Arctic Circle in Asia… I just had enough [...]
Posted in Answers, Editorial, Locations, Photo, Services, Travel | Also tagged Aikhal, Anabar, bike, biker, car, Chernyshevsky, Editorial, Expedition, fuel, Lensk, maps, Mirny, Morkoka, motorcycle, Photo, rates, roads, Siberia, Sibirsky Extreme, the Lena river, Travel, Udachny, Ust-Kut, Viluisk, Yakutia, Yakutsk |
