Tag Archives: Coldest City

How To: Cutting frozen reindeer meat in Yakutsk, Yakutia/Siberia

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 [...]

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Matt George’s travel report: From Yakutsk to Magadan via Oymyakon and Ust Nera by a taxi

It is February 11th, 2010. I am sitting in Magadan and have time to reflect on my journey so far. It is GMT+11 here, which means I have travelled pretty much halfway around the World. And all without taking a single flight so far. Unfortunately I have to break the ‘rules’ and take a flight [...]

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Matt George’s report: Journey from Neryungri to Yakutsk by a taxi

In a previous post “How to get a taxi going to Yakutsk at the Neryungri railroad station?” I mentioned Matt George, a UK backpacker. This is a guy, who asked me about how to get at the Neryungri railroad station a taxi going to Yakutsk. My answers you can find in the mentioned publication. Here [...]

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What are requirements to ice roads?

As far as you know, there is no bridge over the Lena River at all. Therefore, to cross the river, locals are forced to use ferryboats from June till October and ice roads in winter, officially from the midst of December till early April.

Late April – May and late October – November are considered [...]

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Photos: -41C, Yakutsk, Friday Evening

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 [...]

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Photos: -40ºC, Yakutsk, Dec. 03, 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.

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Do you see any consequences of global warming or climate changes in Yakutsk?

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 [...]

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The Hostel “Metro” in Yakutsk

I was frequently asked about hostels/small hotels availability in Yakutsk. There are some, and they are different. At long last, I found time and checked a few.
Here is my current pick. That’s Metro Hostel. It is cheap and clean. It has many big advantages. Let’s list them.

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How do you prepare your car for the winter in Yakutia?

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 [...]

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Video: Celebrating the New Year on the coldest place on the Earth

Why not celebrate the New Year in Yakutia?! You will be surrounded with the extreme cold and real Yakutian hospitality. The Siberian winter is fun and worth to try it! Don’t you think so?

By the way, this is the first time, when I realized what a wonderful New Year we have here, on the coldest [...]

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