By bolot | Published:
February 20, 2010
Received a request from Jenanne, a Scotland University of Aberdeen PhD Student. Her major is Social Anthropology, so all her questions sounded accordingly. Mainly she wondered how popular the Sakha (Yakut) language was on the Internet. I said I had a friend of mine, who’s hobby was to write in his native language everything and [...]
Posted in Answers, Culture, General, History, Science, Social | Also tagged anthropology, dictionary, Internet, language, online, Sakha, Siberia, Yakut, Yakutia, Yakutsk |
By bolot | Published:
October 15, 2009
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 [...]
Posted in Editorial, Locations, Travel, Video | Also tagged Coldest City, life, Pole of Cold, Travel, Video, winter, Winter Exotica, Yakutia, Yakutsk |
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 Cold, Coldest City, life, Oymyakon, Pole of Cold, Siberia, the Lena river, tourism, Travel, winter, Winter Exotica, Yakutia, Yakutsk |
By bolot | Published:
September 9, 2009
This question I hear very often from international website visitors. The last time it was a Turkish 4WD adventure traveler Ali Eric, who is making his world-around trip Istanbul2Istanbul. A few days ago, while seeping the Russian beer at a local grill house, he said to me:
“You know, before my start, I told friends that [...]
Posted in Answers, Culture, General, History, Locations | Also tagged Cold, history, life, people, Siberia, winter, Winter Exotica, Yakutia, Yakutsk |
By bolot | Published:
August 31, 2009
Andrew I with a creative studio “A Novigator” announced a descent to the deepest well in the world, Shergin’s shaft, to take place in Yakutsk on October 20, 2009. Update, 21.10.2009: The even was postponed till November 04, 2009.
An exclusive speleological tour into the unique well, that is 116 meters deep, as long as a [...]
Posted in Announcement, Culture, Events, History, Locations, Photo, Press Releases, Travel | Also tagged Andrew I, deepest, deepest well, descent, event, Far East, history, permafrost, Republic of Sakha, Russia, shaft, Shergin shaft, Siberia, Travel, Yakutia, Yakutsk |
By bolot | Published:
June 16, 2009
More pics of previous Ysyakh at Flickr.com
This summer Yakutsk’s Ysyakh (Ысыах), Yakut national holidays, will be held on June 27-28, 2009. Location is Ys Khatyn (Yс Хатынг), 20 minutes by car northward from Yakutsk, near the settlement of Zhatai (Жатай). The opening ceremony will take place on the first day, Saturday, at 12.00.
Note: Yakutsk Ysyakh [...]
Posted in Announcement, Culture, Editorial, Events, Photo | Also tagged customs, event, Photo, tradition, Yakutia, Yakutsk, Ysyakh |
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:
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 :)
Posted in Answers, Culture, General, Locations, Services, Travel | Also tagged apartment buildings, car, civilization, healing, Nerungri, religion, roads, shamans, taiga, Travel, ulan bator mongolia, Viluisk, Yakutsk |
By bolot | Published:
December 21, 2008
Further is all one wanted to know about Andrei Borisov’s movie “The Mystery of Genghis Khan” known initially as “By the Will of Genghis Khan”
