By bolot | Published:
November 13, 2009
It must be a great honor for me. It’s not the first time when I am asked to post a press release. This time the 2009 Yakutsk Mammoth Tusks Auction organizing committee addressed me with the request to share the event announcement. Well… Here we go.
1. Official name and address of the Auction organizing party
Open [...]
By bolot | Published:
September 8, 2009
Yeah, what does the West know about Yakutia? This question a RIA Novosti correspondent asked Eric Hoesli, writer, journalist and Editorial Director of Edipresse, Switzerland, who arrived to Yakutsk with the purpose to participate in the meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club. His answer was interesting. Partly I agree, partly not. Check yourself.
By bolot | Published:
September 4, 2009
Three Valleys Innovation Technopark invites international companies to join the permanent online exhibition “New Technologies and Innovations for the Economy of Sakha Republic (Yakutia)”.
Posted in Announcement, Answers, Economy, Events, Press Releases, Services | Also tagged contact, Economy, Editorial, exhibition, innovation, tenchnology, 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, Culture, deepest, deepest well, descent, 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 Culture, customs, Photo, tradition, Yakutia, Yakutsk, Ysyakh |
By bolot | Published:
May 26, 2009
An Australian based in Hong Kong keeps asking me. He wrote “A number of travel agents, like tour operator Olympia-Reisen-Sibir, are advertising an Artic cruise tour to Tiksi on the Mikhail Svetlov from July 21 to August 3 (arriving back 3am on August 3.)”
Posted in Answers, General, Services, Travel | Also tagged conference, cruise, Demjan Bednyj, Mikhail Svetlov, schedule, ship, the Lena river, Tiksi, tourism, Travel, UNESCO, Yakutia, Yakutsk |
By bolot | Published:
May 20, 2009
An Oymyakon-based travel enthusiast, Semen Baishev, informed me that in the course of summer he is going to arrange tours to the legendary Labynkyr Lake that is famous for a monster.
Posted in Announcement, Editorial, Travel | Also tagged Kolyma Highway, Labynkyr Lake, legends, myth, Oymyakon, Pole of Cold, Tomtor, tourism, Travel |
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 [...]
Posted in Answers, Culture, Editorial, Events, Locations, Photo | Also tagged Coldest City, Epiphany, extreme, ice-hole, Orthodox Church, Photo, swimming, the Lena river, Travel, winter, Yakutsk |
By bolot | Published:
October 31, 2008
A good opportunity is offered to people who want to celebrate New Year in a very extraordinary way. The Pole of Cold is ready to accept brave ladies and gentlements unafraid of ultimately extreme cold. Have you ever celebrated the New Year, when it is around -50C (-58F) outside? Not yet. Just try.
Posted in Answers, Services, Travel | Also tagged contact, Expedition, flight, holiday, Kolyma, Kolyma Highway, mountain, Oymyakon, PlanetYakutia, Pole of Cold, Tomtor, tourism, Travel, Yakutsk |
By bolot | Published:
July 24, 2008
Megaprojects of Russia Yakutsk Economic Forum will be held in Yakutsk on September 6-7, 2008.
