By bolot | Published:
February 11, 2010
GULAGs researcher always asked me whether I had a map of GULAGs located on Siberia’s famous Road of Bones. I answered that I didn’t have. Now I have it on the blog.
The Road of Bones is the part of the Kolyma Highway constructed by GULAGs prisoners between Khandyga and Magadan in Stalin’s time. Many innocent [...]
Posted in Answers, History, Locations, Photo | Also tagged Khandyga, Kolyma Highway, Magadan, maps, Oymyakon, Photo, Pole of Cold, Road of Bones, roads, Siberia, Tomtor, Travel, Ust Nera, Verkhoyansky, Yakutia |
By bolot | Published:
September 12, 2009
What had been happening at 1930s on the territory of East Yakutia was really awefull. Watch the short documentary “Kolyma” made by SDMediaEU for the TV series “Siberian Impressions.” Terrible feelings after watching the video. Especially the scenes with human bones. But we can’t do anything about it. That’s history and the worst part.
Posted in Editorial, General, History, Locations, Video | Also tagged Khandyga, Kolyma Highway, Magadan, mountain, roads, Siberia, Ust Nera, Video, Yakutia |
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, Culture, 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, Culture, deepest, deepest well, descent, event, Far East, permafrost, Republic of Sakha, Russia, shaft, Shergin shaft, Siberia, Travel, Yakutia, Yakutsk |
By bolot | Published:
November 12, 2008
43 pages with information on the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) in English.
Posted in Answers, Economy, Editorial, General, Locations, Travel | Also tagged authority, cooperation, diamonds, downloads, Economy, Editorial, environment, government, industry, invest, investment projects, Lensk, mine, mineral, Mirny, nations, Nerungri, people, Photo, policy, population, sport, translation, Travel, Yakutian, Yakutsk, Ysyakh |
By bolot | Published:
September 30, 2008
A U.S. scientist wrote, “I found a newspaper reference to a 1929 Soviet expedition in search of a village in Yakutia which had not changed since the 1500s. Do you have any information about this expedition and what happened to it?”
Posted in Answers, History | Also tagged Arctic, ethnography |
By bolot | Published:
September 29, 2008
At the end of the Ice Age primitive men inhabited the basins of the mighty full northern rivers – Lena, Yana, Indigirka, Kolyma, Anabar, Olenyok, and their tributaries – Aldan, Amga, Vilyui, Olyokma, and others;
