Tag Archives: Khandyga

Quick tips: Cycling from Yakutsk to Magadan by the Road of Bones

By bolot | Published: February 24, 2010

Marat Zalyalov, a local mountain cyclist, gave quick tips to an Italian biker Dan, who had written to me as follows:
“Your site is really useful, but I didn’t find anything about cycling… So hope you could help me… I’m used to travel by bicycle in hard conditions, and your country looks amazing… Questions: what do [...]

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Video: Driving the Road of Bones (Kolyma Highway) in winter

By bolot | Published: February 18, 2010

This road was built by the inmates of Gulag camps, most of them were buried along the way. That’s why it’s named the Road of Bones.

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

By bolot | Published: February 12, 2010

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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Map of GULAGs on the Road of Bones, Oymyakonsky region/Yakutia

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 [...]

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Journey to Oymyakon: Today all participants gathered!

By bolot | Published: January 15, 2010

As far as you know, I decided to organize a road trip to Oymyakon, the Pole of Cold, from Jan. 17 till Jan. 21 for my friends. Today we, trip participants, gathered and had lunch in Yakutsk at the Chicago Bar.
There were alll of those mentioned in travellers list, including a German photographer Bjorn [...]

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Video: Long Way Round – Road of Bones Episode

By bolot | Published: December 29, 2009

Thanks to Eva Krečová, I’ve eventually watched the Long Way Round episode dedicated the Road of Bones. So many years past, but it happened now only. If you weren’t lucky to see it, just do it and consider your traveling this way. Must be a lot of fun and adventure stories.

Btw, Eva Krečová & Tomáš [...]

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Is it dangerous to travel to Oymyakon, the Pole of Cold in winter?

By bolot | Published: December 28, 2009

A Jordi, of Catalonia, is asking:
I have been reading the last report about Norwegians’ accident [in Yakutia/Siberia], and I want to ask you something… Is this a recent story? I haven’t found the piece of news relating to this.
Nowadays I know some people who want to make the journey to Oymyakon [the coldest place in [...]

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What are requirements to ice roads?

By bolot | Published: December 8, 2009

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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Pros & Cons: Travel from Yakutsk to Magadan in winter by taxi

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 [...]

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Video & Photos: Winter cycling on the Road of Bones

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 [...]

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