By bolot | Published:
August 21, 2009
Maybe, it’s a little bit late at this point. Navigation on the Lena River, that usually lasts from early June till late September, is coming to the end. However, I think the following info will appear to be useful in the future.
I found out two alternative ways of traveling the Lena River on parts Ust-Kut [...]
Posted in Answers, Locations, Photo, Services, Travel | Also tagged barge, boat, hydrofoil vessel, Lensk, Olekminsk, rates, schedule, summer, taxi, the Lena river, tourism, Travel, Ust-Kut, vessel, Winter Exotica, Yakutia, Yakutsk |
By bolot | Published:
July 21, 2009
So… Two UK adventurous bikers of the Sibirsky Extreme travel motorcycle expedition have just ridden the Kolyma Highway. They had left Yakutsk on Thursday afternoon and arrived in Magadan on Sunday evening. 2100 km, 3.5 days, and 7 tyre changes! What did they say about the federal road?
The road was a little better than the [...]
Posted in Answers, History, Locations, Travel | Also tagged adventure, bike, biker, car, Expedition, Khandyga, Kolyma Highway, life, Magadan, maps, mountain, Oymyakon, Pole of Cold, roads, Sibirsky Extreme, the Lena river, Tomtor, Travel, Ust Nera, 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, event, tradition, Yakutia, Yakutsk, Ysyakh |
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, event, extreme, ice-hole, Orthodox Church, swimming, the Lena river, Travel, winter, Yakutsk |
By bolot | Published:
December 30, 2008
Wish you bright warm days all the year round, your dreams come true, health, prosperity and happiness not leaving your beloved and you!
Posted in Editorial, Photo | Also tagged Yakutsk |
By bolot | Published:
December 8, 2008
Yeee, we are in the midst of intensely cold weather. December is prominent here for minus 40 degrees Celsius (-40F). The first day with registered -40C was December 5, 2008. Praise God, there were no strong winds, otherwise we couldn’t stand it.
By bolot | Published:
November 27, 2008
Last December Shaun Walker, The Independent’s Moscow-based correspondent, wrote a great feature story about Yakutsk. He depicted how locals managed to live in the city that reminded more as a Siberian freezer. I gave him some support while he was in Yakutsk. Then he sent me his photographs attached to the mentioned story and gave [...]
Posted in Answers, Editorial, Locations, Photo, Social, Travel | Also tagged Cold, Coldest City, Independent, life, Shaun Walker, winter, Winter Exotica, 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, history, industry, invest, investment projects, Lensk, mine, mineral, Mirny, nations, Nerungri, people, policy, population, sport, translation, Travel, Yakutian, Yakutsk, Ysyakh |
By bolot | Published:
November 12, 2008
Route: Yakutsk – the Road of Bones – Magadan. Arranged in August 2008. Three vehicles (Niva, Safari, ZIL truck) participated. Photo by Kallamish.
Posted in Answers, Photo, Travel | Also tagged car, Expedition, Khandyga, Kolyma Highway, Magadan, Pole of Cold, roads, Tomtor, Travel, Verkhoyansky, Yakutsk |
By bolot | Published:
November 6, 2008
What was the first diamond mine in Yakutia? What is the biggest hole we see often in pictures of Mirny? Certainly, it is the MIR Diamond Pipe. Read further to learn about the biggest hole in the world.
