By bolot | Published:
December 2, 2009
Check ExUmira2’s video. Here’s info:
Posted in Locations, Video | Also tagged song, Video, Yakutia |
By bolot | Published:
December 2, 2009
The Copenhagen Summit made climate changes topical in news. Interesting, but Yakutsk and I felt this fever as well. A couple weeks ago five western journalists arrived in Yakutsk to make reportages about the affects of global warming in Yakutsk. In the summer I helped two photographers Mathias Braschler & Monika Fischer, who searched persons [...]
Posted in Answers, Events, General, Locations | Also tagged climate change, Cold, Coldest City, Copenhagen Summit, global warming, melting, permafrost, Permafrost Institute, Yakutia, Yakutsk |
By bolot | Published:
November 30, 2009
The following post can give answers to many questions regarding Oymyakon, the Pole of Cold in Siberia. The author of the post is Jordi Marqui, a Catalonian cold weather enthusiast, who has its own WP blog AmazingSnow. The article was initially published on my partner blog ColdUnited.com. Thanks, Jordi!
Talking about Ojmjakon involves talking about the [...]
By bolot | Published:
November 29, 2009
In the beginning of November 2009, I wrote the post “Descending into the world’s deepest shaft in the permafrost zone.” In a few days after I received a message with a lot of questions from a Hungarian scientists Adam Soereg.
He wrote “Data from Yakutsk is extremely important, because this is the longest dataset in the [...]
Posted in Answers, Events, General, History | Also tagged Cold, permafrost, Permafrost Institute, temperature, warming, weather, Yakutia, Yakutsk |
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 [...]
Posted in Locations, Services, Travel | Also tagged car, Cold, Khandyga, Kolyma Highway, Magadan, Oymyakon, Pole of Cold, rates, Road of Bones, roads, taxi, Tomtor, Travel, Ust Nera, winter, Yakutia, Yakutsk |
By bolot | Published:
November 15, 2009
I was frequently asked about hostels/small hotels availability in Yakutsk. There are some, and they are different. At long last, I found time and checked a few.
Here is my current pick. That’s Metro Hostel. It is cheap and clean. It has many big advantages. Let’s list them.
Posted in Answers, Locations, Services, Travel | Also tagged Coldest City, hostel, hotel, Photo, rates, tourism, Travel, Yakutia, Yakutsk |
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:
November 12, 2009
The journey along the Lena River from its head evokes much travelers’ interest. Reasons vary. Recently I received another request, but from the U.S. this time. An Orthodox priest wrote:
“I want to travel by river to Yakutsk, June 2010 for a sabbatical project because early Orthodox missionaries to Alaska took this route in 1794. Where [...]
Posted in Answers, Locations, Services, Travel | Also tagged hydrofoil vessel, Lensk, Olekminsk, Peleduj, summer, the Lena river, Travel, Ust-Kut, Yakutia, Yakutsk |
By bolot | Published:
November 11, 2009
I have a German friend, Bjorn Steinz. He is a pro photographer based in Prague. Two years ago he visited Yakutsk in November. He spent a few days just walking around on streets and taking pictures of people. Since then I promote his works and website oka2 Photography on every occasion, and I am grateful [...]
By bolot | Published:
November 5, 2009
On Nov. 4, 2009, in Yakutsk, the capital of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), a group of three people descended into the world’s deepest ice vertical tunnel, Shergin’s Shaft, that had been buried and forgotten for more than half a century. It was the important historical, scientific, cultural event called “The Storm of Shergin’s Shaft” [...]
