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An Italian cyclist about his pedalling on the Road of Bones (the Kolyma Highway)

Shot today. Edited today. Broadcasted on the famous Yakutsk News Channel today. Daniel Robino is a superstar!
Daniel’s URLs: his website, his expedition facebook fan page

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Summer 2010: Biking the Kolyma Highway (the Road of Bones) – Mountain Area

Watch the real Siberian video done on the Kolyma Highway (the Road of Bones) by Oisin Hughes, an Irish adventure biker, who yesterday made it to Magadan from Yakutsk just for 4 days only. In this vid you will see, how close to the edge he was biking in the Verkhoyansky mountain area. Fantastic and [...]

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UPDATED: Travelling through Yakutsk, the Road of Bones, Magadan, Chukotka & Alaska

Received questions from Montenegro’s Round-The-World Motorcycle Expedition (www.theridearound2010.com), that plans to go through Yakutia (Sakha), Magadan Oblast and Chukotka to Alaska. Here is what they wrote:
“Three of us will be traveling around the world on our motorcycles. Somewhere around July 10th we will be in Chita and from there we want to travel to Magadan. [...]

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Sibirsky Extreme 2009 – DVD Preview. Yakutia included!

Walter Colebatch, the UK Sibirsky Extreme motor travel expedition leader, informed me about realising the the preview of the DVD with the documentary of the last year journey across Siberia, including Yakutia. In this short video you can see his travelling many Siberian roads. Yakutia is shown with…

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Trekking & Climbing: Burustakh – Pobeda Peak – Sasyr – Khonuu

Another request came from Polish mountaineers, Maciek and Kasia. This upcoming summer they decided to trek across the whole Momsky National Park. Accordingly they asked questions as many as possible. Mainly on the route Burustakh (a settlement on the Road of Bones) – Pobeda Peak – the village of Sasyr – the village of Khonuu.
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Matt George’s travel report: From Yakutsk to Magadan via Oymyakon and Ust Nera by a taxi

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

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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Video: Long Way Round – Road of Bones Episode

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?

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

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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