Hi! My name is Bolot. I am a journalist. Based in Yakutsk. Ask me a question about the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), Siberia / Russia, and get the answer.
One of latest requests:
What are the people of Yakutsk called in English? Yakuts? I’m an editor working on a novel with a Russian character who mentions Yakutsk.
Even in Russian, no special name exists for the people living in Russia’s Siberian city of Yakutsk.
Usually, when we are away and want to identify ourselves, we prefer to say that we are Yakutians. This is the name for all people living in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia).
Very often foreigners mix up… Read more…
An Austrian traveler Hannes, who visited Oymyakon, the Pole of Cold, this past January, was so impressed with the Yakut folk music that he asked me to provide him links to online resources, where he could download mp3 files with Yakut songs and music or purchase CDs or mp3 files somewhere on the web.
By the way, Hannes created a very nice slideshow with his photographs taken in the course of his expedition to Oymyakon. Check his video and find hyperlinks I know. Read more…
A lady, of Transilvania, Romania, whose hobby was to research the Turkic languages, asked “As far as I could see, the Sakha language has short and long consonants and vowels. Is it true? How many vowels does it have?” The asnwer was as follows: Read more…
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