Facts

Tips for Yakutsk

All visitors entering the republic should keep in mind two things:
1. If stay for more than 3 days, foreigners should register in local migration service. A visitor should have a valid passport, visa and immigration card. Usually, this procedure could easily be done in most hotels. But if a visitor is going to travel across Yakutia or use homestay accommodation this one should register in the migration service within 3 days.
2. In frontier regions, Anabarskiy (Saskylakh), Bulunskiy (Tiksi), Ust–Yanskiy (Deputatskiy), Allaikhovskiy (Chokurdakh) and Nizhnekolymskiy (Cherskiy), foreigners must follow the frontier regulations and get special permission to enter mentioned areas. Application should be submitted for 30 days before and not a day less.
Railroad stations in Yakutia

We have railways in the south part of the Sakha Republic. The rail road goes to Nerungri, Aldan and Tommot. The latter is the final destination. The mentioned locations have cargo and passenger stations.
Getting the Russian visa

To avoid any problem with Russia’s Federal Migration Service in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), you need to obtain appropriate visas.
Tips for travel to Tiksi

Planning your trip you need to choose correct time for visiting Tiksi. It would be better to go there in summer months. This time you can see all beauty of polar summer, you will see many interesting exemplars of polar flora and fauna in tundra. And, of course, you will feel that we call “polar day” when sun is shining 24 hours a day.
Permafrost

Permafrost, or “ice sphynx” is one of the most interesting facts about Yakutia nature.
Reindeer

Exactly hunt on reindeer has at one time allowed the prehistoric humans to occupy the wooded tundra and tundra zone in Russia and penetrate through "Bering Bridge" to America. Indigenous peoples of Yakutia still traditionally concern with the reindeer breeding.
Aurora Borealis