Reports
Holiday: New Year Celebration
How do Yakutians celebrate New Year? Abigail Faust is 18-year-old American exchange student, who goes to a high school in Yakutsk. Here is her description of NY celebration:
Winter Life in Oymyakon, the Pole of Cold
Often asked about Oymyakon, the coldest place in the northern hemisphere . The last time we forwarded received questions to a local resident. His name is Nikolay N. Krivoshapkin, 50-year-old driver, who was born, grew up and live the whole life in Oymyakon. Nikolay tried to describe what life in the coldest place on Earth looks like. He says:
Winter in Yakutia, real Siberia
Are you tired of heat, warm winds or never-ending baking sun above your heads? Welcome to Yakutia in winter! Find warm clothes and go on an exciting journey to the coldest place in the northern hemisphere. Here what you need to know about the Yakutian winter.
Bus trip to Zhigansk
Well, after a long 12 years break I went to my mother’s motherland, to Zhigansk. It’s located to the north from Yakutsk behind the polar circle. A long time ago I’ve already flown there by plane. And once I reached Zhigansk by the steam-ship down the river Lena. This time I decided to ride a bus.
The Yakuts - a Legendary Horse People
Swedish Long Rider Mikael Strandberg spent the winter of 2004-2005 travelling through Siberia. He sent this special report on the Yakut horsemen to The Long Riders’ Guild. And Yakutia.org thanks The Long Riders’ Guild for their generous permission to publish the article.
Intrepid Italian: Fantastic Winter Frosts
I visited Yakutya in January 1999. For me, it was the trip of a lifetime. I had started to read about Yakutya and its fantastic winter frosts almost twenty years before, but was never able to go there. Firstly the region was off-limits for tourists in the soviet times, then it became formally open but indipendent travel was impossible in practice without guides and an official purpose.
