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Yegor Makarov’s Exhibition in Sweden: “Native People of Sakha (Yakutia)”

Dear Yakutia fans, especially Swedish friends! If by any chance you are or will be in the city of Orsa, Sweden, please, visit Yegor Makarov’s photo exhibition dedicated to people of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) and its culture. The event will last till November 22, 2010. Further, please find more information and photographs. About the [...]

58 Photos: Sacred Kihilyakh, Verkhoyansk Mountains, Yakutia/Siberia

The Yakuts consider Kihilyakh to be a sacred place. It is believed that stone pillars in the upper part of the Verkhoyansk mountains concentrate health-healing powers. People come to that place, pray to mountains’ spirits asking for having grace on them and giving blessing. Take a look at Ajar Varlamov’s unique set of photographs taken in [...]

The photo exhibition “To The North” in Yakutsk, Yakutia/Siberia

Last week I and my boys visited the famous Russian travel photographers, Anton Lange & Ivan Shakurov’s photo exhibition “To the North”. Certainly, it was dedicated to the coldest & biggest Siberian region of Yakutia. The event took place in the republic’s National Arts Museum. Unfortunately, the visit was short. My sons wanted to research [...]

The Siberian city of Yakutsk as seen from the sky. 27 photos.

There is a really cool Yakutsk-based guy, Peter Andreev, who is mostly known as Kallamish. In the city blogosphere he is considered to be a popular author. No wonder. He is a talanted creative designer, artist, photographer, and pretty active traveller. Everything he does he posts on his blog at http://dnevniki.ykt.ru/kallamish. Once Peter stumbled upon [...]

Just another weekend off-roading near Yakutsk, Yakutia/Siberia

I do really admire these pals. I mean Artyom and Katerina (see the above pic), the co-founders of the Adv.Yktv.ru Siberian adventure blog, and guys of the Yakutsk off-roading club “Mammoth” (http://off-road.ykt.ru/) with its chief Dima Khvatov. If to alter the text of the World Cup Coca-Cola commercial song, they might be always singing, “Give [...]

Travelling the Buotama River estuary in summer 2010, Yakutia, Siberia/Russia

These photos were taken by Arsen Tomsky and Maxim Prusakov during their 5-day Buotama River trip, June 10-15, 2010. Arsen has already floated the Buotama in July 2008. He remembers, how he and his three friends, Sherlaw, Marat and Maverick, spent three long days walking to the starting point for rafting. Loaded with stuff and [...]

Portraits from Siberia’s Yakutia. By Aubry Francine.

Aubry, thanks for letting me know about your photos of Yakutia More Aubry Francine’s Yakutian/Siberian photographs might be found on her blog http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/faubry/.Similar Posts: Photo Story: Living in Tiksi. By Pavel Kolínský. Yakutia. Old photos. Part 1. Dog sledding in Yakutia: Siberian huskies, the Lena River, Pillars Summer Photos: Panorama of Bulus, the Buotama River upper reaches, [...]

Photos: summer in Kobyaj w/ amazing fishing, exciting rafting…

I am pretty proud to present the region called Kobyaj. Below, please, find elected summer pictures (frankly saying, I have a lot of photographs, including winter ones). Kobyaj is people’s name for the Kobyajsky ulus located north from Yakutsk in Central Yakutia, Siberia/Russia. It is the only region (see the map) that includes partly the [...]

Following the Even reindeer herders in the North (Arctic) of Yakutia, Siberia/Russia

See photographs of the Even reindeer herders taken by anthropologist Florian Stammler in the northern part of the Verkhoyansk mountains in Yakutia, Siberia/Russia. Florian Stammler is one of a few antropologists, who mainly studies the peoples of the Russian Arctic. He used to lecture in Cambridge. Now he teaches at the Rovaniemi University in the [...]

94 photos: The Lena Delta & the Lena-Nordensheld station, Summer 2010

Watch Ajar Varlamov’s photos of the blooming tundra at the Lena Delta in Yakutia, Russia’s Siberia. 94 summer photographs of awesome Arctic nature. Pictures were taken in the course of his short vacation to the Lena-Nordensheld biological station in the Bulunsky region of Siberia’s Yakutia on June 25 – July 1, 2010. If use photographs, the [...]