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Mysteries of ‘Valley of Death’ in Yakutia/Siberia

Continue reading Dr Valery Uvarov’s information about “Mysteries of Siberia’s Valley of Death.” PART I In northwestern Yakutia in Siberia, in the basin of the Upper Viliuy River, there is a hard-to-reach area that bears the marks of a tremendous cataclysm that took place some 800 years ago, which toppled the entire forest cover and scattered [...]

Veronika Vysokikh, Miss Virtual Yakutia 2010

24-year-old Veronika Vysokikh earned the Miss Virtual Yakutia 2010 crown. She won the online beauty pageant and was recognized by people’s choice as the best of 137 participants. Congratulations! Miss Virtual Yakutia is an annual online contest. It is more prestigious than Miss Yakutia. MVY is considered to be the big Internet-based event hosted by Sakha [...]

Photos: 2010 Etigen Khomus Music Award Ceremony

The last Sunday in Yakutsk was remarkable with 2010 Etigen Khomus Music Award Ceremony. Etigen Khomus is Yakutia’s annual award granted to singers (variety performers) for their achievements in the course of the past year. This time for 2009. The Etigen Khomus Award Ceremony is held at the end of February or in the beginning of [...]

Photos: Trekking in the Momsky Range, East Yakutia/Siberia

See a good bunch of Dersu’s photos of Momsky National Park in the east part of Yakutia, Siberia/Russia. 33 pictures. Taken in September 2008. Via Adv.Yktv.ruSimilar Posts: Photos: Kyuellyakh Moustakh River Expedition, Yakutia/Siberia Video & Photos: Cutting frozen reindeer meat in Yakutsk, Yakutia/Siberia A Siberian taiga ghost at Yakutia’s Kyjma Lake Breathing cold morning air in the valley of [...]

Photos: Sukhoi Super Jet 100 at Yakutsk Airport

The 4th experimental SSJ-100 (№ 95004), that was conducting the flight on the route Ramenskoe (Zhukovsk Airport) – Novosibirsk (Tolmachev) – Yakutsk, stopped by at Yakutsk Airport at the end of February. See more pics. Via Joker.Ykt.ruSimilar Posts: A plane landed on its bottom in Yakutsk this morning Photos: 2010 Etigen Khomus Music Award Ceremony Photo: Biking the [...]

Saina, the singer of Yakutia’s Northern nations

Think no need to present Saina. She can do it herself. Listen to her audio presentation track with different songs. I can say only that she started as a Yakutsk-based pop singer. Now she prefers to sing songs of northern peoples living in Siberia’s Yakutia. That’s really great. This demo was specially recorded for eYakutia.com [...]

Video: Playing football in Yakutsk… in winter

Do you love football (soccer) as strong as kids of Yakusk do? ) They do love this game and are ready to play it even when it is extremely cold outdoors. In this video boys are running for the ball, when it was below -45 degrees Centigrade.Similar Posts: Video & Photos: Cutting frozen reindeer meat [...]

Photos: Kyuellyakh Moustakh River Expedition, Yakutia/Siberia

See more Dersu’s photographs of his Kyuellyakh Moustakh River hiking expedition in Momsky region in 2007. Resource: Dersu’s travel notes in RussianSimilar Posts: Photos: Trekking in the Momsky Range, East Yakutia/Siberia Yakutia Adventure Weblog Launched Yakutia in the popular Dutch travel TV show The New Year Holidays are over! A ridiculously dangerous Siberian bridge

Misha Maltsev’s documentary about the Sakha-Yakut shamans

Watch Misha Maltsev’s documentary “Siberia at the Centre of the World – Part 1: Music, Dance and Ritual in Sakha-Yakutia.” Disclaimer: the video length is about 1 hour, be careful if you don’t have unlimited Internet traffic. Misha Maltsev’s bio is here.Similar Posts: A ridiculously dangerous Siberian bridge Shamans of Siberia – Exhibition in Stuttgart Veronika Vysokikh, Miss Virtual [...]

Misha Maltsev: the only Yakut in BBC

Misha Maltsev is from the Republic of Sakha, North-Eastern Siberia and belongs to the Yakut-Sakha tribe, of Altaic-Turkic speaking peoples. In the mid-eighties, when most people in the former Soviet Union were listening to state approved music, Misha 19s curiosity and passion led him to establish underground connections with international experimental musicians from around the world. [...]