Big River: Part 5 – Lensk and its surroundings

Lensk and its surroundings

Today, just a few scenes shot on the banks of the Lena River, somewhere between Peleduem and Lena in the period July 14-16. Without the story. Well, what can I tell a big river, the whole day at the oars, and shooting only in the morning and evening. All the same, the motor is needed for such large rivers, all the time otherwise spent on boating and shoot something and have no time. Nevertheless, here’s something. Oh, here they come like botany periodically come. Do not go just like that, that help determine whether the flowers wisely. Maybe someone about spider and say something at the same time.

Lensk and its surroundings

Lensk and its surroundings

Lensk and its surroundings

Lensk and its surroundings

Lensk and its surroundings

Lensk and its surroundings

Lensk and its surroundings

Lensk and its surroundings

Lensk and its surroundings

Lensk and its surroundings

Lensk and its surroundings

Lensk and its surroundings

Lensk and its surroundings

Lensk and its surroundings

Lensk and its surroundings

Lensk and its surroundings

Lensk and its surroundings

Lensk and its surroundings

Lensk and its surroundings

In the city Lensk, as in all previous and subsequent settlements, met on this journey along the Lena River, we dropped quite a short time, no more than an hour. But some times you press the button the camera still had time. Lensk – it is really a city, by the way, the fifth largest in Yakutia, there are about 24 thousand people. However, the status of this he received only in 1963. And before that there was a village Muhtui. However, I will not retell the story here, taken from the internet, and simply send it to the site of the city of Lensk. And a little illustrate their photos. From Lensk, by the way, goes the way of the Peace, so that here, we can say, the gate to the diamonds in Yakutia.

Lensk and its surroundings
Five tallest buildings, each one shaped as letters from the name of the city, it turns Lensk. Most likely, these houses are built after a very serious flooding that occurred in the year 2001.

Lensk and its surroundings
Embankment.

Lensk and its surroundings

Lensk and its surroundings
From the flood in 2001 the city was badly damaged. After the disaster here a lot of money invested, including rebuilt protection from flood waters, the city became better than before.

Lensk and its surroundings
Though the Northern Territory, and in July, and frankly there are hot, then the weekend people pulled to the beach if you can call it.

Lensk and its surroundings
And here is the beach.

Lensk and its surroundings
The Temple of of St. Innocent.

Lensk and its surroundings

Lensk and its surroundings

Lensk and its surroundings

Lensk and its surroundings

Lensk and its surroundings
Landing stage.

Lensk and its surroundings

Lensk and its surroundings
For the night got a little below Lensk where else catches Mobile and Andrew Dorval to the Internet.

Lensk and its surroundings
That would be better if instead of the laptop took a normal tent.

Lensk and its surroundings
Well, I, meanwhile, took a few evening shots with the top point.

Lensk and its surroundings

Lensk and its surroundings

Lensk and its surroundings
The next day went just below Lensky in half-dead village Murya. Horses in the heat almost go out of the river.

Lensk and its surroundings

Lensk and its surroundings

Lensk and its surroundings
Perhaps sometimes nice to have tea or something while sitting on a bench and looking at the big river.

Lensk and its surroundings

Lensk and its surroundings

Lensk and its surroundings
Something a farm here still observed.

Lensk and its surroundings

Lensk and its surroundings

Lensk and its surroundings
Fresh chapel on the outskirts of Muri.

Lensk and its surroundings

Lensk and its surroundings

Lensk and its surroundings

Lensk and its surroundings
Where else are slightly lower for the next lot.

Lensk and its surroundings

To be continued …

Source: blog of Sergei Karpukhina

Translation: Google

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