Метка: history

Yakutia – 1000 km along the Kolyma to the cold pole Oymyakon!

The most unforgettable and coldest journey of my life! We go to the cold pole in the Oymyakon region to spend a week in a tent with reindeer herders! Read more »

Tit Ary Island Yakutia (2020)

Tit-Ary Island is one of the largest islands in the Lena River bed. Read more »

Incredible Yakutia: fires, bridge, food and museums (2020)

Falling in love with the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) turned out to be very easy. Read more »

The opening of the railway traffic on the new bridge over the Lena River

Railway traffic on the new bridge over the Lena River

It is dedicated to the 45th anniversary of the Baikal-Amur Mainline
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Unknown Yakutia: Momsk GULAG

Momsk GULAG

Hello, reader! With the permission of Mikhail Cheremkin, the author of these simultaneously beautiful and scary photos, I am writing a post about one of the least known death camps of the GULAG system. Read more »

Travelers told how the expedition across Yakutia and Chukotka amazed them

Two times we almost fell through the ice on the border between Yakutia and Chukotka, saw polar bears and ate condensed milk with snow. Read more »

Scientists of the center “Arctic” will repeat the route of the Great Northern Expedition of the XVIII century

Scientists of the center

On March 29, 2019, the participants of the local history expedition of the center “Arktika” set off on the path of the Russian polar pioneers Vasily Pronchishchev, Khariton Laptev, who participated in the Great Northern Expedition of the mid-18th century. Read more »

The Ministry of Development of the Arctic will be created in Yakutia

Arctic

A ministry for the development of the Arctic will be created in the republic. This was reported by Aisen Nikolaev during the announcement of the annual Message of the Head of Yakutia to the State Assembly (Il Tumen). Read more »

Specialists of INGG SB RAS have found imprints of heat-loving fossil plants in the Arctic

prints of thermophilic fossil plants found in the Arctic

During a comprehensive expedition to the Lena River delta, scientists from the Institute of Petroleum Geology and Geophysics. A.A. Trofimuk SB RAS left the Arctic Circle, on the island of Sardis to study the section of Neogene (23-2.5 Ma) and Quaternary rocks. Read more »