Метка: Yakutia

Seekers: New home of mankind

In 1982, archaeologists Yakut – the capture of geological samples in the town of Deering-Yuriakh, Yakutia – stumbled upon an ancient tomb. A little later, in one of the graves to visit the area, archaeologists discovered the accumulation of stones with traces of primitive processing.

Even the initial examination showed that the age of rocks is much greater than the age of the burial. And the results of examinations conducted in Yakutsk and Moscow have been altogether sensational! It was found that the age of the finds – more than 2 million years. Read more »

The Lena River from Ust-Kut to Yakutsk (2011)

Today I will tell you and show you what it looks like Lena River sturgeon from the port city of Ust-Kut (w / train station Lena) to the capital of the Republic of Sakha Yakutsk.

Lena River

The Lena River in eastern Siberia, the largest, has its origins in the Irkutsk region and flows into the Laptev Sea, far above the Arctic Circle. The river is 4,500 km. Navigable part of the river the large size of the fleet – 3620 km, that is, to Ust-Kut, then works a little dimensional fleet.

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In Nizhniy Bestyahe was opened railway station

August 4 in Nizhniy Bestyahe the grand opening of the railway station.

opening of the railway station

According to the CEO of the corporation “Transstroi-Vostok” Alexander Dudnikova, the station building is built in such a way that it can Read more »

Television program “Letters from the provinces. Yakutsk” (2011)

The program of “Letters from the province,” the audience will see a lot of interesting corners of Russia, will visit both in large cities and in those which may have never heard of. Without leaving your home, viewers may be there for a long time wanted to go, but for some reason have not been able to. The main thing that draws in the cycle – his heroes hinterland residents, representatives of different nationalities, truly in love with their land. This gifted people, which has always been a rich country, the true intellectuals, putting the spiritual and moral values of the above material.

See the release of “City of Yakutsk” … Read more »

The Lena River on a homemade raft (2011)

The Lena River, from its headwaters to its confluence with the Laptev Sea, resigned in the summer of 2011 Nizhny Novgorod traveler Yuri Prokofiev. The Lena River – one of the largest rivers in Russia, it flows through the Irkutsk Region and Yakutia. Yuri began its launch in Ust-Kut and ended, sailed to Tiksi. It is about 4,000 km route! He did not take with him a firearm, GPS navigator and radio. He was absolutely alone in his makeshift raft, yielding entirely of this wonderful river. And in this article we are able to find the details of this campaign, at least for a moment and travel back to that wonderful land.

Yuri Prokofiev

The idea of my trips is that I am not a pro and I go on a route only to his craft, invented and made me well, using only your own risk, and do not set myself targets to whom something to prove. I’m just a pilgrim with his eccentricities. In this format, and will go on …

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Photo report “In kayaking on the river Lena, from Ust-Kut to Tiksi” (2007)

Your attention is the photo report’s kareladin of rafting on the river Lena (from Ust-Kut to Tiksi) in 4 parts.

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From the movie “Lena River” (1950)

Your attention is a small bit of the movie “Lena River” (1950) from the archive Goskinohranilischa of Sakha (Yakutia) in Russian.

Baikal, the upper reaches of the Lena

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The film “Children of the White Sun” (2012)

TV and Radio Company “Mir” and the Russian Geographic Society documentary film “Children of the White Sun” from “The Turks Russia.”

Yakuts – Turkic people who came to the edge of the permafrost in the eighth century. They migrated in several waves from the Baikal region. Yakuts were called Russian, but the nation remembers its ancient name of Sakha. Saha means white, sunny, probably because of the Yakuts call themselves children of the White Sun.

The film “Capse, Yakutia!” (1972)

The full-length film “Capse, Yakutia!” (In Russian), filmed in 1972 of the East Siberian studio newsreel on the 50th anniversary of the Yakut ASSR.
Written by: Nicholas and Alexander Gabyshev Mendeleev
Directed by Valery Khomenko and Tamara CHirkova
Operators: Anatoly Stremyakov, Nicander Savvinov and Eugene Korzun