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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 Kihilyakh in July 2010.
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. Read the rest of this entry…
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 Rober Harison’s The Icarus Project. He was impressed by its idea, i.e. to send a camera attached to a helium weather balloon high into the stratosphere to take pictures of the Earth from near space. Since that moment he started thinking… in the way of ‘Why not?’.. Read the rest of this entry…
We blog about the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), the biggest & coldest region in Russia's Siberia. Also known as Yakutia. My honor to have been born and live in such a beautiful land! ~ Bolot.
