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70 Travel Photos: Reindeer Sledding w/ Even Herders in Oymyakon, Siberia, Russia

Bolot — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 02:17:26 +0000

In February, as you might already know, I experienced just a magic reindeer sledding expedition across valleys and rivers of Oymyakon, East Yakutia, Russia’s Siberia. With the Even nomad family of the Cherkashins. Well, it was a sort of expedition to me, but not to reindeer herders. They considered two-day travel as a regular neighbourhood visit.

No more words from me. Enjoy 70+ photographs.

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Winter Magic with Reindeer & Herders in Oymyakon, Siberia / Russia

Bolot — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 06:32:43 +0000

This winter scene is good for a Merry Christmas card, though reindeer here is in his natural environment… in Oymyakon, one of the coldest inhabited places in the world. Located in Republic of Sakha-Yakutia, East Siberia & the Far East, Russia.

This magic is brought from my recent reindeer sledding with Even nomads through valleys, rivers, hills and mountains.

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Hereby Kesha, one of herders, is catching reindeer with lasso to prepare a big caravan for 5 travelers. Eventually, he caught 25 animals. Before catching, his brother Misha found reindeer in mountains where they were freely roaming amoung snowy trees.

This is already on the 2nd day of sledding. It was the end of daytime and the temp was much below -40 degrees Celsius.

Definitely, it was an adventure of 2012.

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A truck fallen through the ice on the Indigirka River, Oymyakon, Siberia / Russia [video]

Bolot — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 23:26:20 +0000

What can happen, when ice road truckers take a risk and cross the river on the thin ice in spring? Their trucks fall through the ice and drivers kill much time to extract their vehicles.

Take a look. This video was shot on the Indigirka River in the area of Oymyakon. This is in Yakutia, Siberia / Russia. Time was the late spring, April.

A kinda exciting adventure, but it wasn’t funny for drivers.

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Extreme cold hunting journey in Oymyakon, Siberia / Russia. With reindeer sleds [photos]

Bolot — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 00:44:47 +0000

A friend of mine, Vyacheslav Ipatiev, who is the founder and CEO of YakutiaTravel LLC, has developed a new unique route for extreme cold hunters.

He gives a chance to embark an adventure journey on reindeer sleds across the Valley of Oymyakon, one of the coldest parts of Yakutia, Siberia / Russia.

10-day sledding in the Siberian extreme cold weather. From the village of Uchugey to the village of Oymyakon. The temp is as low as -55 C or even less. And, yeah, night spending in nomads’ sleeping bags in nomads’ tents. In short, it’s the coolest expedition experience!

Cold hunting trip description is available here.

See more cold adventure pictures…

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Yuka Mammoth Expedition by snowmobiles to the Arctic of Yakutia, Siberia / Russia

Bolot — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 06:10:25 +0000

In the early November, Yakutsk-based Vladimir Potapov (fb profile) arranged the winter snowmobile expedition to the Arctic zone of the Republic of Sakha-Yakutia (Siberia/Russia).

The route was Ust Kujga (map) – Kazach’e (map) – Laptev Sea.

The mission was to deliver the remains of the Yuka Mammoth from the area of the Yukagir community, Laptev Sea, to Yakutsk. It is the same place, where the famous Yukagir mammoth head was discovered seven years ago.

The Yuka mammoth corpse was found in the well-preserved condition by Vasily Gorokhov’s community four years ago. It has four legs, proboscis, and wool.

The expedition was filmed by BBC TV Channel and scheduled to be on the air on February 25th, 2012. It will be a 60-min story.

See more Arctic expedition photographs taken by Egor Fedorov.

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Yakutia in a 5-min video presentation. W/ subtitles in three languages

Bolot — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 23:46:17 +0000

This is a 5-min video about Yakutia!

Its creators tried to do the impossible… to show all images of the vast diverse region called Republic of Sakha (Yakutia). Think, they succeeded, but, frankly, such a hard mission won’t be possible to do ever.

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Trekking to Palatka Mountain in East Yakutia, Siberia / Russia. Photos by Dersu.

Bolot — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 06:52:19 +0000

Dersu (his blog) is great! Last August he and his friend, Sergey Ermak, completed another trekking expedition, but this time to Palatka Mountain, one of the biggest glaciers in East Yakutia, Siberia / Russia.

Dersu’s previous trekkings across Yakutia:

- Kyuellyakh Moustakh River Expedition, Yakutia/Siberia
- The Momsky Range, East Yakutia/Siberia

Palatka Mountain is located in Suntar-Khayata Range in the area of the upper Suntar River. Considered as the third highest point (2797 m) after Pobeda Peak (3147 m) and Mus Khaya Mountain (2959 m).

They started their walk on Aug. 08th and finished on Aug. 26th. The way to Palatka was the Kolyma Highway (right after the Zheltyj Proizhim, if on the way from Yakutsk) – Ogannya River – Ugammyt River – Koltako River – Suntar River – Mugal (Munil) brook – the Neidagychan river tributary.

Below, please, see amazing pictures of wild Siberian nature with funny and cute animals, and, yeah, don’t miss the image of the brown bear.

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Snowboarding in the Land of Stalin’s gulags… Oymyakon, Siberia / Russia

Bolot — Tue, 10 May 2011 05:07:05 +0000

If you wonder, what young people do in Ust Nera, the administrative center of Yakutia’s Oymyakon region, especially on a sunny winter day, here is the answer. They take snowboards and snowboarding gears, get to the closest mountain, climb, climb, climb, and enjoy riding on the snow from uphill.

Take a look at pictures taken by Egor Fedorov and his friends this past April. Click thumbnails to see pictures in large sizes.

By the way, I should call the post “Snowboarding in the Siberian land of Stalin’s gulags,” as labour camps are all around that place and Ust Nera is located on the famous Kolyma Highway known mostly as the Road of Bones.

No special snowboarders’ camp at all. Total wildness.

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Ice diving? Underwater hunting? Target Shooting Under Ice Fest in Siberia, Russia

Bolot — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 00:33:57 +0000

There are a few interesting people living in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia). Andrey I is Russian TV celebrity, explorer and PR expert. German Arbugaev is entrepreneur, travel enthusiast, the Chochur Mouran ethnographic complex owner, Yakutian laika dog breeder, and a man of the Arctic (he lived many years in Tiksi). Sergey Sobolev is director of DASAAF Yakutsk Affiliate, ice diving and underwater hunting instructor. All of them are experienced divers.

What happened when they gathered together this year? Right. They’ve got an idea and arranged the so-called Target Shooting Under Ice Festival on the Amga River near the village of Abaga in South Yakutia, Siberia / Russia. It happened last week and… as they say… for the first time in the world.

Two men got courage to join such a Siberian challenge. They are Elshan Nazarov, constructor, and Alexey Voronzov, metalworker. They are also ice divers, but never tried hunting and target shooting under the ice river cover in winter.

Below, please, see pictures of divers’ shooting targets (artificial fishes) under ice. The outdoor temperature was -17C, water temp around 0 degree Celsius. Assignment was to swim 12 metre and hit targets from spearguns.

Well, it has all elements of ice diving, underwater hunting, spearfishing, and target shooting… and… that’s in a frozen Siberian river. Cool, isn’t it?!

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Yakutia’s Vice President tested the Yakutia-made off roader “Uraanhay”

Bolot — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 09:04:26 +0000

Previously, I wrote that Alexander and Constantine Smurygins, republic constructors from the city of Mirny, invented and created the all-terrain vehicle called “Uraankhai” able to drive smartly through taiga and swim Siberian rivers. It was the news spread across all regional newspapers and online portals. Read the full news story.

A week ago, Vice President of the Republic of Sakha-Yakutia Dmitry Glushko gave that off-roader a try. Further, look at photographs of his test drive.

In the below picture: Konstantin Smurygin, one of inventors, and Dmitry Glushko, Yakutia’s Vice President.

Currently, local authorities are thinking over giving funds to the Smurygins to create more such all-terrain vehicle for the republic’s purposes.

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