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Culture of the Yakuts, Siberian Horse People. Fine Arts Museum in Yakutsk, Russia

Bolot — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:45:19 +0000

The current post is sequal to the previous one, “Olonkho, Sakha Heroic Epos, In Timofei Stepanov’s Painting The Upper World.” This time we post images of crafts and attributes of the Sakha (Yakut) people’s past daily life.

Yes, photographs were taken in The National Fine Arts Museum of the Republic of Sakha-Yakutia in Yakutsk, Siberia / Russia.

In the following images you’ll see crockeries for horse milk, female horse saddles, talisman-like crafted calendars, female clothes, belts, other national clothes and… mammoth tusk crafts.

Each picture shows that the Sakha people is the nation that cultivates and breeds horses.

By the way, click images to enlarge.

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Olonkho, Sakha heroic epos, in Timofei Stepanov’s painting The Upper World

Bolot — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 06:43:52 +0000

Love visiting National Fine Arts Museum of Republic of Sakha-Yakutia (www.sakhamuseum.ru) in Yakutsk, Russia. Many paintings, sculptures, installatons.

Hereby, I am eager to show parts of one painting done by the well-known Yakut artist, Timofei Stepanov.

He was the first artist, who depicted the Yakut heroic epic called Olonkho in the series of paintings.

Olonkho is a heroic epic tale of the Sakha people. The poetic tales, which vary from 10,000 to 20,000 verses (or more) in length, are performed by the Olonkho singer and story-teller. Wiki.

In 2004, it was proclaimed by UNESCO as a Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity. UNESCO.

Timofei Stepanov was named as a Olonkho story-teller in fine arts. Indeed, one painting is like one big tale with many small stories. As a proof, see below fragments of the above piece called The Upper World.

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Jewelry with Yakutian diamonds. Made by EPL Diamond LLC

Bolot — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 00:20:57 +0000

See exclusive jewelry made in Yakutia with Yakutian diamonds by EPL Diamond LLC.

EPL Diamond LLC is the Yakutsk-based company that polishes ALROSA’s diamonds and produces its own jewelry. It has all the right to use the motto “EPL Diamond. Diamonds of Yakutia.” Indeed, diamonds it uses are mined, polished and crafted in Russia’s Siberian Republic of Sakha-Yakutia.

See more diamond photographs.

By the way, the above 1-million-rubles diamond ring was given to the winner of the last lottery from EPL Diamond yesterday.

EPL Diamond’s website and facebook page.

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Children are painting. Exhibit in Yakutsk.

Bolot — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 08:30:24 +0000

This is the way Yakutian kids are painting. Works from Yakutsk Children Fine Arts School.

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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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A. Filippova’s Yakut national costumes during Yakutia Days in Toronto, Canada

Bolot — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 01:42:07 +0000

Glad that our famous designer Avgustina Filippova were able to participate in Yakutia’s Days in Toronto, Canada. In the above video you can see how she displayed her work – Yakut national costumes.

More about Yakutia’s Days in Toronto in my previous posts and Vera Solovieva’s article on SakhaDiaspora (in Russian).

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Tiksi in Winter. Photos by Evgenia Arbugaeva.

Bolot — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 06:37:25 +0000

Evgenia Arbugaeva, a Yakutian photographer, keeps stunning us all the time. In September – October, she is exhibiting her pictures from the project “Tiksi In Winter” in Toronto, Canada. Her photo exhibit will be a part of so-called Days of Sakha-Yakutia at Bezpala Brown Gallery.

Days of Sakha-Yakutia at Bezpala Brown Gallery
Sept. 30-Oct. 9; Oct. 15-30, 17 Church St., Toronto; bezpalabrown.com

If you are in Toronto, don’t miss a chance to see her images of the Russian Arctic seaport of Tiksi located in Yakutia in the area of the Lena Delta.

Some of Evgenia’s photographs you might see right now.

Evgenia Arbugaeva’s website.

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Ayarkhaan’s khomus music performance in London, UK

Bolot — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 00:10:03 +0000

Good news for world music admirers and fans of the Ayarkhaan trio. July 24, 2011, Albina Degtyareva‘s Ayarkhaan Trio performed at the BBC Proms (Royal Albert Hall) in London, UK.

“Three Sakha women from Siberia blew the audience away with their unearthly sounds of jew’s harp and animal imitation. It was truly amazing,” Misha Maltsev reports.

They didn’t wear Yakut national costumes, as they used to do before.

Instead, three little Siberian young women looking dignified in their black suites come on stage with their seems-to-be-weird music. Bang. “They came, they played, proudly walked away and the people were left open mouthed, puzzled, stunned, confused – but all were moved,” Misha says.

You can listen their interview and khomus music at http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b012r8cv/BBC_Proms_2011_Prom_11_Human_Planet_Part_2/.

The above video was recorded a few months ago.

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Yakutia Wild Life Comic Strips. New project!

Bolot — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 05:51:39 +0000

Yakutia Wild Life, a new comic strip project done in English. P.S. Click the photo to see in the origin size.

A friend of mine, Arsen Tomsky, initiated the new project called Yakutia’s Wild Life. It is the series of black-and-white comic strips about living in the coldest Siberian region. Done in English and in the way of positive jokes.

Arsen is the founder of the biggest Yakutsk city online portal Ykt.ru and CEO of SakhaInternet LLC.

The above strip is the first one. More pieces are coming soon… one by one. You can follow updates on the YakutiArt facebook page… and, yeah, leave, your comments with your opinions! That would be wonderful!Similar Posts:

Video: Yakutia in khomus (Jew’s Harp) music and images!

Bolot — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 01:26:37 +0000

Enjoy khomus (Yakut Jew’s harp) music and images of Yakutia in the amazing video slideshow created by Marianna Leontieva in 2008. The author lives in Moscow and she called the video “Khomus… A Yakutian’s Nostalgia…” Think, no additional info is required.

By the way, Yakutsk will host the 7th International Jew’s Harp Society Congress on June 23-26, 2011. It will be held right before the Yasyakh national holiday celebration in the area of Ys Khatyn near Yakutsk. My god, my fingers are crossed, don’t want to miss this must-be-awesome event.

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