This road was built by the inmates of Gulag camps, most of them were buried along the way. That’s why it’s named the Road of Bones. Read the rest of this entry…

Tomas Holman on the bike. Between Tomtor/Yakutia and Magadan, the Road of Bones (the M56 Kolyma Highway). August 2009. Photo by Eva Krecova.

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This set will be updated all the time. Need more time to select more pictures of our trip. Today you can see the first portion.

Actually this car wasn’t frozen accidently. Its owner got it frozen for winter intentionally. Reasons are various. First, if the car is used the whole winter, it could work a short period of time only. Second, to have a warm, heated garage is relatively expensive. Such a garage in downtown may cost approx. 1,000,000 rubles (~33,000USD). A month heated garage rent cost ~300 USD. Third, a car consumes in cold weather more fuel than in summer, and one litre is sold here at the price of ~1 USD

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This video I shot a year ago on Dec. 7, 2008. It was minus 40C only.
It has 15679 views on YouTube. This is a big number to me.