Bruce Parry (with a tripod) and his team in Yakutsk, Yakutia/Siberia
Hurray! Bruce Parry with his IndusFilm crew is in the Siberian town of Yakutsk! What’s he doing here?
Bruce Parry (born 17 March 1969, in Hythe, Hampshire, England) is a former Royal Marine instructor who is now a TV presenter and adventurer, known particularly for the documentary programme series Tribe (known as Going Tribal in the United States), co-produced by the BBC and the Discovery Channel. Resource:Wiki.
I met Bruce Parry two days ago on Lenin Avenue in Yakutsk. Actually he and his team arrived early, on June 17th. They have already visited a village near the town, went for two celebrations of Ysyakh, Yakut national holiday. One was held in Gorny ulus (three hours by a car from Yakutsk) and Megino-Kangalassky region (just in the front of Yakutsk on the opposite bank of the Lena River). Yesterday they departed for Sakkyryr to travel with Even reindeer herders. On the day of the meeting, they visited Epl Diamonds’ diamonds-cutting and jewelry’s factories and drove around the downtown shooting general views of the city.
Here are my announcements of big international events in Yakutsk for June 2010. Initially published on the Twitter account @yakutia.
- Khabarovsk-based Japanese Centre will hold the seminar on the development of tourism, timber & construction industries in Yakutsk on Jun 2-3UNDP & the Northern Forum will held the seminar on climate changes in Yakutsk on June 2-6, 2010. #climatechange
- UNDP & the Northern Forum will held the seminar on climate changes in Yakutsk on June 2-6, 2010. #climatechange.
- 13th University of the Arctic Council Meeting will take place in #Yakutsk on June 1-5, 2010. #Arctic http://bit.ly/aOZih
- 2010 NORD EXPO International Trade Fair to be in Yakutsk on June 1-4, 2010. http://bit.ly/cGp6Cp
- The 9th International Symposium on Cold Region Development (ISCORD) to be held in Yakutsk, Russia, on June 1-4, 2010 http://bit.ly/bl02kp
- Our Yukagir Mammoth is coming back to Russia from Shanghai. Non EXPO2010-related events, incl. the mammoth exhibition, were canceled by Shanghai City Hall.
- Yakutia-based travel companies & local authority will arrange the East Ring of Russia conference in Yakutsk on June 24-26, 2010. It seems they want to create another Russia’s Gold Ring.
Omg, I am already missing a magic winter in Yakutia. Take a look at my favourite Aikhal-based photographer Ruslan Ahmetsaphin’s winter photographs taken in the areas of Aikhail, Mirny and other settlements of Western Yakutia. It is the land primarily famous for diamonds, but it is also the land of amazing cold Siberian nature – enigmatic forest (taiga), icy rivers, crispy snow, glowing stars, and fantastic Aurora Borealis.
Take a look at 38 exclusive photographs of how Polar Airlines was rescuing the French Arctic explorer Jean-Louis Etienne in the Arctic tundra of Yakutia’s Siberia after his 5-days North Pole balloon crossing on April 11th, 2010. Read the rest of this entry…
Tiksi, Yakutia’s Arctic sea port, in May is like Yakutsk in April, Moscow and Europe in February. Yet windy and snowy. But it’s time for snow to start melting partly and people to dress in less super warm clothes. No more polar nights. Instead, you begin enoying white nights. An awesome place to visit in Siberia’s North. See more photos taken in May of 2009. Read the rest of this entry…
Found the slideshow with a lot of my photographs. It’s in the Portuguese language. What it is written is hard for me to translate, I cannot read in Portuguese, but think it’s all about the cold as usual Read the rest of this entry…
Yakutsk Permafrost Institute with its underground laboratory in the form of tunnel is a sort of a must-to-see sight in the capital of Siberia’s Republic of Sakha (Yakutia). It is the most visited by international guests.
The last year before The Copenhagen Climate Change Summit it became a real Mecca to international journalists, who wanted to know whether the global warming affected the life of the only city in the world, that was entirely built on permafrost.
A popular German newspaper RP published Doris Heimann’s article dedicated to Yakutsk under the title “Jakutsk – kälteste Stadt der Welt. Minus 45 Grad sind normal” (Yakutsk, the coldest city in the world. Minus 45C is regular temp.)
I remember Doris Heimann, Moscow-based RP reporter. She was in Yakutsk two years ago. A year ago she published her story. And only now I digged out her story.
Yes, we did it. We were in Yakutia’s valley of Oymyakon. Our first morning in the coldest place in Siberia. It was -52C. Pretty good, indeed and felt really good. Watch the video and see what cold air we were breating.
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