Yesterday I started using the Instagram iPhone app. My god, I fell in love with it. Take a look at photographs of Yakutsk (Yakutia, Russia) taken by the iPhone and uploaded on the net with the help of Instagram. All of them instantly appeared on my Twitter account @yakutia.

In pictures: a couple on Ordzhanikidze Square, Russian Airborne Forces celebration on a fountain, the rainy morning and the British motor bikers, Ed and Ben, ready to ride to Magadan through Stalin’s Road of Bones. A story about these motorcyclists are coming soon on AskYakutia.com.

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Today’s pictures are not as great and awesome as in previous posts, but they are here to show what is happening behind my window… in the Russian city of Yakutsk… and what type of weather we have currently.

Oh, by the way, we are waiting for the big wave coming from the very south of the Lena River. More waters must be. Everything seems calm at the moment.

Photographs were taken during this morning’s dog walk, the last one in the evening from my balcony.

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Near Yakutsk ice on the Lena River is already passing, reached the settlement of Kangalassy in the North, and everything was fine in Lensk in South Yakutia.

Ice float on the Lena River is like a big event in Yakutia, Russia’s Siberian & Far-Eastern Republic. People are happy about it and worry at the same time.

Happy as it means the spring culmination, the start of constant warm weather and a good reason to go out for shashlik (Russian BBQ), gather snowdrops and admire the beauty of ice drifting along the mighty Lena River. An awesome nature show, indeed!

Worry as spring ice melting and floating might bring the devastating flooding. You might be heard of Lensk that drown totally in 2001 and reconstructed lately by the Russian Emergency Ministry.

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A polar bear in the Arctic seashore of Yakutia, Siberia, Russia. Photo by Boris Gorokhov.

Polar bear population in Yakutia increased over twice as much. The experts believe that the bears may migrate because of the climate changes, informs vladivostoktimes.com. They are coming to Yakutia’s Arctic seashore regularly and it is not an extraordinary event anymore.

The experts who took part in the action “Spring Tracks” on counting of the polar bears’ dens in Yakutia registered that the beast population in the area increased over twice as much, RIA Novosti reports with the reference to the Sakha Republic (Yakutia) Ministry of Nature Preservation Biological Resources Department.

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Here are pictures to show how the spring is progressing at my place, in Yakutsk, Yakutia/Russia. Indeed, on April 10th, we had just an ordinary winter-like day. On April 16, snow and ice roads started melting. In a week, there was no snow at all and trees began preparing for blossom. In May, the spring is already in all its glory.

See 42 spring photographs of the Siberian city of Yakutsk. In pictures you will see my lovely puppy (more about his breed at YakutLaika.com), off-roading race, Yakutia’s Day, May Parade, trees, bikers, nature, souvenirs, Karl Bushby, etc.

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Today is May 3rd, 2011 and we’ve got heavy snowfall in Yakutsk, Yakutia / Russia. Nature says the Lena River is about to open and the spring flood to come soon. Indeed, that’s the usual weather we go through every May.

Above is the video made on the main square. Below see more pictures of today’s snowing in Yakutsk.

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At the end of November, when the real Siberian winter was getting colder and colder, three young guys decided to ski from the village of Elanka to the famous Lena Pillars (stone pillars) located on the Lena River bank a few hundreds of km south from the city of Yakutsk. When they were doing skiing expedition, the outdoor temperature was minus 45 degrees Celsius. They say, it was pretty windy. Skiers overcame 50 km only, but spent 5 days on the way.

These guys look pretty ordinary, but they are not as such. First, they are real Siberian villagers. Harsh cold conditions are not big deal to them. Second, one of them, Timofei Vasiliev, is from the village of Moma located in the Momsky National Park and surrounded by mountains of the Verkhoyansky Range. Trekking last summer, Timofei and his friends managed to find the volcano without any GPS navigator. Third, they are leaders of the newly-fledged Yakutsk student adventure club called simply, “Extreme.”

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Merry Christmas, friends! Let this one be happy and full of wonderful miracles! All the best to your family and beloved!

Decided to publish another set of Yakutsk winter pictures. Here it is still cold. Frosty and foggy. Cold weather in its extremes. We had a few days with temperatures at -50C and below.

We are waiting for the New Year holidays and Orthodox Christmas (Jan. 7). So the following street pics depict our daily life. They were taken on my old mibile phone.

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Sorry, friends. Can’t stop recording videos and taking pictures of the current extreme cold weather in Russia’s Siberian city of Yakutsk. Here is another set of media files done on the iPhone in today’s cold winter morning and noon. The outdoor temp was -44C.

I love my iPhone, but after 10-15 minutes of its use in the cold weather in Yakutsk, it’s totally useless. However, take a look at the above video done this morning, while I was standing on the crossroad near the city hall, and winter street photographs taken during my short walks to and from my work place.

Enjoy and wish us keep warm!

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This morning on the way to my work I saw dogs playing on the main square. As I love saying, it was another cold morning in Russia’s Siberian city of Yakutsk. The temp was minus 40 degrees Celsius. Dogs and extreme cold weather… What a cute mixture!

They are not frozen… Alive! Joyful! Cute!