An image from Days of Yakutia in Toronto, Canada.

What a great news! Sardana Savvina let me know that two Yakutian films are going to participate at The Imagine Native Film + Media Arts Festival in Toronto, Canada. They will be screened at Bell Light BOX Movie Theater on October 22nd and 23rd, 2011.

If by any chance you appeared to be in Toronto on those days, don’t miss the chance to visit the film festival and watch Yakutian movies. You won’t regret ever! Check the screening schedule.

Further, find films description and get energized by the While the Wind Blows movie trailer with a song performed by the famous Yakut rock band “103″ and Varya Maksimova.

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Here is the story. Alexey Pavlov is the famous photographer in Yakutia. Yakutsk-based TAYA Model Agency has many beautiful young women. LenaTourFlot LLC has a pretty old, but stylish Soviet passenger ship that tends to make journeys between Yakutsk and the Arctic settlement of Tiksi. Yakutia has the awesome magic Lena River.

So what do you think Alexey did? He travelled with TAYA models on the Mechanic Koulibin ship to the Lena Pillars, one of major geological monuments on the Lena River, and brought a bunch of great photographs. Take a look and enjoy!

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Yulia Zerzheeva

TOP 10 Miss Virtual Yakutia 2011 online beauty pageant contenders have been announced. On March 8th, the Siberian city of Yakutsk will meet and greet its best lady, who made it to the long-desired gold crown and high title through numerous photo sessions, voting stages and various small contests from December of the previous year.

Can you imagine? For almost four months, contenders have been living the life of virtual beauty rat race?

Miss Virtual Yakutia is the annual web-based beauty pageant arranged by Sakha Internet, the major Yakutsk-based online content provider, and Ona+, weekly women newspaper.

Further, please, find more pictures of the online beauty contest finalists…

Oh, by the way, does anyone know, why young ladies are so eager to participate in such beauty events? Is it like just their way of saying, “Hey, look at me. I am the best and definitely I deserve the rich fiance on the white horse …”? Whatever the true motivation is, it’s a good reason to show what type of women live in Yakutia, the biggest Siberian region

Enjoy!

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Andrey I and his Navigator studio’s previous attepmt to build the world’s biggest stalagmite, unfortunately, failed. Yakutsk Office of Public Prosecutor prohibited them to build it presuming the man-created stalagmite might be unsafe and, if it fell, many people could be injured. In other words, prosecutors didn’t believe in Andrey I’s project and decided to prevent its construction just in case. Whatever prosecutors say, Mr. I will resume his attempt the next year.

Meanwhile, he continued creating another amazing ice construction. In short, it is Yakutsk Ice Labyrinth (see the above picture), but they call it as Speleolabyrinth. Currently they finished trenches and are about to build up inner walls.

This morning I visited the ice labyrinth located near Microdistrict 202, where I live. I was strolling with my blue-eyed Yakut laika puppy. You can see that funny dog in the below video, in which I am showing the path from the labyrinth entrance to its center… Oops, think Andrey I will kill me for his disclosed secret, but I couldn’t stop myself. It was pretty interesting to follow trenches and see how to get to the final destination.

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This is the trailer of non-existing fantasy / horror / history / drama movie created and presented by Yakutsk-based film makers, E. Osipov (producer), Misha Vasiliev (director), Sema Amanatov (cameraman, director of arts). A short film trailer was done on the Canon 7D digital camera.

This way E. Osipov (his blog) is trying to attract investors and sponsors to the production of the widescreen movie about love, shamans, a warrior and Sakha (Yakut) people’s ordinary, but brutal life of the past in the biggest Siberian region called Yakutia.

Based on Sardana Sivtzeva’s novel “Taming Demons.”

Another good news. Yakutia is becoming Siberia’s Hollywood with a dozen of new widescreen movies produced per year! Did you know about it?

Violetta Dyachkovskaya, the 2010 Miss Yakutia beauty pageant winner. A photo by Alexey Pavlov. Yakutsk, Siberia/Russia. Click the photo to open and download a wallpaper.

There was the annual event I cannot miss to cover this time. On November 28, 2010, the Siberian city of Yakutsk hosted the 2010 Miss Yakutia beauty pageant. Violetta Dyachkovskaya was announced as the winner.

When outdoor temperature in the Siberian city of Yakutsk is much below minus 40 degrees Celsius, indoor people decide which lady is the best and most beautiful. It happens annually in the form of the Miss Yakutia beauty contest.

Praise god, we’ve got talented pro photographers, Alexey Pavlov and Vadim Skryabin. Previously, we published Alexey Pavlov’s studio pictures. He is considered to be the best studio photographer in Yakutsk. He is a co-founder of the Pavlov & Pavlov advertising agency.

All big city entertainment events cannot be missed from his view and presents and he was a major photographer of the beauty contest as well. So I am glad to present his and his colleague’s pictures of Siberian women in all glamour.

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Saina, Yakutsk-based Siberian ethno singer, will give her first big solo concert in Moscow on Dec. 18th, 2010. The event will be hosted in the “DOM” concert hall. More show info, think, might be got directly from her through her facebook profile Saina Singer. By the way, she is a fan of the eYakutia – English Yakutia fb page as well.

Who is Saina?

As I said in my previous post Saina, the singer of Yakutia’s Northern nations, Saina is pretty much able to present herself. Listen to her introduction (click on the title to play the audio):

Saina’s audio self presentation

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A cool Hollywood movie with Colin Farrell is coming on wide screens soon. Yakutia, actually, a bloody part of its history, is depicted. Here is what Richard Laweson wrote in Defamer:

“Here’s a trailer for The Way Back, Peter Weir’s upcoming film about a ragtag band of men (and a girl) escaping the gulag in Siberia [read Yakutia's Kolyma]. It looks a fun, throwbacky adventure yarn, complete with soaring vistas and handsome, grizzled men.”

“Specifically Colin Farrell, who’s having an interesting, quieter second leg of his career. Gone are the cheesy star-maker thrillers, replaced by nimble performances in well-chosen indies. (He was terrific in, and a deserving Golden Globe winner for, In Bruges, and had a nice, unshowy supporting bit in Crazy Heart.) Ed Harris looks typically half-bearded and flint-eyed, and that cute little Saoirse Ronin shows up as eerily adult as ever as a lost babe in the woods.”

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A trivia question! Who were the first passengers of the first 3-hours Lena River journey on the cruise ship “Demyan Bednyj” on June 1st, 2010, the first day of official navigation? Read the rest of this entry…

March is already spring for Yakutia residents, even if it is still with snow, ice and temperature around -10C or -20C. Nevertheless, this is pleasant weather, we really enjoy at this period. Time for going out of the city and having BBQ.

The Friendship outdoor museum in Sottinzy is the most popular destination. Why? Follow the rest of the entry and find more info and photographs. Read the rest of this entry…