There is a really cool Yakutsk-based guy, Peter Andreev, who is mostly known as Kallamish. In the city blogosphere he is considered to be a popular author. No wonder. He is a talanted creative designer, artist, photographer, and pretty active traveller. Everything he does he posts on his blog at http://dnevniki.ykt.ru/kallamish.
Once Peter stumbled upon Rober Harison’s The Icarus Project. He was impressed by its idea, i.e. to send a camera attached to a helium weather balloon high into the stratosphere to take pictures of the Earth from near space. Since that moment he started thinking… in the way of ‘Why not?’.. Read the rest of this entry…
I do really admire these pals. I mean Artyom and Katerina (see the above pic), the co-founders of the Adv.Yktv.ru Siberian adventure blog, and guys of the Yakutsk off-roading club “Mammoth” (http://off-road.ykt.ru/) with its chief Dima Khvatov. If to alter the text of the World Cup Coca-Cola commercial song, they might be always singing, “Give us a reason to off-road higher!” Right. They are easy-going. They are always striving for impassible terrains to go through.
Yakutsk off-roading fans are really lucky. They don’t need to ride on their 4wds, ATVs and motor bikes far away. They just need to get out of the city and make a turn from a road, and here we are. The famous Siberian taiga with lots of challenges is always near!
This time they had two reasons. First, that’s the weekend. Second, a strong wish to get dirty and have sauna inside a special tent with a heating furnace. The latter opportunity was provided by the Yakutsk-based company “Mobilnaya Banya” (A mobile sauna in English). Its director is in a red t-shirt in one of below-listed photographs. Read the rest of this entry…
See photographs of the Even reindeer herders taken by anthropologist Florian Stammler in the northern part of the Verkhoyansk mountains in Yakutia, Siberia/Russia.
Florian Stammler is one of a few antropologists, who mainly studies the peoples of the Russian Arctic. He used to lecture in Cambridge. Now he teaches at the Rovaniemi University in the Finish Lapland. He has been to Yakutia many times. This time, a couple of weeks ago, he traveled to the Eveno-Bytantaisky region with Bruce Parry and his IndusFilms documentary team (wrote about them previously). Read the rest of this entry…
The new President of Yakutia Yegor Borisov in the middle between two ladies. A new PM Galina Danchikova on his left side, Deputy PM Feodosia Gabysheva. P.S. Click the photo to enlarge.
This picture was taken a few minutes ago. I was on my way back to work. When I was passing by the Sakha Theater, I saw many young people on stairs. As the banner above their heads says, these kids were gathered from the whole republic to celebrate their high school graduation with gold medals and excellent diplomas. Actually I didn’t see any officials at once. There was a huge crowd of photographers, parents and journalists. Through them it was hard to see anything. I raised my hand, took a pic on my mobile and after that only I found out that there was a new Yakutia’s president with his new government members. Wow! What a luck at my lunch time!
Vyacheslav Shtyrov with his ex team in Yakutia, Siberia. Photo by Alexander Nazarov.
Last weekend, Vyacheslav Shtyrov gave an interview to the republic’s mass media. He talked about why he left the office of the President of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), what he is going to do, and what he achieved for his 8 years of presidency, and what the next president should do.
This is the video preview of Nikolay Evstifeev’s documentary “THE WINTER ROAD. The Land of Fierce…” about the sever work in Siberia’s Yakutia. Here you can see how hard ordinary people’s work can be in the toughest part of Siberia.
The documentary film won The Best Directing Award at The 17th Saint Anna Film Festival and The Best Cinematography Award at The 29th VGIK Film Festival. Btw, Anton Safronov was a camera man.
The documentary is about Yakutia, the sever land of truckers, gold miners, hunters, oil & other industry workers. Extreme conditions are revealed in every capture. Survival at minus 50 degrees Celsius, ice roads on rivers, people’s attitude to nature, wild life… and PEOPLE without false manners and any compromises.
Young documentary filmmakers traveled winter roads in Yakutia, Siberia/Russia. They met many ordinary workers, who appeared to be real heroes of daily life.
“This film is very sincere! This is a real big documentary!” said Michael Porechenkov, the chairman of the 29th VGIK Film Festival jury, a famous Russian actor. Read the rest of this entry…
‘By the Will of Genghis Khan’ is the first epic movie made by the Yakut director, Andrey Borisov, with the financial support of the Government of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia). The official Russian theatrical premier took place on March 12, 2009. On this upcoming Friday, April 09, 2010, it will be shown on the National TV Channel “Russia.” Another big event for us, Yakutians.
Who is Andrey Borisov?
Andrey Borisov, the Yakut director
Well, Andrey Borisov is the person, whom I will not be ever tired of promoting. He is the famous Yakut dramatic art director.
When we say the Sakha Theater, it is immediately associated with his name. No wonder. With his first student work, the play “My Desired Blue Coast”, he made the Sakha Theater acclaimed in Moscow, St. Petersburg and many foreign countries. Read the rest of this entry…
Guerman Khatylaev is greeting his fans in Yakutsk. Photo by Ajar Varlamov.
On March 1st, 2010, Klavdia & Guerman Khatylaevs gave a concert in the Siberian city of Yakutsk. Apart from them, various Yakut artists performed in that evening. And it can be seen in this introduction video. eYakutia.com says many thanks to its contributor Ajar Varlamov.
The Library of the First President of Yakutia Michael Nikolaev is located in the village of Oktemzy, the place where he was born, on the territory of the Lenskyj Krai Forum education center. It was built in 2006. Read the rest of this entry…
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