This time we proudly present another talented young artist from the Siberian region of Yakutia. It’s Anna Osipova (her page at ArtBreak.com).
Anna graduated the Far Eastern State Academy of Arts. Currently she creates her masterpieces at the Ural-Siberian studio of the Russian Academy of Artists. Her early works were inspired by the North and reindeer herders’ life. How it was strong, check yourself.
Below find Anna Osipova’s paintings. Read the rest of this entry…
These pictures are from Evgenia Arbugaeva‘s photo book “Following the Reindeer” (141 pages) that depicts the daily life of the Even reindeer herders in the mountain area around the settlement of Topolinoe in Tomponsky region (two days by a car from Yakutsk) in Russia’s Siberian republic of Yakutia.
Evgenia is a young photographer from Yakutsk. Currently, she lives in New York City. She is a graduate of the International Center of Photography.
A few months ago, she presented a few pics from her personal photo book “Following the Reindeer” and won the Lens Culture FotoFest Paris 2010 Blurb Photobook Prize. The prize will enable her to design, print, market and distribute her own photobook with Blurb.com, the online publishing-on-demand photobook company.
She is really a cool photographer. She dislikes work in the studio. She prefers to be on the field and make photo stories… and not like ordinary photo reportages, but as pieces of arts.
Evgenia, by the way, is the first local photographer, whom I featured online since 2002. Know her personally. Some her pictures might be seen on my old website YakutiaToday.com.
Below see more photographs of Siberian reindeer herders and their kids.
Previously, I wrote that Alexander and Constantine Smurygins, republic constructors from the city of Mirny, invented and created the all-terrain vehicle called “Uraankhai” able to drive smartly through taiga and swim Siberian rivers. It was the news spread across all regional newspapers and online portals. Read the full news story.
A week ago, Vice President of the Republic of Sakha-Yakutia Dmitry Glushko gave that off-roader a try. Further, look at photographs of his test drive.
An artist of Yakutia and the ice sculpture on the famous Whyte Ave. in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Ice sculptors, Fedor Makarov and Alexei Andreev, from the Republic of Sakha-Yakutia. With gold medals in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Yesterday on eYakutia.com – English Yakutia facebook page (so, please, follow us on it as well) I have already broken the news about our Yakutian ice sculptors’ victory in the 2011 ice carving competition at “Ice on Whyte” Ice Sculpture Festival in Edmonton, Alberta/Canada. Now I am going to repeat it again:
Woo hoo! Artists of Yakutia, Fedor Makarov and Alexei Andreev, won the ice sculptures competition in Canada! So proud of our fellows!
Guess, who Russia’s best ice sculptor is at the moment. Right you are. Alexander Shadrin from Yakutia.
On the Russian Christmas Eve, the Yakut artist was recognized and declared the winner of the Russian ice sculpture tournament consisted of three stages held in Murmansk, St. Petersburg and Moscow. Mr. Shadrin earned the Grand Prix and the right to design and make ice sculptures for 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.
Alexander Shadrin participated in all three stages of the tournament in Murmansk, St. Petersburg and Moscow. At each place, Yakutian artist created very stunning complicated ice sculptures.
Platon Oyunsky statue on Orzhanikidze Square in Yakutsk. *To enlarge the image, click on it.
A book image of Platon Oyunsky
Always wanted to write about Platon Oyunsky, a Soviet Yakut statesman, writer and translator, a co-founder of modern Yakut literature, but I didn’t know how to do that. He is really a big man of history of the Republic of Sakha. Many Yakutian scientists wrote many serious works about this personage… and unconsciously I considered the task of writing about him to be impossible.
And you know what happened? One morning I was heading to my work place. It was in the early winter. I was passing Ordzhanikidze Square, when I saw a man cleaning the stature of Platon Oyunsky from snow.
It was so fascinating to see how the man was doing his job that I took a picture of his brushing work, uploaded the photo to my TwitPic account and soon got series of replies from a Yakutsk-based guy in the form of short information of who Mr. Oyunsky was.
I said, “Wow!” That guy, named Petr Petrov, was pretty serious and tried to overflow my stream stressing the importance of the historic hero. I wrote to him, “Do you have more text in English?” He, “Yes, I’ve just finished one.”
Below, please, find Petr’s text. It appeared to be pretty short, however, he wrote it very sincerely.
In former Soviet days only secretary-generals and astronauts were given the honor of having sculptures when they were alive. Nowadays, even a dog, of remote taiga, can admire its own sculpture. Nevertheless, the monument dedicated to a faithful companion is the first experience in Yakutia.
A faithful Nord with a reindeer
How did a shaggy haired hero deserve such high recognition? In short, by faithful, self-denying service to his master – Nikolay Kalitin, an Evenk writer, whose ancestral farm has hosted that unique sculpture work. That’s the very way Nikolay decided to celebrate the 12th anniversary of his canine friend. A very venerable age!
A blue-eyed laika (more about the Yakut laika at SiberianHuskies.co) lives in Kalitin’s estate – in the area of the Buotama river, the land of the Morsos, a famous princely Evenk family whose tree was officially fixed in the 18th century. His ancestry was really princely. In Pushkin’s time, the writer’s great-grandfather was a prince and had appropriate fasces, including a nominal dirk given by the Russian Emperor.
Roman Sofronov is a Yakutsk-based fellow, who has his own YouTube channel with great videos displaying the life in Yakutia, the biggest Siberian|Russian region.
He’s got great black-and-white 8mm home videos of children made in an ordinary Yakutian|Siberian village called Ytyk-Kyuel’ in the Soviet time. Fascinating flashbacks! Enjoy the history of Yakutia.
If you are interested in how winter is progressing in its begining in the Siberian city of Yakutsk, look at mobile photos below.
This is the same view from a kitchen window of my previous rented apartment. By the way, my family moved to another place, when outside temperature was much below -40C/F.
The first picture (above) was taken at midday on Nov. 28, 2010. The temp was -40C. The second photo (below) was done at 9 am on Nov. 30, 2010. Do you see the opposite building? 
Yeah, that’s how foggy it was, when we had -47C.
I have a habit to upload mobile photographs right after they were taken. My a-sort-of-live photostream you might see on my Twitter @yakutia or check it directly on the twitpic account.
Keep checking this post further and you will see, how extreme cold winter had been progressing from Nov. 26, 2010 till Nov. 30, 2010 in Yakutsk, Siberia/Russia. Enjoy cold weather winter street pictures and wish us warmth to come back soon
In this video done on November 14, 2010, my boys are playing with snow outside… As you see, it is already winter and kids are wrapped in many warm clothes. Weather was pretty good. Like -15C. Unwindy. And we allowed them to play outside for about 30 minutes, not many, but we are parents. We always worry about children’s health
Now, when currently we have temperature much below -40C|F, boys stay most time inside buildings. No outdoor activities, no more playing with snow till March of the next year. It’s sad, but… you know… we are parents… and always worry… Will you allow your small kids to play outside in such cold weather conditions? Just wonder.
We blog about the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), the biggest & coldest region in Russia's Siberia. Also known as Yakutia. My honor to have been born and live in such a beautiful land! ~ Bolot.
