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Bulus is the place famous for its never-melting ice. Read the rest of this entry…

The railway is close to Yakutsk. On April 27, 2010, Yakutia-Sakha News Agency reported that the Berkakit – Tommot – Yakutsk railway construction had reached the border of the Khangalassky region. TransStroy-Vostok has already completed 644 km. The 1st train is expected to arrive at Nizhnyj Bestyakh Station (on the opposite bank of the Lena River in front of Yakutsk) in 2013. The construction of the bridge of the Lena River will be started this year.

See more winter photographs taken by Antonina Bochkareva on the bridge over the Amga River (the midst of the Berkakit – Yakutsk railway) in December of 2008. The outdoor temperature was -53C. Read the rest of this entry…

A French balloon explorer Jean-Louis Etienne flying via the North Pole from Norway to the Siberian republic of Yakutia. By Francis Latreille

Jean-Louis Ettienne

YAKUTIA/SIBERIA, April 11, 2010 – Yesterday a 63-years-old French balloon adventurer Jean-Louis Etienne has reached Yakutia’s Arctic Circle and finished his 5-days Generaly Arctic Observer flight expedition done from Norway via the North Pole to Siberia.

In Saturday’s morning he reached the Russian Arctic coast in the area of Yakutia’s Ust-Yansky region. He was expected to land in Tiksi, but the weather (winds and fogs) changed his direction. He was blown eastward to the Ust Yansky region. By that moment he had got pretty tired. The weariness and thick fog on the route to Batagai, the Verkhoyansky region, forced him to land soon in the Northern part of the Yakutian region of Ust Yansky, hundreds kilometers north from the villages of Ust Kujga and Deputatsky.

He spent night in the Arctic nowhere, where temperature at night was below -30 degrees Centigrate.

This morning Jean-Louis Etienne and his balloon equipment was picked up by his support team and brought to Yakutsk by a helicopter.

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Halo in Yakutsk, Yakutia/Siberia. March 26, 2010. Photo by PS. Click the pic to enlarge.

In the picture: The halo above the Japanese Centre on Dzerzhinsky Street in Yakutsk, Yakutia/Siberia, on March 26, 2010. 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…

Hannes, many thanks for sharing with the slideshow video, and it’s really great to hear that you liked the the journey to Oymyakon, the Pole of Cold.

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Our ice fishing on the Indigirka River was so short that we decided to make an experiment. Read the rest of this entry…

I have an US-based friend on Facebook. His name is Sid Korn. A few days ago he informed me that he created the slideshow using my pictures of the recent road trip to Oymyakon, the Pole of Cold. Here it is. Read the rest of this entry…

I love this video. It shows how we were really happy to be on the Pole of Cold in Oymyakon (Yakutia/Siberia). Read the rest of this entry…

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.

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