Minus-forty-degrees days in Yakutsk, Yakutia/Siberia

In Yakutsk, the capital of Russia's Yakutia, December started with usual minus 40 degrees centigrade (-40F). Take a look at pictures I took in the morning on December 3rd and in the evening on December 5th...

Descending into the World’s Deepest Shaft in the Permafrost Zone

The deepest shaft built on permafrost in Yakutsk, Siberia, more than 150 years ago, was drilled down and reopened for researchers and tourists, who wish to go down through never-melting, frozen soil layers as deep...

Canadian wood buffaloes are doing well in Siberia

The first re-acclimatized Canadian wood buffaloes in the Republic of Sakha-Yakutia (Siberia/Russia), on the other side of the Pacific Ocean. They were transferred from Edmonton Elk Island National Park to Yakutia...

Arrested for gathering weed in extreme cold

Last weekend in Russia 's Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) police arrested with goods two men, who were gathering wild marijuana in the snow-covered field in Megino Kangalassky area, YakutiaToday.com reported...

Winter life in Oymyakon, the Pole of Cold

How does people survive and live in Oymyakon, the coldest place in Siberia? Here is a local resident's answers to our questions: " Often asked about Oymyakon, the coldest place in the northern hemisphere. The last...

Yakutia is promised vainly to experience -68°C/-90.4°F

On Dec 22 RIA Novosti informed: "Temperatures in the northeast Siberian republic of Yakutia could plummet to minus 68 degrees Celsius (-90.4 Fahrenheit) this week, the local meteorological service said on Monday....
 

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