Following the Reindeer
Evocative photographs by Evgenia Arbugaeva of "nomadic tribes of reindeer herders in my homeland, the Republic of Yakutia, which is located in eastern Siberia." You can read more about the indigenous...
View ArticleI wanna see HIS sleigh
This is Bull of Frost (Chys Khan), which is Yakutian colleague of Russian Grandpa Frost (Ded Moroz) and Santa Claus.Bull of Frost dwells in Tomtor, Oymiakon ulus, which is the coldest place in Siberia....
View Article"A flamingo falls on them from above"
Frozen Flamingos falling down in Siberia.Original story from Ian Frazier's Travels in Siberia (pg.381-82)
View ArticleMiniature DPRKs in Siberia
Vice.com takes a ride on the Trans-SiberianRailway to visit remote North Korean labor camps.
View ArticleAre you Bazhenov?
Exxon mobil has signed a development agreement with the Kremlin-majority-owned Rosneft to develop the Bazhenov oil shale reserves in Siberia (PDF), which are estimated to hold 2 million million...
View ArticleAncient Siberian Tattoos
In Siberia, several frozen human burials dating to 2,500 years ago have intact skin with elaborate tattoos. Warning: link contains graphic pictures of dead people.
View ArticleChuckchi Jokes
Anyone familiar with the contemporary Russian humorous folklore (jokelore, or in Russian anekdoty) knows that one of the most popular series of such jokes revolves around the Chukchis, the native...
View ArticleSebastiĆ£o Salgado in Siberia
As part of his long-term Genesis project, SebastiĆ£o Salgado shares photographs of the nomadic Nenets of northern Siberia.
View ArticleOld Believers in the wilderness
In 1978, geological explorers in a remote region of southern Siberia made an unexpected discovery: a family living alone, more than 150 miles from the nearest settlement. They had lived in isolation...
View ArticleThe Taiga Life
Featured previously, Vice does a 35 minute video chronicling a rare visit to the sole surviving member of the Lykov family, Agafia. The Lykovs were a family of Old Believers (a splinter sect from the...
View ArticleThe Old Believers
Alaska is home to two small villages of Russian Orthodox "Old Believers," whose ancestors left the church and their home in Siberia in 1666 in the face of state-issued church reforms. They have...
View ArticleBurp.
A new article in Nature warns that "the costs of a melting Arctic will be huge", thanks in part to the likely release of "a 50-gigatonne (Gt) reservoir of methane, stored in the form of hydrates"...
View ArticleCoolest Music in the World
Siberian Ice Drumming.'I felt like we were playing on the drums that Nature has left out for us, alone under the sun on the frozen waters of the world's most magnificent lake.'
View ArticleThe Somalis have cheekily declared themselves African champions for 2013
Bandy is a game similar to ice hockey, but played with a ball instead of a puck. Somalia is set to enter its first ever team into the World Bandy Championships, comprised entirely of Somali refugees...
View ArticleThe Ket had seven souls, unlike animals, who had only one.
The Ket from the Lake Munduiskoye (2008, 30 min.) The Ketpeople are an indigenous group in central Siberia whose population has numbered less than two thousand during the past century. Although mostly...
View ArticleA Dangerous Dance of Frost and Flame:
More Than 100 Wildfires Now Raging Along Siberian Melt-Freeze Line(Shout out to the Climate Reanalyzer from UMaine for the image in the main link.
View ArticleForty-three Werner Herzog films that can be streamed
Inside, please find a list of forty-three movies, TV episodes, and short subjects by Werner Herzog, all of which can be streamed, along with some short descriptions of their content. One or two of the...
View ArticleThe crater is large enough for several Mi-8 helicopters to fly into it.
An enormous hole has appeared(YouTube, 0:34) in Russia's Yamal Peninsula, near the Bovanenkovo natural-gas field. 'We can definitely say that it is not a meteorite. No details yet,' said a spokesman.
View ArticleWinter inside the Yamal crater
The Yamal Crater (previously) mysteriously appeared on the Yamal Peninsula in northern Siberia sometime in early 2014. Thought to be the result of methane accumulation in thawing permafrost, when...
View Article'Happy People' before Herzog
Werner Herzog's 'Happy People' is less a film made by Werner Herzog than a film sculpted by Werner Herzog, as he selected and subsequently narrated ninety-four minutes of material taken from Dmitry...
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