BY Orto Doydu & TripYakutia
At Permafrost Kingdom, two neon-lit tunnels burrowed into a permanently frozen hill have been filled with dozens of fabulous, never-melting ice sculptures of local pagan gods and a host of more recognisable objects and characters – a sitting Buddha, a pharaoh, Ded Moroz (Russia’s Santa Claus), a woolly mammoth and an icy interpretation of Picasso’s […]
BY Orto Doydu & TripYakutia
Lena Pillars is a geological formation located on the banks of the Lena River in Khangalassky Ulus, 104 kilometers from the city of Podolsk. This natural formation is a complex of vertically stretched rocks that extend along the entire bank of a river. Between the villages of Tit-Ary and Petrovskoe Lena Pillars reach the highest […]
BY Orto Doydu & TripYakutia
“Piece” mine is not only a visiting card of the diamond capital of Yakutia, but also one of the main attractions of the country. Located in the west of Yakutia diamond pipe is one of the deepest in the world. The depth is 450 meters, the outer diameter is 1.2 thousand meters with a bottom […]
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