Yakutia

The whole area of Yakutia is located in the permafrost zone. You will hardly notice this fact in summer, though -except that all the multi-storied buildings are pile supported and the heating mains are laid above ground. The climate of Yakutia is acutely continental so in June the weather in Yakutsk is as hot as in turkey, the temperature reaching + 40 C, while in winter the temperature falls dawn to -50 C. It is in Yakutia where the Pole of cold is- the coldest place in northern hemisphere, where Sergey Obruchev, academician, registered the lowest temperature on the hemisphere-71,2 C, in 1924. A unique Aurora Borealis phenomenon (the Northern Lights) can be seen here. The night lasted all winter within the Polar circle and the day is the whole summer long, so mushrooms sometimes outgrow trees in tundra (because there are dwarf trees).

Taking a stroll along a river in Yakutia you may come across an impression of a trilobite (a fossil mollusk) as well as a mammoth or woolly rhinoceros bone. You can see prehistoric rock paintings and sites, watch a tugof -war competition with a fish used instead of a rope or lassoing reindeers, witness offering prayers to the spirits of nature. There are any mysterious and enigmatic places in Yakutia unique in their energy: incomparable natural formations, such as Kysyl-yakh-rocks or Lena Pillars, lakes like Labynkyr, the exact depth of which still not estimated, sand formations, resembling deserts in miniature... Nearly everything here is marked with folk tales and legend, some of them aged several hundred years, while the others are only a few dozens years old.

Yakutia is one of the few places on Earth where one can feel acutely, that out planet is a living thing.