chapple says. he can laugh now, but he found little humor during the two weeks he spent making the run from the siberian city of yakutsk to the tiny fishing village of belaya gora inside the arctic circle. he’s no stranger to bitter cold and unforgiving terrain, having documented radio...
With more than four hundred toponymic examples, this case study reveals the semiotic structure of Yakutsk toponymic system as a combination of urbanscape symbolization processes. For the first time the article empirically shows, with the help of toponymy in the space of a post-Soviet c...
Siberia is suffering Russia's worst floods in a century. Thousands of people have been evacuated from a flood-hit suburb of the city of Yakutsk, as the region's main river threatens to engulf the town. The town's inhabitants have been desperately stocking up on food and building sand barri...
a temperature that would be a fever for a person—but this is Siberia, known for being frozen. The catastrophic oil spill from a collapsed storage tank last month near the Arctic city of Norilsk was partly blamed on melting permafrost. ...
frozen. The catastrophic oil spill from a collapsed storage tank last month near the Arctic city of Norilsk was partly blamed on melting permafrost. In 2011, part of a residential building in Yakutsk, the biggest city in the Sakha Republic, collapsed due to thawing and subsidence of the ...
Leonardo DiCaprio got a second Oscar this week, but not from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The American actor finally received the Siberian 'Oscar' statuette created from melted down gold and silver jewelry donated by 144 Russian fans in the far northeastern city of Yakutsk....
A local walking through a rundown suburb of Yakutsk, the coldest city on earth. 1. Hold your breath On my first couple of days working in -58°F (-50°C) I noticed many of my images were looking flat – with lifeless colors and weak contrast. Eventually, I realized the vapor from ...
Using Yakutsk, a city in north-eastern Siberia, as an example, we explore a twofold hypothesis. First, has the post-socialist condition brought about a growing awareness of individual space and, furthermore, an extension of private space? Second, can we assume that houses and their ...