The Lena River (250 km. from Yakutsk).
A herd of Canadian bison for reintroduction in a nature park in Yakutia
Yakutia. Mir diamond mine in Mirny.
Diamonds of Yakutia (Sakha), East Siberia
Lenskiye Stolby [Lena Pillars], a chain of fantastic-looking cliffs stretching along the shores of the Lena River for 18 km.
A Yakut wedding ceremony.
Yakut shamans.
Yakutsk, the capital of the Sakha-Yakutia Republic in north-eastern Russia, is built on permafrost. All local buildings stand on cast-in-place piles. Their walls are at least 30 centimeters [one foot] thick.
A participant in the Yakut folk festival "Ysyakh", Suntar Village, .
Oil pumping station №10 of the Eastern Siberia-Pacific Ocean pipeline (ESPO). The Talakan-Taishet section of the pipeline was launched in Yakutia.
A winter landscape in Yakutia.
The Aldan River in Yakutiya.
Panorama of the Svetlinskaya hydropower plant in Yakutia.
Yakutia. Horses going to drink water from the Lena River at dusk.
This stuffed mammoth, on display at the Zoology Museum in St. Petersburg, was found in 1900 in Yakutia on the banks of the Beryozovka River, a tributary of the Kolyma River. The posture of the mammoth who was killed 45,000 years ago is preserved down to the smallest detail.
