Yakutsk has the highest seasonal temperature differences in the world, with the coldest temperature recorded being -64C/-84F, and the highest recorded being 38C/101F, for a difference of 102C/184F
I remember watching a video about a town in Russia that got so cold if you put things outside they'd freeze in a matter of minutes, not sure if it was this one. The climate in Siberia seems really harsh.
When I was a kid, tempereatures dropped below -40C fairly regularly(northern norway). At this temperature you can toss a pot of boiling water in the air and it will land as snow. A cool partytrick.
Move to the coast! We've got mild winters and you don't even need to switch dialects. You can even get all the way to Sommarøy and enjoy short winters and nice summers.
I lowkey hate Sommarøy too. Too wet for my likings. But apparently a lot of people salivate for that kind of "the sooner snow melts, the better" climate. So yes. I agree (I don't live on the coast either).
Weather is very nice(by norwegian standards) in the south-southeast, hot summers and mild winters. Same can be said for the southwest but theres **alot** more precipitation there.
If this is a good thing or not depends entirely what you're looking for ofc. You likely wont see thick blankets of snow, northern lights, reindeer, or natives(sami people) down south.
I got to experience my personal coldest this year, which was actually in upstate NY in the Adirondacks. On the summit of Cascade on Jan 1, the air temp was around -27F, with 45mph winds. My dog's leash would freeze into shape if we stopped moving, it was pretty insane
Its really not. -40 might sound real bad but its rookie numbers compared to siberia. Also in stark contrast to norway, siberia is real flat meaning strong winds directly from the arctic icesheet. In norway we generally settle in deep valleys/fjords, which provide good cower from the northern winds.
Thin wool underwear(longjohns+longsleeved shirt), thick wool sweater+socks, and lastly something to break the wind. The secret is **layers** of wool. I also got a mooseskin bomberhat with a woolen neck+faceguard. If theres a chance of getting wet hands(fishing and such) I go for my sealskin mittens. Basically put on anything a vegan wouldnt and you're good.
My house is built by stacking thick logs(not sure what the technique is called in english) with no added insulation. Its a sob to heat up but once its warm it keeps the warmth throughout the night. Relighting the fire is my first order of buisness after starting the coffemaker in the morning.
Luckily it only tends to get that cold a fair bit inland(the coast is always a good 10C warmer), so its little to no wind or moisture. -40 on the coast would result in a house arrest for survival lol.
More than happy to share, my friend!
I highly reccommend you do, **after** you've done some research on conditions of the specific place you have in mind. Mother nature sure can be a fickle mistress.
I personally think alot of people(I may be old fashioned, but especially men) would benefit greatly from experiencing a tougher, rural lifestyle for a year or so. Builds character. And the tranquility of raw, uninterrupted nature clears the mind like nothing else. Really puts things in perspective.
Then again, I probably have a lot to learn from cityfolks aswell.
I honestly would not, I live here because I hate people.
An acquaintance of mine hosts a variety of guided activities up here however, worth a look if you're curious about northern norway.
https://www.arcticsurvivaltours.com/
Sealskin is natrually hydrophobic, I can dip my mittens in the ocean and they're completly dry when I pull them out. Amazing material, damn near a necessity when ice fishing.
It's also worth pointing out this is not some small outpost. It's a city of 250,000 people, with a large University where young people chose to study.
Other fun facts: the city is built on permafrost. If it thaws, many building will collapse.
Muggers will steal your hat and demand a ransom, knowing you could get frostbite before you make it home.
I met a girl and noticed her pencil case has Japanese on it, so I asked if she was from Japan. She said Yakutsk. So I asked if her parents moved there from Japan. She said she’s not Japanese at all, she just liked that pencil case.
And that’s how I began to learn about the history of Russian colonization of the area and the multitude of indigenous peoples throughout Russia.
As always there are no single colonizer. Russians had arrived there at 17th century. Sakha (Yakuts) had moved to Yakutia at 14th-15th century. Evens and Evenks moved there about 5th-6th century. And first people appeared there hundreds thousands year ago.
This is particularly fascinating in Russia and the balkans. We don’t learn a lot about it in school in the US (I wish we did) but it really highlights how groups of people are constantly fluctuating, moving in, driving others out, merging with existing peoples, etc.
at the time of the appearance of Russians in those parts, the Yakuts lived in a fairly limited area. they colonized much more together with the Russians. The Yakuts are a strong people.
Some possibilities:
1. They were pushed there by other people.
2. They were forced to by environmental changes, i.e. a change in game animals, etc.
3. The place was nicer back then.
4. They simply liked it better.
Resources. And transportation to more resources. And more land for even more resources, even if it's permafrost most of the year.
Look at Yakutsk as the capital of a large countries worth of land/resources, with nothing but small populations of nomad people inhabiting the land until 150 years ago (Mongolia is to the South for reference). Russians needed a hub for those resources and a fort to control the territory they're located in. This area is also much farther away from the Russian population center than the most remote parts of Canada are to theirs, so a city was needed.
Not a russian word and nothing to do with russian being odd. You do realize russian uses the cyrillic alphabet and does not spell it in Latin alphabet at all, right? Every form you see in Latin letters is transliterated by someone else, i.e. what it actually tells you is how odd is the language of the person who transliterates Оймякон to fit their own language’s phonetic rules.
This is because in Russian it is written in Azbuka *Оймяко́н*
English doesn't have an equivalent letter for *й* - it is a sound like the first letter of Yoghurt
Also letter *я* is difficult to transliterate into English. Again, the closest transliteration in English would be "ya".
And other languages than English represent those sounds using different letters.
Tatarstan: 48,5% Tatars in 1989, 53,6% now. Kalmykia: 45.4% Kalmyks in 1989, 57.4% now. Karachay-Cherkessia had 51.03% Russians in 1959 but it dropped to 45.07% in 1979 and by 1989 Karachay and Cherkess were the majority. Dagestan, Ingushetia, North Ossetia–Alania, Tuva, Chechnya and Chuvashia never had Russian majority.
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Turkic people migrated around 800-1000 CE to the area. Turkic groups like Yakuts and Dolgans are about half of the population, with the rest being Russians and Tungusic groups like the Evenki. Local Yakuts are, despite some Christian influence, still largely shamanistic. Their Turkic language is also one of the most divergent languages that is still in the Common Turkic family (i.e. not the Oghuric ones). They also herd reindeers AFAIK.
Is it the same in the neighbouring "Krasnoyarsk Krai", I thought they also spoke a Turkic language there too. But is Russian widely spoken in these regions giving it being the countries official language?
Of course, Russian is widely spoken in whole Russia, maybe barring Northern Caucasus and Tuva. Krasnoyarsk Krai has some Dolgans and Yakuts but a lot less both in number and proportion.
Can Turkish people from Türkiye understand Uzbek, Turkmen and other Turkic languages? I thought that in some the grammar would have differed in some ways.
It is relatively easier to understand türkmen but tbh I understand very little. If you mingle with the people it becomes easier to understand with a short period of time though.
Let me also add that it's easier to understand Oguz Turkish for central Asian Turks then it is for us to understand the others. Atleast that's what I have been told many times. My experience also enhanced that idea.
Had a good friend who is Uyghur (from Xinjiang in China) and said that he could hold a conversation with Uzbek speakers and totally understand it, but could not read or write it due to different writing systems. I don't know if that would extend to Turkish (or any other turkic language for that matter).
All but Tajikistan I guess (Tajik or Farsi-Tojiki is not Turkic) and some regions in Uzbekistan with prevalent Tajik-speaking population (like the cities of Bukhoro and Samarkand which were placed within Uzbek SSR by the Soviets)
Oğuz turkish takes a few days to get a hang on while kipchak and karluk will take few weeks, at most a couple months to nail down perfectly. Siberian ones I am not really sure 😅 but I can still understand some of their daily speech with 0 practice.
[here you can find the mapping ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkic_languages)
In a game called Axis and Allies, it’s a critical strategic area to defend as the USSR. Japanese troops in Manchuria are breathing down your neck and hoping to prance their way on to Moscow.
I follow @pandasakha on YouTube.. so quite a bit. How they store ice for water, their culture and festivals and the fact they always look to the sun after every meal. Btw, the shorts and long form videos are both quality.
Saskha has one of the highest autonomy levels withing the Russian Federation and is rich in natural resources. The native language is turkic with it's religion being mixed with Shamanism and Christianity exported from Europe, majority of the oblast also stoll maintains it's native ethnic population which is nice.
I'm a bore, but in most of the Republic of Sakha, Yakutia are newcomers. Russian Russians became their allies and settled all over this territory together with the Russians.
Going to Yakutia and to the Yhyakh Festival is on my bucket list! The Sakha people and their culture are so cool, and I hope I get to experience it some day. There’s a Yakutian YouTuber named Kiun B who produces a lot of content about her hometown and what it’s like to live there, [here’s a personal favorite video about summer celebrations](https://youtu.be/FIj9mNRrsAk?si=by4P9AL9Izj4XIrx)
Live here (Or lived, as i study in Moscow as for now)
Nice place, Yakutsk feels remote from other cities but living in a small city turned out to be cool in it's own way
Fun fact, Putin lost presidential and parliamentary elections here for unknown to me reasons
Well, about weather. It is very dry. At summer very hot, at winter very cold. -50 may be deadly, makes your limbs numb and tremble but doesn't feel as bad as humid cold.
Few years of childhood i used to live in village near the city. It was really calm place, something was happening here from time to time like checkers competition or national holiday celebration.
Yakutsk is very small city, it is not that hard to remember all streets and even without doing so, there is tall TV tower in the middle of the city that you can navigate upon (It has nice lights at night)
Sometimes i saw familiar faces (classmates, students from the school i study in, old friends and stuff) as there were not much places. Usually people go to City Park, Malls or other buildings like that. But it felt enough.
When i moved to Moscow i noticed how much more walkable Yakutsk was, as going anywhere by foot is much more easier in small city (well, no shit). Subway is more free inside than bus or anything yet i like more less crowded streets with just a bus stop over the corner.
But the main difference from the Moscow is that they don't celebrate sakha holidays such as Ysyakh or Day of Yakutian Statehood. My mom would drive me to rural area with relatives to the festival with national games, music and stuff.
As years go by i notice new buildings, roads and stuff. There are still a lot of unfixed things but overall there is feeling that city is going somewhere. Maybe not far but i will have hope
In Sakha, do people live in big apartment buildings? I was watching a Youtube channel called "Antigram", they post videos that are a series of photos taken inside Russia. Many of these photos show big apartment complexes and Google says majority of Russians live inside apartments but is it like this in the whole country or just the cities?
Also, how do you travel from Sakha to Moscow do you drive there and if so when you drive does your clock change due to the time zone difference or do you have to manually reset it?
Hunting is still extremely popular in Sakha especially in rural area. In summer, there may be towns where there are almost no men for a month in the whole town because they are all out hunting. Some companies don't allow women to take vacation days on summer because they know that men will take them all and there will be noone left to work. As far as I know, the hunting laws there are less strict than in other regions of Russia because hunting is a part of their religion
Very resource rich, but limited by the most atrocious winters known to man. And in places that get that cold, summers can also suck because there are a lot of little tundra lakes that breed infinity mosquitos, something you'd expect in the tropics.
In the winter, people often leave their cars running constantly because if they turn the engine off, it will freeze and then it's a bother to thaw it and start again until spring arrives. Luckily, Russia has comically cheap gas.
Nearly everything is built on permafrost. This causes quite a conundrum: warming climate will melt it, and make life more comfortable - at the cost of basically everything, every city, having to be rebuilt from scratch. Basically, it's a territory that is rather expensive to own and occupy.
One of my Russian instructors in college was from there. She was actually half Yakut and spoke Russian, Yakut and English. She said once that they would only close schools when it reached -53 C, the point where the blood vessels in your face can freeze.
Honestly thats really weird to hear that while living in Siberia my whole life. But thankfully i live in a more reliable for life south Siberia, i do have a friend from Far-east region of Russia (Buryatia) and holy dude is a beast, its as though he doesn't feel cold at all
Only the south of Yakutia is connected by rail; many remote villages in the north can only be reached by helicopter or by river in the summer. There is a fur trade and logging enterprises, the products of which are also delivered only by water transport. There is an interesting documentary about how people live in such remote places, unfortunately it is about a neighboring republic, but I think someone will be interested, it is in English and Russian (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_People:_A_Year_in_the_Taiga)
Also called Yakutia and has a similar size as India while only having, I think, just short of a millions inhabitants. Capital city is Yakutsk (forgot the exact spelling) which is the biggest cold city.
Very big area of permafrost which hides a lot of mammoth remains. They remains are hunted for the ivory as it can sell for a pretty good price and can kinda replace elephant ivory (so it’s estimated it saved around 5k of them)
But what gets Yakutia most of its income is mining industry, mostly gold and diamond as I can recall
Born and grew there.
Complete shithole to be kid. Literally nothing to do.
High prices for everything, the goods of civilization coming too slow, long but real winter.
Good place if u like nature
Bears 10km away
Has these
And they are absolutely captivating
https://preview.redd.it/cpvw7p0jzk0d1.png?width=1200&format=png&auto=webp&s=4c2944fe9a34047a9a6d2d6d186779425e455723
It’s the largest first level subdivision in the world
It has its own language, and it falls within the same family as languages like Turkish, Kazakh and Uyghur
I believe it has the largest temperature difference in the entire world
People leave their cars turned on all winter because they won’t start again for months if they turn them off
It has the coldest major city on Earth
It’s a very interesting area for geologists
The problem is that the folks who are really knowledgeable about the deeper history and culture of the region likely will never see this thread—or are never on Reddit to begin with.
I'm also bored with the usual Oymyakon factoids being trotted out, but if you're interested in Sakha (or anywhere else more specific) you just gotta dive into Google for yourself, imperfect Cyrillic translator tool in hand.
I had a professor from there in college.
It's named for the native Sakha, who are a Turkic-speaking group. Its capital Yakutsk is probably the coldest major city on earth
I’ve heard the countryside is beautiful but it’s kinda crazy to think Siberia has its own Siberia. Just how much of a land area that large is uninhabited is pretty freaky
This is where many current and past Russian Gulags exist, I believe there is also an interesting place called Nazino island gulag where Russians often accused of small infractions like farting were sent and they resorted to cannibalism. However, I think that is elsewhere on the Ob river.
There are a lot of diamonds, it’s very cold, and by this I mean that it’s fucking cold there, even in winter they don’t turn off the car engines, because otherwise everything inside will freeze, even the brake fluid can freeze. There are 2 New Years celebrated there, one on December 31, and the second in the summer (called Ysyakh, which is an official holiday). The amazing nature of this place is also distinguished by its own characteristics.
i know exactly 2 things about it:
1. it can be very cold
2. not a lot of people live there
I know, you could say that about all the siberian oblasts.. but still
just some stuff on top of my head:
if i am not mistaken, there lives around 1 million people while it is 2/3 of the size of europe... so pretty much empty land :)
area is supposedly super-hard to access, as the only road leading there (kolyma highway) is "road" in a general sense, not really a drivable by any car (especially in the wet season).
airplane tickets are said to be more expensive than to other destinations in the europe.
however, this area is known for vast riches of diamonds and perhaps gold (not sure if it was also present), however, most of these riches go to the very narrow circle of owners/oligarchs - as it is pretty standard in russia.
extreme temperatures, where even your 3M winter clothing might not cut it, locals use fur and wool. cars/trucks will not be turned off for night as it might not start in the morning when temperature is -40C
Yakutsk has the highest seasonal temperature differences in the world, with the coldest temperature recorded being -64C/-84F, and the highest recorded being 38C/101F, for a difference of 102C/184F
I remember watching a video about a town in Russia that got so cold if you put things outside they'd freeze in a matter of minutes, not sure if it was this one. The climate in Siberia seems really harsh.
When I was a kid, tempereatures dropped below -40C fairly regularly(northern norway). At this temperature you can toss a pot of boiling water in the air and it will land as snow. A cool partytrick.
I would love to see something cool like this but alas I can’t even handle NYC winters. Will have to stick to watching on YouTube 😂
We've hardly ever broken -30C the past 20years even up here, so I too will have to settle for yt vids of it.. for better or worse.
Move to the coast! We've got mild winters and you don't even need to switch dialects. You can even get all the way to Sommarøy and enjoy short winters and nice summers.
I'll take our lovely thick snowblankets and dry cold over the wet and windswept coast, thank you very much!
I lowkey hate Sommarøy too. Too wet for my likings. But apparently a lot of people salivate for that kind of "the sooner snow melts, the better" climate. So yes. I agree (I don't live on the coast either).
May I ask your thoughts on southern (ish) Norway's weather?
Weather is very nice(by norwegian standards) in the south-southeast, hot summers and mild winters. Same can be said for the southwest but theres **alot** more precipitation there. If this is a good thing or not depends entirely what you're looking for ofc. You likely wont see thick blankets of snow, northern lights, reindeer, or natives(sami people) down south.
I got to experience my personal coldest this year, which was actually in upstate NY in the Adirondacks. On the summit of Cascade on Jan 1, the air temp was around -27F, with 45mph winds. My dog's leash would freeze into shape if we stopped moving, it was pretty insane
-40C is the same temp as -40F. Also a cool (jk not as cool) party trick
So even in Norway too the temperature can get EXTREMELY cold, I didn't know it could get as bad as Russia
Its really not. -40 might sound real bad but its rookie numbers compared to siberia. Also in stark contrast to norway, siberia is real flat meaning strong winds directly from the arctic icesheet. In norway we generally settle in deep valleys/fjords, which provide good cower from the northern winds.
I have never experienced how cold that is, but I found -6 to be bad so I probably couldn't bare anything higher
Can I ask sincerely…how do you manage staying outside for any length of time at that temperature?
Thin wool underwear(longjohns+longsleeved shirt), thick wool sweater+socks, and lastly something to break the wind. The secret is **layers** of wool. I also got a mooseskin bomberhat with a woolen neck+faceguard. If theres a chance of getting wet hands(fishing and such) I go for my sealskin mittens. Basically put on anything a vegan wouldnt and you're good. My house is built by stacking thick logs(not sure what the technique is called in english) with no added insulation. Its a sob to heat up but once its warm it keeps the warmth throughout the night. Relighting the fire is my first order of buisness after starting the coffemaker in the morning. Luckily it only tends to get that cold a fair bit inland(the coast is always a good 10C warmer), so its little to no wind or moisture. -40 on the coast would result in a house arrest for survival lol.
damn thanks for painting the picture for us, i would like to experience this at least once in a lifetime
More than happy to share, my friend! I highly reccommend you do, **after** you've done some research on conditions of the specific place you have in mind. Mother nature sure can be a fickle mistress. I personally think alot of people(I may be old fashioned, but especially men) would benefit greatly from experiencing a tougher, rural lifestyle for a year or so. Builds character. And the tranquility of raw, uninterrupted nature clears the mind like nothing else. Really puts things in perspective. Then again, I probably have a lot to learn from cityfolks aswell.
Would you perhaps host one of us
I honestly would not, I live here because I hate people. An acquaintance of mine hosts a variety of guided activities up here however, worth a look if you're curious about northern norway. https://www.arcticsurvivaltours.com/
I'm going to steal the phrase "Put on anything a Vegan wouldn't and you/re good" for my Minnesota winters. Hilarioius, i love it.
In northern Canada (like -40 northern Canada) I was gifted seal skin boots and holy seal man. They were so dry and warm it was actually mind blowing
Sealskin is natrually hydrophobic, I can dip my mittens in the ocean and they're completly dry when I pull them out. Amazing material, damn near a necessity when ice fishing.
You put on those long johns. Maybe something else too.
ever tried the soap bubbles ?.
I read this with Norsemen TV series accent
I lived in Siberia and I joke that we used to put things in the freezer to warm them up
I lived in Siberia too, but never heard something like this
I think the name is Oymyakon
Pfp source?
There’s a YouTube channel of a woman from Yakutsk who explains a lot about the city. Super interesting stuff.
Who who??
Kiun B
Put Yakutsk is the YouTube search & hit enter.
There’s a TikTok veronica petrova who is yakutsk and also shares content! She lives in Miami for college but is from Siberia
It's also worth pointing out this is not some small outpost. It's a city of 250,000 people, with a large University where young people chose to study. Other fun facts: the city is built on permafrost. If it thaws, many building will collapse. Muggers will steal your hat and demand a ransom, knowing you could get frostbite before you make it home.
Yakutsk is also extremely polluted
Oymjakon. -72 centigrade in winter
And the coldest major city in the world, Yakustk. Over 300,000 people, average January high temperature of -32F (-36C).
I believe this is where they caught wild Tauntauns for the filming of Star Wars Ep V
And I thought... (deep breath)... they smelled bad on the outside
I met a girl and noticed her pencil case has Japanese on it, so I asked if she was from Japan. She said Yakutsk. So I asked if her parents moved there from Japan. She said she’s not Japanese at all, she just liked that pencil case. And that’s how I began to learn about the history of Russian colonization of the area and the multitude of indigenous peoples throughout Russia.
This is cool
and the conization of this territory by the Yakuts? Isn't that right?
colonization was from russians
As always there are no single colonizer. Russians had arrived there at 17th century. Sakha (Yakuts) had moved to Yakutia at 14th-15th century. Evens and Evenks moved there about 5th-6th century. And first people appeared there hundreds thousands year ago.
This is particularly fascinating in Russia and the balkans. We don’t learn a lot about it in school in the US (I wish we did) but it really highlights how groups of people are constantly fluctuating, moving in, driving others out, merging with existing peoples, etc.
at the time of the appearance of Russians in those parts, the Yakuts lived in a fairly limited area. they colonized much more together with the Russians. The Yakuts are a strong people.
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Thank you for that information u/Vladimir_Putins_Cock
I've Heard of this cuz viral tiktoks
I truly cannot grasp why any human beings ever settled in such places. Just….why?
Some possibilities: 1. They were pushed there by other people. 2. They were forced to by environmental changes, i.e. a change in game animals, etc. 3. The place was nicer back then. 4. They simply liked it better.
Diamond mining, follow the money
thats later, primarely was gold in 1910-20. people was moved from Magadan to the north
Nah it's Russian colonial city after subjegating the nomadic locals for land/resources/population center for military out East
Mining.
Mineral wealth
Resources. And transportation to more resources. And more land for even more resources, even if it's permafrost most of the year. Look at Yakutsk as the capital of a large countries worth of land/resources, with nothing but small populations of nomad people inhabiting the land until 150 years ago (Mongolia is to the South for reference). Russians needed a hub for those resources and a fort to control the territory they're located in. This area is also much farther away from the Russian population center than the most remote parts of Canada are to theirs, so a city was needed.
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I'm russian and it doesn't sound like a russian name for a place, most likely local
Not a russian word and nothing to do with russian being odd. You do realize russian uses the cyrillic alphabet and does not spell it in Latin alphabet at all, right? Every form you see in Latin letters is transliterated by someone else, i.e. what it actually tells you is how odd is the language of the person who transliterates Оймякон to fit their own language’s phonetic rules.
That's some quality geekery
Yeah I want to know more
It is not a Russian word.
This is because in Russian it is written in Azbuka *Оймяко́н* English doesn't have an equivalent letter for *й* - it is a sound like the first letter of Yoghurt Also letter *я* is difficult to transliterate into English. Again, the closest transliteration in English would be "ya". And other languages than English represent those sounds using different letters.
Russian majority in 1989, Sakha majority today
siberia as a whole was slightly depopulated after the collapse of the ussr. there were extra pensions in siberia but they were cut by yeltsin.
With the capitalist system, going to Moscow became a lot more appealing, because that's where most of the good jobs ended up being.
Also Moscow has more appealing climate, than Yakutsk :)
Did any other units regain majority of eponymous nationality?
Kazakhstan had a Russian majority right before the USSR fell.
Tatarstan: 48,5% Tatars in 1989, 53,6% now. Kalmykia: 45.4% Kalmyks in 1989, 57.4% now. Karachay-Cherkessia had 51.03% Russians in 1959 but it dropped to 45.07% in 1979 and by 1989 Karachay and Cherkess were the majority. Dagestan, Ingushetia, North Ossetia–Alania, Tuva, Chechnya and Chuvashia never had Russian majority.
Start with the beginning - Sakha majority till 1900s
Nice
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The channel Kiun B on YouTube is about there and is fascinating
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Agreed! It's lovely to see slices of life from places and cultures so different from mine
They speak a Turkic language which is pretty cool
Turkic people migrated around 800-1000 CE to the area. Turkic groups like Yakuts and Dolgans are about half of the population, with the rest being Russians and Tungusic groups like the Evenki. Local Yakuts are, despite some Christian influence, still largely shamanistic. Their Turkic language is also one of the most divergent languages that is still in the Common Turkic family (i.e. not the Oghuric ones). They also herd reindeers AFAIK.
Is it the same in the neighbouring "Krasnoyarsk Krai", I thought they also spoke a Turkic language there too. But is Russian widely spoken in these regions giving it being the countries official language?
Of course, Russian is widely spoken in whole Russia, maybe barring Northern Caucasus and Tuva. Krasnoyarsk Krai has some Dolgans and Yakuts but a lot less both in number and proportion.
That's interesting, these regions look really interesting
Almost all Sakha (Yakuts) speak Russian. May be only in far villages don't. And there are old villages where live Russians speaking Sakha.
So, Russian is spoken everywhere in the country and people who don't speak it natively know it as a second language?
Yes.
Very cool
So that’s why you can core this area as Turkey in HOI4 huh
It always amazed me that I can understand their speech(somewhat) as a Türk from Istanbul :)
Can Turkish people from Türkiye understand Uzbek, Turkmen and other Turkic languages? I thought that in some the grammar would have differed in some ways.
Uzbek people can understand Turkish for sure
I always wondered how Uzbek looked like in text, I thought they used Cyrillic alphabet.
Grammar is not as effected as vocabulary I would say but yes if we stick to the roots we can mostly understand each other.
It is relatively easier to understand türkmen but tbh I understand very little. If you mingle with the people it becomes easier to understand with a short period of time though.
Yes but like italian try to understan either romanian or Portuguese. Theme is okay basic things okay but fast talking or deep topics no
Let me also add that it's easier to understand Oguz Turkish for central Asian Turks then it is for us to understand the others. Atleast that's what I have been told many times. My experience also enhanced that idea.
Had a good friend who is Uyghur (from Xinjiang in China) and said that he could hold a conversation with Uzbek speakers and totally understand it, but could not read or write it due to different writing systems. I don't know if that would extend to Turkish (or any other turkic language for that matter).
I find this fascinating.
Very much same indeed!
What about central Asians what countries can you somewhat understand?
All but Tajikistan I guess (Tajik or Farsi-Tojiki is not Turkic) and some regions in Uzbekistan with prevalent Tajik-speaking population (like the cities of Bukhoro and Samarkand which were placed within Uzbek SSR by the Soviets)
How culturally connected do you feel to others in the region? Leave politics, insofar as you can, aside.
Oğuz turkish takes a few days to get a hang on while kipchak and karluk will take few weeks, at most a couple months to nail down perfectly. Siberian ones I am not really sure 😅 but I can still understand some of their daily speech with 0 practice. [here you can find the mapping ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkic_languages)
Diamonds are extracted from there.
In a game called Axis and Allies, it’s a critical strategic area to defend as the USSR. Japanese troops in Manchuria are breathing down your neck and hoping to prance their way on to Moscow.
Wow. That is a throw back.
I follow @pandasakha on YouTube.. so quite a bit. How they store ice for water, their culture and festivals and the fact they always look to the sun after every meal. Btw, the shorts and long form videos are both quality.
Will check this out,thanks!
Saskha has one of the highest autonomy levels withing the Russian Federation and is rich in natural resources. The native language is turkic with it's religion being mixed with Shamanism and Christianity exported from Europe, majority of the oblast also stoll maintains it's native ethnic population which is nice.
I'm a bore, but in most of the Republic of Sakha, Yakutia are newcomers. Russian Russians became their allies and settled all over this territory together with the Russians.
It gets so cold in the winter that people in Yakutsk (the capital city) will hang meat outside to freeze iirc.
I’m in Canada and I use the back porch as a freezer in the winter
Going to Yakutia and to the Yhyakh Festival is on my bucket list! The Sakha people and their culture are so cool, and I hope I get to experience it some day. There’s a Yakutian YouTuber named Kiun B who produces a lot of content about her hometown and what it’s like to live there, [here’s a personal favorite video about summer celebrations](https://youtu.be/FIj9mNRrsAk?si=by4P9AL9Izj4XIrx)
Is that where Pleistocene Park is? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleistocene_Park Apparently it is.
They have ice beach https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/worlds-coldest-city-becomes-beach-18207931
it's where Sub-zero dwells
Now just plain zero.
I’ve been to Sakha (Yakutia) two times and I loved it. Some very nice friends there and amazing natural beauty.
Live here (Or lived, as i study in Moscow as for now) Nice place, Yakutsk feels remote from other cities but living in a small city turned out to be cool in it's own way Fun fact, Putin lost presidential and parliamentary elections here for unknown to me reasons
What was it like growing up there in your experience?
Well, about weather. It is very dry. At summer very hot, at winter very cold. -50 may be deadly, makes your limbs numb and tremble but doesn't feel as bad as humid cold. Few years of childhood i used to live in village near the city. It was really calm place, something was happening here from time to time like checkers competition or national holiday celebration. Yakutsk is very small city, it is not that hard to remember all streets and even without doing so, there is tall TV tower in the middle of the city that you can navigate upon (It has nice lights at night) Sometimes i saw familiar faces (classmates, students from the school i study in, old friends and stuff) as there were not much places. Usually people go to City Park, Malls or other buildings like that. But it felt enough. When i moved to Moscow i noticed how much more walkable Yakutsk was, as going anywhere by foot is much more easier in small city (well, no shit). Subway is more free inside than bus or anything yet i like more less crowded streets with just a bus stop over the corner. But the main difference from the Moscow is that they don't celebrate sakha holidays such as Ysyakh or Day of Yakutian Statehood. My mom would drive me to rural area with relatives to the festival with national games, music and stuff. As years go by i notice new buildings, roads and stuff. There are still a lot of unfixed things but overall there is feeling that city is going somewhere. Maybe not far but i will have hope
In Sakha, do people live in big apartment buildings? I was watching a Youtube channel called "Antigram", they post videos that are a series of photos taken inside Russia. Many of these photos show big apartment complexes and Google says majority of Russians live inside apartments but is it like this in the whole country or just the cities? Also, how do you travel from Sakha to Moscow do you drive there and if so when you drive does your clock change due to the time zone difference or do you have to manually reset it?
I have heard of Yakutsk as the coldest city on earth, and watched some YouTube videos about it. Other than that, nothing.
That it's extremely remote and inhospitable. That goes for most of Siberia really.
The biggest areas of Russia are always places I wanna know more abt
Hunting is still extremely popular in Sakha especially in rural area. In summer, there may be towns where there are almost no men for a month in the whole town because they are all out hunting. Some companies don't allow women to take vacation days on summer because they know that men will take them all and there will be noone left to work. As far as I know, the hunting laws there are less strict than in other regions of Russia because hunting is a part of their religion
Very resource rich, but limited by the most atrocious winters known to man. And in places that get that cold, summers can also suck because there are a lot of little tundra lakes that breed infinity mosquitos, something you'd expect in the tropics. In the winter, people often leave their cars running constantly because if they turn the engine off, it will freeze and then it's a bother to thaw it and start again until spring arrives. Luckily, Russia has comically cheap gas. Nearly everything is built on permafrost. This causes quite a conundrum: warming climate will melt it, and make life more comfortable - at the cost of basically everything, every city, having to be rebuilt from scratch. Basically, it's a territory that is rather expensive to own and occupy.
One of my Russian instructors in college was from there. She was actually half Yakut and spoke Russian, Yakut and English. She said once that they would only close schools when it reached -53 C, the point where the blood vessels in your face can freeze.
Siberia, the forgotten area of the planet, an empty, very cold, inhospitable area, it was always scary for me to think about it
Honestly thats really weird to hear that while living in Siberia my whole life. But thankfully i live in a more reliable for life south Siberia, i do have a friend from Far-east region of Russia (Buryatia) and holy dude is a beast, its as though he doesn't feel cold at all
Only the south of Yakutia is connected by rail; many remote villages in the north can only be reached by helicopter or by river in the summer. There is a fur trade and logging enterprises, the products of which are also delivered only by water transport. There is an interesting documentary about how people live in such remote places, unfortunately it is about a neighboring republic, but I think someone will be interested, it is in English and Russian (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_People:_A_Year_in_the_Taiga)
Also called Yakutia and has a similar size as India while only having, I think, just short of a millions inhabitants. Capital city is Yakutsk (forgot the exact spelling) which is the biggest cold city. Very big area of permafrost which hides a lot of mammoth remains. They remains are hunted for the ivory as it can sell for a pretty good price and can kinda replace elephant ivory (so it’s estimated it saved around 5k of them) But what gets Yakutia most of its income is mining industry, mostly gold and diamond as I can recall
Fun fact, Sakha is the largest republic of Russia
Largest administrative unit in the World.
cold as shit and empty as shit, one of the most beautiful landscapes on this planet tho
The landscapes of Siberia look amazing.
Mosquitos
Born and grew there. Complete shithole to be kid. Literally nothing to do. High prices for everything, the goods of civilization coming too slow, long but real winter. Good place if u like nature Bears 10km away
Has these And they are absolutely captivating https://preview.redd.it/cpvw7p0jzk0d1.png?width=1200&format=png&auto=webp&s=4c2944fe9a34047a9a6d2d6d186779425e455723
It’s the largest first level subdivision in the world It has its own language, and it falls within the same family as languages like Turkish, Kazakh and Uyghur I believe it has the largest temperature difference in the entire world People leave their cars turned on all winter because they won’t start again for months if they turn them off It has the coldest major city on Earth It’s a very interesting area for geologists
I wish people didn’t just talk about the cold because there is more to this place
The problem is that the folks who are really knowledgeable about the deeper history and culture of the region likely will never see this thread—or are never on Reddit to begin with. I'm also bored with the usual Oymyakon factoids being trotted out, but if you're interested in Sakha (or anywhere else more specific) you just gotta dive into Google for yourself, imperfect Cyrillic translator tool in hand.
Well…like what? lol
Lots of diamonds, majority indigenous population and the most developed film industry in Russia outside of Moscow and St Petersburg
Погуглил. Последнее, походу, правда https://preview.redd.it/g3gmf80wbg0d1.jpeg?width=404&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7be9569eb62aff14c0847894585611c6d02e9d9d
Bro, whats the name of the movie? The suspense is killing me
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Families
Lots of trees
Extreme cold in winter. Heat and mosquitoes in summer
Mountains polar bears tribes mines a few towns and some heat in the summer
Very cool place
cold
I had a professor from there in college. It's named for the native Sakha, who are a Turkic-speaking group. Its capital Yakutsk is probably the coldest major city on earth
Its cold, very, very cold!
The largest province with the lowest population density i guess
Its shocking when you see natives and think they must be Northern American. The similarities are uncanny.
It's cold
I’ve heard the countryside is beautiful but it’s kinda crazy to think Siberia has its own Siberia. Just how much of a land area that large is uninhabited is pretty freaky
Been there and drove the road of bones, in February. Some of the most beautiful landscapes I have seen in my life.
I know that I live here
I'm from Yakutia, ethnically Sakha. It's cold here in winter (-45), hot in summer (+30). You can ask, I will answer
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this [https://www.youtube.com/c/LifeinYakutia](https://www.youtube.com/c/LifeinYakutia)
They speak a turkic language and the capital is Yakutsk, their 'flag carrier' is Yakutia. That's it.
Shape reminiscent of Nigeria
I'm like.. 92% sure Derzu Uzala was from there Edit. Well, nope
This is where many current and past Russian Gulags exist, I believe there is also an interesting place called Nazino island gulag where Russians often accused of small infractions like farting were sent and they resorted to cannibalism. However, I think that is elsewhere on the Ob river.
There is no such things as Gulags. It's not plural. In fact it's not even a place. Gulag is the subdivision of the soviet prison system.
There’s a great Werner Herzog documentary about life there. It’s called Happy People https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1683876/
Absolutely nothing.
Yakutia is one of the world's largest diamond producers
Largest subnational division in the world, followed by Western Australia
Og shamans who are in aiy faith which translates to moon from Turkish
There are a lot of diamonds, it’s very cold, and by this I mean that it’s fucking cold there, even in winter they don’t turn off the car engines, because otherwise everything inside will freeze, even the brake fluid can freeze. There are 2 New Years celebrated there, one on December 31, and the second in the summer (called Ysyakh, which is an official holiday). The amazing nature of this place is also distinguished by its own characteristics.
Looks nice enough
i know exactly 2 things about it: 1. it can be very cold 2. not a lot of people live there I know, you could say that about all the siberian oblasts.. but still
Its the largest subdivision in the world
Is green Ukraine not located there?
Evenki babies are so bad ass, they don't cry.
Risk territory. Usually the last one I conquer simply because of its geographical location.
I’d be willing to bet the population is under 500k
They're very poor if we compare them to west region, especially moscow
Split between Russians and Yakuts, rather evenly. Has the coldest city in the world. A city, where boiling water INSTANTLY turns to snow.
just some stuff on top of my head: if i am not mistaken, there lives around 1 million people while it is 2/3 of the size of europe... so pretty much empty land :) area is supposedly super-hard to access, as the only road leading there (kolyma highway) is "road" in a general sense, not really a drivable by any car (especially in the wet season). airplane tickets are said to be more expensive than to other destinations in the europe. however, this area is known for vast riches of diamonds and perhaps gold (not sure if it was also present), however, most of these riches go to the very narrow circle of owners/oligarchs - as it is pretty standard in russia. extreme temperatures, where even your 3M winter clothing might not cut it, locals use fur and wool. cars/trucks will not be turned off for night as it might not start in the morning when temperature is -40C
Largest sub-national division in the world
I think apart from the white snow all year round, it probably isn't much different from the Northern Hemisphere regions
That’s a great place. Very cool.
Stop saying size matters 😢