The Winter Road: the Land of Fierce…

On 05.05.10, In Autos/Bikes, Lives, People, Travel, Videos, documentary, By Bolot

The Winter Road Documentary Poster

This is the trailer of Nikolay Evstifeev’s documentary “THE WINTER ROAD. The Land of Fierce…” about the sever work in Siberia’s Yakutia. Here you can see how hard ordinary people’s work can be in the hardest part of Siberia. The documentary won The Best Directing Award at The 17th Saint Anna Film Festival and The Best Cinematography Award at The 29th VGIK Film Festival. Btw, Anton Safronov was a camera man.

The documentary is about Yakutia, the sever land of truckers, gold miners, hunters, and oil industry workers. Extreme conditions are revealed in every capture. Survival at minus 50 degrees Celsius, the road on the frozen river, people’s attitude to nature, wild life… and PEOPLE without false manners and any compromises.

“This movie is very sincere! This is a real big documentary!” said Michael Porechenkov, the chairman of the 29th VGIK Film Festival jury, a famous Russian actor. (more…)

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Video: Leh- Manali mountain road in India

On 01.04.10, In Autos/Bikes, Natures, Travel, Videos, By Bolot

There is an awesome Yakutian photographer, Masha Dubroskaya. Four years ago she started her journey of the life across South East Asia. She’s got beautiful travel pictures, many of them were published in popular travel magazines. She and her boyfriend Ajay have a blog TraveLiving.org, where, by the way, I found the above “snowy” video.

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Photo: Happy New Year, Belorussia!

On 12.23.09, In Autos/Bikes, Events, Lives, Photos, By Bolot
A store truck arrived in the village of Novoselki, 30 km away from the restricted area around Chernobyl. REUTERS/Vasily Fedosenko.

A store truck with Ded Moroz (a sort of Santa Clause) arrived in the Belorussian village of Novoselki, 30 km away from the restricted area around Chernobyl. Dec. 22, 2009. REUTERS/Vasily Fedosenko.

Via Drugoi.Lj.com

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Biking in an Austrian Winter

On 12.21.09, In Autos/Bikes, Photos, Travel, By Bolot

A friend of mine, Jonathan Fox, an UK biker, updated his today’s status “The temperature is a cool -8.5 Celsius. I think it’s time to go riding. :) ” Yeah, time to drive on BMW in the cold! :)

Biking in an Austrian Winter by Jonathan Fox

A week ago he did his travel from Manchester to Austria on his BMW bike. At that time he wrote “Had the Swiss and Austrian Alps all to himself yesterday. Either I’m fortunate or no other biker is crazy enough to be riding when it’s -3c with snow on the ground.”

Later he added “OK maybe I’m the crazy one, but the rewards for being crazy and going out when no other does are great. :) ” (more…)

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Snowstorms in Alberta, Canada

On 12.07.09, In Autos/Bikes, Climate, Lives, News, Photos, Videos, By Bolot

Oh, man. What’s going on in Alberta, Canada? An Arctic cold front brought blizzard snowstorms to Calgary and Edmonton. Awesome & awful!

The Internet is already full of news, videos, and photos. Check the elected ones. (more…)

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Video: Ice Road Truckers

On 11.30.09, In Autos/Bikes, Daily, Lives, Videos, By Bolot


This is the preview of Ice Road Truckers TV Show Season 3 by History Channel.

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In Prudhoe Bay, a network of ice roads in the tundra crisscross river systems & open ocean to connect Americas booming North Slope oil fields to dry land. Every winter truckers have less than three months to shuttle critical supplies over the ice. There’s only one way to get to this remote location: 400 miles of ice-covered, mountainous terrain known as The Dalton Highway.

Resource: History

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