Discover Yakutsk, the coldest city on Earth, where winter plunges to -60°C and life thrives in extreme cold. Explore its ...

YAKUTSK, Russia -- Emergency workers are racing against time to strengthen dykes protecting the Siberian city of Yakutsk from the swollen river Lena. Viktor Beltsov, spokesman for the Emergency ...

Yakutsk, home to almost 200,000, is the last large settlement in the path of the river Lena, which tracks northward for about 860 miles through the Siberian tundra into the Arctic ocean.

That’s how he ended up in Yakutsk, Russia. The capital city of the vast (1.2 million square miles) Siberian region known as the Sakha Republic, Yakutsk is widely identified as the world’s ...

The third stage of construction of the Lena Bridge in Yakutia has been approved. The Lena River bridge project in the Yakutsk region has received the support of Russian President Vladimir Putin and is ...

With a direct connection, Yakutsk will be able to receive a huge ... of federal budget funds to finance the bridge across the Lena River. The bridge will connect the Trans-Siberian and Baikal ...

The world's tenth longest river, the Lena flows north some 2,700 miles through ... ancient log cabins sinking into the permafrost—this was Yakutsk, capital of Sakha, home to 200,000 people.

The only bridge across the Lena River is in the Irkutsk Region ... base for a big logistics center near the republic’s capital Yakutsk, to where could come the railway, the river and air ...