There are many beautiful places on our planet creatednature, which must be seen with my own eyes, but it is impossible to go everywhere. One of the beauties that you need to contemplate with your own eyes is the nature of Yakutia.
Mysteries of Nature
In the north of Siberia, between Chukotka and Magadan, the Khabarovsk Territory, the Amur Region and the Krasnoyarsk Territory, the East Siberian Sea and the Laptev Sea, Yakutia (Republic of Sakha) is located.
Mysteries of the nature of Yakutia in that it flourishesin the permafrost zone. Most of the territory is mountains, plateaus and lowlands. Between the mountains and the hills flow the greatest rivers in the world. Rafting along these rivers in the conditions of the unsurpassed beauty of the northern nature of the Republic, you get the most unusual sensations in life, because the climate in these places is nothing but extreme, the coldest of all the places where people live.
Air temperature ranges from more than 35degrees in the summer to minus 70 degrees in the winter. Here is the pole of the cold of our hemisphere of the planet, where the temperature is -71 degrees. Such harsh living conditions have no analogues in the world. It’s worth seeing with your own eyes, because the nature of Yakutia is definitely one of the most unusual on the planet.
Many people in our vast country know this.subject of the Russian Federation no more than foreigners about Russia: lifeless snow desert, where bears roam. All this is incredibly far and extremely cold, like in the fairy tale about the Snow Queen. And indeed it is.
Various animals live in the area,especially a lot of deer. Climate features attract tourists here to look at the “cold pole” and plunge into the “permafrost”. The nature of Yakutia, the photo of which can be seen below, makes travelers an irresistible desire to visit these places more than once.
A bit of history
Lovers of ancient history who want to seewith their own eyes the places that the mammoths lived in should definitely visit Yakutia. In the ice of permafrost, unique parts of ancient animals are preserved. In the forties of the last century, scientists discovered here a huge burial of mammoth bones, unusual in size and preservation. And in the 70s of the last century, scientists collected more than seven thousand of their bones at that cemetery of extinct animals.
Limestone pillars on the Lena River
Huge pillars like Stone Forest canWatch on the Lena River in Khangalassky Ulus. Between Pokrovsky and Yakutsk rise rocks composed of limestone. Mysterious stone towers with a height of more than 160 meters rise along the river, lining up for more than 75 kilometers, like the ancient giant guards. The pillars were opened long ago, in the 17th century, but it was very difficult to get to these places. Only in the sixties of the twentieth century, the first tourist routes lay across the Lena pillars. Now there is a national park. In addition to the pillars, the park of the ancient man, who lived 3 million years ago in these parts and decorated the banks of local rivers with cave paintings, was opened in the park.
Yakut Loch Ness monster in Labynkyr lake
In the east of the territory there is another miracle.of nature - Labynkyr lake. A mysterious animal allegedly lives in its waters. The lake freezes very slowly, contrary to all scientific data. Lovers of the mysterious need to see this phenomenon with their own eyes.
Ridges with hanging glaciers
In the northern part of Yakutia range are locatedChersky and Verkhoyansky range, which are distinguished by steep slopes and hanging glaciers of extraordinary beauty. From under the glaciers streams flow out and get lost among the boulders. The streams are interconnected and form streams with the purest melt water. The origins of these crystal rivers also need to be seen with their own eyes. The nature of Yakutia will not leave indifferent any tourist.
