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yellowsyro · 1 month
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Үтүө күнүнэн!
if u ever wondered who was Alex's mom, She actually was coolest punk in her town in Yakutsk
Her name is Michiye
She is also Udagan, a female shaman of sakha
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psikonauti · 2 months
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Nanna Heitmann (German-Russian,b. 1995)
Bulgunnyakhtakh, Yakutia, Russia, 2021
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vestaignis · 18 days
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Северный олень в Нерюнгри летом. Reindeer in Neryungri in summer.
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Источник: /strana-yu-ya.narod.ru/new-pages/elga.html, /yk24.ru, /cojo.ru/zhivotnye/yakutiya-oleni-38-foto/, /aartyk.ru/, /nature.kremlin.ru/animals/114.
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my-russia · 2 months
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Wintertime in Yakutia | Ph: Max Avdeev
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thenuclearmallard · 8 months
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VERY IMPORTANT VIDEO
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paganimagevault · 1 year
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Siberian snow goggles from the Khanty, Nganasan, & Sakha
Toying with an idea here. The concept of the one-eyed Arimaspians has me curious if this was a nickname for people from the north who lived in places where snow goggles may have given the appearance of having a single eye. Given a far enough physical distance and passing through the gossip of enough different languages, by the time this info made it to the Greeks what began as a nickname may have sounded like these people were literal cyclopes. Just a thought. I assume people back then used eye protection from the snow, in some manner, just like people do today. Some of the snow goggles (both modern and historical) do give the appearance of a single giant eye, while others have two eye spots. I wasn't able to find much on this as far as historical info goes, and unfortunately I couldn't find images of the ancient grave finds the article talked about. The oldest of the discovered snow goggles being 2,000 years old from northeast Asia. I'm not sure if the initial black and white sketch is of the ancient goggles or not, the post didn't explicitly say. Below is whatever info I could find on historical snow glasses in Eurasia: 
"In ancient times, like today, these goggles were made by skilled masters to combine effectiveness in blotting out the blinding light in some cases looking amazing.
Different ethnic groups across polar regions evolved their own distinctive style in snow goggles.
The most ancient known eyewear belong to the Old Bering Sea culture, the sites of which are located on the both sides of Bering Strait.
The oldest date for the culture - around 400 years BC - was obtained on Russian side, at Ekven graveyard, in Chukotka.
The peak of the culture is considered to be in second and third centuries AD. 
At Ekven and also Uelen graveyards snow goggles made of bone were found, dating from the first to the fifth centuries AD.
Some were decorated with carvings, some not, and examples are shown here in these drawings.
Later the snow goggle tradition by Eskimos, for example the Inuits and Yupik, and the Chukchi people.
While there was an obvious practical use for the goggles, a variant of these ‘spectacles’ xxxx is believed to have been used by traditional shamans; for example a pair of goggles without holes of slips was found at Ekve
The Event and Dolgans people turned to metal in making the eyewear with copper or tin or silver goggles inserted into a half-mask made of reindeer skin or other pelt, or, later, cloth obtained from Russian incomers. Decorations with beads was also a feature.
The same type of goggles was also used by other Arctic people such as the  Nganasan or Khanty. The British Museum even has some examples.
The tradition continues to this day and is thriving in Yakutia - also known as Sakha Republic, the largest region in the Russian Federation. 
Going back in time, the Yakut people used a wide range of materials to make goggles - metal, birch bark, wood, bone, skin, and horsehair. 
The goggles created from horsehair comprised strips of intricate net. A surviving 19th century example comes not from Yakutia but Tuva, the mountainous region in southern Siberia, now in a collection in the Irkutsk Museum of Local History. 
Most of the metal goggles in Yakut collections are dated from between the 18th and early 20th centuries. 
Again, some definitely had ritualistic uses: they were deployed by shamans, and not in everyday day life for use in snow.
Many Yakuts recall that their grandfathers had very simple goggles made of birch bark. 
Local historian Prokopy Nagovitsyn said: 'The round shaped silver goggles began to make an appearance in 19th century, when there appeared many rich people. 
‘The shape had a symbolic meaning - cross in the circle had been the symbol of the sun since neolithic times. 
‘Yet the cross-shaped cuts are convenient not when you are in tundra, but when you, for example, climb steps.’
Most of the older goggles look rather simple - for example a metal strip with the small deepening for the nose and slots for sight. Others have  two round metal discs with a slit to see through while blotting out most of the glare; these were fixed into a the mask of skin or fur."
-taken from SiberianTimes
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irithnova · 7 months
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The Russian state using ethnic minorities as cannon fodder - with a focus on Buryats
Article written in 2022, update on the Free Buryatia Foundation in September 2023 given at the end of the post.
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Putin announced on October 14th 2022 that by the end of October, his partial mobilisation process would be complete
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The recruitment target was 300,000. 222,000 were recruited, and it was claimed that there'd be no more plans for future recruitment
The mobilisation process soaked nation wide outrage which lead to mass protests.
It drew in criticism from some of the Russian political elite
The mobilisation process disproportionately affected ethnic minorities/impoverished regions (many impoverished regions have a high ethnic minority population)
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Tuva Republic
Regions that held high populations of ethnic minorities bared the brunt of war-related deaths.
Both Ukrainian media and authorities have levelled accusations at Russian ethnic minorities - that they committed war crimes in Bucha, Ukraine
This accusations was made in May 2022 by Lydmyla Denisova, Ukrainian ombudsman for human rights
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Buryats and Chechens were being accused of this
This was a form of scapegoating (not to say they 0 ethnic minorities have committed war crimes in Ukraine of course)
The Free Buryat Foundation investigated this and produced a report that challenged the notion that Buryats were ever sent to Bucha, let alone being responsible for the war crimes committed
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Victoria Maladaeva is the vice president of the Free Buryatia Foundation.
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She said:
Dagestan, Tuva Republic and Buryatia Republic have the highest death tolls
Moscow, with 17 million, had >50 deaths.
Buryatia with only 980,000 had 364
A Buryat is 7.8 x more likely to die in the war compared to an ethnic Russian.
A Tuvan is 10.4x more likely
The biggest losses were at the beginning of the war and numbers gradually decreased.
Mobilisation was first and foremost carried out in ethnic republics
The day Putin announced this, authorities came to Buryatia at night, went into people's homes and took them from their beds.
No one was given draft notices
They even took men with multiple children, men from the same family
Endangered ethnic groups reside in Dagestan
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There are very small communities of those people with populations of around 13,000
Despite this, those minorities were still drafted
There are also very small communities in the Sakha Republic.
They are so remote, helicopters are needed to be called for medical treatment
They almost never come because of how remote these communities are
Funnily enough, helicopters came immediately to draft those people upon Putin's announcement
Putin is a Russian imperialist through and through
None Russians are treated like second class citizens
Russian cultural chauvinism is seen even in small things - such as names
Putin would frequently mispronounce Kazakhstan's president's name. If you have an ethnic Buryat name for example, Russians are reluctant to use it, instead assigning you an "easier" Russian name
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Kassym-Jomart Tokayev
Unfortunately, many of the people of Buryatia believe in the Russian narrative about Nazi ideology in Ukraine
It is one of the missions of the free Buryatia Foundation to help Buryats understand that this is Russian propaganda
The focus on Buryat/ethnic minority war crimes has a racial element
When an ethnic minority commits a war crime, their ethnicity is singled out
It should not matter the ethnicity of a war criminal
78 Buryat soldiers from the 11th air assault brigade were barred from terminating their contract
They were imprisoned in Luhansk.
Only Ilya Kaminskiy returned. The fate of the other men is unknown
The Free Buryatia Foundation knows they cannot help everyone but they do their best. They help people in terminating their contracts for example and have been quite successful in this.
The Free Buryatia Foundation was established to counter Russian propaganda and to protest the war.
People worldwide took an interest to this, so they founded the free Buryatia Foundation.
The Free Buryatia Foundation is the first ethnic anti war organisation in Russia
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They aided in founding anti war organisations in other ethnic regions such as Tuva, Kalmykia, Udmurtia, Sakha
Many Buryats fled to Mongolia and Kazakhstan
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Some men were able to come back after being drafted, some were not
The economic situation for Buryatia is dire. It ranked 81st out of 85 of Russia's regions when it came to living standards
Buryats had to spend money on a list of supplies for war that Russia did not provide them
Very recently, on September 1st, Russia banned the Free Buryatia Foundation, labelling them as undesirable and anti Russian.
Here is the website for the Free Buryatia Foundation:
And here is where you can donate:
Please spread around or give what you can.
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northernia · 6 months
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I will show some more of my works(2023-2021) while I paint new ones.
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This time the theme of my works is my homeland. I was born and still live in Yakutia. It is one of the republics in Russia, located in the far north.
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I love my homeland very much. Completely. I am forever in love with the culture of my homeland, its weather conditions, its natural beauties and its people.
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I love this region very much and would like to stay here forever.
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Real what Katara and Sokka would wear is best what Katara and Sokka would wear,
Sokka
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Katara
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I <3 Yakutia!!!
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ahtobi · 2 months
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I don't like talking about things like this on tumblr but i really need to inform people
The whole north-east side of russia has no internet connection. Only wi-fi works. It is so hard to do anything outside since card cannot be accepted, basic texting apps don't work that every russian uses (whatsapp and telegram). Many of my friends don't have internet and can't access tumblr, i am privileged to have working home wi-fi so i'm still here
If you know any accounts here that are from Yakutia or russia and such and wonder why they disappeared this is why
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livhuh · 6 months
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yellowsyro · 4 months
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Winter dragon and Lena Pillars
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menemennpastirma · 5 months
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Young Sakha Turk woman.
Source: https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid0oPRFNNvYgzmbmzBronjukumzV7oCxonvKjPdhwyxbtGnJwvyki5w3bB5abt6y9vol&id=100064273136183
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miamaimania · 1 year
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by Alexey Vasilyev, documentary photographer from Yakutia
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deviangread · 5 months
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thenuclearmallard · 5 months
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A Sakha film to be released in the future. This is amazing. ❤️
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