Now it needs the infrastructure to match. Yakutsk has the air of a frontier outpost. A six-hour flight from Moscow, the city of about 300,000 people on the banks of the Lena River was first conquered ...

The city's harsh winters are due to several factors, including its location in a river valley that traps cold air. Yakutsk is also subject to a high-pressure system often referred to as the ...

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 ...

and in winter — from Yakutsk by snow roads, which are formed of pressed snow. There is also a snow route along the Anabar River — trucks are moving on ice. On the way back, dry-cargo ...