Top attractions in Saha -Yakutiya to visit

The territory of Yakutia is the coldest inhabited region in the northern hemisphere of the Earth. There are actually two poles of cold there - Verkhoyansk and Oymyakon. This locations have extremely low air temperature. In Verkhoyansk the temperature of -67,8 degrees Celcius was recorded in 1885 by exiled revolutionary. Verkhoyansk Museum is officially called
The Pole of Cold

The territory of Yakutia is the coldest inhabited region in the northern hemisphere of the Earth. There are actually two poles of cold there - Verkhoyansk and Oymyakon. This locations have extremely…

This is one of the largest kimberlite pipes in the world. Diamond extraction using a surface mining method began in Yakutia in 1957. An amount of diamonds mined and extracted for 44 years in career unofficially estimates to $17 billion. 350 million cubic meters of rock where taken to mine all these diamonds. Spiral road from the top of the quarry to its bottom has a length of 8 kilometers. The largest diamond in Russia was found in this quarry in December 23, 1980. The weight of the precious stone is 342,5 carats (more than 68 g), it was called
Mir mine

This is one of the largest kimberlite pipes in the world. Diamond extraction using a surface mining method began in Yakutia in 1957. An amount of diamonds mined and extracted for 44 years in career…