| 03/16/2018 21:50 | Gold bars worth millions rain down on Russia ( euronews )
The hatch of a cargo plane opened as it took off from an airport in Yakutsk in eastern Siberia. The Nimbus Airlines AN-12 cargo plane was carrying about nine tons of gold and other precious metals, according to Russian media reports. The Siberian Times reported that the value of "gold, platinum and ... |
| 02/21/2018 07:20 | Video confirming that Yakut Head had boarding passes appears ( https://en.crimerussia.com/ )
Channel One showed a video from Sheremetyevo Airport during the boarding of passengers on a plane from Moscow to Yakutsk on February 16, which, according to the TV channel, features Evgeny Shigapov, assistant to the Head of Yakutia, handing over boarding passes to an airport employee. |
| 02/20/2018 05:40 | Yakutia Head arranged affray aboard promising to "dismiss everyone" ( https://en.crimerussia.com/ )
"Borisov showed the contact of one of the heads of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation and stated that he would call and dismiss the plane staff," the report says. Stewards wanted to deny access aboard, but his wife, flying with him, managed to stand up for him. Praskovya Borisova ... |
| 02/03/2018 08:20 | Hope Diamond Eat Your Heart Out! Two Huge, Rare Gemstones Discovered in Russia ( Sputnik International )
The discovery was made at a mine in Yakutia, the northeastern Russian region where close to 95% of Russia's diamonds and over a quarter of all ... large, jewelry-quality diamonds, with a mass of 97.92 and 85.62 carats, respectively, are very rare, according to officials from Alrosa, the Russian diamond ... |
| 02/02/2018 05:45 | Russia successfully launches a Soyuz-2 rocket carrying two satellites from the Vostochny ... ( Mirror.co.uk )
Russia successfully launches a Soyuz-2 rocket carrying two satellites from the Vostochny Cosmodrome. The launch took place from the Vostochny Cosmodrome in Eastern Russia at 11:07 Yakutsk Time (02:07 GMT). Share; Comments. By. Shivali Best. 10:38, 1 FEB 2018. Technology ... |
| 01/30/2018 20:30 | Ural Airlines passes eight-millionth-passenger mark in 2017 ( www.rusaviainsider.com )
Russian carrier Ural Airlines has consolidated its position as Russia's four-largest carrier, with preliminary results for 2017 showing that passenger ... Ithe carrier introduced several new routes last year: from Yekaterinburg to Kaliningrad, Krasnoyarsk, and Yakutsk domestically, and also to Warsaw, ... |
| 01/28/2018 14:30 | Lena River tour explores remote, rugged northern Russia ( The Durango Herald )
The Cambrian sandstone pillars were carved along the Lena River because of the extreme temperature ranges from summer (up to 100 degrees) to winter (down to minus 75 degrees). The Lena Pillars Nature Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is about 125 miles south of Yakutsk. Short-duration ... |
| 01/27/2018 14:40 | Russia's Yakutia, Polar to pool fleets ( ch-aviation )
Korean Air (KE, Seoul Incheon) will launch a new domestic service between Seoul Incheon and Yangyang on February 1, 2018, in order to facilitate better access to the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang. The service will terminate on February 27. Tickets will only be available for passengers connecting ... |
| 01/27/2018 14:40 | Explore remote Russia, find the best credit cards for travelers and more ( Chicago Tribune )
Moscow and St. Petersburg, your typical Russia destinations, are a long way from the itinerary for the Lands of Frost & Fire. This tour explores Russia's Far East. Yakutia, home to various indigenous tribes, is a frontier area where mammoths once roamed. Also on the itinerary is the Kamchatka Peninsula, ... |
| 01/26/2018 08:40 | Russia to spend US$235 million on upgrading Far East airports ( Asia Times )
The announcement was made at the end of December by Transport Minister Maxim Sokolov, who said money from the federal budget would go towards improvements at the air hubs of Khabarovsk, Yakutsk, Ekimchan, Magadan and others. Analysts are downbeat on the minister's appeal to foreign ... |
| 01/22/2018 14:25 | Arsen Tomsky ( TNW )
... founder and CEO of inDriver, a decentralized, bid-style ride-hailing app that allows passengers to enter the price they are willing to pay, while drivers only accept the order once a fare is agreed upon. Founded in the small Siberian city of Yakutsk, inDriver has 7 million current users around Russia and ... |
| 01/21/2018 06:20 | Chief physician of Yakutsk hospital tries to dismiss doctors who exposed bribes ( https://en.crimerussia.com/ )
In Yakutia, the order of acting chief physician of the republic hospital No. 2 on the dismissal of several employees of the medical institution. As the regional prosecutor's office found out, the layoff of specialists was carried out with violations, due to which the acting chief physician was given a warning by ... |
| 01/13/2018 22:35 | Two huge URAL trucks - one loaded with oil - crashed through ice on Lena River 'winter road' ( The Siberian Times )
Winter road. Cars moving along the winter road Yakutsk - Nizhny Bestyakh in Yakutia. Picture: The Siberian Times. The company's headquarters are registered in Moscow. The trucks were en route to Yakutia, Russia's coldest region. Our recent story on Siberia ice roads is here. |
| 12/13/2017 23:10 | Russia's Yakutia may use American Cessna planes at local routes ( TASS )
YAKUTSK, December 11. /TASS/. Yakutia's Association of Local Aviation suggests using the US Cessna planes for serving the regional routes. According to the association's co-chair and Yakutia's lawmaker Viktor Fedorov, by using those planes the republic could cut the fares by half. "The association is ... |
| 12/05/2017 07:25 | Russian ride hailing apps power up ( Financial Times )
On New Year's Eve in 2012, it was minus 45 degrees in Yakutsk, the capital of a desolate taiga province 5,000km east of Moscow, when Arsen Tomsky launched a campaign to protest against taxi firms raising prices 150 per cent. His idea was simple: let users instead propose a price for a trip, then ... |
| 11/30/2017 23:45 | Impact locations of four fragments of carrier rocket from Vostochny registered in Yakutia ( TASS )
YAKUTSK, November 30. /TASS/. Radars in Russia's Siberian republic of Yakutia have registered impact locations of four fragments of the Soyuz-2.1b carrier rocket that was launched from the Vostochny spaceport on Tuesday, the press service of Yakutia's environmental protection ministry said on ... |
| 11/22/2017 08:15 | Russia's Yakutia kicks off two-week car tours to Arctic coast ( TASS )
YAKUTSK, November 21. /TASS/. Visit Yakutia, an East Siberian tour company, has launched two-week car tours on Arctic winter roads from Yakutsk to Tiksi, Russia's fourth northernmost township, to the Laptev Sea coast, its director Bolot Bochkarev said on Tuesday. "The Yakutsk-Tiksi expedition that ... |
| 11/06/2017 23:15 | Thick ice traps ferry with 100 passengers on river in Yakutia ( TASS )
YAKUTSK, November 5. /TASS/. A passenger ferry, carrying 100 passengers and vehicles along the Lena River in Yakutia, press service of the ... |
| 10/21/2017 20:20 | Russia mines unique 34.17-carat yellow diamond ( TASS )
YAKUTSK, October 20. /TASS/. Almazy Anabara, an affiliate of Russia's top diamond producer Alrosa, has extracted a large 34.17-carat yellow ... |
| 10/21/2017 20:20 | More Russian carriers take over VIM Airlines' Far East routes ( ATWOnline )
In addition, the Russian government issued a statement saying an agreement had been reached with Far East Yakutia Airlines to increase frequencies ... |
