Frag Out! Magazine
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north-eastern Yakutia, along the Indigirka River and the Moma Riv- er, to many of us still unexplored places, whose assumption has been to commemorate the name of the highest peak the Momsky Mountains, the remarkable Pol- ish explorer of Siberia - Benedykt Dybowski. Yakutia is the largest territo- rial unit in the world - its area is over 3,000,000 square kilometres. The area is inhabited by a pop- ulation of less than one million, of which about 350 thousand in the capital - Yakutsk. Yakutia is the vast expanses of endless tai- ga cut through the great moun- tain chains. The vast majority of these places have never been visited by man. All Yakutia is crossed by one of the main roads in this part of the world. It is the Kolyma Highway with a length of mood for the readers. My respon- sibility is simpler - to tell in an straightforward form about my expedition, which took place in 1926 along the Indigirka River to the places not yet discovered, and which a quite romantic re- sult was a discovery of the al- leged lowland situated on-site, a mountain range named after the explorer of the Siberian tragically deceased in Kolyma Jan Czerski, the "Czerski Mountains" . We are also far from thinking about telling you stories about romantic notion around the Sibe- rian north. We believe that this is a task for someone more talent- ed. We repeat after Sergei Vladi- mirovich Obruchev: our respon- sibility is simpler - in a brief and accessible form to tell about a history and circumstances of the 'Dybowski's Peak' expedition to 'Yet despite this, no one is interested in the vast spaces of Northern Siberia, where the un- discovered lands are comparable in size to those in Africa. Who from a wide circle of the readers is aware what difficulties explorers in Yakutia and on the Taymyr Peninsula struggle with? Everyone can tell the circumstances of a death of Sedow or Scott, but has anyone heard about suffering and death of the participants of the Great Northern Expedition or about Alex- ander von Middendorff's expedition across the Taymyr Peninsula, during which the passing away and lonely man has laid in the snow for 18 days? Without any doubts, the Siberian explorers experience as many adventures as explorers of the exotic - a more modest and harsher work environment deprives them of the romantic no- tion that is necessary to get a reader's attention. North America is not more terrifying than Sibe- ria, and how amazing it seems to be included in Jack London's prose. And yet the nature in the Klondike is no different from our north – the riv- ers, mountains, the same gold prospectors and indigenes – here, the Tunguzes, there the Indi- ans. Nevertheless, Klondike is more accessible than Kolyma, the Indigirka or Khatanga, where a travel takes months. I am far from thinking about creating a ro- mantic notion around the Siberian north - this is a task for someone more talented, who will be in luck, which we lack, and will find the right www.fragoutmag.com