A snowy image of the titular settlement of “Happy People: A Year in the Taiga” looks just like a Currier and Ives print, which is appropriate because life in the Taiga is much like it was more than ...
With more than a month still to go in Siberia's annual fire season, more than 1.5 million hectares (3.7 million acres) of Yakutia's swampy coniferous taiga has ...
We invite architecture students, professional architects and designers to take part in the international architectural contest of ideas for Siberia “ARCH_TAIGA”. The project “ARCH_TAIGA” was created ...
The great German filmmaker Werner Herzog co-directed and, almost even better, provides his uniquely stentorian narration for “Happy People: A Year in the Taiga,” an ethno­graphic documentary about the ...
SIBERIAN TAIGA, Russia -- Agafia Lykova emerges from the thick forest on the banks of the Abakan River like an image from Russian folklore. Dressed in ragged black sackcloth with a tattered head scarf ...
MOSCOW, October 7. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin went for a walk in the Siberian taiga and climbed a mountain ahead of his birthday on Monday. As it was promised earlier by Russian ...
Bakhta, a village in the geographic center of the Siberian taiga, has a population of 300. It’s accessible only by helicopter or, during those months when the Yenisei River isn’t frozen, by boat. If ...
KEMEROVO, December 11. /TASS/. The authorities of Russia’s Kemerovo Region are taking measures to warm up the house of Old Believer recluse Agafya Lykova, who has been living in the taiga all alone ...