| Sakha Republic (last updated 25 July 2006) Dedicated to my son, adopted from Yakutsk, Sakha Republic, December, 2001 and to all the children to follow. Alden Olekminsk Srednekolymsk Vilyuisk Yakutsk Zhigansk A Site not to Miss - if don't look at anything else look at Sakha Open World There is a forum for discussion about life in the Diaspora for people from Sakha (In Russian...use http://tranlate.ru, type in the Sakha Open World link and it will translate) Adoption Ministry of Education, Sakha (has listing of available children) - http://sakha.opeca.ru/part/?pid=1&fp=1 Yakutia (Spanish language site) - http://www.iespana.es/adoptaenrusia2/--Yakutia-fotos-varios-.htm Articles "Evenks Face Threat To Way Of Life" - http://www.rferl.org/specials/russia/evenks/default.asp "Gifts to the Earth" - http://www.panda.org/about_wwf/how_we_work/gifts_to_the_earth/forests/sakha_yakutia_gift.cfm “Oil boom in Evenkia may bring wealth, but to whom and at what cost?” http://www.rferl.org/reports/russianreport/2002/02/6-200202.asp “Profile of a disappering People” - http://www.rferl.org/reports/russianreport/2002/03/8-060302.asp “Russia: Efforts Failing To Preserve Evenks' Nomadic Way Of Life (Part 1) - http://www.rferl.org/features/2002/02/06022002092358.asp “Russia: Oil Boom May Bring Wealth To Evenkia, But To Whom, And At What Cost? (Part 2)” - http://www.rferl.org/features/2002/02/07022002085529.asp “Russia: Efforts Under Way To Confront Region's Rate Of Alcoholism (Part 3) - http://www.rferl.org/features/2002/02/08022002113411.asp "Republic of Sakha: Between Turkestan and North Asia" an article by Bruno de Cordier - http://www.turkiye.net/sota/yakut.html "Sakha Nomads: Doomed by change?" (dtd 1/18/98) - http://www.cnn.com/EARTH/9801/18/siberia.reindeer "Taking back the Tundra" article on one woman's adoption of 11 Nenet children - http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2000/11/11/108.html Charitable Children of Sakha - http://www.mabetex.com/english/children_of_sakha.php Omakta Behe (New Life) Charitable Foundation for orphans and children - http://www.ccirussia.org/en/fe331.htm Culture Background info on Yakuts - http://www.hunmagyar.org/yakut/yakut.html Background Info on Sakha - http://www.yukoncollege.yk.ca/~agraham/nost202/sakha_trans.htm China and Siberian Cultures - http://www.workingdogweb.com/China.htm Cosmic Elk (lots of links for Siberia, Yakutia and other things) - http://www.cosmicelk.co.uk/ Cosmic Elk “Shamanism and Time” - http://www.cosmicelk.co.uk/shaman.htm Culture of the Arctic Peoples http://www.ethnomuseum.ru/ Evenk or Evenki: (established through intermixing of Tungus and Yukagir people) - http://www.nupi.no/cgi-win/Russland/etnisk_b.exe?Evenk Fashion in Sakha (looks like a beauty pageant site!) http://www.sakha.ru/ayi-kuo/default.htm Heraldry of Sakha (coat of arms, blazons, flags) http://heraldry.hobby.ru/ Horses of Siberia http://www.worldandi.com/public/2000/january/siberia.html Indigenous People of Siberia & Russian Far East: (Even, Evenk, Sami, Yukagir, with map showing homelands) - http://www.indigenous.ru/english/main.htm Kevin Locke’s Sakha Journal (1999) - http://www.kevinlocke.com/yakutia.htm Minority Peoples and Their Territories - http://countrystudies.us/russia/34.htm Peoples of Lake Baikal: Buryat, Evenk and Russian settlers - http://www.bww.irk.ru/people/peoples.html Recipes (Evenk, Lamut, Yakut dishes - in Russian) http://www.sakha.ru/sakha/culture/foods/html/foods.html (try http://www.babelfish.altavista.com to translate) Siberia Links - http://www.khazaria.com/turkic/siberia.html Siberian Links - http://www.cosmicelk.co.uk/Siberia.htm Forums Northern Forum :: Sakha Republic - http://www.northernforum.org/sakharepublic.html Sakha.net - http://www.forums.sakha.net/ Groups Indy Adoptions in Russia - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Ind_Russian Independent Russia (adoptions) - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/independent_russia World Indigenous People - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/worlds-indigenous-people Yakutia - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/yakutkia Government Moscow Embassy (U.S.) - http://moscow.usembassy.gov/ Russian Adoption (my webpage)- http://www.myadoptiongroups.com/Russia Sakha Gov't Webpage http://www.sakha.gov.ru (English version not working yet - try an online translator) Sakha (official webpage) http://www.sakha.ru/Eversion/HTMLs/default.htm US State Dept Adoption Info (Russia) - http://travel.state.gov/family/ladoption_russia.html US State Dept Consular Info - http://travel.state.gov/travel/russia.html Yakutsk Administrative Center (lots of info) http://members.tripod.com/~argun/yakutsk.htm History Yakutia in the 16th & 17th Centuries - http://www.cosmicelk.co.uk/Yakutia16c.htm Yakutia in the 18th Century (Part 1) - http://www.cosmicelk/co.uk/18c-1.htm Yakutia in the 18th Century (Part 2) - http://www.cosmicelk/co.uk/18c-2.htm Maps/Flags Flag of Yaktusk - http://flagspot.net/flags/ru-sa.html#pre Map of Sakha - http://cei.sunderland.ac.uk/sakha/yakutmap.html Sakha Place names - http://www.geocities.com/Athens/9479/yakut.html Miscellaneous Confluence in the Sakha Republic (any takers?) - http://www.confluence.org/region.php?id=1099 Fact Bites (links to varous info sites about Yakutsk) - http://www.factbites.com/topics/Sakha-Yakutia-Republic University of the Arctic - Sakha State University - http://news.uarctic.org/000124.htm Yukon College, Canada (intesting site) - http://www.yukoncollege.yk.ca/ Music Stepanida Borisova (vocalist, shaman music of Sakha) - http://www.hulu.de/en/musicians/stepanida_Borissova.htm Violinist Ensemble of Yakutia (children's ensemble) - http://www.sitc.ru/violin/e_index.shtml News Sakha News Info http://www.sakha.ru (use http://babelfish.altavista.com to translate) Sakha Information Technology Center (news, fashion, society, etc) - http://www.sitc.ru/index_english.php Scott Polar Research Institute, Repubic of Sakha http://www.spri.cam.ac.uk/resources/rfn/sakha.html Yahoo News (search for Yakutsk or Sakha) - http://dailynews.yahoo.com Orphanages - click here “Children Saha-Asia” (lists 7 children’s home, with pictures)- http://www.sakhaasia.ru/big.htm Detskiedomiki (addresses of orphanages/internats/etc)- http://www.detskiedomiki.ru/guide/child/?act=home&z_id=299 Edwards’ Personal Page (info on Yakutsk) - http://edward.ykt.ru/mark/d_dom.htm Minister of Education ? Sakha (lists orphanages, family homes, special correctional schools) - http://minobr.sakha.ru/ Yakut News Bulletin - http://www.sitc.ru/yasia/0400/200400 (Article aboput the status of orphans and orphanages in Yakutsk) People/History Artists of Evenkia land - http://www.krasu.ru/evenkia_e/ex1/picture/picture.html Center for Russian Studies (Yakutsk) http://www.nupi.no/cgi-win/Russland/etnisk_b.exe?Yakutian Crossroads of Continents (People of Sibieria) - http://www.nmnh.si.edu/arctic/features/croads/siberia.html Evenki Autonomous District http://www.spri.cam.ac.uk/resources/rfn/evenki.html Minorities at Risk (Yakutsk) - http://www.cidcm.umd.edu/inscr/mar/data/rusyakut.htm Native Peoples of Siberia (Buryat, Uralic, and Paleo-Siberian) - http://www.buryatmongol.com/sibnative.html Nenents/Nganasan/Selkup/Khanti/Mansi - http://www.geocities.com/Athens/9479/nenets.html Origins of the Yakut people (genetic/linguistic point of view) - http://email.eva.mpg.de/~pakendor/ Peoples of Siberia - http://www.russiancourier.com/go/eng/info/customs/obj0082814492 Profile of the Evenk People - http://www.nupi.no/cgi-win/Russland/etnisk_b.exe?Evenk Profile of the Yakut People - http://www.nupi.no/cgi-win/Russland/etnisk_b.exe?Yakutian Red Book of the Peoples of the Russian Empire - http://www.eki.ee/books/redbook/ Republic of Sakha http://www.spri.cam.ac.uk/resources/rfn/sakha.html Sami People (not specific to Sakha, but an aboriginal people from the Arctic) http://www.itv.se/boreale/samieng.htm Shaimanism - http://www.buryatmongol.com/sibshamanism.html Subsistence Hunters - http://www.museum.state.il.us/exhibits/changing/journey/hunters-people.html Tunguska Disaster (1908) - http://www.usm.maine.edu/~planet/tung.html Tunguska (Photos) - http://www-th.bo.infn.it/tunguska/tu99foto.htm Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organizations (Sakha) http://www.unpo.org Yakut (background paper) - http://pandora.cii.wwu.edu/vajda/ea210/yakut.htm Photos Photos of Siberian Native People http://nrsm.nsc.ru:8101/sibir/indexq.htm Photos of Yakutsk - http://www.yakutia.ru/~ramz/yakutia/icons Shaman Drums! Vintage photography from Siberia and the Russian Far East - http://www.photorussia.com/shamanex00.htm Religion Christianity and Shamanism - http://oxfordu.net/seoul/chapter5 Travel East Russia Travel Market Magnificent Siberia and its people - http://www.traveleastrussia.com/siberia.html Yakutia Travel - http://www.yakutiatravel.com Yaktusk Travel http://www.yakutia.ru/~travel Weather/Time Current time in Yaktusk - http://times.clari.net.au/location2.php3/Asia/Yakutsk Weather Underground - http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=Yakutsk Comments, questions, etc - e-mail me (mgummere @ yahoo.com) 11/26/04 |
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