Preparing ice for drinking in the coldest inhabited place in the world - Yakutia
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- Опубліковано 13 лис 2020
- Preparing ice as drinking water water in Yakutia - the coldest inhabited place in the world.
Traditionally Sakha (Yakut) people collect ice to use it as drinking water during one year. My family keeps this tradition and I made a video of our way to prepare ice.
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Hello everyone! Thank you for your questions! I want to answer to the most frequently asked ones here in this comment.
1) We don’t purify melted ice, but we always boil it before drinking.
2) Water in the river is clear enough to drink.
3) This is a traditional way to preserve drinking water. And it’s also very common in Yakutia, a lot of people do the same. (Not only my family)
Have a nice day and stay safe ☺️🙏
Does your family speak the Yakut language? How are languages used there, as in Russian, Yakut etc. My dad loves Yakutia and if he ever has a chance he will move there to live!
Hi Maria . Your videos are interesting please continue making them. For me that was born & raised in Iran & now live in TX , your life style is very different & interesting. Could you make more videos about winter activities? Also do you have running water in Yakutsk ? And how your family take showers, clean & wash dishes, etc... since there is no running water?
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Do you try to reuse water as much as possible in your home, when it is sanitary to do so? For example, would you try to use the water that you washed your hands with to water a house plant or wash something else? Does anyone ever run out of ice before they're able to get more?
softly, the way you speak thanks learning a lot and reiterating what i saw SOMEONE gave us EVERYTHING, now who are complaining about rains that caused flooding who will clean the bodies of water and the small particles in the air
Hi everyone.Im from Uzbekistan.I have never seen this kind of frozen winter because my Uzbekistan not so freezy even in winter.After this video I wish one day Im going to go Yakutia.Thank you Maria for giving us this kind of videos.
My English teacher is from Yakutia! She has told us so many amazing stories about your beautiful region. Привет из Болгарии! :))
I’m french and we are currently in lockdown due to the virus, watching you makes me feel like I’m outside. I love your videos and I hope you keep making more ! You also seem more at ease in front of the camera than before
Thank you for watching 😌 To be honest, I am still not really comfortable speaking in front of a camera😅
@@LifeinYakutia You do very well at it! Thank you for these videos. I'm sure others have told you but your English is amazing! from a native speaker, you do a great job :)
Hello random french human .I wish I'll speak french someday
@@sarahkaveh7739 moi aussi. French is so hard to learn 😭
@@littleislandnbird Yes .and if only wr had oportunity to travel to a francaphone country It would be really easy to learn but I myself can't afgord it at all
In a world where things move fast and technology consumes us, it's nice to see these simple daily life things. Also I didn't know Yakutia was a place until now! Very interesting
You didn't know about Yakutia, because it's one of the people whose culture is ACTIVELY being erased by aggressive russification. The reason why they live with "simple daily life" is because all of their resources worth BILLIONS of dollars are going toward genocidal wars by the ruscist regime. I'm glad you're finding "inspiration" in all of this.
Hello, Maria. I love your channel. I live in Indonesia, where there is no snow except on a highest mountain in Papua. So, it's very interesting to see your country and watch things that are very different.
Our world is so different and beautiful 🤍
Kalo di Indo ini pengganti galon WKKWK
@@074_lifianilangenati9 bayangin kalo idup di indo trus mo minum aja harus kek gini dulu😳💀
i heard "not that cold" and then "-30º" and almost screamed
You're very kind-hearted sister 🤗💖
Thanks for sharing these videos 😊🥳
Not gonna lie, I was a bit scared for your brother when he was on that last square of ice :D Falling into a river when it's -30 is not something I'd want anyone to go through. Keep up the good work
wATER IS NOT AS COLD AS ICE,, SO WATER MIGHT BE 9,10 CELCIUS
@@caumesh143 yeah but coming out of the water will freeze you practically instantly at that temperature. The water is practically balmy compared to the air temperature
@@archeofutura_4606 they are used to it. Some of them even bath in that water. So its no problem for them tbh
Just falling into the water is a minor problem compared to the dire possibility of getting taken away by the current under ice with almost zero chance to survive. Unfortunately, there're so many such tragic cases.
They take swims in the cold water for fun at that temperature, although not with clothes. The clothes would make it way too cold.
I'm from Swaziland and the coldest weather I've ever experienced is 5°c. Watching your channel makes me have a wish of touching the snow for just once in my life. Thanks for sharing your life experience in Yakuita. Love your channel😉❤️
wow that's insane to me, im living in ireland and 5°c is the temperature most days😂
@@jamescanjuggle We should swap just for a day 😂. Right now it's 26°c, we are in summer.
@@gee40trots oh jesus no, sure id be crispy by the time i stepped off the airplane
I like the way u talk .very polite and comprehensive
Ran into this channel by chance and now I can’t stop watching. Your voice is so soothing!
Happy to see you people working hard there . I must say all the people of your country is very hardworking and helpful . LOVE and SUPPORT from INDIA 🇮🇳.
This is so interesting, I’m so happy I found your channel 😻❄️
I was just about to type the same comment! :D I'm hypnotized by this channel.
@@mayastoyanovawarner7997 We are all hypnotised by Yakutia and the beautiful Maria :)
4:26 is like frozen is starting ♥️♥️
I hope this these traditions and way of life stays forever as long as possible
It makes you wonder, people in the remote parts of the world are more kind than the ones living near you. Love what you do. Keep doing. 😊
Yeah, because people near you have to share resources with you, that's why they don't like you, and those people in the remote parts of the world have enough to go around so they don't care.
Hi, Maria
Can you do a video about the Yakutia language? Like how to say simple words like “hello”, “fishing”, “winter”, etc in your local language, or other fun facts about it.
Thank you. Love from a Chinese living in Canada. 💛
Such a sweet and humble with melodicas voice.,, I appreciate your work and thanks for showing us your culture
This brought back old memories. In 1950 I was 6 years old. I remember helping my father and my uncle harvest ice blocks from Munising Bay, on Lake Superior. They did not use ice spuds (spears). They used large timber saws, called buck saws. The saw was about 7 feet long with very long teeth, and a round perpendicular handle at one end. It looks like it was easier to use the saw than the spud. The ice blocks, which were perfectly clear, were stored under deep piles of sawdust and remained frozen all year. My uncle was the iceman. He delivered ice to peoples homes during the summer. They put the large blocks into insulated wooden storage boxes, called ice boxes. Ice boxes were used by everyone before refrigeration.
Anyone else get asmr from this?
She has such a soothing voice!
Yes, this is so relaxing! ☺️
Bruh
Yup. Her voice is amazing.
Hello I am from India and I am fascinated by this place! Thank you for sharing this. Be safe and healthy ❤️
That’s some serious hard work for drinking water. People don’t value its scarcity when they get it easily. 🙏
I’ve never heard of Yakutia until a few week’s ago when I stumbled across your channel. I’m from New Zealand awesome to see how you live .
Love your videos. Your description of your brothers was so lovely, it really warmed my heart!
Interesting how this is something so normal to you, but something completely new to many people watching this video. I like to watch videos like this, to see how people live around the world, things like this always inspire me. You are making really nice videos, i like how informative they are! Keep it up!
Dear greetings to Saka Turks from Turkey.
The way of living in your place is very interesting and the way you survive in the coldest weather is really amazing. I love videos.
Absolutely fascinating. The warmth of your nature and that of your family is in utter contrast the the very cold environment in winter.
Hello Maria! I just watched a couple of your videos - loved them all. You broadcasting values and your content is really unique. I bet not many people has any idea about Yakutsk - or Sakhas if you prefer this one. So don`t give up, make your videos and share them here. Worth to watch them.
You deserve an award for photographing in these different weather conditions from the world. Thank you because we knew this city through your lens. I will visit this city one day. Water and call you to accompany me
Don't get me wrong here Maria but your voice is so soothing,i play your videos to fall asleep .Its helps a lot because i have trouble falling asleep.
Just found your channel and it's very interesting and super informative! I've always wanted to travel to Siberia, especially Yakutia and also Lake Baikal, these two places that are extremes of the world in their own ways. I hope I get a chance to do so one day. Greetings from Finland!
I really love your channel! Please keep creating!
Before the internet and UA-cam we would have never seen this. Thank you for showing us
Wow! I admire your hardwork and resilience. I could not imagine living in such a very cold place. I am originally from the Philippines, it’s warm all year round. I love watching your videos and i learned a lot about your country. God bless your heart.
I am the type of person who loves snow“despite the fact I live in Africa” but this video made me realize how life is actually hard there 👍🏾
What a beautiful video and I love the way you talk so lovingly about your family! They all sound amazing
Sebagai orang indonesia yang negara bersuhu tropis, yang jelas hampir setahun bersuhu panas yah sekitar 30-34 derajat celcius.
Melihat kehidupan orang yang hidup di negara bersalju, terutama yang bersuhu extrim dinginnya. Seperti di yakutia, di mana bersuhi -34 sampai -50 dibawah derajat celcius.
Sungguh seperti mimpi. Menyenangkan di mana kami sangat memimpikan bisa merasakan hidup di yakutia.
Segalanya, terlihat menyenangkan tapi juga terlihat sangatlah menyulitkan. Saya yakin seandainya ada 100 orang indonesia di ajak pindah ke sana, mungkin paling kuat 1 minggu..
Salut dengan semangat kehidupan warga yakutia siberia russia.
When it is cold here, I watch your videos and I feel warm
Thank you for sharing with us! I hope you keep making videos because I find your culture and homeland interesting! I am also indigenous myself from Canada but I live in California now.
You might share some ancestors, since most of native North Americans originally came from Siberia.
This is amazing to see different cultures and life. Thank you for your hard work to make this video! And thank for your family to share their moment here.
U speak very soft and clear
Im glad I came across your video. So interesting and informative. I like the way you speak. Very calm and relaxed.
It would be really interesting if you made a video about how similar/different your life is to how your ancestors lived (apart from obvious things like internet or electricity lol). It seems like you do a lot of traditional things in day-to-day life and it's really beautiful to see that you are so in touch with your culture!
I love this video, Maria! Thank you for sharing - I can't wait to show it to my son (he's 6 and will love to see what you and your family do!)
Thank you ❤️
Your cultural practices are so interesting to watch
I will stop complaining about walking two blocks to the purifying plant to buy my 4-gallon of water container every other day.
Great story, awesome video.😘
Love your videos! The sky must be so clear and stunning during the night, can you see polar light and the galaxy there?
Здравствуйте Мария Фомична!
Я Эрсан Гуляев, был вашим учеником в ESL (Ларионова 8) с 2017-2018
Вы оказывается ведёте свой ютуб канал, я удивлён!) У меня есть вопрос, вы все ещё преподаёте в ESL? Рад что ютуб порекомендовал это видео 👍🏻
Спасибо за внимание)
Good luck!
Здравствуй, Эрсан 🙋🏻♀️ Сейчас я не преподаю в ESL, но очень скучаю по тем временам💔 и нашей группе EMS 🙆🏻♀️ Рада видеть тебя на своем канале ☺️ Keep learning English 😉
11 minutes of mental peace.Kind of meditation. Loved it
Hi Maria. It's Betty. I really like the style of your video. You show the real life in Yakutia. Not so much of animation or modification. Keep doing it. Wish you good luck.
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Your videos are really great! Keep up the amazing work! I can't imagine working outdoors in -30C weather haha. But, can you imagine working outdoors in +50C in the summer of Dubai?
This is fascinating! Thank you for posting it! And yes, we call the yellow thing a trailer :)
Finally someone who answers her question. 😀👏
Ya’a’teeh... Hello in the Navajo Language... Love learning about Indigenous people in other countries.. Especially in the Siberia regions... Very fascinating history.. Ur region looks very beautiful to live in.. Might be a bit cold but us Indigenous people are good at adapting to the elements. As long as u respect Mother Nature .. she will always provide for u.. Keep up the good work and videos.. Ahehee’ .. Thank You in Navajo..
Maria, You are the "coolist" woman on the earth!
I do now remote work in my small log house in southern Lapland in Finland. Only -30 C is now in early morning normal temperature. So a t-shirt is warm enought when ice fishing here...
Being from Florida, the coldest temperature I've experienced in my entire life so far is like -5 C (I was traveling, it usually doesn't even get to 10 C where I'm from lol). I can't even imagine -30 C being the right time of the year to do ANYTHING outside, especially not hard physical work like that. So interesting to see how people from completely different parts of the world get by.
Do you know how long have people in your part of the world been using this method? It's pretty smart to realize that the water at the top is more pure.
This is traditional Yakut way to preserve drinking water. :) my ancestors did almost the same, but without machines
I am from Assam, India, the coldest I have experienced is 8°C and Hottest 44°C 😄
-30 для нас практически осень или весна
Your channel is so interesting 💙 this world is so big and having a little window to how life is in your town is so cool. Thank you for sharing your experiences with us, keep it up!
Thanks so much for your uploads and positive outlook. Helped me through lock-down. I think I'd like to explore Yakutia one day. Love from London
Nice polite and calm voice and narration Marie.👍🏼
"It's not that cold at this time of the year, it's get around -30" 😂 Here in the netherlands if we have maybe few days with -10
From where I live, if we have snow in the winter, We have paid holiday at home. No need to go to work.
Hi, Thanks for the beautiful video. I really wonder how you keep your house warm in winter. Is a house well isolated ? Which material do you use for isolation. What kind of fuel do you use to heat up the house? Wood or gas or something else? Do you also use the ice cubes for showering by heating the water ? Is the shower cabin well isolated? Many questions!
Thank you for sharing your videos! I love seeing your way of living, your culture, your adaptations to living in such harsh conditions! Great!!
Fascinating!!! Thank you for sharing that. I always learn something new from you.
This was how they showed it in Frozen😍
Yes, in the North of Europe they have the same tradition:)
I really enjoy your videos, thank you. My question is: do you feel some of the climate changes in Yakutsk and the whole region?
Thank you for all the work you put into this channel, just found it this week and I really love being able to get a glimpse into life in such a beautiful, far-away part of the world. I’m studying Russian myself right now, but I have to say I had only a vague understanding of this part of the country before watching your channel. Thank you for educating me! And I love how much of your traditional culture is still alive and well.
Glad accidentally found your channel today. Awesome
You are one of 4 Russian vloggers I watch regularly. One is from Moscow Region, one is from St. Petersburg and Ufa and the last one is from Norilsk.
Which one is the Ufa channel that you follow? I followed Ufa on instagram and most images are stunning!
@@mayastoyanovawarner7997 ua-cam.com/users/realrussiablog
@@MichalBergseth-AmitopiaTV thank you!
Very hard work 👌
I stumbled upon your channel maybe a couple of days ago but I'm so fascinated by it! You have a sweet voice and your videos are very informative! I hope your channel goes far and becomes more popular!
Have been loving your videos and can't stop binging!! So fascinating to see how you guys drink water. Keep going!!
Also, I’m curious about how you use water to wash clothes and your hair in the winter. How does that work? (If you don’t mind sharing :) ) do people take showers or baths? I’m very curious about your traditional way of life :)
yes I'm curious too ~
2 type of people: who have "banya" (sauna) and who not😂. You know how sauna works. But if you dont have it, the only option is a little bowl or basin. Its almost 15 litres of water😅. Super annoying proccess, so people usually use the saunas of relatives and friends. Oh, and if you not lazy, no one have to use the same water after someone😂 (yeah, sounds disgusting)
@@AmogusAbobusAutobus "same water after someone" ew, no body does that. But i heard a rumor that british families had to wash their bodies in one water because of water price is too high.
@@alexandrvasilev2865 as a English resident living in u.k that is true and is still a thing in the more poorer parts of the uk
@@AmogusAbobusAutobus so how often do you take a shower/bath?
How is the toilet system and waste management like in yakutsk
This is along the lines of my question.
Is it sometimes too cold for running water to work? Or is this just the preferred source of drinking water at certain times of year?
Considering that she appears to live in the countryside, I can explain since my grandma lives surrounded by giant plains and fields, too - they may have an outhouse and the poop is, every so often, properly sanitized and reused as fertilizer. You can throw wood chips on top to prevent it from smelling too much.
It's just a guess, though. Case may be her family has a tank in the ground which they have to empty every once in a while.
@@iampixel4086 in the countryside toilets are outside, and they usually pretty far away from house - it's a simple cabin made from wood above pit with a hole in a floor. In winter it's not that smelly.
I grew up in Yakutsk but my dad told when he were little kid he and his friends competed whos poop-tower in toilet were taller =)
@@alexandrvasilev2865 Yep, that's exactly what an outhouse is, though my grandma had it right next to her little house since her field wasn't that big at all. :-)
Regarding the poop-towers - sounds like something kids would do, haha.
Ваш канал, это то, чего так не хватало на Ютубе)
Nice to see your culture and day today work ..... love from 🇮🇳 INDIA
That feel when I had an idea to create a UA-cam channel about my homeland Yakutia but found this channel in my recommendations 😂😅
Your channel is awesome, super glad to find someone who introduces Yakutia and Yakutian culture to people from all over the world on UA-cam 😊👍
Btw how did you learn English so well?
Cant you too make a channel? I find Yakutia so fascinating, i want to see more!
I agree.
Make one more channel. :)
When you’re outside this long, do your toes and face get super cold or are you warm enough with your clothes? I find that even with warm winter boots with wool lining, my toes STILL get cold in the winter :/
It's looking so nice but a very hard Labour you people are doing
to make your lives run smoothly during coldest winter season. I feel like going there and witness such activities you are doing .
Wow that is absolutely amazing!! I'm from Australia and we have the opposite problem, we need tanks to store our water if you live out bush and either we collect it from rain or using windmills, pumping from bores!! It's crazy to me to see that you can just store your drinking water in chunks outside the house. Thanks so much much for sharing. My best friends wife is from Siberia but I think she lived in the city.
It’s super interesting for this German girl to get to know your way of living! I wonder though, do you feel concerned about the climate changing and what it might do to Yakutia and your way of living? In Germany we noticed quite big changes over especially the last 5 years I would say. I could imagine a place with these weather extremes noticing it even more?
This is actually a psychological effect called confirmation bias, its much more noticeable in Australia because we have extreme climatic cycles that change over a 2-3 year period. As a result farmers blame climate change, when really its a positive IOD year.
This is the reason science is heavily focused on quantification, because only when you measure something can you ensure that your biases have been filtered out.
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But you are correct, the poles are warming faster than more temperate regions, however the effect of the earths inclination on seasons is highly dominant near the poles, the long nights of zero radiation to warm the place up + the negative feedback of cold air removing water vapor from the air means it will remain extremely cold there in winter. The issue is the average yearly temp, because if this average yearly temp is high enough the permafrost will melt which will transform the country side into a boggy swamp.
@@AvNotasian Do I understand correctly that you say the changes we see are all part of regular climatic cycles but because we know there is climate change we think that the cause. But we can't see the effect of climate change? Maybe it is specific to Australia? The weather has changed a lot in the past few years where I live. There have been temperature records regularly, often all-time records since the start of tracking in 18th century. From what I remember there used to be just a few days in a year when the temperature in summer reached 30°C. That is now common and there have been actually days when the temperature was attacking 40°C! Winters are noticably warmer too. There was always plenty of snow in winter but last year was the first year when there wasn't a single day with snow! You see, it is hard for me to believe it has nothing to do with climate change when our mild climate suddenly feels more like Mediterranean climate.
@@strawberryghost1006 Looks like I didn't explain this well, I'll take another stab at it.
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Yes, but these records are of the form "record temp on a Tuesday in June", this is what we would expect with global warming and this form of reporting is a form of exaggeration.
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"but last year was the first year when there wasn't a single day with snow!"
There are records of winters like this in medieval times.
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"You see, it is hard for me to believe it has nothing to do with climate change when our mild climate suddenly feels more like Mediterranean climate."
This is the problem, you FEEL. You have just outlined to me multiple minor practically unnoticeable effects that have been turned into news due to politics. Climate change is happening, but there is no way we would detect the changes unaided without instrumentation, (excluding sea level changes, which are arguably the most significant impact). Don't forget, scientists expect the temp to change by 2degrees over a 100 year period, personally I cannot feel fractions of a degree but I am sure that every hot day of the year will be reported to me as a new record, even if its
Climate change is real. But the effects of it are not bad enough to be noticeable over a small 5 year time frame. Extend it to a 100 years and then you'll see some real change.
It will be a little bit warmer here that in my opinion is good for people who live in countryside. But people who live in cities afraid that their houses that were built on the permafrost will fall down or sink into the soil. And by the way due to the permafrost it's impossible to build good roads to the northern regions of Yakutia. So there are good and bad about the global warming.
could you tell about how the global warming effects on your homeland yakutia ?
Your brothers are very handsome, especially the one in the black jacket - that makes sense since you are also very beautiful. Strong, hardworking, kind and good looking - what a good family!
I love your Videos. ❤Your English is very good.👏🏻
Best regards from Vienna, Austria.🇦🇹🙋♀️
Do you boil the water befor drinkink? If not why?
We always boil melted ice before drinking 😊
One year's worth of drinking water from four rows? Do you purify the water in anyway?
We don’t purify melted ice, but we always boil it before drinking.
Thanks for asking that, I was wondering the same thing.🙂
I've subscribed your channel, it's super interesting, and above all Maria can give me calm and warmth thanks to her voice and smile. Thank you!
Wow, seeing u guys doing all this hard work just to have water to use and drink makes me really appreciate that we can just instantly have water and hot water at the flip of faucet or motion sensor faucet for fancier sinks. Lolz. Thank u.
Thank you! I love learning about different cultures..love from South Carolina ❤
That is really cool if you will pardon the pun, in the U.S. the Northern States have a lot of history of ice harvesting, and in some interesting ways from all people powered with spuds which are similar to the spear's you have but usually have a flat end with a chisel bevel edge and hand saws, they used horses to cut and harvest ice, and later on had gas engines attached to circular saw blades and used tractors to haul it out, some places even had conveyors to lift the ice out. Currently there are still places that harvest ice but it is not very common here any more. Thank you for sharing this aspect of your life.
You skin is so great! I think the cold weather really helps good skin
Дорообо. Thank you Maria, for this video. A pleasure to watch. Thank you for showing about Life in Yakutia. Махтал.
Yakutia is a magic place, very spiritual and enlightining place, after visiting Yakutia, you come back as a new person, refreshed and reborn
Hi Maria. I found your videos very interesting. Keep up the good work
I Love your channels and your Smooth English.
Loving your channel... I watched a lot related to your town. Thank You..
Great videos 👍👍👍 Thanks for all the info and the videos !!!
Thanks for sharing such beautiful activities of daily life
Hello Maria,
Your videos are really interesting and very pleasant and clear.
I like your voice and your channel.
Amazing insightful video, makes me admire the people of Yakutia, Survival skills at its best!! keep up the great work 👍🏻