It’s the middle of October and it is getting colder in Yakutia…
Natalia and her family live in the middle of the Siberian snowy forest, where harsh
winters are the norm.
Meet Natalia’s husband Dmitry.
He is a talented musician, well known in Yakutia.
Every morning, Dmitry chop wood to keep the house warm to provide fuel and heat for the family
There is no water treatment facilities in the village and clearly never enough water.
Locals use ice water for drinking and showering.
And one of the Dmitry’s chores is to collect water for washing and cleaning from nearest lake
The village is located far from civilization and roads.
It has about 100 people.
It’s a warm close knit community where everyone helps each other.
Natalia hurries to her underground natural freezer to get food to start cooking todays
meal for the family.
The freezing cold temperatures in the village also come with some advantages; the locals
have no need for freezers, as the ground is frozen solid all year round.
Natalia is making fruit-drink made of wild Lingonberries that’ve been harvested during
the short summer.
She is boiling ice water with sugar and lingonberry to make the drink.
Meanwhile, Dmitry went to the forest to look for willow branches to make a new flute.
As I already said, Dmitry is passionated about music.
He lives music, breathes music, eats and sleeps music.
He is self taught flute player, and learnt entirely by reading books.
You can buy Dmitry’s hand-made flutes on my website, kiunb.com
I also share some personal stories about Yakutia, and I am listing more locally handmade crafts from Yakutia
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Dmitry and Natalia love their snowy wonderland They appreciate and deeply inspired by their nature
But they also respect it.
Winter is coming...