March 25, 2021
Many a diamond, gold nugget, and mammoth tusk – in permafrosted Yakutsk.
Hi folks,
Today, excursions – of a Yakutskian kind!…
We had a day to fill in the city, and fill it we did, with plenty of assorted brief visits to wholly interesting and rather unique places of interest (one place was truly unique – the mammoth museum: so unique it’s probably the only one of its kind in the world).
First up, Yakutskian bling and glamor!…
The Treasury of Yakutia is, as the name suggests, a collection of the precious – precious stones, precious minerals, precious metals, and precious… mammoth tusks, all of which have been found and dug up on the territory of the republic. The exposition isn’t too big – just three or four rooms – but you can spend a good hour there, maybe more.
As you walk in, you’re met with striking examples of what the proper dress is for the sub-minus-50-degrees temperatures here:
Gold – in the various forms it is found in in the wild (which, it turns out, are numerous) :