How to Get Drinking Water in Yakutia 🧊 

That cup of tea is definitely well deserved

People from Yakutia are badass on another level. Thank you for making these amazing videos!

I really cannot imagine how to live in such a cold area. Where I live, Austria, there are also cold winters, but rarely colder than -15 degrees Celsius. And there is always water from the tap!

For those curious how the ice is so clear, it's actually the same principle at work as when they make clear ice for bars. The impurities in water sink lower the colder it gets. This is what causes those white blotches in ice. When they water on top is just frozen, it's pure water and thus clear, while the water underneath has all the impurities in it. Clear ice actually takes longer to melt and has a much cleaner taste.

Frozen is based in Scandinavian countries, this reminds me of that ice harvesting scenes. Amazing how different culture learned to adapt from their environments.

Very nice vlog. It's the same way we did it in Greenland, but with ice bergs. It tastes soooo good. Thank you for sharing🙏🙏🙏

please please show what you gonna do after bringing those block of ice to your home

Your channel is such a hidden gem! Educational but also so entertaining. Great work!

Great video! So different from what I know and fascinating to see how others thrive in such an inhospitable environment- keep it up 👍

Sven and Kristoff must be able to help!!! But jokes aside.. Just to know it ain't easy to be able to enjoy a cup of water just like that, makes me want to thank God for every blessing. All your videos are so humbling and very educational. Thank you so much.

Thank you for this great follow up to the first video about Vasily and his family 💗

It’s so interesting how the human body can adapt to any climate! Now this makes me wanna melt some ice now haha! ;)

Nice one, never imagined of it... only seen it in the very first scene from FROZEN.... Thx for sharing!

Like the beginning of the movie Frozen they harvest the ice.

One thing that prevent me going to visit there is the OUTSIDE toliet, my private parts will probably freeze solid before i finish my business, that really scares me. Truly.

Chainsaw uses oil to lubricate, so first on my mind was tiny droplets of oil that you could drink with water from melted cube.

Right now it's 23°C in Lusaka, Zambia. Me: Cold, covered in blankets Yakutian: Ha give me that summer 😄Thank you for these videos. I'm really learn a lot about the other side of the world

I live on a boat on the Chesapeake Bay and I honestly thought fetching water during the winter (when the dock water must be turned off and “winterized” in order to prevent the pipes from freezing) was bad! I will never complain again! I actually drank too much wine one night and forgot to bring all of my containers inside and they all froze solid and boy was it a pain thawing them all out! I tried placing them in front of the oven in my kitchen, but the condensation alone soaked through every towel I own! Then, I tried to thaw them out in the shower, but it simply wasn’t warm enough in there. It was an unseasonably cold night for us here where it went down to only 12 F/-11 C.

This deserves millions of views. *It’s beautiful imagery married to fascinating educational content. I hope a lot more people see this!* 😊🤩🙌

I love this channel, so many great things to learn. Thank you for making these videos. My area is having -6 to -10 degrees Celsius (20F--12F) weather right now, and it is considered very low for the area. Everything shuts down, schools, businesses. Everyone stays home here when the roads are iced over. So it is so interesting to see how people continue on with life where harsh cold is the norm for most of the year. We could learn some lessons from you all. As our climate changes and the poles shift, we will have to learn ways to adapt to other kinds of weather.

OMG! Being from a tropical country, I would never be able to imagine anything like this! This is truly interesting!

Wow, very eye opening! I remember my grandparents didn’t always have tap water. Summers were not so bad but winters were hard - especially for bathing. They use to heat the house and cook on big black wood burning stoves - every room in the house had one - we had to heat the water and pour into big tin tubs to bathe. And you had to bathe quickly before the water cooled down. Luckily we weren’t in -50 degree temps but it would often get below freezing.

When something is easily available, people tend to take it for granted. Most people should learn how precious the water is from Yakutians.

Nice to see Vasily again :) I also must said what in central Russia my parents also did same at winters but for make kind of "freezers" for summer.

Badass People of Yakutsk...Kudos to all of from Philippines

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Could you please post only Folk music from Yakutia? We love to here! Thank you 😊

I am in sunny 🌞 Jamaica 🇯🇲 watching you in a country freezer 🧊

Kiun I'm sure you are aware of the super snow storm 🌨️ in Sakhalin area and in Vladivostok. As well as Japan. Japanese shipped cars to Vladivostok with cars FULLY embedded/covered with THICK ice. People had to dig to find their car.

Hi Kiun! Are you a polyglot? Do you speak Portuguese? Your channel is awesome! I'm glad to see a Yakutian girl and her content in RU-vid! Greetings from Brazil!

Amazing very hardworking people love their way of life in nature we are citypeoplenot good ar all kerp showing videos love it

“it tastes like chlorine” wait what, you’ve tasted chlorine before??

Very cool video! Do you guys have to boil the water/ice before consuming it?

Керен кэбиьин, дьиннээх сахалар ыраас ууларын)

When "Ice tea" gets a totally different meaning

This is one of the healtiest water from ice 🧊 Live Water , in North Kazakhstan ppl also practicing it . Amazing 👏

It all depends on how polluted is the ice you take versus the tap water. Do you use autoclave to sterilize the water after the ice is melted?

Does the bar oil from the chainsaw get on the blocks and subsequently in the drinking water?

i really want to try that water, thanks for a really nice video

The life here looks so hard but so pure, so real thanks for sharing this experience !

Thank you - very interesting and nice video :) And what about tap water in the cities such as Yakutsk? How is it possible to avoid of water pipes freezing during harsh yakutian winters?

Thank you for those videos. I love watching videos about other ways of living. I don't travel a lot so this is an opportunity to see the world just a little bit. Maybe later I can travel more to actually see it with my own eyes.

Absolutely fascinating to see how you, and the community, function in your Village. You overcome, and adapt, in a climate that we here in the United States don't understand. I'm from the north (Michigan) where it gets cold and snowy for 3 months out of the year but it doesn't even come close to your condition.. Average snowfall- 120" Average Winter Temperature- 25°

Regrettably I have had horse meat while traveling in Slovakia many years ago. Not fun. Awful stuff. If you’re ever offered it, say no.

why dont u use a submersible water pump, just sink it below a tiny hole on the lake you bore, and then use the small portable 500watt generator to electrify the pump, then u can easily wait the pump to fill the water tank on your truck.

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why dont they just water bend?

You can totally see in those people how they are both related to East Asians, and also share ancestors with those who migrated on to become Native Americans.

Around 1:40, they are having horse meat for their lunch. I wonder how they raise horses and slauter

Please never stop making these videos! So interesting!

One cup of hot ice tea, please 🙏 Would taste amazing with natural water directly from nature

How you people take bath 🛁🚿 in this Xtreme conditions

Oh my god. I can't imagine to live in that place😯.. Love from india

I guess they haven’t realized they can melt snow instead of risking their lives on the river

Fascinating. I instantly think of the disney movie ‘frozen’ when i see this. Your reality is in most of the world a fairytale. I love watching the Yakutian lifestyle!

Are there certain areas of the lake (or river) that the ice blocks are harvested from? I mean like in the middle or near the banks.

He is in T-shirt and temperature is probably -20 c 😁

Just like the opening scene in Frozen where the men were sawing, chopping and hauling the ice 🧊

That’s one beautiful women the narrator wish I had one to take home to the states with me wowzers

I’m a little confused, does the ice melt when they bring it in?

I was thinking about the frozen scene the whole vid

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Frozen horse meat??? So they eat it raw??? Their immune system is top notch 😮 I'll be sick if I eat just a thin slice 😅

Nice to see Vasili again. Thank you for the video and happy new year!!

Frozen raw horse meat. wow, harsh living and eating.

So pleased I found this channel.I live in the.UK-so we have nothing in common in how we live😁It only needs to snow a few centimetres and the whole country cannot cope!!!😄😄I love your videos❤

can you make a video including you in the camera not someone else ?

Are you kidding? The saw is spilling oil and petrol.

What jobs are in Yakutia? What do kids or adults do for fun?

Thank you very much for your channel.

I'd try the frozen horse meat actually

Why dont they use snow for drinking water?

Hi Kiun. Thanks for another fun fact of life in Yakutia and Russia.

Thankyou for posting this

What's for lunch: frozen horse meat

u lost me at horse

The Yakut used to use traditional ice saws that involved a lot of manual labor. A salesman set up shop selling chain saws to ease the process. Several Yakut purchased the saws and set out on the harvest. The next day they brought the saws back and complained that it took much longer with the chainsaws than with the traditional method. The salesman said he would check the saws to see what was wrong. He pulled the starter rope several times and vroom, vroom, vroom, the saws came to life.The Yakut were shocked and asked "What is that noise"?

Frozen movie

@Kiun B I have a question. Have you ever tested the lab tested purity of ICE water? don't you think this ICE water might taste better but it parallelly unhygienic as well?

a very great blog, i am really impressed by your voice and Yakutia people ' lives. i couldnt imagine how people operate their lives in such a harsh weather condition when i was young but now it's actually practical then i certainly appreciate water more and more

It's only -24C today... -35C real feel in Québec City. A warm winter day in Yakutia 😁❄I'm watching this from my hot bathtub 🛀In Québec we get a rebate on poutine when the temperature is below -10C. So i guess it will be worth it to go out for 5 minutes later today and if it's -34C we get -34% discount on the price of the poutine LOL. This is not a joke it's true ❤

On one side there is desert, not a drop to drink and on other side we have ice, but not a drop to drink. This is the beauty of nature. Man has to survive in both the extremes.

They are the ultimate village and certainly can reach the rest of the world about community and working cooperatively. I love your vlogs!!

Growing up in Montanas Rocky Mountains water was not a problem. The problem was economically keeping your house warm. You had a choice, fuel oil, propane, electric or wood. The first 3 were expensive but wood was free if you were willing to gather it. I remember having to gather 7 cords of wood each fall and process it. Split and stack. We had a large house with an oil furnace in the basement and 2 double barrel stoves. one in the kitchen and another in the living room. Me and my brother had to get the wood in morning and night. I hated the whole process.

Wow. Still living like they did over 100 years ago. Thank goodness for modern machinery to make life a bit easier. Still hard af though Respect ✊🏽

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i want to live like that tbh. no worries of summer, freezing cold and doing hard work for living. hard work is enjoyable when you are not a wage-slave

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She’s very beautiful

genuine question: can't you just melt and drink regular snow from outside? Is it too polluted? Seems like that would be much less work

damn she's pretty

-50 and they went outside... its 10 here and im watching this with double blankets...

I'm from India,a tropical country. Though in Himalayan region it's cold throughout the year but I belong to northern plains and we witness 6 seasons in a year. I love winters alot. But I can't imagine living in this harsh climate. Idk wether I'll survive here or not.

Hi your so beautiful ❤️

Thank you for such beautiful content…I love studying all cultures of the Turkic, Jurchen, Tungusic and Siberian peoples 🥰

i have one question.... do you own a freezer ? lol ...but more seriously.... do you have a fridge in your kitchen or do you have a tempered room? and I guess Yakutia imports all fresh produce ? Have you ever eaten tropical fruit like an orange or mango ?

frozen raw horse meat..?

why not just fill a large containers of water on the back of the truck using a pump and drop them off at homes like milk used to be delivered. this just seems like more work.