Showing posts with label Sheregesh. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sheregesh. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Yeti's Footprints and Hair Found in Siberian Taiga

This is a news piece that made my day.

It literally says:

After examining a piece of hair found near Azasskaya cave in Mountain Shoria (Горная Шория), which is deemed to be a habitat for Yeti, scientists concluded that there is 60-70% chance that the sample belongs to Yeti.

Mountain Shoria on Google Maps:

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The sample and its DNA were examined in labs in St. Petersburg, Moscow and USA under electronic microscope, and although "science does not allow for 100% probability", says senior researcher of the Russian Hydrometeorological University Valentin Sapunov, "it is a 95% chance that the footprints are actual Yeti's and 60-70% chance that the hair belongs to the same being. The nuclear DNA showed that the being is closer to the human rather than to a chimpanzee". There was less than 1% difference between the humans DNA and the sample, while there is a 1-1.5% difference between human's and chimpanzee's DNAs.

The article says that witnesses reported Yetis in many places in Russia including St. Petersburg and Domodedovo. Last year there was a very blurry and weird photo of a Yeti "resting on a mountain" (don't ask me to find it there for you):

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In Mountain Shoria a Yeti Day is celebrated annually and its governor promised 1 million roubles for alive found Yeti.

Do you need another reason to travel to Siberia? :)

Saturday, October 27, 2012

Siberia Webcams

There is a bunch of high-quality real-time streaming webcams in Siberia. A great source for them is a website of a Russian internet provider called TTK. Right now they have around 30 webcams in different cities from Ekaterinburg to Irkutsk and Listvyanka (overlooking Baikal lake) and the ski resort at Sheregesh.

Since the website is all in Russian, here is a full list of webcams in English:

Anzhero-Sudzhensk webcam (small miners' town not far from Kemerovo)
Barabinsk webcam (small town about 500 km west from Novosibirsk)
Barnaul webcam (city about 200 km south from Novosibirsk)
Divnogorsk webcam (ski resort near Krasnoyarsk)

4 webcams in Ekaterinburg:
1, downtown, central park, zoo

Irkutsk webcam
Listvyanka, Baikal webcam
Kemerovo webcam
Krasnokamenk webcam (don't really know where it is)
Leninsk-Kuznetsky webcam (miners town 300 km south from Kemerovo)
Novoaltaysk webcam (town near Barnaul)

7 webcams are in Novosibirsk:
Downtown Novosibirsk webcam (Lenin square)
Bridges and traffic: 1, 2, 3
Zoo webcams: polar bears, orangutans, colobus family

Altay camping webcam
Solikamsk webcam (town not far from Ekaterinburg)
Tomsk webсam

4 webcams in Chita:
1, 2, 3, 4

Sheregesh webcam (popular ski resort 600 km from Novosibirsk)