Cool video! Though I am curious...at the 4:03 mark you started talking about the colors on the buildings, then you got interrupted and never got to finish explaining. I've always wondered about that. Can you expand on that initial thought?
I believe she was irritated because the dog would not shut up!! Sounded like the dog was barking at you! Your accent sounds like those actors Cheech and Chong! I imagine it must be a Chicano/American/Native American accent...?
I just dont understand. I mean these people choose to live here. Yet they are embarrased? They discourage tourism. How the fuck can you expect your economy to get better? if anything this place needs tourism. They do it to themselves.
This place is just over a hundred kilometres off Alaska. Soviets did not send indigenous people of Chukotka to camps. They studied and lived in this city with great help and greater rights from the state than non locals. They kept their culture, which was heavily subsidized as well. The only problem for them was cheap vodka. Chukchi have no genes to resist alcoholism for long. Anyway I'm glad that this place still exist in OK state for its geography, despite the collapse of the USSR.
I spent in this city 6 years of my childhood back in USSR. The best people lived there from all over the USSR. Very friendly and helpful. Don't think that now they are absolutely different. In such harsh climate you need to be friendly to survive. To call that place Far East of Russia is the same as call Alaska - North America. Far East of Russia is huge.
continued from previous-and the last one-this abandoned buildings are exactly proves that nobody is forced to live there and people go to other parts of country for better life-there is Governmental programme in Russia to relocate families from dying villages and towns of the extreeme North which are no more of strategic importance (as this one was when there was a military base 20 years ago)-so your whinning manner of bashing Russia (you are good in this genre) made that woman to shout at you
cont. from previous - so locals were never "mooved to camps"- instead older people were provided with housing if they were not able anymore to nomadize after their deers, but KIDS, yes, they were taken for boarding schools to give them education and were let to their nomadizing parents only for summer holidays time...to say that people start to die as a result of it is outrageous lies as longevity of locals rised during Soviet period from 40 to 65 years !!!- it is data of UN and WHO
continued from previous - so you want to bash Russia-I don't believe that you feel for people living there - you get your satisfaction in comparing yourselve to them and so feeling better about yourselve. Also you lied - there were a lot of hostilities in Stalin years against people from the mainland, but locals here were never touched by it -they never had villages as they lived in 'Chum" moovable dwelling of deer's hide as they were semi-nomads following seasonal migration of their deers
do you know WHY this woman shouted to stop filming?-it is not because they want to hide harsh conditions they live in-it is because likes of you make such videos to pretend that such a place can exist only in Russia- but look ar Barrow (Alaska)-not Ancorige which is capital-but the same small places on the same latitudes in USA-Gordon (Alaska) or Inuvik,Pond-Inlet (Canada) etc..- they look the same, the same abandoned buildings, but also the same new (as new bakery here)-but you want bash Rusia
I TOO hate it when foreigners come to my tribal lands and offend by acting like tourists and snapping pictures of our hardships. Filmmakers included.
But here's here's the rub - if no one came to report - no one would know about the slavery, or about the families left to survive. or about those who CHOOSE to stay because they will always love their homelands.
it is amazing to think how there is people in the world in places like the russian far east...defenetely I guess is not a nice place to be....few months ago I spent 3 weeks in MOSCU and Russian are not very friendly at allll!!! so I feel sorry for your grandfather man cause Russian People are verryyy verrryyy meannnnn.....thanks for the film...eventhought I would ever be there..it is still fascinating to know places so far and and lonely in this world...
your welcome. this was filmed by a family friend of many years. His name is Norman Jayo, and his film crew are very young people. He is attached to the land there and the Yupik people. And even tho he is not Native of that land - he has a tremendous affinity with the original people and to the history and what happened to the people who were annihilated. Man , I am so very sorry to hear of your Grandfather's imprisonment by the Russians. I'll share your comments with Norman. Thank you both.
this is amazing, i mean what on earth made you to come to that part of the neverland?
my grandfather has spent many years in Chukotka as a slave working for the russians during the war. he was brought as a prisoner from Lithuania, all family killed, lands, houses, manors and forests taken away from them, etc... it's a creepy place... many many innocent people were killed there...
My grandfather has spend 10 years in Gulag on Kolyma for nothing. No complains from him though. Tough times. Anyway, not sure about Kolyma (never been there) but that part of Chukotka - Providenia has one of the most beautiful sceneries and wildlife I've ever seen in my life. Especially in summer time. Blue sky, ocean, vast valleys, mountains, and wild life everywhere. Walruses, orcas, whales, sea-lions, birds, fish etc. Few people - less harm to nature.
what? you thought that on the northest city of the biggest country of the world you would see hotels or empire state building?
mishabarnaul98 3 months ago
Cool video! Though I am curious...at the 4:03 mark you started talking about the colors on the buildings, then you got interrupted and never got to finish explaining. I've always wondered about that. Can you expand on that initial thought?
MrRoboto81 3 months ago
Interesting video though...5 stars!
BennyB5555 9 months ago
I believe she was irritated because the dog would not shut up!! Sounded like the dog was barking at you! Your accent sounds like those actors Cheech and Chong! I imagine it must be a Chicano/American/Native American accent...?
BennyB5555 9 months ago
You sure the woman that yelled at you wasn't just trying to tell you to shut the hell up cause it was 5:00 and everyone was trying to sleep?
globb14 1 year ago
I just dont understand. I mean these people choose to live here. Yet they are embarrased? They discourage tourism. How the fuck can you expect your economy to get better? if anything this place needs tourism. They do it to themselves.
crabbit87 1 year ago
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TheByblikbyblik 1 year ago
This place is just over a hundred kilometres off Alaska. Soviets did not send indigenous people of Chukotka to camps. They studied and lived in this city with great help and greater rights from the state than non locals. They kept their culture, which was heavily subsidized as well. The only problem for them was cheap vodka. Chukchi have no genes to resist alcoholism for long. Anyway I'm glad that this place still exist in OK state for its geography, despite the collapse of the USSR.
MelmacAlienLifeForm 1 year ago
I spent in this city 6 years of my childhood back in USSR. The best people lived there from all over the USSR. Very friendly and helpful. Don't think that now they are absolutely different. In such harsh climate you need to be friendly to survive. To call that place Far East of Russia is the same as call Alaska - North America. Far East of Russia is huge.
MelmacAlienLifeForm 1 year ago
continued from previous-and the last one-this abandoned buildings are exactly proves that nobody is forced to live there and people go to other parts of country for better life-there is Governmental programme in Russia to relocate families from dying villages and towns of the extreeme North which are no more of strategic importance (as this one was when there was a military base 20 years ago)-so your whinning manner of bashing Russia (you are good in this genre) made that woman to shout at you
Ura293 1 year ago
cont. from previous - so locals were never "mooved to camps"- instead older people were provided with housing if they were not able anymore to nomadize after their deers, but KIDS, yes, they were taken for boarding schools to give them education and were let to their nomadizing parents only for summer holidays time...to say that people start to die as a result of it is outrageous lies as longevity of locals rised during Soviet period from 40 to 65 years !!!- it is data of UN and WHO
Ura293 1 year ago
continued from previous - so you want to bash Russia-I don't believe that you feel for people living there - you get your satisfaction in comparing yourselve to them and so feeling better about yourselve. Also you lied - there were a lot of hostilities in Stalin years against people from the mainland, but locals here were never touched by it -they never had villages as they lived in 'Chum" moovable dwelling of deer's hide as they were semi-nomads following seasonal migration of their deers
Ura293 1 year ago
do you know WHY this woman shouted to stop filming?-it is not because they want to hide harsh conditions they live in-it is because likes of you make such videos to pretend that such a place can exist only in Russia- but look ar Barrow (Alaska)-not Ancorige which is capital-but the same small places on the same latitudes in USA-Gordon (Alaska) or Inuvik,Pond-Inlet (Canada) etc..- they look the same, the same abandoned buildings, but also the same new (as new bakery here)-but you want bash Rusia
Ura293 1 year ago
Where did you sleep during your visit to Provideniya?? Hotel ?
Tribeofjudah99 1 year ago
It looks like a ghosttown and its amazing that people can live under this conditions.. Very fasinating tough.. Thanks for posting =)
Tribeofjudah99 1 year ago
@ Mumikhtikak
I TOO hate it when foreigners come to my tribal lands and offend by acting like tourists and snapping pictures of our hardships. Filmmakers included.
But here's here's the rub - if no one came to report - no one would know about the slavery, or about the families left to survive. or about those who CHOOSE to stay because they will always love their homelands.
that I think Norman was trying to film.
petpatsu1 2 years ago
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crabbit87 1 year ago
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Mumikhtikak 2 years ago
it is amazing to think how there is people in the world in places like the russian far east...defenetely I guess is not a nice place to be....few months ago I spent 3 weeks in MOSCU and Russian are not very friendly at allll!!! so I feel sorry for your grandfather man cause Russian People are verryyy verrryyy meannnnn.....thanks for the film...eventhought I would ever be there..it is still fascinating to know places so far and and lonely in this world...
reeh1969 2 years ago
The town looked like it had gone to hell after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Avantime 2 years ago
your welcome. this was filmed by a family friend of many years. His name is Norman Jayo, and his film crew are very young people. He is attached to the land there and the Yupik people. And even tho he is not Native of that land - he has a tremendous affinity with the original people and to the history and what happened to the people who were annihilated. Man , I am so very sorry to hear of your Grandfather's imprisonment by the Russians. I'll share your comments with Norman. Thank you both.
petpatsu1 2 years ago
this is amazing, i mean what on earth made you to come to that part of the neverland?
my grandfather has spent many years in Chukotka as a slave working for the russians during the war. he was brought as a prisoner from Lithuania, all family killed, lands, houses, manors and forests taken away from them, etc... it's a creepy place... many many innocent people were killed there...
Austum 2 years ago
@Austum
My grandfather has spend 10 years in Gulag on Kolyma for nothing. No complains from him though. Tough times. Anyway, not sure about Kolyma (never been there) but that part of Chukotka - Providenia has one of the most beautiful sceneries and wildlife I've ever seen in my life. Especially in summer time. Blue sky, ocean, vast valleys, mountains, and wild life everywhere. Walruses, orcas, whales, sea-lions, birds, fish etc. Few people - less harm to nature.
MelmacAlienLifeForm 1 year ago
Thank you for the video!!!
dudinmusic 2 years ago