Tiksi: lost in the icy wasteland. Part 1.

You may sponsor the creation of new videos via: , Tiksi (Yakut: Tiksii – lit. a moorage place, meeting point) is an urban-type settlement and the administrative center of Bulunsky District in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), Russia, located on the shore of the Arctic Ocean, southeast of the delta of the Lena River at latitude 71°38′12″ N. Tiksi’s population peaked in 1989 at 11,649, and in 2023 stood at 4,440. The construction of the Tiksi seaport and the village next to it was started as part of the exploration and development of the Northern Sea Route and the Lena River basin in 1933. During the Cold War and to this day, a military airfield operates in Tiksi. Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Tiksi’s population has declined markedly and many of its apartment blocks have been abandoned. Tiksi has a tundra climate. Winter averages (−30 °C) and extremes(−50 °C) are less severe than the subarctic region further south, but the winter lengt