Ust-Vilyui National Park is located in the valley between the picturesque Lyampushka and Dyanyshka rivers, not far from the Verkhoyansky Range . Interestingly, in these wild impassable places there are practically no settlements . Even those points that can be seen on the map are uninhabited . Of course, among the harsh and majestic Yakut nature it looks very ominous, but at the same time very atmospheric . Abandoned villages and settlements are surrounded by a pristine nature that for sure remembers those yes lek and long gone days when these feet were not stuck to the very core of the earth, the foot of a man . These places lead us to a philosophical mood, we are forced to think that everything returns to its own place . However, who knows what the next spiral will be? Perhaps the once empty villages will come to life again ...
A lot of amazing things and phenomena are waiting for the traveler in the Ust-Vilyui National Park . For example, right on the territory of the reserve lies that invisible feature, the mention of which leads to romantic thoughts about the exploits of explorers-pioneers . This, of course, is about the Arctic Circle . By itself, that by cutting this line, no one will be covered with snow, and after it is frozen . But still, the very fact of being behind this, in a certain sense, sacred line, makes the heart beat more often, and the eye is more sharply marked features . It is possible to get to the territory of the Arctic Circle near the mouth of the Oruchan River . It is here that one can see such a beautiful and very surprising phenomenon for the inhabitants of a temperate zone, like polar days and nights, delayed for several weeks . You can see here and other wonders . For example, on the very line of the Arctic Circle, the sun never sets during June 22, and on the contrary, it never rises on December 22, on the days of the summer and winter solstice, respectively .
Zhigansk
@ By the way, there is life beyond the Arctic Circle, and the very thing that there is no confirmation - a village that is not the most euphonious name Zhigansk . It was founded several centuries ago, namely in 1632 g . indefatigable Russian pioneers and conquerors of dick their lands - by Cossacks . Kazachki, as usual, they did not lose time for nothing and organized a customs post there, where they registered the furs coming from the lower reaches, and also built boats on which, no matter how sly, they went on risky voyages to Kolyma, Indigirik and Yanu . Soon there appeared a fortress or a jail . In 1783, when a prosperous merchant Irkutsk province arose in the future, Zhigansk expanded and developed . Here we set up a church in the name of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, opened all kinds of shops and shops,to manage, built several houses and yurts . By Siberian scale quite a large settlement itself .
Osipovsky Island or Joseph, which for a couple of hundred years, apparently moved to the other bank of the river, rises directly in front of the city. This can be traced by comparing the plans of the city. The views opening from Zhigansk fascinate - the high rocky shores, from which many local rivers originate. On their harsh spurs, only the forest and the rocks now rise. And once there were scant human dwellings among these forests and rocks. In the Ust-Vilyui National Park, the power and beauty of nature is nowhere felt more.