Traditional Yakutian Ice Fishing "Munkha"

My wife is Yakuts. We have been together for 25 years now. She left her village, much like the one shown here, when she was quite young to study in Moscow and then London as a lawyer. This channel gives me a little insight (and explains many things🙂) to her upbringing. It is so nice to see and hear people who have some of the same mannerisms she has. Nothing and I mean nothing fazes her, she has infinite patience, has been a wonderful teacher to our daughter...and she makes delicious soup just like in the video! Thank you for your channel.

That little boy listened better and worked harder than 95% of the ppl I've ever worked with.

The community fishing event is the best example of teamwork ever!! How everyone gets a share! Then taking care not to over fish for the next few years is so mindful and respectful of nature. I love these people and their culture.

born in Buryatia, I live near Bashkiria in the Southern Urals. I send greetings to rich Yakutia, the most valuable thing is not only clean water and forest, but people, kind and strong, rich in tradition and love for nature!

It's so heart warming to see how people collectively live and survive. Thanks for showing your culture to us. Lots of love from 🇮🇳

This is amazing how they come together not just as family but as a community. We should all consider this type of togetherness before we are rude to our fellow neighbors

Молодцы якуты. Берегите природу и культуру. Салам с солнечного Кавказа.

As a woman who grow up entirely in hot season, tropical country , watching this video warms my heart. Awesome people living in peace and harmony. Sending love from PH

I like how simple the life in Yakuts is…. The people are friendly and the community is there… unlike in the cities

I live in Florida in the US. I was definitely a little shocked when you said -15 degrees Celsius is one of the last "warm" days outside, but I truly enjoy this channel and learning about different cultures/customs and following this family. Thank you for sharing!

Arian is such a wonderful & helpful child. In America, tell a kid to put down their phone & clean their room & watch how quick they get an attitude. 😅 I love the sense of community these people have. Brings me back to that old saying “it takes a village” that most of us in the western world seem to have forgotten.

Долгих лет якутам! Настоящее удовольствие наблюдать за такой рыбалкой ❤

Это моя любимая Саха(Якутия) ,мой родной край ,где я родилась ,выросла и живу ,я горжусь что я Саха 💖🤩🤩👍👍👍спасибо автору канала ,Удачи ...

I feel blessed to be able to have this view into the Yakut culture! Your channel is truly amazing and I’m entranced by every video. Such a beautifully unique culture to learn about! Thank you so much for documenting this.

I love to see how Arian helps out so much around the house. And how he loves his parents so much. It shows how much he respects and looks up to them.

You are a wonderful content creator. The stories, cinematography, soundtrack, and simple storytelling are so beautiful. You take me to amazing places I didn't even know exist. Thank you Kiun. You are a blessing!

This channel is an addiction to me. Out of 7 days i watch 5 days. I don’t watch you only within 2 days. Thank you for uploading this. Please continue

my daughter and I watch these videos to learn about your culture, and we're always so impressed with how kind and lovely everyone is. Thank you for sharing your culture with us.

Not 1 fishing pole, not 1 beer, not one worm. Most eco friendly fishing I've ever seen

I am from Southern Europe. A part of the continente that couldn't be further from the reality the Yakut experience everyday. And yet, i still have a faint memory of the dying years of rural communitarianism that ruled rural life in some places up until the 80s. Even if i was a young kid back then i still remember how villagers would help themselves mutually and some activities were communitarian. For instance, villages had cattle of the community that everyone tended to. Some fields were private, others from the community. We shared the rights to use the water for irrigation trough complex structures dug from the mountains down to the villages for centuries. There were hunts where every one participated in and the catch were shared. We would sent X people from our family to help another one during whatever task they had and, in change, they would send members of their family to our house when it was our turn. Some productions of the village were sold and the money shared among everyone or used to build or fix structures without having to endlessly wait for gouvernemental help. There was NO crime. Very little social issues other than the current disagreement around young girls and young boys. Everyone knew everyone. We had the same culture, the same way of life and shared the same hopes and fears. Sure, it wasn't all a sea of roses. It was extremely hard work to make the land provide food and sustainability for so many families. And even though modern and rampant criminal urbanization gave us all the comfort and opened the world to everyone, everyone around the table still says that those were times of immense genuine and naive happiness. Watching these videos really bring me back to those flimsy days of my young life. Sometimes i wish i had been born decades earlier to experience the absolute immersion in this sort of communitarian rural life style. I despise modern life and how modern people live alienated from nature and blinded to the real hardships of humanity. I am aware that typing this from the warm comfort of my house is a big hypocrisy but yet, why do my parents and grandparents keep saying they never were more happy when they were living in "poverty" as villagers, and why the Yakut keep smiling in every video? Truth is, we are not made to live in large cities and our modern society is corrosive to our minds and health. Long live the Yakut. I hope they managed to keep their lifestyle alive because not only it is a beautiful thing to see but because humanity NEEDS groups of people able to survive by themselves. It wouldn't be the first time tragedy knocked at our door and, when it does again, people like these will be the sole survivors. Their survival is humanity survival.