00:09Sardana and Andrian wake up early in the morning to start their daily duties.
00:16Despite the harsh climate, most people in the village are engaged in cattle and horse breeding.
00:23Tending animals in this severe climate requires hard work, but it suits the people who live here because the hard work keeps them warm in the freezing temperatures.
00:39Sardana and Andrian are just about to enter their cow sheds.
00:46Traditional Yakutian cow sheds like this one are made of wood, and in order to protect it from the cold, they apply cow dung to the wall, which helps to keep the cow sheds warm even through the coldest winters.
01:01Sardana and Andrian raise cows, chickens and horses, but most of their living comes from their 20 cows.
01:09Every day they milk a cow, and Sardana must make sure that the cows' under and tits are clean.
01:16Sardana is now made of wood, and they are milk and pet cat.
01:28This is how we get to their shell.
01:30We put the rhum down and eat them in the 40l of the 20-year-old in the 60 days.
01:34They add the rhum in the 12-year-old, and they have the rhum from the 4-year-old in the 90-year-old in the 60-year-old.
01:37Today they have collected about 40 liters of milk, enough for them to sell, with plenty left to keep for themselves.
01:45keep for themselves. After they milk a cow, Sardana led the baby cow to drink a little
01:52bit milk from his mother. Usually, a newborn cow is weaned of milk at 8 weeks.
02:03Sardana and Andrian have a big family. They have 5 children. 3 of them already have their
02:10own families. One is studying in the university far away from the village,
02:15and the youngest daughter is a student in the local middle school.
02:27Now Sardana is ready to process the milk. The first thing that she does is to purify the milk by
02:33training it. After that, she leaves the milk to be cooled for 2 hours.
02:45Meanwhile, Andrian is preparing hay to feed his cows. Every year, during the short summer
02:52from July till September, Andrian and his family work hard to harvest all the hay they will need
02:58for the winter month. Each cow needs to eat about 10 kg of hay per day, so Andrian and his family must
03:07preserve around 50 tons of hay in total to ensure the cows have enough food for the whole winter.
03:18Before the cows go outside, Andrian covers their teeth to protect them from the frostbite in the
03:24extreme colds. The Yakut breed of cattle has adapted well to the harsh climate. They have excellent
03:30thermoregulation and a slow metabolism, allowing them to survive at low temperatures.
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04:05After the milk has been pasteurized, Sardana separates the milk into the heavier fat and
04:19the lighter milk to produce both cream and skim milk.
04:23Yakutian cuisine is varied and includes meat and fish, but generally relies on dairy products.
04:29Sardana and Andrean head back to their cow sheds to continue their daily work.
04:59Sardana feeds a calf, a baby cow, from the bottle, because some calf's mothers are producing
05:08insufficient milk and they need to be raised with special attention.
05:13Meanwhile, Andrean is cleaning out the cow sheds and collecting the cow's dung.
05:20Andrean believes that the cow's dung is a useful material that helps in variety of ways.
05:28The cow dung is packed with high levels of minerals and nutrition and is one of the best natural
05:33fertilizers to use in organic gardening.
05:37As a result of a cow sheds, the cow's dung is regions of the cow's dung is one of the best natural
05:41vegetables.
05:43So the cow sheds are very humble.
05:46So the cow is a wild goose.
05:47The cow is a Exercise.
05:50The cow is a great food and the indigenous İsa and the cow is a great food.
05:55That cow is a great food.
05:56The cow is a very good food.
05:58The cow is a good food for about 46.
05:59The cow is a good food for 15.
06:01The cow is a great food forfowl.
06:03Now it's time to feed their horses.
06:19Sardana and Andrian raised them in the open field.
06:23There are no fences and the horses are free to move around.
06:27But they have one stallion, a male horse, is looking after the stud.
06:32He is protecting them and helping them to find the best grass to eat.
06:36Yakutian horses are very intelligent and when it's time to eat, the horses come back to
06:41the special place and wait for food.
06:47Yakutian horses are native of Siberia and their roots go back centuries.
06:52Their thick, hairy coats, sturdy stature and their ability to effectively forage for vegetation
06:58in deep snow allows them to survive without shelter for months at a time in temperatures
07:04that plunk to minus 70 degrees.
07:16After feeding the horses, it's drinking time from the cattle.
07:20In most Yakut villages, there are no water treatment facilities because pipes can freeze
07:26easily in the cold.
07:27So Andrian and Sardana have to walk their cattle about 4 kilometers to the lake every day.
07:46When they get to the frozen lake, Andrian makes a hole in the ice so the cattle can drink
07:52the water.
07:53In December, the ice beneath Andrian can be up to 2 meters thick.
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08:20I got a good one.
08:21One day I got a good one.
08:24I got a good one.
08:25Oh, they're a good one.
08:50Since the young calves are not able to be out in the cold for very long,
09:09Andrian instead prepares water for them by collecting the snow from his yard.
09:14There is a lot of water in the cold.
09:24There is a lot of water in the cold.
09:28There is a lot of water in the cold.
09:32The snow in the Yakut village has many uses and can be used for taking shower and cleaning
09:49the house.
10:19For drinking water, locals are using the blocks of ice that had been harvested from the river
10:47nearby.
10:49Yakutian dogs like Yakutian cattle are also special breed that can cope with low temperatures.
10:55Yakutian dogs have a double coat with a thick downy undercoat.
10:59The top coat hair is longer and more coarse than the undercoat.
11:04And they are a very versatile breed, able to be used as hunters, sled pullers and herders.
11:15Andrian is a very talented artist.
11:17Everything in his yard was built by him.
11:20He likes painting, making things out of wood and horns that he finds in the forest.
11:25Here are some plants in the forest.
11:47Why would they come back to the village?
11:54There are many new names.
11:58I'm a kid who is a kid.
12:04I was a kid.
12:06My family is a kid.
12:12After a busy morning, it's finally time for lunch.
12:35The house is filled with the rich smell of Sardana's cooking.
12:39She has prepared a delicious beef soup, traditional pancakes, jam made of berries that had been
12:45harvested during the summer, whipped cream with frozen berries, and even a Yakutian delicacy
12:52raw frozen horse meat.
12:54Everything is made fresh from their farm.
13:04While farming in extreme conditions is challenging, the snow and the cold doesn't stop the harder
13:10farmers of Yakutia from creating a simple happy life from their families full of good
13:16food and laughter.
13:17They have daily routines, animals to raise, and a close-knit community they can trust.
13:26In their tiny frozen icy village, they live a beautiful, idyllic life.
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