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.

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.

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

Наьаа учугэй видеолар❤киэн туттабын хайгыыбын😊маладьыас👏🏻

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

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!

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

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

Долгих лет якутам! Настоящее удовольствие наблюдать за такой рыбалкой ❤

When you see your little boy's excitement & willingness to go do a hard day's work, you know you've made it in this world as a parent. 👍

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

Сахаларга уруй айхал буолуохтун! ✊🏻

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.

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

The kind of videos I watch without skipping a single minute!!!
Greetings from Tanzania,East Africa.

Смотрю из Финляндии. Моя тетя во время войны жила в Кюсюре и работала на подлёдном лове рыбы.

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!

I need a playlist of all the videos of Arian and his family! Watching it makes me feel like there's more i could do with life that doesn't involve just working or being depressed everyday, even by doing tasks it can be a accomplished day. Really makes you think about your own life and how you can change it.

привет из Ю. Корее. я жил в Якутске. моя дочь там родилась в 1 роддоме.

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!

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.

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

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

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.

Приятно видеть, что люди сохранили свои традиции и обычаи.

This may have been one of the coolest dynamics I've ever seen and the respect and attitude of the children we just don't see that

I can almost feel the 2 contrasts - extreme cold weather, and family warmth while frying the fish. It's amazing!

A life as simple and peaceful as this... so wonderful. Free of the self-created probIems of 'advanced' capitaIistic societies and more centred around finding happiness, not an illusion of happiness. Great video as always. 😄

Wow! Neighbors who didn't take part get their shares too. Humanity still exists!🙏

The community spirit of the Yakuts fills my heart! Much love to everyone, specially to little Arian❤️❤️❤️❤️

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.

Dear Kiun B and the people of Yakutia, you are all amazing! Thank you for allowing us to learn about your culture. I am watching every video with so much joy and excitement. As I am typing this comment, I am becoming more and more interested to brave the cold and visit Yakutia to immerse, and more importantly to give Arian a big hug. Your channel, you yourself, Arian and entire Yakutia is such a blessing to mankind. May your channel grow even bigger and reach more people! Much love, Toni from Canberra, Australia.

Пламенный привет якутам от башкира!

Warmest greetings from Poland, I hope to see Siberia someday. I envy you Yakuts, live in harmony with Mother Earth, priceless, we have already forgotten unfortunately.

Привет из Шотландии и Здравствуйте, Киун! "Наполненный любовью, светом и радостью!" Если бы весь мир был таким! Может быть, когда-нибудь так и будет? В очередной раз ты представляешь нам свою культуру и свой прекрасный образ жизни, Киун! Всегда увлекательные и душевные видео от вас! Браво и большое спасибо за то, что открыли нам глаза на другие культуры! Замечательно!
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Greetings from Scotland "Filled with love, light and joy!" If only the whole world could be like this! Maybe one day it will? Once again, you bring your culture and your wonderful way of life to our attention Kiun! Always fascinating and heart warming videos from you! Bravo and thank you so much for opening our eyes to other cultures! Wonderful!

I love how respectful the people are toward nature.

One thing I learnt from this video - "एकता मे बल है।"

This family give me faith in humanity again with the way our society is going.
When you look at other self indulgent channels this puts them to shame. I have so much respect. I am a total introvert, hate the summer and prefer dogs to people. If I was younger, hard as this would be, I would live this life. They respect the planet, each other, hard working and are the most humble family I have ever had the pleasure to have watched. Thank you for sharing. ❤

Your videos are much appreciated. Your channel is priceless and has great cultural value. You are doing your people a service by sharing them with the world. Thank you.

Умничка, замечательный рассказ о нашем северном народе.

I honestly believe you have no idea how lucky you are to be raised and live there in such a beautiful place. I am very envious as I had a very different upbringing. Thank you for sharing your village life with all of us. G-D Bless you all!

Idk why I'm getting chills while watching this video 🥶❄️❤️💙🤍🔥

"Even though it's ONLY -15° here," I feel like I've watched all your videos 100 times by now and it still gets me how casually you approach the temperature. 🤣😅

Hollywood & Discovery channels would be proud of such a film. ☺ Very soulful, atmospheric and educational.

Not fishing in same lake to protect ecosystem for three years ..that's a beautiful thought about nature ❤

The little boy is just amazing

Спасибо за труды, как будто дома побывал. Очень теплое и приятное видео. Хотелось бы еще раз вернутся на Родину и побывать на мунха.

I really liked how this community lived and support each other. You can sense that there's peace, harmony and happiness within this community. Very hardworking and very supportive. Family and community spirit is there.

Пойду за карасём ))) Спасибо за прекрасное видео ! Антон, Карелия !

I am happy to see that there are people who still love and respect mother nature. I wish that everyone around the world worked just as hard as them and love and cared for one another. I feel that we are just out of touch with ourselves

It's interesting how northern climates are so similar in how things are. I live in rural Wisconsin (middle of the USA just south of Canada) and we do much the same as far as ice fishing being a huge community effort here to bring in extra food for people in our communities. We even leave the fish on 3 season porches or in a garage/shed to freeze to save on space and raw fish smell in our freezers.

Wow.. what a culture! people gathering up, enjoying each other wins, distributing fish equally, respecting nature that's quite a good place. ❤️🙌🏻

Привет с Кавказа! Из Республики Адыгея ❤❤❤Мы одна Великая Непобедимая Россия🇸🇮

I live in Minnesota, in the US, and ice fishing is very popular. It's much different than this type, so it's awesome to see how other people do it. I love the narrator's voice, it's very calming.

This ice fishing appears to be a truly wonderful experience for the community.

I love watching Arian and his family😍

I live in HK and accidentally this video came up on my iPad screen.
This is incredible !
Thank you Kiun B !
Thank you so much for showing the other side of the world !!

Lovely greets from 🇹🇷 to our Saka Brothers.
Long live Turania.

Всем здравствуйте 😊! Очень рада, что случайно попала на ваш канал... У нас в стране столько народов, со своими традициями и обычаями, так интересно всё это узнавать! Я первый раз вижу такой способ ловли, здесь своя стратегия и тактика 😊👍. И, самое главное, она для вас праздник, который объединяет... С любовью из Кузбасса ❤
Только не совсем понятно, почему всё на английском... Хотя, конечно, россияне всё и так поймут, мы же одна страна 🤗😁

Kiun : Although its only -15°C
Excuse me girl, im already freezing on 10°C

Absolutely beautiful! Entire community working together and sharing the results, while here in the west we sometimes live for many years without even knowing names of our neighbours...

If the whole world would work together like this community what a wonderful place it would be!

Грандиозно!!! Учугэйдэриин сахаларым барахсаттар, айыы, айылха охолоро!!!

Как прекрасно слушать о народных традициях северного народа Россиии на английском языке!!!! Отдельное спасибо за субтитры.

My favorite thing about these videos is Arian. He's a hardworking, cheerful kid who seems like he really enjoys his life, as hard as it seems to outsiders

I bet the word depression doesn’t exist in their world. What a peaceful way to live.

Канал жизнь эвена even Life всех приветствую. Отличный выпуск, реальная жизнь в Якутии.

Oh wow. I find these videos to be better and better. The videography, the background music, the narration. Fantastic. It takes a special soul to be able to put this together. Thank you!

the older man who lost his vision almost made me cry!!

Ассалаумалейкум , Саха елыне , Казак елынен , Кун ыстык болсын

Какие счастливые люди как одна семья

Добрый вечер. Великолепное качество съёмки, очень приятно и интересно смотреть.
Спасибо.

Arian is such a lovely and god gifted boy. He is such a beautiful and hard working kid that we some people should need to learn a lot of things from him. I am living here in Belgium and -1 to -4 is too much cold for me and my feet become like frozen. When I watch this video I feel like here is nothing cold as there. Bravo to all the people who are living there and working so hard than us. God bless you all and specially that little boy Arian. He is such a beautiful little man.❤❤❤

You're raising a good little man there. Even I'm proud to witness it

Great teamwork and celebratory atmosphere for the fishing outing! I'd never heard of net-placing and ice fishing in such large groups (it's just done in small family groups here in northern Canada). Munkha is wonderful to see ❤🙏 Glad there's lots of fish for everyone for the start of winter! 🐟🐟

Видел в другом видео, что в Якутии особо вкусные караси, жирные. Теперь хочется попробовать)

this place looks so unreal! I'm amazed that people live and survive there through the weather and cultures. It's the coldest place full of warm people.

The greatest part was sharing fish equally. Beautiful brother hood. India

Wow, -15 degree Celsius and they’re celebrating the last WARM day! It’s 7 degrees where I am and I am freezing cold, it’s so interesting seeing what’s considered warm/cold in different places

Какие съемки! Очень красиво и очень интересно) Спасибо вам! Привет из Новосибирска ❤

Привет с Хакасии

I can feel yakuts from thousands mile away.This channel addicted me,i wish one day i will visit your village.

we've already got used to this happy, honest, hard-working and lovely family, but the quality of your videos is goind through the roof with each upload! Thank you very much.

Когда соблюдаются традиции, так тепло становится.

Happiness is living in a community 😊
I despise individualism and sympathise for those who never experienced the joy of living in a community.

I must say the overall production of this video is excellent, and the B-roll footage of the scenery is breathtaking.

Замечательное видео, гораздо лучше и интереснее разных документалок! Спасибо за вашу работу :)

Respect to Host and Amazing Channel 👍✌️🇨🇦

This should be called "Work ethics," and "family unity," something that has been forgotten in most societies. So happy to see thier awesome spoil. Thank you for sharing. Iknow the father makes knives, but does he sell them and what type of metal does he use?

Honestly love your videos, I like the sense of community and seeing how your people live off the land while taking care of it at the same time (like not fishing the same lake again for 3 years).
Your production on these videos is also excellent while your narration just brings it all together in one fantastic package. Total respect & admiration for this channel, you should be very proud of your work 👍

Your people remind me of our people on Nunivak Island,,, A “Cup’ig Eskimo People of the Bering Sea,,, we are a people native to our country,,, our ancestors come from Provedinia Chokutka, I don’t know if I spelled that correctly,,, but I love the native way of life their,,, thank you for sharing,,,

It is insane where some folks may call this primitive living, but all I see is a strong people and strong people that breeds strong babes. The children go out ice fishing living off the land (something I didn't do till I was in my late late 20's) and wrestle on ice. Our children play on iPads and get obese from fast food. Even their ice fishing method, creating holes with sticks and casting a giant net - where we do it we have a electric ice augur drill and pop a hole in the ice. Most guys I know use a bob house, kick back and drink beers. The Yakutian people do it all outside and depend on the fish for survival. Lastly I absolutely love their respect for the natural ecosystem (not fishing at a lake for another 3 years). Over here you got folks that are adults that don't understand that type of preservation. I love the Yakutian people and their way of life, I don't think I will ever be strong enough to live or visit there but man are they made of tougher stuff. One of my favorite KRplus channels I ever came across!

as someone who loves the Cold more then summer I think I found my happy place , just gonna have to figure out a way to relocate , thank you so much Kuin for all the hard work you do to give us a little taste of your Frozen Heaven .

I would like move to Yakutia, my grandmother was a native Siberian Tatar and somehow I was always fascinated by her culture, loved trips to mountains, forests, and I prefer cold weather and nature.
Now I live in UK but I will sort life out and move live closer to nature.

Hello 👋 Miss Kiun B watching from the Philippines 🇵🇭❤️🤗

I watch many videos on the internet to learn about many people and places in the world. I really loved seeing your people and your family. You taught me a lot about the wonderful life you have. bless you all and good health to all of you

I never knew of this place, where people live in community united togather for common causes. They look so cheerful energetic and active under a hostile climate n weather condition.Thanks to person who provides the video for people who live in the geographic location of place totally different from theirs👍🌹🌹🌹👌

The Yakuts seem to live in such harmony with each other as well as with their environment and Nature. Other people s of the world could learn so much how to live in harmony! They are such a wonderful people!