Chysh Khan - The King of Winter

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This is "Chysh Khan''(Kış Han) - The King of the Winter / The Bull of Frost / The Cold Keeper of the Siberian Turkics,
Sakha (Yakut) Republic, Northeast Siberia (Northeast Asia)

By Sakha (Yakut) Siberian legend Ox of Cold creates the winter by its breathing. Annually the Siberian Ded Moroz gets from hands of Chysh Khan (Kış Han) Symbol of the Cold with which begins the pre-newyear journey on country. Chysh Khan (Kış Han) is living on the Pole of Cold but also have a Yakutsk Residence - "Permafrost Empire"
Chysh Khan (Kış Han) is said to be a modern incarnation of the mythical image of Sakha (Yakut) Bull of Winter. Chysh Khan’s residence as it is due to the Cold Keeper is located at the Pole of Cold in Oimyakon.

Every year fairy-tale characters from all over the world arrive to Oimyakon to visit Chysh Khan and to symbolically take over the Cold from the Keeper’s hands and to share their experience of the current New Year preparations.

Evgenia Arbugaeva - Leica Oscar Barnack Award Winner 2013

Evgenia Arbugaeva was born in 1985 in Tiksi, a small, remote town on the northern coast of Siberia that was also the basis for her Leica Oskar Barnack award-winning portfolio. In 2009 she graduated from the International Center of Photography in New York and has since been working as a freelance photographer.

Evgenia has won various international competitions. In 2012 she was awarded the Magenta Foundation Bright Spark award and received a Magnum Foundation Emergency Fund Grant. In 2013 she was named one of PDN’s 30 New and Emerging Photographers to Watch. She will be presented with the Leica Oskar Barnack Award on July 3, 2013 during the Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie festival held in Arles, France. Below, Evgenia shares the inspiration behind her Tiksi project and explains what a very personal experience it was for her. source & more

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