I don't think I looked away from this video for even a second. These people experience more life in one day than I in a year. Total respect for them.

This reminds me so much of living in Alaska back in 1965 to late 1967. I was working on my masters degree at the university of Alaska. It was before they found the oil and was like the Wild West. In the summer the hippies would come and move into some abandoned place and space out for the summer. When the cold came in September, they were gone! I mapped the volcanic rocks in central Alaska and was out in the woods and hills looking for the outcrops of basalt. Yes there were bears, lots of them. When I could smell them I was safe because I knew the wind came toward me from them. It was when I heard them and could not smell them that I could be in trouble. I had no gun and a big pack to load the rocks into to take back and study. There were many abandoned places where once they dredged for gold. They also had hermits living in these towns. I woke up early one morning and one was watching me. They did not like civilization and people. The abandoned towns were like just moved out of. Even had table wear. I also think some of the men were nazi escapees from Germany hiding out there. They were mean and never allowed me to enter their property looking for the rocks. Learned allot and lover the university there. I was young and loved geology and it was a great country. A good place to be when growing up! Ratio of men to woman was 8 to 1 woman. Yes that is typical for the frontier. The summer of 1967 started with an earth quake, then there were the fires under the tundra and ended with a great flood. I was going on the Wilcox expedition but the army did not allow me to. It was the greatest disaster in North American Climbing. Seven of the 11 on the expedition died. The same summer the floods covered our little cabin, we lived in the basement of one of the dorms till the water went down. I married a fellow geologist and by the end of the fall was back in the army for three years. Great time in my life!

After watching this I realize life only _seems_ hard sometimes. For these guys it actually is hard, but they take it in their stride and keep going.

This ended way too early and on a cliff hanger. I wanted to see more of the travelers on the tracked vehicles and see the vast frozen place that was their destination.

To all the journalists out there, this is how a documentary is supposed to be made.

It's not a "Saiga", it's an SKS, and it wasn't designed for civilian use. It's just that in most countries it was deemed outdated shortly after it was deemed ready for service. There were a few countries that did use it for military purposes for decades after it's invention

These vistas are absolutely beautiful. There's something very real about it. It talks to me on a primal level. And I also noticed how most of these people had very close to a laugh about their situation. The amount of acceptance for life's challenges and still trucking on, literally, is truly inspiring.😢

This is interesting , This is entertaining and gives a great sense of the life and struggle in the world. Thanks for all your hard work filming and traveling / risking your life making these videos.

I live in Alaska in the mid 60s and the Alaska highway was like this. I had a plexiglass sheet that I had to over the windshield to protect it from what we called the “Yukon Rose”. That is a smashed glass spot from the rock hitting the windshield. We drove it in the winter when able. Was a good drive then, no dust, no bugs smashed on windshield, no mud, no rocks thrown up to hit windshield. But then at -40f/c there are other issues, like the steering freezing, ice build up inside on windshield, gas getting into the oil and trying to keep warm!

The guy who was stuck in mud at 25.09 mins was an absolute legend (we are victims to our own roads)

What a fantastic series! Great work as usual!

My great grandfather was a german Mg-42 gunner at stalingrad and was captured and send to the gulags. He escaped later by train hopping back to germany through russia and then poland but his friends who flew with him were shot dead in the journey.

I love the Deadliest Journey series. It's an awesome way to learn about World Cultures. Thanks for uploading.

I've trucked through the rocky moutains and now that seems easy. I had no idea the Russian far east was part wild west and part mad max

I can't help loving & admiring this Deadliest Journey Series! Those Russian drivers who are valiant, gutsy, & courageous certainly deserve a huge pat on the back for a job well done. Btw, if it weren't for this narrator, Tom Wright, who has a low-pitched, kind of husky, & dignified-tone of voice, this doc. couldn't be of much interest & enjoyable. His unique & faintly sarcastic way of talking seems to have enhanced the wealth of intrigue, thrill, & excitement ( I wonder if anyone else perceives the same!?). Lastly, thanks for driving the secondhand Japanese trucks( I've never expected to see those trucks owned by SEINO Transport Company in Japan.) in the Siberian rough & tough roads. Thoroughly enjoy watching & appreciate it to the core.,,,,(03/20/23)

It is a well told story. For having penetrated deep inside Russia myself, the documentary illustrates well that unique fatalism, unpreparedness and resilience in adversity among Russians of all origins. It also clearly shows how Asian Russia today remains as a country. But the extraction industry and resulting destruction / pollution industry make me sad too. Mixed feelings.

Amazing documentary! Respect to those who filmed this

I've been to Yakutsk when I lived in Vladivostok (1996-97) and remember January 1997 being VERY COLD for me (an American). I really enjoyed this video - thank you to the producers.

I've visit places like this when young. Nothing change since then. Very beautiful but hard to endure. I'd like to visit again

love the Deadliest Journey series, outstanding documentary, keep it up!!!

Só uma palavra para tentar explicar este estilo tão hostil de vida: incrível, incrível, incrível!

Definitely a ROUGH journey! God bless these guys that are trying to make living !🙏🏾❤️These guys still have a great sense of humor in spite of the battle they have to fight every day ! How could you not love these guys ? 😂❤️

Incredible example of human spirit and determination! Thank you.

Bardzo mi się podobało :)

It is great to see some "regular" folks, as I have found around the world, that have none of the political issues that cause so much trouble in our world. From Texas. Great video!

I love that places like this still exist. Living in the US in California is so boring. Dont get me wrong, I will never end up here in this place but knowing there are places in the deep places of the world that are still a wild west / mad max script makes the world more interesting. A desolate road full of truckers having to survive the wild, the elements, using random run down vehicle repair shops in the high way wasteland driving past road workers who have to hunt to survive with their SKS rifles praying to the old gods for protection, bears attacking people, wolves... haunted stretches of road from the old gulags full of spirits, highway bandits and then beyond the road is a never ending expanse of forests and mountains full of secrets and the unknown. Life is so boring and mundane working your 9-5 hearing co workers talk about sports, celebs and other NPC crap. It makes me feel better knowing there are still wild crazy places on the earth.

Não parece muito diferente de algumas estradas no interior do Brasil. Muito bom vídeo 👏👏👏👏👍👍👍👍 Quando chove parece a Transamazônica no Brasil 🇧🇷👍

Respect for all truckers out there ! Not an easy job!

O trem é puxado... kk mas tou amando essas jornadas.. das estradas.. fé guerreiros...👏👏🇧🇷✌

Nicolae story is captivating. Especially the moment he encountered the bear. Lol i had a good laugh but at same time sympathise with him . Glad he's is well & alive to share this wonderful epic journey.

This should be a good one! I'm fascinated with learning about Russia and the former USSR! The gulags and the purges should be taught about in school just as much as the Nazis, if not more, but I didn't learn much about the former USSR until I took World History in college taught by a professor who I'm pretty confident was/is indeed a communist himself.

A brilliant film as a documentary. The reactions it causes are terrifying. I would like to see all those admiring "this place to live" when they are forced to live there. Next time they will definitely not be impressed when they see such places.

Awesome, is there a part 2? It seems to just end. Thanks for the content!

I always admire the mechanics who keep all this junk rolling under austere conditions. That takes ingenuity and skill, and it's better to be a mechanic than a driver for many reasons including job security. If you can spin a wrench anywhere in the world you'll never starve. The resources extracted could easily pay for road maintenance, but that would require different social choices including mobilizing engineering equipment by a functional government. All concerned would profit though.

This is outstanding. A fun and very informative documentary. It seems Russian development is held back by their poor road network. This is traveler's dream. Keep it up.

Simply incredible, best wishes to these hardy people.

Life in this part of the world must be UNBELIEVABLY hard!

Absolute wonderful experience here. Thank you.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="488">8:08</a> that looks to be an SKS actually. It was introduced at the very end of WWII and was used up until they were able to get the AK-47 mass produced in 1953, I think. It was something along those lines. Anyways the rifle was and still used today for ceremonial purposes. It was also a big hit in the civilian markets across the world. A very beautiful rifle, and one of my favorites for sure.

Very well documented in all aspects 👏👏👏

Thanks guys for uploading a new episode of this deadliest journey, we are seeking for more new episodes of this. Thanks keep uploading 😍

I'd love to see more about the Eveny people living winter on the Siberian wilderness.

If anyone is interested, a Louis L'Amor Novel called Last of the Breed is a fascinating and surprisingly accurate story of an American Military Pilot brought down over the Bering Sea and transported to a prison camp near lake Baikal,and his subsequent escape and survival in the Siberian Tiaga...I purposely left out a twist which is made clear in the first chapter, which helps explain his survival in such hostile territory. Cold war kids will appreciate it... I think it's one of L'Amour's last pieces, written in 1986, just as Glasnost,and Peristroyka were being established. No Six Guns.... No Horses, and no pigeonhole of the American West. An expansion,if you will on a intrigal part of the American West, just in Siberia!

Эта дорога легендарна, вот бы все дороги были такими 😢

I never heard of this channel before and I clicked on this video randomly just to use as background noise as I do other things around the house. I wound up sitting down and watching the entire documentary. It sucked me in within the first 10 minutes or so. This is a very well made documentary. Thank you.

The resilience of man, wow. I lived in similar conditions in Northern Canada

The first rifle as well as that of the game warden were Simonov carbines (ie. SKS) and are not AK47 variants. It fires the same cartridge, the intermediate 7.62 x 39mm as an AK47 but the action is totally different, semi-automatic only and preceded the fully automatic, detachable magazine AK47.

This is A-360 motorway which goes from Never settlement to Lower Bestyakh (Yakutsk is on the other side of the Lena and there is no bridge) Now it's mostly finished, from Never to Aldan (650 km) there is only 20 km and 15 km pieces of dirt road, rest is steady asphalt with some waves closer to the south end

Why your audience is so small....you guys deserve more subscribers...its just now a days most of the people are into entertainment & short reels....only the real people or mature one reach to your channel...i can understand how much it takes to shoot such documnetry & language issue...you guys are doing great just keep it up...🤗

I really enjoy watching, because I can see the world through the videos you make, thank you ❤❤❤❤❤

fantastic documentary - real life, real people

"We have to pay taxes for roads, there are no roads." As someone who has lived in Michigan, I feel this

Pozdrav svim ovim ljudim, želim im :zdravlje,mir,radost i blagostanje. Pozdrav iz sela Donji Tavankut u Srbiji.

In early 90s I spend few years in Yakutsk and all over Yakutsk oblast also few months in Magadnan oblast (north part of it). Travel those roads and eat reindeer gulash with buckwheat for many days. Meat was stored as on the video, in abandoned mine shaft. Drink theirs vodka from tin cups as well. Life have diferent values there, similar to Canadian arctic where I spend some part of my life as well.

Very good documentary, I have watched it twice over the last few months. Thanks for posting.

E eu pensava que só no Brasil existia uma estrada que ligava nada a lugar nenhum a RODOVIA TRANZAMAZONICA os russos também tem 😮😮😮😮😮😮😮

Fascinating documentary! Life/ living in the old USSR all its colonies brave ppl gulags fierce roads, lots of rivers/lakes ( that huge land Russia.)...absolutely interesting 💥👍🏾

I got incredibly stoned and watch this documentary, it was absolutely incredible. multiple times in the viewing. I had o rewind and watch a scene over and over, as it was so fascinating, particularly scenes that show deep superstitions, notice how the further north this case of beer travels, the further back in time we go, the more ancient customs, notice the untouched $100 bill on the sacred mountain gods monument. Overall, incredible, 9.5/10

Jak ciężko żyją ci wspaniali ludzie

You couldn't get better than an FY HINO, the best tough terrain lorry ever built.

Nikolai is as tough a nails. Truly a lost trait of men world wide. Man single handedly keeps the tundra thriving. True sigma. Got attacked by a bear and blamed himself. Respects locals and counter culture and their way of life.

Queria que todos os br olhassem isso e vissem que o mundo é igual, as merdas nao acontecem só no Brasil.

this is one of the more wild things ive honestly ever seen on youtube.. how do you leave on such a cliff hanger

The rifle fired at <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="497">8:17</a> is not a version of the "notorious Kalashnikov". It's a 10-round SKS rifle that the Kalashnikov, aka AK47, replaced in 1947.

The landscape moulds the people 💪🏻

He's right about the Coffee/cola mix. I used to take that when I had to make that long ride. 1500 miles in 24 hours.

Incredible people to be living like that. A serious injury or illness could easily be the end of your time on earth.

Truly fascinating, thank you!

It was a very exciting and intersting dokumentation, I would be very interested in living with this people for a few month to learn how difficult but also independant there life is. Thank you for this movie!!

Driving a car in this region would drive car lovers truly crazy.

I bet the problem can be solved in a simple way. With cobblestones ^^ coarse concrete stones or granite stones. The also have enough clearance for the hard temperatures, so that the road does not burst open after a few winters. This would certainly take some time but you could use relatively large stones. So the double size to 3 times of commercial paving stones. It would solve the dust/mud problem :D In addition, you could still drive constantly with the 60 to 80 kmh ^^

Już przy temperaturze około minus trzydzieści stopni (- 30 ° ) asfalt zaczyna się kruszyć

Man, that is "living on the frontier". Those are some tough and resourceful people.

Such a fascinating documentary! There are more than a few days ive thought i had it rough.. Na, just watch n learn...

I am a road driver here in the US.... I think we got it easy.

Very tough brave people. Amazing.

Pourquoi ne pas retourner encore la-bas pour nous faire savoir l'état actuel de cette route, mais j'aime ça

I just found this channel and love it. I am a retired trucker from US. I love the video called "Man's First Friend". If you love dogs you will love the documentary. ❤

Im speechless Beautiful Documentary, How Ever Life is Hard Weather is Harsh But People Still having Fun and Laughing, This Video Made My day I truly Appreciate You Guy's Work ,🙏

Interestingly, even near close to the Yakuts, you can find a street view on google map and the road looks paved with a random location click. So yes, those tolls have brought results. Or is the google map image at the right level in this area? That Afghanistan war veteran's age, this documentary is at least 10 years old.

I don’t think I have ever seen a dirt road that needs asphalt more in my life.

Awesome documentary. Thanks for sharing!

You know, some people say some parts of Russia are many years behind moderately developed parts of the world... in some cases as outlined here - it's several centuries.

If the Truck driver is 42 and was in Afghanistan (where the Soviets left in 1989) and we assume that he was 18-19 at his time of military service, this bit at least was filmed in 2012

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="490">8:10</a> That is NOT a Kalashnikov. That is an SKS.

awesome video, what a journey

I went across Russia in 1980, when it was still the USSR. It looked exactly like this from the railroad.

I wish I could go visit them, I’ve been living for 4 years now with the Canadian inuit nation in a small remote community and it would be interesting to bring my friend to see his distant cousins

The rifles they were using were not siagas, they were mil surp SKS's, similar internals and the same caliber but different guns altogether

Got to give the video crew a lot of credit

It confirms my view on modern Russia: Enormous wealth at Moscow and St.Petersburg however the further you move away form these centers the more you are faced with brutal reality. The center lacks control or is just living in ignorance. Now as Russia has started BRICS, these people will be even more faced of what it means to live on the loosing end of the Russian society. Thanks for that documentary.

I have always been grateful, to have been born in a place and time, when there is better in the world than what others have to endure on a hourly basis. It is my hope that all can find a safe, and comfortable existence. Be well.

Truly strong people.

it feels weird seeing that truck offroading in Siberia when it was delivering just outside of where I live in japan

I can't imagine someone got their head stuck above the driveshaft. Wow.

I hate that our countries governments don't get along but im here from New Mexico usa. I live your country and hope to visit some day. And hopefully I will be accepted .im so sick of wars but love life and fun times lands and culture looks very interesting to experience

Did anyone else notice the soldier in the beginning wore a US Army tag?

Excellent documentary!

Enjoyable documentary, kudos to the crew

They should gather up those discarded tires, bolt them together to form a mat, and integrate them into the road surface. It'll improve the durability of the road considerably.