Cyrillic is Russian. That's Siberia.

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I love the Siberian horses.

I love the Siberian horses.
I know. Aren't they the sweetest? I just want to hug them, give them blankets, sugar cubes and carrots. I took Russian in college. I think I was Russian in a past life.

Gorgeous photographs. Gorgeous.

-49C, nice, add wind chill, yoiks.

I've snowmobiled in -40C, I'd say it was crisp. Good thing the handle bars were heated. A greay experience. We kept the whiskey in a sock in the engine compartment.

It is Russian Cyrillic script.

The vodka brand is Severka. The road sign, as close as I can tell, says "Snava Tryzhenikam Severa." I probably have a letter or two wrong, as some of them are a bit hard to make out.

The banner-type sign looks more like Hebrew than Russian.

Holy cow, alicesshoe - Negative 40 C, that's like, Negative 40 Fahrenheit! BBBRRRRR!

I agree with init that the banner looks like Hebrew. I can read Cyrillic but I don't know much Russian... I agree on that road sign, except I think the first "n" is a "p"... "Spava". One of the other road signs reads "Pr?insk in 25 let Oktyabrya Osnovan 1942."

There is a place in Kazakhstan called Prinsk, and it's on Kazakhstan's border with Russia.

For -40C winter fun, coat your face with petroleum jelly ]vaseline[, you won't get frostbitten.

Where the C meets the F.

Can't read Cyrillic, but can understand Russian a tad, I'm fluent in Polish.

The Cyrillic-looking Hebrew sign is probably in the Jewish Autonomous Oblast. Jews in Siberia? Well, if you were Russian, where else would you put them?

The ponies are Przewalksis.

More on Siberian totem poles.

The 1942 sign refers to "LET OKTYABRYA" or Letiya Oktyabrya, Russian for the October Revolution, I think. A common name for streets and farms and such. Osnovan is "founded". The name at the top, I believe, is "Preisk", not Prinsk.

The big sign is "Spava (or Slava) Truzhenikam Severa" and I can't find meanings for any of that. I think Truzhenikam means "laborer". Severa, I think, means "North".

Ah, I wish I remembered more than my fifteen words of Russian, now.

Anyone know the alcohol content of Severka? 40% alcohol freezes ~-35C and 95% ~-110.

It's quite possible -49 is the limit of the thermometre.

Daniel Charms had this to say in my double:

a) It's Russian.
b) the sign in the 4th picture says that the place is named after "the 25th anniversary of the Revolution, founded in 1942". I can't quite make out the first word, though. The large sign in the next picture says "Glory to the workers of the North". That's all I can tell you.

To which I replied:

Thanks Daniel Charms. Assuming that the revolution is the 1917 Russian one any care to hazard a guess on the place name?

I've looked at a russian map but nothing pops out as being related. Of course I don't speak russian and the place could have been renamed since 1942 or be so small as to not appear on a Russia wide map.

Adding stilicho's info I wonder if the place is Okhotsk?

Reading the comments in getoffmylawn's link brings awareness that these signs are probably from all along their route and so not necessarily related.

Looks like a wild trip nonetheless. I hope to drive up to the Artic ocean in the next couple years but I'm heading up in the summer. I've experienced -40 and it's not my idea of a vacation.