![]() Kolomna is over 800 years old and a lot of tourists come here to see the old Kremlin, the churches and monasteries, as well as the museums and art galleries. I’m 14 and I live in Kolomna – one of the biggest and most beautiful towns in the Moscow region. It’s called Yhyakh, and it’s a great chance for me to perform a dance called Ohuokhai and to drink kumys – a national drink that’s made from mare’s milk. She also makes hats and her friends sometimes ask her to make outfits for our national summer holiday. My father plays the khomus – a traditional Yakut instrument, and my mother does embroidery with beads. I go to a Russian school, but we have lessons in our native Yakut language as well. ![]() It’s only −25˚C outside, so I’m going skiing with my family for the first time this year. The temperature often falls below −40 degrees, so we wear fur caps and coats, thick woollen mittens and unty which are fur boots made of deer skin. I love my city in the winter when the clean, crisp snow covers everything. I live in Yakutsk which is the capital of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) in northern Siberia. My name is Sergey Demidov and I’m 13 years old. Spotlight on Russia hears from two young Russians from very different parts of the country Here are two of them written in completely different parts of Russia. At Spotlight on Russia we get a lot of emails from children all over the country.
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