Russian Ice Road Trucking is Insane
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- Опубликовано: 14 окт 2024
- Thanks for watching. I've been playing Read Dead Redemption 2 for about a week straight at this point and have no plans to stop. Video quality might be suffering but at least I can live out my fantasies of living in the woods and growing a big beard and dying of tuberculosis.
Seriously thinking of disappearing into the wilderness but like in ten years or so, not now. Can never prepare too early though.
Videos (in order of appearance):
History Channel - • Video
Free Documentary - • Most Dangerous Transpo...
• World’s Most Dangerous...
OFF-ROAD DRIVERS YAKUTIA - • TRUCKFEST-2020 ICE ROA...
Discovery - • Building an Ice Road i...
Arctic Storm - • Building Ice Roads & I...
geoffmackley - • Truck falls through th...
Free Documentary - • Deadliest Roads | Sibe...
khyrofilms - • Siberia Arctic Expedit...
Bedzina Beridze - • adigeni kikibo
ramboMAT100 - • Ural, V3S, Zil
MALE WEAKNESS - • Пробиваемся на Урале т...
Vehicle zone - • Video
Crazy Russian Peoples - • KAMAZ HELD THE WINTER ...
Articles:
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Alright hear me out for just one second; what if instead of Bob the Builder it was Knob the Builder. Wouldn't that be funny?!? Wouldn't that be ridiculous?!? A little 'topsy-turvy' even?!?
The Russian for the «ice road» is «зимник»: something you can only operate in winter. They are marked on the maps correspondingly. Fun fact, one can not cross Lena river in fall or in spring: it is either in winter by truck or in summer by ferry.
I know a potential (albeit somewhat impractical) solution: Hovercraft
@@lochlanhanham8308 it is used sometimes, but it doesn't get well with sharp pieces of ice floating down the river in spring
@@HappyTrolley000 if only the earth was hotter
@@lochlanhanham8308 it is very practical soluton for passenger service, and actively used there. Bot it not that good for long hauls and heavy loads.
Having driven in frozen Finnish forests with very similar but Finnish equipment, I have immense respect for these absolute madmen.
ok
a shoutout to the spintires series of games (mudrunner and snowrunner) for giving this kind of experience to the masses and learning about it aswell, those who have played these games know how absolutely stressful it is sometimes
When I’m getting stuck in snow drifts, and going mad running back and forth on some of the harder maps, I have to remind myself I have the luxury of putting down a controller and walking away, something these guys can’t just do in real life. The physical and mental fatigue must be tough out there.
Still one of my favourite games though, Russian trucks are pretty awesome.
@@tomgray8156 The modding scene for those games is insane too,my favorite modded truck is the T100 "Arnie" as it's nigh impossible to stop.
The original demo was so cool back in the day. I'm glad they got the success they deserved!
@@ScarlettStunningSpace I put many hours on that original Tech Demo. Hella good fun. I don't exactly love the direction the game went after Spintires and Mudrunner, but all 3 are still pretty fun.
Mudrunner and snow runner make me want to go buy one of every russian military truck.
Неожиданно и приятно видеть видео про работу наших водителей. Многие не придают значения важности их работы. Спасибо
It is unexpected and nice to see a video about the work of our drivers. Many do not attach importance to the importance of their work. Thanks
That Russian saying reminded me of all the dashcam videos I've seen.
"IN RUSSIA, ROAD IS ROAD! DRIVE WHERE YOU WANT!"
I literally watch the car crash russia channel everyday lmao
@@metameow1 Theres always a random T72 for some reason...
Your russian pronounciation is better than mine. I tried russian once and my russian friend said I sound like a dying cow. Now I started to learn Finnish. Much easier for me to learn.
Hahaha finish is easier?? I’m trying to learn Estonian and Damn it’s hard
@@Lumberjackk those baltic langauges are all insane
Finnish Is such a useless language though... Russian has so much real world use, even in America...
@@yourmaid4982 well achsually, Baltic languages isn't really a term, as Latvian and Lithuanian are slavic languages, but Estonian is Finno-Ugric and is more similar to Finnish and Hungarian (and some minority languages mostly spoken in Russia)
@@kirby1225 that is true, as I came up with term myself. And I distinct those north slavs cause those languages very different to South and East Slavic.
And yeah I'm also differ those of North cause of hard to learn language structure.
Maybe I'm over simplifying but I even think a lot of Baltic trio don't even use their own language, instead talking Russian(at least older post-soviet generation)
Living in the only Russian region which rely only on ice roads(Chukotka - the north western tip of the country next to Alaska), I can say that Ural trucks are most popular here. In other Siberian or Far Eastern regions of the country (even in the coldest one like Yakutia) - there are paved highways which connect its biggest cities with the rest of the country. Even the "road of bones" to Magadan are pretty passable for ordinary trucks and even just personal cars nowadays.
But on the ice roads...Ural have its dominance. Kamaz and others are in less numbers here.
Also despite we,Russians,call it "winter road", the ice roads began to be operational only in the beginning of the spring because swampy tundra needs time to be frozen enough to be passable for the truck. Sometimes if the winter is not enough cold or too much snowy, some ice roads failing to be opened. The road workers lost one bulldozer in unfrozen tundra mud, then another... As a result the ice road project fails and goods delivery become to rely on aviation. The prices in isolated communities jumping two or three times higher(except on certain goods subsided by government) some goods are being out of stock.
Thats why we use massive delivery(or "Nothern delivery"/"Северный завоз") to such idolated communities. One mass delivery by shipping when the sea or river are free from ice(we call it "navigation"/"навигация"), the second - during the ice road period. The government issued the law making such delivery protected and regulated by the state.
When I played Mudrunner back in the day and Snowrunner nowadays, I always though that it was impossible that the paths and roads to certain villages were so harsh and tedious
But now I see that it really is the reality of russian trucking industry in Siberia. Like I say, you never go to sleep at night without learning anything new
And yes, Kamaz, KraZ and Ural will always be the simbol of that industry
Love the vid. I would’ve also brought up the Spintires series of games as they are also a great way for the masses to understand the difficulty of these kinds of semi-frozen swampy terrain.
Also, coming from a Russian, your pronunciation was better than a lot of A-List celebrities in multimillion dollar movies so good job!
Basically Snowrunner for real
Literally played snowrunner 10 minutes before reading this comment
*Northern Aegis Installation in Amur*
I think Mudrunner>Snowrunner, I can't recommend enough the mod map "rural area", it's absolutely great
If the truck is off for more than 10 minutes all the fluids will freeze solid and it will take literal days in a heated shop to thaw it back out
They also have antifreeze in Russia. It's not bad at all yet at -35 which I have experince from. I live in northern Finland. Of course it gets much worse nearing -50.
biggest problem is thick, not frozen oil but when you can use a block heater it's no problem. cold places also use winter diesel.
@@piuthemagicman Antifreeze and winter diesel are only good up to a certain temperature, and the way the fuel, coolant, and air (water in the airlines freeze solid) system is on most semis, once the diesel starts to gel up it's impossible to start, the fuel system needs to be pressurized to sometimes up to 6,000 PSI and it can't sustain that way with diesel in gel form
@@christophergore4247 I am aware, I'm a mechanic. point I made was it's not THAT extreme. nothing is beginning to freeze in 10min. They've been dealing with cold forever there and they have all this winter prep in Siberia too.
@@piuthemagicman When it's 40 below shit freezes quick, even arctic diesel is only good until about 45 below, and it still gets a good bit colder than that. It doesn't freeze solid immediately, it starts to gel up long before it freezes and stops flowing. Maybe it's not that extreme where you are, but over in Siberia and far north Canada and Alaska where this style of trucking is necessary it's only extreme. That's why they do it, because nobody else can. That's why it's dangerous, because not all succeed.
You should do an entire full video on Russian Trucking and the differences in common Truck models there. I am highly interested in KAMAZ Semi-Trucks personally and your videos have been an amazing addition to my truck knowledge.
Those trucks are so tough and good that there being sold in Asia in droves. But I think the URAL NEXT is really the top seller here as it has all the modern gizmos but keeps that Russian quality of just rolling through even the stickiest mud without problem.
@@pilotmanpaul Good to know Ural next is doing a lot. I haven't seen a lot of military models in use and there's not the most information about it online
@@someoneinthecaucasus3232 The fucking Tatarin a.k.a. KamAZ is just a basic truck, there is no sikret misterios durability of Russian bear balalaika vodka christian soul in it; it's driven not due to it's superiority over European equipment but due to the company owner oligarch skimping on equipment budget. To not have to fuck around with keeping the KamAZik running is a pipe dream of many.
@@seredachan You seem mad friend, are you jealous the Kamaz-6560 looks better than Scania trucks or?
@@someoneinthecaucasus3232 Well, we do call Scania "Skameika" for a reason, don't we! Scania has that certain aesthetics.. the aesthetics of a parkbench.
"I know that a lot of my viewers are likely already familiar with X"
*Me who has no idea what he's talking about but watches anyways because trucks are cool and he likes them a lot*
Thanks for covering the harsh reality of our truckers' lives. People like them are invaluable and should be appreciated more.
Informative and high quality as always, keep up the good work!
Nice russian pronunciation 👍 Fun fact I have learned about trucking in harsh conditions like these is that one indispensable item that drivers carry with them is a regular brick soaked in diesel fuel. Drivers can use it as a base for a fire to warm up in case of a truck breaking down somewhere far away from any help.
You have quickly become one of my channels I look forward to seeing a new video uploaded. Keep up the good work.
Knob the Builder is the charming tale of a construction worker who was repeatedly caught choking the chicken.
Brought back some grear memories of spintries, I absolutely love this whole scene and the trucks are sooooo cool
Yukon your videos are very cool. I really like them. They are very calm and you know its a good video when you upload. Big respect 👍
Would love to see an even more in-depth content of this (e.g. interviews, personal experiences, etc.), this is super interesting
search for this: World’s Most Dangerous Roads | Russia - The Long Road to Siberia | Free Documentary
@@ZGGordan Thanks! Will watch that
The RUclips "OFF-ROAD DRIVERS YAKUTIA" are Yakut natives who drives these huge Kamaz trucks in the coldest Siberian weather. Give there content a sub, the heroism it takes to do what they do is amazing.
Dude, props to your russian pronounciation, that wasnt that far off and was better by a mile than most youtubers!
I gotta love the lifted Ural and Kamaz trucks used by them, The RUclips "OFF-ROAD DRIVERS YAKUTIA" really shows how insane there job is and the toughest people are required to be able to live through such climates and drive such large trucks.
These men are doing some of the most dangerous job ever
your Russian pronunciation was fantastic!!
Yaaay Yukon video about Russian trucking! Let me get that vodka I've been saving for a special occasion...
So fascinating to see different truck cultures around the world. The Philippine Truck culture and weird laws might also get your interest.
i love how your videos always go up at like 3 am, perfect for night owls like me
Coming from a veteran of Spintires and its sequels Midsummer and Snowrunner; "From mud, through rivers, to the lumber yards beyond."
Please tell me you didn't use all 5 of your turrets to annihilate a single gunnery again...
I was completely unaware of this industry and the footage was all badass. The title made me worried the video was going to be spoken in Russian lmao. Another swag vid from this channel, idk how he does it
Everyone knows Anything Russian is instantly 100% more dangerous or awesome .
Edit:So basically Russian trucking is Mario kart on the Ice track .
Not always though.While Siberia is the biggest(and the most dangerous)part of Russia,The European part is basically Euro Trucking but you can also drive American trucks(since the limit width of trucks are 23 meters in Russia).But still,both Siberian and Eastern European roads lack quality,since most of the roads here are kinda fucked up.Although,i must say that the road quality and traffic safety really did improve over the years.
great, time to play snowrunner
Your channel is criminally underrated, you can tell by the views on your recent videos your on the brink of making it bro keep it up!
As a russian, your pronounced it well.
SO basically Snowrunner IRL XD. Btw I watched the documentary you have taken pictures from, and kinda good I must say...
Yes.
Snowrunner came from mudrunner that came from spintires that was inspired by the russian trucking industry of ex army vehicles on civilian logging operations in the mud.
@@davidty2006 i know the history too ;) . Also so glad it exists, like one of the best games out there...
For those who wants to know how is it like to throw big trucks at muddy or snowy beautiful hell, try the spintire series. One the best off road games out there and quite a challenging one if you're not careful and use tactics
That's... well, that's really cool, honestly. Feels like it'd make a hell of a short film.
This brings back flashbacks while playing Mudrunner/Snowrunner
I really like your content pleease make it longer covering more trivial facts and do more often. I got some idea for your content, how about you discuss about military trucks and military logistics
Having. Done this with half breed Eskimos in Inuvik and tuktoyuktuk. I'm still amazed that I survived. Their only skills are drinking til blackout and smoking / blocking the ice road and demanding cigarettes to pass
I love truckers, this is such cool shit so many people rely on them especially in places like this
Don't apologize for your Russian pronunciation. It sounded great to me! Thank you for this episode, it's a side of trucking few Americans ever see or care about.
More content of offroad/overland trucking please. There's hardly any information out there that I can reasonably find. I hear Mongolia and other steppe countries have some interesting trucking situations.
Amazing video as always. 👍👏👏👏👏👏
I was obsessed with the show Ice Road Truckers. So much so I even played hours of 18 Wheels Of Steel Extreme Trucker.
Idk how I found this channel but this is fascinating
I love your videos but I love your descriptions even more
Can you do Burmese trucking?
There is an awesome sequence of these trucks crossing rivers in the spring in the Ewan McGregor / Charley Boorman miniseries "The Long Way Round"! It's what sparked my interest in Russian trucks and why I play Snowrunner and watch these videos@!
Very similar conditions to Siberia in the U.S. is Alaskan Dalton Highway many lost their lives on the road back in the day when oil discovery attracted companies to the north.
We hope you will prepare an episode that talks about the difficult life of truck drivers in the hot, dry Arabian desert and shifting sands with very few resources for survival and many dangers.
It gets to -30F where I live, but I'm glad it's like that for only a short period of time and not the whole winter. Studded snow tires make all the difference, I learned that the hard way. I'm just glad my truck starts when it's that cold lol
I LOVE Soviet Russian trucks, there are so cool and badass! Much more awesome than the pavement princesses I always see here in the states.
Good chunk of them are normally civilian varients of or freshly retired military trucks.
Mainly the Ural 4320, Kamaz 6x6's ZIL 131's and Kraz 255's that i think for the most part are just military trucks with a quick repaint and new modules slapped onto the chassis
My country the Philippines loves these Urals. From Civilian to Military, we're eating up all URAL NEXT and even Kamaz 5311s due to how much capable they are in our thick and sticky tropical mud that only the most modified 4X4s can cross. Its also nice that it doesn't take much to maintain them and anyone with a wrench and socket kit can get it running.
Do Filipino trucking next for the 110 million people living there who have to suffer driving next to these big trucks who sometimes get stuck trying to get off the highway onto muddy rural roads that they can only traverse with a blessing from the lord
I have a new special interest and it is now trucking. Not sure if I ever want to be a trucker but it catches my eye
I'd love for you to make a more detailed and longer mini documentary type video about the challenges, gear and methods used in ice road trucking. I can't be bothered to watch the dramatized discovery channel show. You however... :)
Rasha's kamaz drivers love flip flops a lot. But in general they not only drive but also have to service their truck by their own whether it is their trucks or not. But flip flops are their favorite type of shoes.
Hello Yukon i love the videos you make and your channel so much, and may i make a video suggestion to do one about The National. Association. Of. Stock. Car. Auto. racing. (NASCAR) And its tracks cars and races? Or F1 maybe.
Great video, been enjoying your content.
My favourite video of yours yet! I love your stuff even though I don't have any connection to the topic. Keep it up :D
insane to think about. Being out there in the freezing cold for days at a time, with nothing between you and death except the metal body of your truck.
I only played the games, didn't know it was this intense lmao
Your Russian is pretty good. One simple mistakes, it's "dorOgoy", not "dorogOy". The former means "road" , the latter stands for "dear".
Russian trucks are built to last. Dad used to tell me that he drove an army KamAZ, and when it would break in the middle of the road, they would easily jury rig it with swearing, a crowbar/sledgehammer/both and some stuff they find in the cab, until they found a replacement. Yes, they (mostly) are not really comfortable, but hey, comfort isn't a factor when you choose a truck to haul heavy loads across Siberia.
Comfort later. Surviving the trek itself and making sure you deliver much needed cargo to the villages is more important.
@@pilotmanpaul exactly.
My only request is. Never stop
Fun fact : an ice road trucker named Vitaly Laletin is currently one of the 10 strongest arm wrestlers in the world right now, and was even ranked #2 at some point, he's also a record holder for some grip strength feats such as a 159.6kg grip right hand
It's thanks to the Spintires games I was introduced to the world of Russian off-road trucking
Great video as always Yukon
Russia is getting a bit like Iran, in as much as the country and it's ppl are amazing and endlessly fascinating, while the management (I mean those in charge) leave a lot to be desired. You should have a look at the truckers who who helped break the siege of Leningrad, crossing the frozen lake Ladoga. The drivers operating their vehicles with the door open ready to bail if the truck went thru the ice.
@iMakz looking at how countries like Germany and sweden are now migrаnt infested crapholes, I'd take Russian tyranny over that...
a lot to be desired is putting it lightly
@iMakz When not declaring war on other countries....
Anyway i so want one of them trucks with an excavator on the back just to use in britain.
@@davidty2006 you mean like fucking israel?
Hey, as you channel name says Yukon, plz make a video on the history of Yukon gold Rush.
russian terrain might be more difficult, but russian trucks are way more capable, in alaska you can do just fine with 6x4, in siberia you need 6x6 and diff lock just to get out of the garage
This would make a good video game. "equip torch" *ducks under the truck to heat up oilpan*
Make video about finnish trucking it differs quite lot compared to most europe.
Snowrruner in real life xd
great video as always mate!
This video makes me want to play Snowrunner again
Love your content! Please keep on making those interesting Videos :D.
I like these videos very much.
Awesome video! Please do ambulances at some point
Yeahhh keep it up, love your videos
My grandfather used to drive log trucks in Siberia
In Soviet Russia, you don't drive road, road drives you
I once saw a 40 min documentary on the ice road trucking industry in Russia.
Not a single mf smiled even for a second. 💀💀
Please do the Chinese trucking industry
Can you do a video on Chinese trucking? For some reason I'm very intrigued by it rn lol.
the russian pronunciation was so good what the hell
very interesting video man
Sound like .....Pure adventure 😏💂
Knob the builder supremacy
One thing I was planning to do was buy one of those Russian 6x6 military trucks, convert it into an RV and drive it from Russia to North America across the Bering Strait (on a boat, obviously), but then Russia invaded Ukraine and the chances of getting permission to cross the strait went from low to impossible.
There are no border crossing points on neither Chukotka nor Alaska, so you'd have to use some of the mainstream ports (Magadan, Vladivostok, Seattle) anyways.
Would you like to hop on this endeavor of trying out Russian trucks, as a Russian and an owner of one, I would be happy to help :)
Wow they made snowrunner a real thing
ROAD IS ROAD
I gotta idea let’s build a town in the middle of nowhere on the coldest part of the earth that can only be reached when hell freezes over a few months a year lol
Did not even touch on fueling
I think it would be fun if you made a video about livestock trucks from europ. I live in denmark and drivs pigs as my job :)
Those soviet trucks speak power....I want one
A neat video.
It's not "dorogOy", but rather "dorOgoy", although that's just me being nitpicky.
Love your content
Yeah, big trucks. I'm 4 again
Everything Russian is so interesting for some. It's an incredible country.
3:30 Do i see a Czech license plate here? well othervise a realy good vid. really enjoyed it as a mudrunner player
Mud runner and snow runner got me hooked on these kind of trucking videos😹😹
Probably, because plate on the right part of the bumper was soviet standart and plate on the left one were not by modern russian standart. We do not have colors on the left side of the plate. Only the country`s tiny flag in the bottom right corner. You can find an example at 0:59
@@Saber643 Well i think it is. I live in Czech Republic and that is how the czech oldtimer license plates look like
Damn imma go play snow runner again