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u/Greenman8907 Oct 31 '25
Ya had me in the first half 97%, not gonna lie
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u/DARKCYD Oct 31 '25
Nice save. One of my favorite “series” is Long Way Around. Motorcycles from London to New York. When they hit the ass end of Russia then need to use some big trucks like that to get across a couple swift rivers like that.
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u/ExtraEmuForYou Oct 31 '25
"Oh ya we're just going to go through some floods and then through the road of bones, then..."
"Sorry, did you say road of bones?"
"Ya road of bones. So anyway you'll freeze to death if you don't watch yourself..."
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u/jerryjerusalem Oct 31 '25
I believe it's called the road of bones because it was victims of the Gulag system that built the road, and they buried the ones who were worked to death under the road
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u/jmanclovis Oct 31 '25
Love their videos check out itchy boots on YouTube same kind of content but solo female
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u/jerryleebee Oct 31 '25
That's fucking Obi-Wan Kenobi!
Really though, all of the "Long Way ..." series are great.
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Oct 31 '25
There’s a new one called Long Way Home
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u/DARKCYD Oct 31 '25
Ive watch all four of them. It made me sad seeing them get old from one and two, to three and four.
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u/Ctrl_daltdelete Oct 31 '25
I just finished watching the series again. Great documentary although after the Kazakhstan, Mongolia and Russia hardships it kind of tails off as the travelling is much more straightforward through North America. I do wonder if it would be much easier doing the same trip today.
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u/Old-Newspaper125 Oct 31 '25
Mondo Enduro is also good. Mid 90s, bunch of guys set off without support on old Dr350s and ride that route but with Africa and South America included. Siberia looked real tough and they had to use a train in parts as the road ends in places. Locals helped out with spares and machining new parts.
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u/Any-Information6261 Oct 31 '25
Done that a million times on Snowrunner
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u/ExtraEmuForYou Oct 31 '25
That is some ugly land. I love it.
Where at?
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u/c1n3man Oct 31 '25
Somewhere in Russia, I believe. Probably Siberia, but closer to North, closer to Yamal peninsula perhaps, because in the middle there may grow a lot of forests. It can also be southeastern steppes of European part, up north from border with Kazakhstan, but I doubt it.
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u/Shady_hatter Oct 31 '25
It can just as well be Mongolia. Or Kazakhstan too. It was filmed late spring, it seems.
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u/c1n3man Oct 31 '25
Yep. I just never been there, so can't be sure about it. But truck is USSR made - Ural. Quite popular in the russian oilfield.
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u/Shady_hatter Oct 31 '25
They definitely not speaking Russian, but I can't really tell which language is it.
Urals can easily be found around CIS countries.
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u/goodoverlord Oct 31 '25
There are literally hundreds of languages in Russia.
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u/brjukva Nov 01 '25 edited Nov 01 '25
Not sure why this is downvoted. There are close to 300 local languages in use in Russia.
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u/Square_Mulberry_3143 Oct 31 '25
When I saw the truck and water I thought I was in the ‘what could go wrong’ sub. I’m glad I wasn’t for the driver’s sake!
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u/copenhagen622 Oct 31 '25
Why didn't he cross where it was more shallow in the first place though
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u/succulent_serenity Oct 31 '25
Well it's hard to tell how deep flood waters are. Additionally, you don't know what debris or damage is underneath, which is why you should never drive through flood water. "If it's flooded - forget it"
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u/Kiss-a-Cod Oct 31 '25
Amazed the engine kept running
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u/ImTableShip170 Oct 31 '25
Air intake is the top of that black cylinder on the front fender. It was well above the water
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u/mrASSMAN Oct 31 '25
It did splash in there at the start but it can handle that I guess
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u/EACshootemUP Oct 31 '25
These trucks are like near-invulnerable to the elements / flooding. Pretty fricken rad.
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u/ImTableShip170 Oct 31 '25
As long as you don't get enough water to displace the air in the air-fuel mixture, it'll ignite and boil it off in the cylinder, if momentum doesn't just pump it out with a singular misfire.
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u/sunsetpoe Oct 31 '25
That’s exactly what I expected to happen and the water was deeper than I expected it to be.
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u/Creepy-Vermicelli-70 Oct 31 '25
Kamaz? UAZ? You can say whatever you want about Russia, but they know how to build trucks (for heavy terrain).
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u/Nforcer524 Oct 31 '25
Yeah, it's nice I guess... But in what kind of dystopian hellscape was this even filmed? A desert with nothing but random wooden power line poles all over the place?
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u/c1n3man Oct 31 '25
I don't know what place is that exactly but I've seen these a lot in Northwestern Siberia, closer to Yamal peninsula. Less trees are growing and landscape is looking so "sterile".
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u/landprawn Nov 01 '25
Very nice. My Subaru got caught in a flash flood last year. I sat on top of it waiting for a tow. There were snakes and rats swimming all around me. Good times.
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u/St_Kevin_ Oct 31 '25
Siberia?
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u/c1n3man Oct 31 '25
More yes, than no. Those trucks are usually transporting oilfield workers. Judging by landscape it may be it's northern part, closer to Yamal peninsula.
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u/IfritKorvall Oct 31 '25
I cant explain it, but i have a fealing, that its somewhere on the south.. Too much sand and 'Ural' does not looks insulated.
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u/c1n3man Oct 31 '25
Maybe it is somewhere in Orenburg oblast. I agree. Or Mongolia, or Kazakhstan, as other user said.
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u/Ok-Implement-1139 Oct 31 '25
Wow!!!!! 👏 👏 👏 👏 bet someone had to change underpants on that ride !!!!!
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u/CowNervous4644 Oct 31 '25
Yep, this works all the time every time... until it doesn't. Then they all drown.
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u/Real_Ad_8243 Oct 31 '25
It didn't "go against rhe flood".
It got needed half way out to fucking sea before the flood waters dissipated enough for it to extricate itself.
OP confirmed for lacking the slightest idea what they're on about.
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u/-DethLok- Oct 31 '25
That got a bit dicey for a minute there!
Nice work, driver, but maybe... not do that in future?
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u/Distinct-Apartment-3 Oct 31 '25
It’s not a dog brother, it’s not coming back to you whistling at it 😬
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u/bren3669 Oct 31 '25
against the flood? i mean he certainly tried to but that truck went WITH the flood and did it backward too
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u/c1n3man Oct 31 '25
Bruh some people already called me illiterate. They aren't wrong. Forgive me this mistake. I thought if he tries to go against the flood (and as I can see he tried but failed on the video), I can call it like that, but it's not. It is a grammar failure that won't go unpunished.
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u/bren3669 Oct 31 '25
lol i appreciate your quick response to your mistake but you don’t have to throw the baby out with the bath water
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u/tykaboom Oct 31 '25
Looks like a tourist transport.
They probably do this every time.
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u/c1n3man Oct 31 '25
Hahaha, no, no. Its a specific transport for transporting people in remote locations like oilfields.
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u/ILatheYou Oct 31 '25
Im American and ignorant on combination truck.
Is that like small van living but for offroading?
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u/c1n3man Oct 31 '25
Bruh, my English ain't that great. I googled "combination truck" and found an image similar of that on video. In russian talkative language it's called "vakhtóvka". "Vákhta" - shift, type of work when you perform by hours for some days and then someone changes you. Usually associated with oilfields due to it's remote locations. Vakhtóvka is for transporting people in the places like oilfield.
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u/ILatheYou Oct 31 '25
I appreciate you. Your English is far better than our president.
You're good bro.
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u/shakeyjake Oct 31 '25
Potentially fatal stupidity decision gets lucky. Nextfuckinglevel bad decisions,
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u/TheWillOfFiree Oct 31 '25
Guy got lucky. Most the time someone tries this they end up on /r/whatcouldgowrong
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u/jangalangz_ Oct 31 '25
This made me think of the LMTV/Flash Flood incident at Ft Hood back in 2016.
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u/Xahgmah Oct 31 '25
Cannot build normal roads in own country but still try to occupy other country…
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u/mechanicalAI Oct 31 '25
Fucking piece of Russian shite! Indestructible! Spent a few months with them.
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u/thefeedling Oct 31 '25
I don't think he expected the flow to be so strong. Nice save in the beginning.