Indigiir Trail

The Indigiir trail lies in the wider Indigirka basin of northeastern Siberia, where mountain divides separate river systems and overland crossings link them. Long winters and frozen waterways imposed seasonal constraints on travel.

During the seventeenth century Russian expeditions approached the Indigirka from several directions. Poznik Ivanov crossed the Verkhoyansk Mountains towards the Yana and continued through the Chersky ranges into the Indigirka basin; Mikhail Stadukhin arrived overland from the Lena in 1642. Zashiversk later became a Russian outpost on the river. These journeys and settlements describe the broader basin, rather than a documented history of the particular trail.