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Yakut revolt. Part of the Eastern Front of the Russian Civil War. Date. 2 September 1921 – 16 June 1923. Location. Ayano-Maysky District of the Russian Far East. Result. Soviet victory. End of the Russian Civil War.
Nevertheless, the Yakuts' attempts to defend their lands and way of life led the Moscow tsar to increase the number of soldiers to "subdue" the unruly population of Siberia. The year 1632 is considered to be a conventional date of "voluntary entry of Yakutia into the Russian state".
The 25th of September, 1632 is the date of the first stockade construction. In August, 1638, the Moscow Government formed a new administrative unit – Yakutsky uyezd – with a center in Lensky stockade. That is how a very distant “small town” became the center of huge territory under the command of the Moscow government.
The Russians arriving in the seventeenth century adopted the Evenk word for the local population. The capitol of the Republic of Sakha is Yakutsk, its largest city. Russians sent to gather fur and other riches for the tsar, made Yakutia a stopping point on their way to the Pacific Ocean during the eighteenth century.
The first Russians entered Yakutia in 1628, when Vasilii Bugor, a Cossack chief– of-ten at the Yeniseisk (qv.) fort ascended the Verkhniaia [ ?] (Upper) Tunguska River and
Yakutsk, Russia. Yakutsk, city and capital of Sakha republic (Yakutia), in far northeastern Russia, on the Lena River. A fort was founded on the Lena’s low right bank in 1632 and transferred 43 miles (70 km) upstream to the present site of Yakutsk in 1642. Long a small provincial center of wooden houses where, beginning in the 19th century ...
A. S. Rydzinski. V. V. Popov. P. A. Bondaletov. The Yakut revolt of 1917-18 was the rejection of Bolshevik rule by the Yakut people of far eastern Russia during the early stages of the Russian Civil War, culminating in the establishment of an independent Yakut republic (or Yakutia) in 1918.
