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The Yakut revolt ( Russian: Якутский мятеж, romanized : Yakutsky myatezh) or the Yakut expedition (Russian: Якутский поход, romanized: Yakutsky pokhod) was the last episode and final set of military engagements of the Russian Civil War. The hostilities took place between September 1921 and June 1923 and were centered ...
May 18, 2020 · Another myth is that the Soviet Union’s role in the Second World War began on 22 June 1941, when the Wehrmacht attacked the USSR. In reality, the Soviet Union was a leading participant from the very start, colluding for nearly two years with Nazi Germany.
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 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
View Additional Chronology Information. Date (s) Item. 1301 - 1400. Of partial Turkic origin, Yakuts emerge as a distinct ethnic group. 1601 - 1700. Ethnic Russians begin to settle in Yakut areas. Russia formally annexes the region and imposes a burdensome system of taxation, paid by the Yakuts in furs. 1634 - 1642.
The entry of the Soviet Union in the war against Japan along with the atomic bombings by the United States led to Japan's surrender, marking the end of World War II. The Soviet Union suffered the greatest number of casualties in the war, losing more than 20 million citizens, about a third of all World War II casualties.
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.
