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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 ...
During the mass unrest in the 1905 revolution and the collapse of the Tsarist empire during World War I, political leaders in several indigenous national communities declared autonomy or full independence from Russia.
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.
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: In a series of rebellions, Yakuts resist Russian domination. 1651 - 1700: Russian Orthodox missionaries begin efforts to convert Yakuts. 1701 - 1800
Date (s)Item1301 - 1400Of partial Turkic origin, Yakuts emerge ...1601 - 1700Ethnic Russians begin to settle in Yakut ...1634 - 1642In a series of rebellions, Yakuts resist ...1651 - 1700Russian Orthodox missionaries begin ...Gradually phonetic changes formed the modern name of the nation. The first meeting between the Lena Yakut people and groups of Russians occurred in the mid seventeenth century. Tygyn, toyon (prince) of the Khangalassky Yakuts, granted some territory for Russian building-sites.
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, 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.
