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Yakutsk ( Russian: Якутск; Yakut: Дьокуускай, romanized: J̌okuuskay, pronounced [ɟokuːskaj]) is the capital city of Sakha, Russia, located about 450 km (280 mi) south of the Arctic Circle. Fueled by the mining industry, Yakutsk has become one of Russia's most rapidly growing regional cities, with a population of 355,443 at ...
- 122 km² (47 sq mi)
- 1632
- 95 m (312 ft)
- Russia
Description: city in eastern Russia, capital of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) Categories: administrative territorial entity of Russia, city or town, big city and locality. Location: Yakutia, Russian Far East, Russia, Eastern Europe, Europe. View on OpenStreetMap. Latitude. 62.0274° or 62° 1' 39" north. Longitude. 129.732° or 129° 43 ...
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 ...
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Feb 26, 2020 · Yakutsk is a city in Russia, the capital of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia). It is the fifth city in the Far Eastern Federal District in terms of population (after Khabarovsk, Vladivostok, Ulan-Ude, and Chita) and the largest of the cities located in the permafrost zone. The population of Yakutsk is about 341,200 (2022), the area - 122 sq. km.
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May 8, 2018 · The Yakut, who prefer to call themselves "Sakha," live in Yakutia, the Sovereign Sakha Republic of the Russian Federation formed in 1992. The Yakut are the farthest-north Turkic people, with a consciousness of having once lived farther south kept alive by legends and confirmed by historical and archaeological research.
The Yakut are a Turkic people who live in Yakutsk region in the Far East. A detachment of Cossacks under the command of Pyotr Beketov founded the city as the Lenskii fort, on the right bank of the Lena River, which grew into (and changed its name to) Yakutsk in 1647. As one of the most important Russian outposts in eastern Siberia, Yakutsk ...
