Yakutsk - Wikipedia
Yakutsk (/ jəˈkuːtsk / yə-KOOTSK) [a] is the capital and largest 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 …
Yakutsk | Russia, Population, & Map | Britannica
Sep 20, 2024 — 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.
Yakutia Map - Russian Far East, Russia - Mapcarta
Neighbors: Amur Oblast, Chukotka, Irkutsk Oblast, Khabarovsk Krai, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Magadan Oblast and Zabaykalsky Krai. Categories: republic of Russia and locality. Location: Russian Far East, Russia, Eastern Europe, Europe. View on OpenStreetMap.
Sakha Republic - Wikipedia
Sakha comprises half of the area of its governing Far Eastern Federal District, and is the world's largest country subdivision, covering over 3,083,523 square kilometers (1,190,555 sq mi). [12] Yakutsk, which is the world's coldest major city, [13] is its capital and largest city.
Yakutsk Map - Yakutia, Russia - Mapcarta
Yakutsk. Email: yakutsk@sakha.ru. Type: City with 361,000 residents. 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.
Yakutsk – Travel guide at Wikivoyage
Yakutsk is situated at the fairly high latitude of 62°N. Its climate is definitively very continental, with temperature records of +38 °C (100 °F) and −64 °C (−83 °F) (a range of over 100° C)! The average temperature in January is around −42 °C (−44 °F); in July, +19 °C (66 °F).
Sakha | Republic, Map, History, & Facts | Britannica
The Sakha (Yakut), a people who formed from the mixture of local tribes with Turkic groups that migrated from the south in the 6th–10th centuries ce, joined the Russian state in the first half of the 17th century. Yakutsk, the republic’s largest city, was founded in 1632.
Yakutsk - Wikitravel
Mar 13, 2022 — Yakutsk lies on the left (western) bank of the Lena River and generally stretches along the NE-SW axis. The river itself is not immediately visible from the city. The easternmost embankment, Chernyshevsky Street borders on a plain called the Green Meadow (Зеленый Луг), which is flooded every spring.
Yakutsk travel - Lonely Planet | Russia, Europe
Yakutsk. Remote yet booming Yakutsk stands on stilts (the shifting permafrost causes buildings to collapse otherwise) and has its water and gas delivered in giant overground pipes, the surreal, entangled sight of which might be its most enduring image to visitors.
Yakutsk city, Russia travel guide
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.