Yakutsk
Russia /
Saha /
Jakutskaj, Yakutsk /
World
/ Russia
/ Saha
/ Jakutskaj, Yakutsk
, 4 km from center (Якутск)
World / Russia / Sakha
city, capital city of state/province/region, district center, City of Labour Valour
Yakutsk (Russian: Яку́тск; Yakut: Дьокуускай [dʒokuːskaj]) is a city in the Russian Far East, located about 4° (450 kilometres) below the Arctic Circle. It is the capital of the Sakha (Yakutia) Republic (formerly the Yakut Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic), Russia and a major port on the Lena River. It is served by Yakutsk Airport as well as the smaller Magan Airport. Population: 210,642 (2002 Census); 186,626 (1989 Census).
Yakutsk was founded in 1632 as a Cossack fort but did not grow into a city until the discovery of large reserves of gold and other minerals in the 1880s and 1890s. These reserves were developed extensively during the industrialisation under Stalin. The rapid growth of forced labour camps in Siberia also encouraged Yakutsk's development.
Yakutsk is a destination of Lena Highway. Actually, the city's connection to the Highway is available strictly by ferry in the summer, or in the dead of winter, directly over the frozen Lena River, as Yakutsk lies entirely on its western bank, and there is no bridge anywhere in the Sakha Republic that crosses the mighty Lena. The river is impassable for large stretches of the year when it is full of loose ice, or when the ice cover is not sufficiently thick to support traffic, or when the water level is high and the river turbulent with spring flooding. So the Highway actually ends on the eastern bank of Lena in Nizhny Bestyakh (Нижний Бестях), an urban-type settlement of some 4 thousand people. Additionally, Yakutsk is connected with Magadan in the Russian Far East by the Kolyma Highway. A massive dual-use railroad and roadway bridge over Lena is scheduled to be built by 2013, when the Amur Yakutsk Mainline, the North-South railroad being extended from the South, will finally connect the city with the East-West Baikal Amur Mainline (the railway has reached a point some 260 km south of Yakutsk). The bridge will be over 3 kilometres long and constructed 40 km upriver at Tabaga, where the river narrows and does not create a wide flooded area in spring. In the dead of winter, the frozen Lena makes for a passable highway for ice truckers using its channel to deliver provisions to far-flung outposts.
Yakutsk State University is situated in the city. There's also a branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, which contains, among others, the Institute of Cosmophysical Research, which runs the Yakutsk Extensive Air Shower installation (one of the largest cosmic-ray detector arrays in the world), and the Permafrost Research Institute developed with the aim of solving the serious and costly problems associated with construction of buildings on frozen soil.
Yakutsk is also home of some theaters and museums among others, Sakha theater and the Museum of Mammoth.
The city has offices of many mining companies, including ALROSA, whose diamond mines in Yakutia account for about 20% of the world's rough diamond output.
Yakutsk was founded in 1632 as a Cossack fort but did not grow into a city until the discovery of large reserves of gold and other minerals in the 1880s and 1890s. These reserves were developed extensively during the industrialisation under Stalin. The rapid growth of forced labour camps in Siberia also encouraged Yakutsk's development.
Yakutsk is a destination of Lena Highway. Actually, the city's connection to the Highway is available strictly by ferry in the summer, or in the dead of winter, directly over the frozen Lena River, as Yakutsk lies entirely on its western bank, and there is no bridge anywhere in the Sakha Republic that crosses the mighty Lena. The river is impassable for large stretches of the year when it is full of loose ice, or when the ice cover is not sufficiently thick to support traffic, or when the water level is high and the river turbulent with spring flooding. So the Highway actually ends on the eastern bank of Lena in Nizhny Bestyakh (Нижний Бестях), an urban-type settlement of some 4 thousand people. Additionally, Yakutsk is connected with Magadan in the Russian Far East by the Kolyma Highway. A massive dual-use railroad and roadway bridge over Lena is scheduled to be built by 2013, when the Amur Yakutsk Mainline, the North-South railroad being extended from the South, will finally connect the city with the East-West Baikal Amur Mainline (the railway has reached a point some 260 km south of Yakutsk). The bridge will be over 3 kilometres long and constructed 40 km upriver at Tabaga, where the river narrows and does not create a wide flooded area in spring. In the dead of winter, the frozen Lena makes for a passable highway for ice truckers using its channel to deliver provisions to far-flung outposts.
Yakutsk State University is situated in the city. There's also a branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, which contains, among others, the Institute of Cosmophysical Research, which runs the Yakutsk Extensive Air Shower installation (one of the largest cosmic-ray detector arrays in the world), and the Permafrost Research Institute developed with the aim of solving the serious and costly problems associated with construction of buildings on frozen soil.
Yakutsk is also home of some theaters and museums among others, Sakha theater and the Museum of Mammoth.
The city has offices of many mining companies, including ALROSA, whose diamond mines in Yakutia account for about 20% of the world's rough diamond output.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakutsk
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 62°3'58"N 129°42'13"E
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- Khatyng-Yuryakh Lake 0.7 km
- Khatyng-Yuryakhskoye shosse 6 km, 51 0.7 km
- Yakutsk Gas Processing Plant 2.8 km
- quarry 3 km
- Beloye Lake 3 km
- Tuymaada Valley 3.5 km
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