A city of east-central Russia on the Lena River. It was founded as a fort in 1632. Population: 236,000.
Yakutsk
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A city of east-central Russia on the Lena River. It was founded as a fort in 1632. Population: 236,000.
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Yakutsk (yəkūtsk'), city (1989 pop. 187,000), capital of the Sakha Republic, E Siberian Russia, a major port on the Lena River. It is also a highway center and has tanneries, sawmills, and brickworks. Yakutsk was founded in 1632. It has a university (founded 1956) and the Yakutsk branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
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The country code is: 7
The city code is: 411
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| Yakutsk (English) Якутск (Russian) Дьокуускай (Yakut) |
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.jpg) View of the city from the Geological Institute collections area |
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 Location of Yakutsk in the Lena watershed |
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| Coordinates: 62°2′N 129°44′E / 62.033°N 129.733°ECoordinates: 62°2′N 129°44′E / 62.033°N 129.733°E | |
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| Holiday | Second Sunday of September[citation needed] |
| Administrative status | |
| Country | Russia |
| Federal subject | Sakha Republic |
| In administrative jurisdiction of | Sakha Republic[citation needed] |
| Administrative center of | Sakha Republic[citation needed] |
| Municipal status (as of March 2008) | |
| Municipal Status | Urban okrug |
| Head[citation needed] | Yury Zabolev[citation needed] |
| Representative body | Okrug Council[citation needed] |
| Statistics | |
| Area | 121.93 km2 (47.1 sq mi)[citation needed] |
| Population (2002 Census) | 210,642 inhabitants[1] |
| - Rank | 89th |
| - Density | 1,728 /km2 (4,500/sq mi)[2] |
| Founded | 25 September 1632[citation needed] |
| Postal code(s) | 677xxx[citation needed] |
| Dialing code(s) | +7 4112[citation needed] |
| Official website | http://www.yakutsk-city.ru/ |
Yakutsk (Russian: Яку́тск; Sakha: Дьокуускай, Ďokuuskay pronounced [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. The city has a population of 210,642 (2002 Census);[3] 186,626 (1989 Census).[4]
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History
Yakutsk was founded in 1632 as a Ostrog (fort). In 1639 it became the center of a voyevodstvo. The Voyevoda of Yakutsk quickly became the most important Russian official in eastern Siberia and directed expansion to the east and south. Yakutsk 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 industrialization under Stalin. The rapid growth of forced labor camps in Siberia also encouraged Yakutsk's development.
Transport
Yakutsk is a destination of the Lena Highway. The city's connection to the Highway is only accessible 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 Lena. The river is impassable for long periods 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. The highway ends on the eastern bank of Lena in Nizhny Bestyakh (Нижний Бестях), an urban-type settlement of some four thousand people. Yakutsk is connected with Magadan in the Russian Far East by the Kolyma Highway.
A dual-use railroad and roadway bridge over the Lena is scheduled to be built by 2013[5][6], 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 kilometers 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 is also connected to other parts of Russia by Yakutsk Airport.
Education
Yakutsk State University is situated in the city. There is also a branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, which contains, among other things, 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.
At the primary and secondary levels, the city has a number of UNESCO Associated Schools, including the Sakha-Turkish College, Sakha-Korean School, and School #16.[7]
Yakutsk is also home of some theaters and museums such as Sakha theater and the Museum of Mammoth.
Commerce
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.
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Climate
Yakutsk is one of the coldest cities on Earth, with January temperatures averaging −40.9 °C (−42 °F). The coldest temperatures ever recorded outside Antarctica occur in the basin of the Yana River to the northeast. However, July temperatures can often exceed 32 °C (90 °F), making the seasonal temperature differences for the region among the greatest in the world. Yakutsk is the biggest city built on continuous permafrost. Most houses are built on concrete piles. The climate is semi-arid, with maximum precipitation occurring in the summer months.
With the Lena River navigable in the summer, there are various boat cruises offered, including upriver to the Lena Pillars, and downriver tours which visit spectacular scenery in the lower reaches and the Lena delta.
| Weather data for Yakutsk | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | -5.8 (22) |
-2.2 (28) |
8.3 (47) |
21.1 (70) |
31.1 (88) |
35.1 (95) |
38.3 (101) |
35.4 (96) |
27.0 (81) |
20.5 (69) |
3.1 (38) |
-3.9 (25) |
38.3 (101) |
| Average high °C (°F) | -39.5 (-39) |
-31.4 (-25) |
-14.1 (7) |
0.0 (32) |
12.1 (54) |
21.7 (71) |
25.1 (77) |
21.5 (71) |
11.9 (53) |
-3.5 (26) |
-24.4 (-12) |
-36.8 (-34) |
-5.5 (22) |
| Average low °C (°F) | -45.9 (-51) |
-41.2 (-42) |
-29.8 (-22) |
-14.3 (6) |
-0.3 (31) |
8.3 (47) |
11.7 (53) |
8.5 (47) |
0.7 (33) |
-12.3 (10) |
-32.8 (-27) |
-43.2 (-46) |
-15.8 (4) |
| Record low °C (°F) | -63.0 (-81) |
-64.4 (-84) |
-54.9 (-67) |
-41.0 (-42) |
-18.1 (-1) |
-7.2 (19) |
-1.5 (29) |
-7.8 (18) |
-14.2 (6) |
-40.9 (-42) |
-54.5 (-66) |
-59.8 (-76) |
-64.4 (-84) |
| Precipitation mm (inches) | 9 (0.35) |
7 (0.28) |
6 (0.24) |
10 (0.39) |
18 (0.71) |
37 (1.46) |
39 (1.54) |
37 (1.46) |
29 (1.14) |
20 (0.79) |
16 (0.63) |
12 (0.47) |
240 (9.45) |
| Source: Pogoda.ru.net[8] 8.09.2007 | |||||||||||||
International relations
Main article: List of twin towns and sister cities in Russia
Twin towns — Sister cities
Yakutsk is twinned with:
References
- ^ Федеральная служба государственной статистики (Federal State Statistics Service) (2004-05-21). "Численность населения России, субъектов Российской Федерации в составе федеральных округов, районов, городских поселений, сельских населённых пунктов – районных центров и сельских населённых пунктов с населением 3 тысячи и более человек (Population of Russia, its federal districts, federal subjects, districts, urban localities, rural localities—administrative centers, and rural localities with population of over 3,000)" (in Russian). Всероссийская перепись населения 2002 года (All-Russia Population Census of 2002). Federal State Statistics Service. http://perepis2002.ru/ct/html/TOM_01_04_1.htm. Retrieved 2009-08-19.
- ^ The value of density was calculated automatically by dividing the 2002 Census population by the area specified in the infobox. Please note that this value may not be accurate as the area specified in the infobox does not necessarily correspond to the area of the entity proper or is reported for the same year as the Census (2002).
- ^ Федеральная служба государственной статистики (Federal State Statistics Service) (2004-05-21). "Численность населения России, субъектов Российской Федерации в составе федеральных округов, районов, городских поселений, сельских населённых пунктов – районных центров и сельских населённых пунктов с населением 3 тысячи и более человек (Population of Russia, its federal districts, federal subjects, districts, urban localities, rural localities—administrative centers, and rural localities with population of over 3,000)" (in Russian). Всероссийская перепись населения 2002 года (All-Russia Population Census of 2002). Federal State Statistics Service. http://www.perepis2002.ru/ct/doc/1_TOM_01_04.xls. Retrieved 2008-07-25.
- ^ "Всесоюзная перепись населения 1989 г. Численность наличного населения союзных и автономных республик, автономных областей и округов, краёв, областей, районов, городских поселений и сёл-райцентров. (All Union Population Census of 1989. Present population of union and autonomous republics, autonomous oblasts and okrugs, krais, oblasts, districts, urban settlements, and villages serving as district administrative centers.)" (in Russian). Всесоюзная перепись населения 1989 года (All-Union Population Census of 1989). Demoscope Weekly (website of the Institute of Demographics of the State University—Higher School of Economics. 1989. http://demoscope.ru/weekly/ssp/rus89_reg2.php. Retrieved 2007-12-13.
- ^ "In 2009 construction of the Bridge through Lena River will begin", Republic of Sakha Information Portal, 29 March 2007, reprint of an article by Aleksey Dmitriev in the newspaper “Yakutia”. Link accessed 2008-01-13. (English) (Russian)
- ^ Russia Basel's wins tender to build Yakutia railroad Reuters, Thu Nov 6, 2008
- ^ Nikolaev, Michael E. (2007-01-07), "The Most Valuable Possession of a Society is Education", Yakutia Today, http://www.yakutiatoday.com/region/education_article_nikolaev.shtml, retrieved 2009-08-04
- ^ "Pogoda.ru.net" (in Russian). http://pogoda.ru.net/climate/24959.htm. Retrieved 8 September 2007.
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- First social network of Yakutsk city
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- Yakutsk State University
- Lena Pillars at Natural Heritage Protection Fund
- Some photos of Yakutsk (Russian)
- Yakutsk past and present: a photo gallery at the Ministry of Construction of the Sakha Republic website (Russian)
- Yakutsk at AskYakutia.com
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