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A Yakutian bull. Yakutian cattle are relatively small in size. The cows stand between 110 and 112 cm (43 and 44 in) high at the withers and reach a live weight of 350 to 400 kg (770 to 880 lb); bulls reach a height of 115 to 127 cm (45 to 50 in) and weigh 500 to 600 kg (1,100 to 1,300 lb).
According to ethnographer Dávid Somfai, the Russian yakut derives from the Buryat yaqud, which is the plural form of the Buryat name for the Yakuts, yaqa. [8] The Yakuts call themselves Sakha , or Urangai Sakha (Yakut: Уран Саха , Uran Sakha ) in some old chronicles. [ 9 ]
Yakut or Yakutian may refer to: Yakuts, the Turkic peoples indigenous to the Sakha Republic; Yakut language, a Turkic language; Yakut scripts, Scripts used to write the Yakut language; Yakut (name) Yakut Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic; Yakutian Laika, a dog breed from the Sakha Republic; Yakutian cattle, a breed from the Sakha Republic
The exonym Yakut comes from the Evenk term Yako (also yoqo, ñoqa, or ñoka), which was the term the Evenks used to describe the Sakha. This was in turn picked up by the Russians. [ 14 ] The Yukaghirs , another neighboring people in Siberia , use the exonym yoqol ~ yoqod- ~ yoqon- ( Tundra Yukaghir ) or yaqal ~ yaqad- ~ yaqan- ( Kolyma Yukaghir ).
In Siberia, annual temperatures fluctuate between +38 and −70 °C (100 and −94 °F) and winter may last for 8 months. [7] Yakutian horses are kept unstabled year-round, and in the roughly 800 years that they have been present in Siberia, they have evolved a range of remarkable morphologic, metabolic and physiologic adaptations to this harsh environment.
[2] [3] On 27 April 1922, the Yakut Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic was formed as part of the RSFSR, which included the Yakutsk Oblast but excluded the region of Lower Tunguska (which became part of the Kirensky uezd of the Irkutsk Governorate), the Khatanga-Anabar uezd of the Yeniseysk Governorate, the Olekminsk-Suntar volost of the ...
Cattle are not often kept solely for hides, and they are usually a by-product of beef production. Hides are used mainly for leather products such as shoes. In 2012, India was the world's largest producer of cattle hides. [114] Cattle hides account for around 65% of the world's leather production. [115] [116]
Sakha may refer to: . Sakha Republic, a federal subject of Russia; Sakha language, or Yakut, a Turkic language; Sakha people, also Yakuts, a Turkic people; Sakha scripts, writing systems for the Sakha language