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Yakutsk (/ j ə ˈ k uː t s k / 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 population of 355,443 at the 2021 census.
Yakutsk Aeroport, the main air-traffic hub of the republic. Air transport is the most important for transporting people. Airlines connect the republic with most regions of Russia. Yakutsk Airport has an international terminal. Two federal roads pass the republic. They are Yakutsk–Skovorodino (A360 Lena highway) and Yakutsk–Magadan (M56 ...
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There are seven major Yakut anti-colonial uprisings that took place during the period of the so-called "voluntary annexation": 1633-1634, 1636-1637, 1639-1640, 1642, [4] 1675-1676, 1681-1682, and 1683-1684. Moscow was ready to hold Siberia at any price, because in the XVII century more than 60% of the infusions into the Kremlin treasury came ...
[56] [57] There is a widespread notion among other ethnic minorities in Russia based on their experience (for example, among geographically close Mongolic Buryats) that the Sakha (i.e. Yakuts) are the least russified ethnic group in Russia and that the knowledge of the native language is widespread, particularly (as is often said) due to the ...
Pesterev, V.I. (1993), Исторические миниатюры о Якутии [Historical miniatures about Yakutia] (in Russian), Yakutsk {}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher Antonov, P.E. (1995), Тунгусское восстание: ошибок можно было избежать [ Tungus uprising: mistakes could be avoided ...
1646 - expedition of Vasily Poyarkov: a campaign from Yakutsk to the Sea of Okhotsk; 1647 - Ivan Moskvitin founded Okhotsk; 1648 - Semyon Dezhnev passes the Bering Strait, the first European to do so, 80 years before Vitus Bering. 1648–1653 - Yerofey Khabarov's campaigns in Dauria; 1649–1689 - Russian-Qing border conflict; 1652 - Battle of ...
Cold War participants – the Cold War primarily consisted of competition between the Eastern Bloc and the Western Bloc.While countries and organizations explicitly aligned to one or the other are listed below, this does not include those involved in specific Cold War events, such as North Korea, South Korea, and Vietnam.