where the sun rises in the East to the East
Yakutsk is a city in Russia located in north-eastern Siberia. It is the capital of Sakha-Yakutia and its largest city with 232,528 inhabitants; it is also the largest port on the Lena River. Yakutsk was founded in 1632 on the right bank of the Lena River by Cossack troops commanded by the explorer Pëtr Ivanovič Beketov. Later a fort was built to allow the collection of the Yasaq, the tax imposed on indigenous peoples by the Russian Tsar. In this case the populations subjected to this tribute were the Yakuts, the Evens and the Evenks. It developed especially in the second half of the 19th century thanks to the gold and coal mines in the area and then, under the communist government, through the exploitation of forced laborers from the gulags.
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Yakutsk the coldest city in the world
(images taken and adapted from the diary from Moscow
by Stefano Tiozzo)
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where the sun rises in the East to the East
Yakutsk is a city in Russia located in north-eastern Siberia. It is the capital of Sakha-Yakutia and its largest city with 232,528 inhabitants; it is also the largest port on the Lena River. Yakutsk was founded in 1632 on the right bank of the Lena River by Cossack troops commanded by the explorer Pëtr Ivanovič Beketov. Later a fort was built to allow the collection of the Yasaq, the tax imposed on indigenous peoples by the Russian Tsar. In this case the populations subjected to this tribute were the Yakuts, the Evens and the Evenks. It developed especially in the second half of the 19th century thanks to the gold and coal mines in the area and then, under the communist government, through the exploitation of forced laborers from the gulags.
Wikipedia
Yakutsk the coldest city in the world
(images taken and adapted from the diary from Moscow
by Stefano Tiozzo)
life scenes
SDC-09434