YAKUTSK

yəkootskˈ, 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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books on: Yakutsk  - 272 results

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Ethnic Conflict in the Post-Soviet World: Case Studies and Analysis
Book by Leokadia Drobizheva, Rose Gottemoeller, Catherine McArdle Kelleher, Lee Walker; M. E. Sharpe, 1996
Subjects: Europe, Eastern--Ethnic Relations--Political Aspects, Europe, Eastern--Politics And Government--1989-, Former Soviet Republics--Ethnic Relations--Political Aspects, Former Soviet Republics--Politics And Government, Nationalism--Europe, Eastern, Nationalism--Former Soviet Republics, Post-Communism--Europe, Eastern, Post-Communism--Former Soviet Republics
...dvuiazychie sotsio- lingvisticheskii aspect Yakutsk: Academy of Sciences, 1992 , and M...v regione po materialam Iakutskoi ASSR Yakutsk: Academy of Sciences, 1990 , p. 112...Iakutiia o merakh po razvitiiu obrazovaniia" Yakutsk, 1993 , document; Egor P. Zhirkov...
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Siberian Village: Land and Life in the Sakha Republic
Book by Bella Bychkova Jordan, Terry G. Jordan-Bychkov; University of Minnesota Press, 2001
Subjects: Dzharkhan (Russia)--History, Dzharkhan (Russia)--Social Life And Customs, Sakha (Russia)--History, Sakha (Russia)--Social Life And Customs
...Seventeenth to Early Twentieth Centuries; in Russian). Yakutsk: Yakutsk Publishing House. Mote, Victor L. 1998. Siberia...Yakutii (Wooden Architecture of Yakutia; in Russian). Yakutsk: Yakutsk Publishing House. Opolonikov, Alexsandr...
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The Soviet Union & International Oil Politics
Book by Arthur Jay Klinghoffer; Columbia University Press, 1977
Subjects: Petroleum Industry And Trade--Soviet Union, Soviet Union--Foreign Economic Relations, World Politics--1975-1985
...had displayed a serious interest in the Yakutsk project while Japan was rather hesitant...USSR signed a letter of intent to develop Yakutsk gas resources. 41 Japan was proceeding...Japanese-American technical delegation to Yakutsk to look into the feasibility of large...
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Rediscovering Russia in Asia: Siberia and the Russian Far East
Book by Stephen Kotkin, David Wolff; M.E. Sharpe, 1995
Subjects: Russian Far East (Russia)--History, Siberia (Russia)--History
...Novosibirsk: Nauka, 1992 ; Bihigi Sakhalar Yakutsk: Sakha sirineehi, 1992 ; and Maksimov...etnicheskie protsessy v Tsentralnoi Iakutii Yakutsk: Academy of Sciences, 1985 ; B. N...Gogolev, Istoricheskaia etnografiia Iakutov Yakutsk: University Press, 1986 ; "Cultural...
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Natural Regions of the U.S.S.R
Book by L. S. Berg; Macmillan, 1950
Subjects: Botany--Soviet Union, Physical Geography--Soviet Union, Zoology--Soviet Union
...SEPT. OCT. NOV. DEC. ANNUAL AVERAGE Yakutsk * -43.3 -36.2 -22.9 -8.5 5...In summer, on the other hand, in both Yakutsk and Verkhoyansk temperatures of over 30 C. occur. In Yakutsk almost 38 C. has been recorded. The...
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journal articles on: Yakutsk  - 26 results

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Between Appeasement and Coercion: Russia's Center-periphery Relations from Yeltsin to Putin
Journal article by Michael Thumann; Demokratizatsiya, Vol. 9, 2001
Subjects: Diplomacy, International, International relations, Putin, Vladimir, Russia, Yeltsin, Boris
...Slovenias: one million. The capital, Yakutsk, a former cossack fortress, can be reached...frozen. There was no railway built to Yakutsk. In the summer, heavy rains and unpaved...travelers in Siberia prefer to avoid. In Yakutsk, bookstores sell a road atlas of Sakha...
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Viliui Sakha Post-Soviet Adaptation: A Subarctic Test of Netting's Smallholder-Householder Theory
Journal article by Susan A. Crate; Human Ecology, Vol. 31, 2003
...the regional center, Suntar, or the capital, Yakutsk. One fourth of all households surveyed send products...Yakutov Historical ethnography of the Sakha, Yakutsk State University Press, Yakutsk. Gogolov, A. I. (1993). The Problem of...
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Professional Media Training in the Cis and Russian Far East
Journal article by Joy F. Morrison; The Journalism Educator, Vol. 49, 1994
Subjects: Commonwealth of Independent States, Employment training programs, Journalism, Mass media, Russia, University of Alaska-Fairbanks
...journalism and media management training in Yakutsk, Sakha Republic. The project began in...with a training and evaluation visit to Yakutsk by three American journalism faculty members...funds for one of our faculty to visit Yakutsk for three months, to assist with the...
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The Changing Model of Russian Media and Journalism Education
Journal article by Joy Morrison; Journalism & Mass Communication Educator, Vol. 52, 1997
Subjects: Comparative studies, Education, Europe, Journalism, Models, Reporters, Russia, United States
...linguistics). According to Oleg Yakimov, Yakutsk State University Journalism Department...experience (personal communication, Yakutsk, May 1995). European journalism training...director of international programs, Yakutsk State University, e-mail communication...
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Native 'Land Claims', Russian Style
Journal article by Gail Fondahl, Olga Lazebnik, Greg Poelzer, Vasily Robbek; The Canadian Geographer, Vol. 45, 2001
Subjects: Canadian native peoples--Social aspects, Human territoriality--Cases, Land use--Cases, Social policy--Canada
...officials in the republican capital of Yakutsk indicate a variety of paths to, and obstacles...as one of exogenous intervention: From Yakutsk and Srednekolymsk there came a commission...farm in 1991, a group of scientists from Yakutsk encouraged the formation of an obshchina...
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magazine articles on: Yakutsk  - 17 results

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Open Season on the Woolly Mammoth
Magazine article by Randall Hyman; International Wildlife, Vol. 25, May-June 1995
Subjects: Mammoths--Appreciation
...here." In fact, the capital city, Yakutsk - where Lazarev works as director of the...weakened Moscows regulation of commerce in Yakutsk. While the Sakha have not yet gained...merchants. In the nineteenth century, Yakutsk was the world capital for trade in mammoth...
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White Nights in Siberia: By Local Ferry Down the Lena, One of Russia's Great Waterways
Magazine article by Jeffrey Tayler; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 283, December 2000
Subjects: Ocean travel, Rivers, Siberia--Description and travel
...stern. Our destination was the city of Yakutsk, 1,242 miles and five days travel away...log rafts, and built another ostrog at Yakutsk. They found the water rich in sturgeon...and ermine. Later, using Ust Kut and Yakutsk as supply bases, the Cossacks traveled...
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White Nights in Siberia
Magazine article by Jeffrey Tayler; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 286, December 2000
Subjects: Russia--Description and travel, Siberia--Description and travel, Travel--Personal narratives
...stern. Our destination was the city of Yakutsk, 1,242 miles and five days travel away...log rafts, and built another ostrog at Yakutsk. They found the water rich in sturgeon...and ermine. Later, using Ust Kut and Yakutsk as supply bases, the Cossacks traveled...
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Esteemed Passengers! Searching for Equanimity in the Skies above Siberia
Magazine article by Jeffrey Tayler; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 287, February 2001
Subjects: Sakha, Russia--Description and travel, Travel industry--Services
...Skies above Siberia. by Jeffrey Tayler Yakutsk, the capital of the Russian Republic...more often fervently desired, out of-Yakutsk is by air. Only a few airlines, however...at the end of a summertime visit to Yakutsk, I bought a ticket for the six-hour...
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Esteemed Passengers! Searching for Equanimity in the Skies about Siberia
Magazine article by Jeffrey Tayler; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 287, February 2001
Subjects: Regional airlines--Russia
...Skies about Siberia. by Jeffrey Tayler Yakutsk, the capital of the Russian Republic...more often fervently desired, out of--Yakutsk is by air. Only a few airlines, however...at the end of a summertime visit to Yakutsk, I bought a ticket for the six-hour...
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newspaper articles on: Yakutsk  - 20 results

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Homecoming for Bison after 5,000 Years; 30 to Be Released in Siberia
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, April 25, 2006
...Michael Mainville, THE WASHINGTON TIMES YAKUTSK, Russia - After an absence of more than...from Edmonton, Alberta, on April 7 to Yakutsk, the capital of Sakha, a vast region...from the Canadian province of Alberta to Yakutsk, Russia, to begin repopulating the tundra...
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NUMB & NUMB-ER; Temperatures Are Set to Go EVEN Lower
Newspaper article; Sunday Mirror (London, England), January 10, 2010
...this a winter? In the Siberian city of Yakutsk, officially the coldest city on earth...temperatures of -50C. So here are top tips from Yakutsk on how to survive: Smear your face with...cent. Fur-ly chilly... freezing in Yakutsk SWANSEA Sienna Hartland, 3, gets a tow...
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NUMB & NUMB-ER; Temperatures Are Set to Go EVEN Lower
Newspaper article; Sunday Mirror (London, England), January 10, 2010
...this a winter? In the Siberian city of Yakutsk, officially the coldest city on earth...temperatures of -50C. So here are top tips from Yakutsk on how to survive: Smear your face with...Durham. Fur-ly chilly... freezing in Yakutsk SWANSEA Sienna Hartland, 3, gets a tow...
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NUMB & NUMB-ER; Temperatures Are Set to Go EVEN Lower
Newspaper article; Sunday Mirror (London, England), January 10, 2010
...this a winter? In the Siberian city of Yakutsk, officially the coldest city on Earth...temperatures of -50C. So here are top tips from Yakutsk on how to survive: Smear your face with...cent. Fur-ly chilly... freezing in Yakutsk DORSET Sea starts to freeze off Chesil...
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THE LINE T FIVE; Next Time You Moan about Getting to the Office, Spare a Thought for These Commuters
Newspaper article; Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland), October 8, 2011
...bicycles and riding into work is probably the best option. YAKUTSK, RUSSIA WHEN its minus 2C outside, the thought of leaving...So spare a thought for commuters in the Siberian city of Yakutsk - they have to brave temperatures below minus 45C. Just starting...
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encyclopedia articles on: Yakutsk  - 8 results

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Yakutsk
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
YAKUTSK y kootsk , city (1989 pop. 187,000), capital...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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Sakha Republic
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...108,000 sq km), NE Siberian Russia. Yakutsk is the capital. The Sakha Republic is...have great hydroelectric potential. The Yakutsk-Skovorodino highway is the chief overland...rail line from the Trans-Siberian RR to Yakutsk. Air transport and winter sledging are...
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Aldan , River, Russia
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Tommot and around the Aldan Plateau, before flowing generally northwest to enter the Lena River c.100 mi (160 km) N of Yakutsk. The Amga, Uchur, and Maya rivers are its main tributaries. The Aldan River is navigable c.1,000 mi (1,610 km...
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Ledyard, John
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...permission, but in 1787 he reached St. Petersburg and was permitted to start the long, dangerous journey that took him to Yakutsk. There, however, he was arrested and sent back. Ledyard was engaged in a plan (supported by Sir Joseph Banks ) for exploring...
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Russia
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...in the taiga and tundra regions. Russian Far East Bordering on the Pacific Ocean, the region has Komsomolsk, Khabarovsk, Yakutsk, and Vladivostok as its chief cities. Machinery is produced, and lumbering, fishing, hunting, and fur trapping are important...
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