Yakutia (Sakha) - Republic of Russia

Yakutia - Republic of Russia

General information about Yakutia republic

Welcome in the biggest autonomous region of Russia. With more than 3 millions sqare meter of territory, you can enjoy the liberty that gives the landscape of Siberia as well as discovering the great heritage of native people of Yakutia.

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Geography of Yakutia

The Yakutia republic has an area of more than 3 million sq. km. It has 2 500 km from east to west and 2 000 km from north to south. Its territory covers an area about the same size of India, and represents almost 1/5 of the surface of the whole Russia. Almost 40% of the territory is located north of the Arctic Circle. Yakutia is the largest republic of Russia.

The area of Yakutia is bounded on the north by the Laptev Sea and East Siberian Sea coastal seas of the Arctic Ocean to the west by Kraï Krasnoyarsk, south by the Irkutsk Oblast, the Krai and Transbaikalia oblast Amour on the east by the Khabarovsk Krai, oblast Magadan and Chukotka autonomous district.

We consider Yakutia to be a mountain region. Evene then, the plateau of central Siberia occupies the entire west course of Lena river with an altitude between 600-800m above the sea level.

The capital of Yakutia (Yakustk) is about 6000 regional from Moscow, the Russian capital. It is also about 1600km from Vladivostok, in the far east of the country.

Yakutia republic has 3 time zones: UTC +9, +10 to +11.

Climate of Yakutia

The climate of Yakutia is the coldest and most extreme in the world. It’s here that the lowest temperature were registered. It’s surely because of its geographical situation in the far east of Russia that the climate is so continental and that the magnitude of temperatures can be so wide (-60 º C in winter, 40 degrees C in summer). The coldest inhabited place inhabited is situated in Oymyakon (east of Yakutia republic) with a record of -72 ° C. Winter is very long (The average temperature from October to April in Yakutsk is below zero). In Yakutia spring and fall are very short. The rainfall is low in the plain (around 240 mm to Yakutsk). They are more important in the mountains to the east and south: 500 to 700 mm per year in Yakutia. Half of the precipations took place during the summer. At this moment of the year, the sunshine is important.

Demographic changes of Yakutia over the years

1926 287 000

1939 414 000

1950 361 000

1959 487 000

1970 664 000

1979 839 000

1989 1 081 864

1992 1 093 000

2001 973 800

2007 950 000

Composition of Yakutia ethnicity

According to the statistic of 2002, there are about about 949 280 residents living in Yakutia. Over that amount are 432 290 Yakuts, 18 232 Evenks (1.92%), 11 657 Evens (1.23%), Dolgans 1 272, 1 097 Yukaghirs ( 0.12%) as well as 390 671 Russian (41.15%), 34 633 Ukrainian (3.65%), 10 768 Tatars (1.13%), 7 266 Buriat (0.77%), 4 236 Belarussians (0.45%), 2 764 Armenians ( 0.29%), 2 355 Bachkirs (0.25%), 2 293 Azeris (0.24%), 2 283 ethnic Germans (Volga, ..) (0.24%)