Yakutsk
Yakutsk is a capital of Republic Saha (Yakutia), one of the
oldest cities of Siberia. The city was founded in 1632 when the group of Peter
Beketov surveying the coast of the river Lena laid down Lenskiy Jail on the
right coast of the river in 70 km to the north of contemporary Yakutsk. Since
its foundation Yakutsk has been the center and basic base for research of
north-east Asia. Semen Dezhnev, Vladimir Atlasov, Ivan Moskvitin, Vasily
Pojarkov, Erofey Khabarov discovered a passage between Asia and America,
Kamchatka, Amur river, Arctic coasts and great Pacific Ocean starting from here,
from Yakutsk.
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