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Population of Yakutsk: 330,615 people (2021)
Date of foundation of Yakutsk: 1632
Phone code of the city Yakutsk: +7 4112
Automobile code of the city Yakutsk: 14
Postal code of the city Yakutsk: 677xxx
Yakutsk is the capital of Yakutia, an autonomous republic in Russia, which is also known as Sakha. According to the type of climate, it is the harshest city in which hospitable people live. 1632 is the date of its foundation. In summer, there are white nights in Yakutsk, and in December the day is only 3-4 hours. The distance from Yakutsk to Moscow by road is 8,400 km.
What to see in Yakutsk
The most interesting and colorful place in Yakutsk is the Old Quarter, full of cobbled streets and buildings in the original Russian style of the last centuries. Thanks to the Old Quarter, a calm and very cozy atmosphere is created in the city.
Yakut museums are also very interesting, as they have no analogues anywhere else. For example, a unique mammoth museum with a collection of the remains of these animals. Many relics date back to the Ice Age. The Mammoth Museum was founded right on the spot where the first remains of extinct animals were discovered.
Education in Yakutsk
Higher educational institutions in Yakutsk include the Arctic State Agrotechnological University, the Northeastern Federal University named after M. K. Ammosov, the Arctic State Institute of Culture and Arts, the East Siberian Institute of Economics and Management, the Higher School of Music of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) named after V. A. Bosikov, the Yakut Humanitarian Institute, a branch of the Siberian State University of Water Transport, Branch of the Academy of Labor and Social Relations, Yakut Theological Seminary of the Yakut Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church.
The economy of Yakutsk
The city has developed the food industry, diamond cutting, metalworking, production of building materials, energy, woodworking.
Transport in Yakutsk
The city has a river port on the Lena River. You can reach Sangara, Zhigansk, Tiksi and Olekminsk by river. There is no railway in Yakutsk yet. There are two airports in the city: Yakutsk International Airport and Magan Reserve Airport. The A-360 Lena highway ends in the village of Nizhny Bestyakh, across the river from Yakutsk. There is a highway "Kolyma" Yakutsk — Magadan.
Sights of Yakutsk
The Kingdom of Permafrost, the Mammoth Museum, the Exhibition Treasury of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), the Museum of History and Culture of the Peoples of the North named after E. Yaroslavsky, the National Art Museum of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), the Pushkin State Russian Drama Theater, the Museum of the History of Permafrost Studies, the Museum and the Khomus Center of the Peoples of the World, the Chochur Muran Observation Deck, the Gradoyakutsky Transfiguration Cathedral, the Monument to Peter Beketov, the Yakut Zoo Orto Doid, the Museum of Music and Folklore of Peoples Yakutia, the City's Central Park of Culture and Recreation, St. Nicholas Church in Gradoyakut, the International Center for Harp Music, the Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the D.K. State Opera and Ballet Theater. Sivtsev-Suorun Omolloon, Yakut State Literary Museum named after P.A. Oyunsky.
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