Yakutia at a glance

The Sakha (Yakutia) Republic (Yakut: Саха Республиката; Russian: Респу́блика Саха (Якутия)) is a federal subject of Russia (a republic). The direct transliteration of the republic's name is Sakha Respublikata in Yakut and Respublika Sakha (Yakutiya) in Russian.

Yakutia (Sakha) is located in eastern Siberia and stretches to the Henrietta Islands in the far north and is washed by the Laptev and Eastern Siberian Seas of the Arctic Ocean. New Siberian Islands are a part of the republic's territory. Yakutia spans three different time zones: from +0900 (YAKT)/+1000 (YAKST) upto +1100 (MAGT)/+1200 (MAGST)

Sakha Republic is currently the largest subnational entity in the World in terms of land area. If a map of Yakutia were superimposed upon a map of the continental (lower 48) states of USA, Yakutia would overlap almost a half. However the population of Yakutia is less then one of a single state such as Rhode Island.

Yakutia is also known for its climate extremes, with Verkhoyansk Range being the coldest area in the northern hemisphere. The Northern Hemisphere's ‘Cold Pole’ is at Oymyakon (also spelled as Oimekon), where the temperatures have reached as low as –71.2° C (–96.2° F) in January, 1926.

Sakha is well endowed with raw materials. The soil contains large reserves of oil, gas, coal, diamonds, gold, and silver. 99% of all Russian diamonds are mined in Sakha, accounting for over 23% of the world's diamond production.

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Courtesy of NVK Sakha. This online radio station is broadcasting Sakha ethnic music, songs, news, talk shows, etc. To listen to the station, you can use any media player. Windows users may use Winamp or Real Player for instance or the native Windows Media Player.

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Yakutia in pictures

Photo chroniques by Pavol Krhnyavy
Slovaks at the Pole of Cold.

Every year slovak and czech teams take part in annual tour "Pole of Cold" driving their 4x4s through snowy trails of the mountains Verkhoyanskiy Khrebet...
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Photos by Svetlana Kobyakova
Bus trip to Zhigansk.

Zhigansk is located to the north from Yakutsk behind the Polar Circle. This time I decided to ride a bus...
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Photos by Andrea Richichi
Intrepid Italian: Fantastic Winter Frosts.

If you do go in the winter, make sure you are warm. Forget all those fancy warm clothes that are sold in the west: unless you have a few canadian or alaskan winters on your back, you have no idea...
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