Yakutsk (pop. 187,000), 62° 2' N, 129° 44' E,
capital of
Sakha Republic,
Russia, a major port on
Lena river in E
Siberia. 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[?].
