Yakutsk is a city in northeastern Siberia, and lies on the river Lena.
officially has about 230 000 inhabitants, but unofficially it will be something around 300 000
was founded in 1632 as a Cossack fortress. Now this is an important administrative center, science and culture and the industrial north-eastern Siberia. There is a large airport and the river (it is planned railway connection with BAMem, at this moment the northern branch BAMu commute to Ałdanu). University, Research Institute Eternal Permafrost. The town is situated on permafrost (which is why all the buildings must be founded on piles), a short distance (about 1000 miles) from the pole of cold in the northern hemisphere (Verkhoyansk, -70 deg C). The climate is very continental, there are a very long and cold winter (frost reaching to -60 degrees Celsius), a short, yet very hot summer (heat to 40 degrees Celsius). The population are mainly Russians and Yakuts. Extractive industries (diamonds, gold), and food industries, leather, metal.
