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ID: 7014433
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7014433
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Yakutsk (inhabited place)  Yakutsk (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 62 10 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 62.1667  decimal degrees
Long: 129 50 00 E  degrees minutes   Long: 129.8333  decimal degrees

Note: Developed as 18th-cen. fur-trading post on Lena River; gold was first mined in 1850; the small provincial village expanded after WW II; noted for modern housing & roads, food-processing, sawmilling & light industries.

Names:
Yakutsk (preferred,C,V,O,Russian (transliterated)-P)
Jakutsk (C,V)
Yerkutsk (C,U)
Якутск (C,U,Russian-P)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Asia (continent)  ....  Asia (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Rossija (nation)  ........  Rossija (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Sakha (Yakutiya) (republic)  ............  Sakha (Yakutiya) (republic) (P)
Hierarchy of Yakutsk (inhabited place)  ................  Yakutsk (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  founded as a fort in 1632 on right bank of river & moved to present site in 1642
city (C)
regional capital (C)
inland port (C)
agricultural center (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Якутск..........  [VP]
.................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -3038516
Jakutsk..........  [VP]
.................  Russia, National Geographic (1993) map supplement
.................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 1357
Yakutsk..........  [VP Preferred]
.................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -3038516
.................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 218
Yerkutsk..........  [VP]
.................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -3038516
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -3038516
..................  Russia, National Geographic (1993) map supplement
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1994) 218
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) 1357
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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