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ID: 7014433
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7014433
Record Type:
administrative
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:
World
(facet)
....
Asia
(continent) (
P
)
........
Rossija
(nation) (
P
)
............
Sakha
(Yakutiya) (republic) (
P
)
................
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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