East Siberian Sea - Sakha Republic, Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Northern Sea Route, Adolf Erik Nordenskiold, Pevek, Semyon Dezhnyov, Otto Schmidt (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 24. Chapters: Sakha Republic, Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Northern Sea Route, Adolf Erik Nordenskiold, Pevek, Semyon Dezhnyov, Otto Schmidt, Eduard Toll, Vladimir Voronin, Georgy Brusilov, Eduard Dallmann, Nizhnekolymsky District, Fyodor Matyushkin, Yakov Permyakov, Logashkino. Excerpt: The Sakha (Yakutia) Republic (Russian: , tr. Respublika Sakha (Yakutiya), IPA: Sakha: , Sakha Respublikata) is a federal subject of Russia (a republic). Its population mainly consists of ethnic Yakuts and Russians. Comprising half of the Far Eastern Federal District, it is the largest subnational governing body by area in the world at 3,103,200 km (1,198,200 sq mi) (just smaller than India which covers an area of 3,287,240 km). It has a population of fewer than one million inhabitants. Its capital is Yakutsk. The Turkic Sakha people or Yakuts probably settled in the area in the 13th and 14th centuries, migrating north from the Lake Baikal area to the middle Lena. According to their own traditional accounts, the Sakha were driven out of their earlier homeland by the Buryats. From their new center along the middle Lena they gradually expanded northeast and west beyond the Lena basin towards the Arctic Ocean. The name Sakha is an endonym, of unknown etymology. The term Yakut is a Russian exonym, probably a corruption of Evenk yako "stranger." The Sakha displaced earlier, much smaller populations who lived on hunting and reindeer herding, introducing the pastoralist economy Central Asia. The indigenous populations of Paleosiberian and Tungusic stock were mostly assimilated to the Sakha by the 17th century. The Tsardom of Russia began its conquest of the region in the 17th century, moving east after the defeat of the Khanate of Sibir. Tygyn, a king of the Khangalassky Yakuts, granted territory for Russian settlement in return for a military pact that ...