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YAKUTSK

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 899 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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YAKUTSK  , a

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town of
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Asiatic Russia, capital of the province of the same name, in 62° 2' N. and 129° 44' E., 1165 m . N.E. of
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Irkutsk, on a branch of the
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Lena . Pop. about 7oeo . The old fort is destroyed, except its five wooden towers . The wooden houses are built upon high basements to protect them from the floods . Yakutsk possesses a theological seminary and a
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cathedral . Its merchants carry on trade in furs, mammoth ivory and
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reindeer hides . The town was founded in 1632 .

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