Yakutsk
Proper noun
Meaning
Yakutsk
The capital city of the Sakha Republic (Yakutia), Russia
Synonyms
Examples
As Bering waited for Anna to solidify her grip on the throne, he and Kirilov worked to find a new, more dependable administrator to run Okhotsk and to begin work on improving the roads between Yakutsk and the coastal settlement.
Elsewhere, instructions were sent ahead to Yakutsk, Irkutsk and Okhotsk to aid Bering's second expedition – and thus, the naivety of the first expedition in assuming compliance was repeated.
He was in Yakutsk in June 1700 and in February 1701 he reached Moscow where he presented his report.
On the journey his methods were so rough that most of his men sent a letter of protest to Yakutsk.
Oymyakon and Yakutsk are the only other places in the world with a temperature range higher than convert.
The cultural life of Yakutsk is constantly developing.