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| | Sakha (Yakutia) Republic - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Sakha (Yakutia) Republic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18) |
 | | Autonomous republic of the Russian Federation, in eastern Siberia; area 3,103,000 sq km/1,198,100 sq mi; population (1997) 1,032,000 (50% Russians, 33% Yakuts). |
 | | In the 19th century, Yakutia became an area of banishment, and forced labour camps (gulags) operated here from the 1930s to mid-1950s. |
 | | It became a Soviet Republic after the area was won from the Whites in 1923. |
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