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	NAER members: Sakha Republic (Yakutia) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In the center of the blue stripe is the white circle, the proportion of the diameter of the circle to the width of the flag is 2/5.
		The Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) is situated on the north-east of Siberia.
		Vast territory of the Sakha Republic (Yakutia) is weakly and unevenly inhabited.
	near.khb.ru /eng/members/russia/sakha.html (713 words)

	Scott Polar Research Institute » Russian North and Far East Regions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), previously known as Yakutia, is situated in the north-east of the Russian Federation.
		Because Yakutia occupies a significant portion of northeastern Russia with various landscapes (arctic deserts, tundra, taiga, mountain systems, steppes, river basins, and numerous lakes), the territory is of vital significance in preserving the ecological balance in Eurasia.
		Yakutia is conserving 700,000 sq.km., which is a quarter of the territory, as «reserves for the generations to come».
	www.spri.cam.ac.uk /resources/rfn/sakha.html (4327 words)

	Kommersant - Russia's Daily Online
		Yakutia stretches 2500 km from north to south and 2000 km from east to west.
		The Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) borders on Krasnoyarsk Territory in the west, Irkutsk Region in the southwest, Amur and Chita regions in the south, Khabarovsk Territory in the southeast, and Magadan Region and the Chukotka Autonomous District in the east.
		Yakutia is 8468 km from Moscow and 1590 km from Khabarovsk.
	www.kommersant.com /tree.asp?rubric=5&node=449&doc_id=-106 (1523 words)

	Russia - The Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) - RussiaTrek.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Yakutia stretches for 2500 km from the South to the North, and it is occupied 3 time zones (2000 km) from the West to the East.
		Yakutia is quite often named the land of rivers and lakes.
		Yakutia's population is about 1 million, more than 120 nationalities live in the republic.
	www.russiatrek.com /rp_sakha.shtml (524 words)

	MAR \| Data \| Chronology for Yakut in Russia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Yakutia is particularly concerned with the control of its natural resources the region's mines furnish a majority of the USSR's gold and diamonds, yet Yakutia's people are among the poorest in the country.
		Yakutia issues a decree banning recruitment of its citizens into the Russian military on the grounds that draftees are being sent to fight in Chechnya, where separatist forces are battling with Russian troops.
		The president of Yakutia issued a decree regulating the stay of foreign citizens on the territory of the Republic of Sakha, which stated that all foreigners had to secure the permission of the local bodies of power and internal affairs to visit the Russian autonomous republic.
	www.cidcm.umd.edu /inscr/mar/chronology.asp?groupId=36538 (4780 words)

	The magic country
		Yakutia is often referred to as the Land of one thousand wonders.
		Yakutia which in it’s size is equal to five territories of France, is famous not only for it’s bitter cold winter, but for it’s extremely hot summer as well.
		Yakutia’s forests are famous for their larch trees, pine trees, fur tees, birches.
	thor.prohosting.com /deineko/themagic.htm (824 words)

	Sakha - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Sakha (Yakutia) Republic (Yakut: Саха Республиката; Russian: Респу́блика Саха́ (Яку́тия)) is a federal subject of the Russian Federation (a republic).
		On April 27, 1922 former "Yakolskaya land" was proclaimed the Yakut ASSR, and in 1992, after the fall of the Soviet Union, it was recognized in Moscow as the Sakha (Yakutia) Republic under the jurisdiction of the Russian Federation.
		The supreme legislative body of state authority in Sakha is a bicameral State Assembly known as the Il Tumen.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sakha (1248 words)

	Mirny Sights: Museum of Flora and Fauna
		The area of Yakutia is 5.5 times as large as the area of France, 10 times as large as the area of Italy, more than 12 times as large as the area of England.
		Yakutia is rich in natural resources, and the most important of them are ores and minerals hidden in the depths of the earth.
		The territory of Yakutia is the first on the map of the natural resources of Russia.
	faculty.ed.umuc.edu /~tmousali/mirny/museum.html (1345 words)

	Yakuts - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		There are about 363,000 speakers mainly in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) in the Russian Federation, with some extending to the Amur, Magadan, Sakhalin regions, and the Taimyr and Evenki Autonomous Districts.
		Stalin's policy of collectivisation, which began in 1928, was responsible for many thousands of deaths, from which Yakut society did not really begin to recover until the 1960s.
		An independent Yakut Republic was declared by the Supreme Soviet of Yakutia on 15 August, 1991 but, as the Russians greatly outnumbered the Yakuts in the region, this never became a reality.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yakuts (376 words)

	Sakha Republic (Yakutia) - Translation
		Yakutia is an immense region of the north-east of Siberia.
		Yakutia is bordered to the north by the Arctic Ocean, extends to the south to about 250 km from China and covers, from east to west, the basins of five great rivers, the Oleniok, the Lena, the Yana, the Indigirka, and the Kolyma, being equivalent of two time zones.
		Yakutia did not claim independence but a real economic, cultural and why not, political, within Russia, which required the institution of contractual arrangements with Russia.
	www.yukoncollege.yk.ca /~agraham/nost202/sakha_trans.htm (545 words)

	Diamond Mining in Siberia - ExploreNorth
		Yakutia is extremely rich in natural resources, with huge reserves of coal, antimony, nickel, manganese, lead, cobalt, tungsten, molybdenum, bauxite, sulfur and asbestos, as well as having vast forests, and oil and natural gas reserves that some feel rival those of Saudi Arabia.
		The diamond fields of Yakutia, however, are the region's most important resource at the present time, and are what make Yakutia a relatively bright light in the troubled Russian economy.
		Yakutia produces 100% of Russia's antimony, 99% of its diamonds (Russia's main source of foreign currency income), 24% of the gold and 33% of the silver.
	www.explorenorth.com /library/weekly/aa101999.htm (607 words)

	Red Stars Travel Agency - Tours and Travel - What You Need To Know About Our Tours
		On April 27, 1922, Yakutia was granted the status of the autonomous republic and exactly in 70 years the Constitution of the sovereign Republic of Sakha with the President government within the unified Russian State came into force.
		Yakutia is full of natural contrasts: it has the longest and coldest winter, it has the place called “the coldest region of the world,” where in January the temperature can fall to minus 95°F.
		Yakutia is the land of countless rivers and lakes, hundreds of glaciers and ice crusts.
	www.travel2russia.com /destguide/yakut.htm (2455 words)

	RUSNET :: Encyclopedia :: Y :: Yakutia
		Other major events that changed life in Yakutia, were the completion of the mail route in 1773, construction of convict camps, discovery of gold in Yakutia in 1846, construction of the Trans-Siberian Railway in the 1880s and 90s, and the development of commercial shipping on the Lena River.
		Orthodox missionaries were also active in Yakutia, and by the early 1800s, virtually all of the Yakuts were registered as Orthodox Christians, but substantial elements of their folk religion survived.
		On August 15, 1991, the Supreme Soviet of Yakutia declared the sovereignty of the Yakut Republic and the name of the republic was changed to Sakha Republic.
	www.rusnet.nl /encyclo/y/yakutia.shtml (784 words)

	Animal and Plant Diversity and Ecology in Siberia
		Estimate the range and regional peculiarities of soil degradation of the cultivated (farming) zone of Yakutia.
		The basic branch of agriculture in Yakutia is cattle breeding, farming is located in places of and developed in the central part of the republic.
		Yelovskaya L.G. Salinated soils of Yakutia // Pochvovedeniye.
	www.bionet.nsc.ru /misc/ecopro/eng/3_5_3.html (778 words)

	Index of Yakutia Pictures (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		One of the key features of Yakutia is a layer of permanent ice, starting just under the surface of the ground, and extending for hundreds of meters and in places up to 2 kilometers.
		Yakutia is relatively rich thanks to its bountiful natural resources, and the state of infrastructures in the city is generally much better than in the rest of Russia.
		Here in Yakutia, low-lying depressions such as this, where cold air stagnates, are the sites where the coldest temperatures are recorded.
	www.eso.org /~arichich/travel/yakutia (2053 words)

	We/Myi Issue 26 Introduction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Yakutia time is 6, 7, and 8 hours ahead of Moscow time, depending on where you are in the republic, and Moscow is over 8000 kilometers away.
		It is the coldest region of the country, the whole of Yakutia lying in the permafrost zone; in some areas the ground is frozen to a depth of 1500 meters.
		The tenth congress of republic women was held in October 1995 at which an umbrella organization, the Union of Women’s Organizations of the Sakha Republic (Yakutia) was created to consolidate these organizations and raise their roles and visibility in the republic.
	www.we-myi.org /issues/26/introtoyakutiya.html (541 words)

	Yakutian Bankers Networking Reception
		Yakutia is beginning to capture more and more interest around the globe due to its immense size, wealth of natural resources, unique political independence as an autonomous republic, extreme climatic conditions (no where else on earth do temperatures cover a range of 100 degrees centigrade), and raw natural beauty.
		Yakutia is truly blessed with infinite natural resources, the riches underground are as varied and rich as those above ground.
		When Yakutia was granted a percentage of its own net resources by the central government in Moscow, a new investment company was formed to return some of the proceeds of the sale of resources to the development of the region itself.
	members.aol.com /gknla/Seminar/yakutian.htm (1326 words)

	Segmentary Hierarchy of Identity:The Case of Yakuts and Evens in Northern Yakutia
		In order to obtain more fruitful results in the discussion of ethnic problems in the northern Yakutia, researchers should observe the groups which are really active as an object of the people's identity in each area and analyze their historical background.
		The researcher, who cannot be free from the official ethnic framework, must inevitably consider the stereotyped ethnic culture as a common one for people who are registered as a given ethnicity on their passport and will overlook the regional peculiarity which was established under particular ecological and socio-cultural conditions.
		The culture of the Yakuts from northern regions is originally different from that of the Yakuts from central Yakutia, and resembles the culture of reindeer herdsmen of Tungus origin.
	src-h.slav.hokudai.ac.jp /sympo/97summer/sasaki.html (5417 words)

	Travel East Russia - Republic of Yakutia - Sakha
		"The Republic of Yakutia (Sakha) is situated in northeastern Siberia, stretches to the Henrietta Islands in the far north and is washed by the Arctic Ocean (Laptev and Eastern Siberian Seas).
		Again, as with the collectivization of reindeer herds, the decline is mainly due to the restructuring and reorientation during the Soviet period.
		"Forty percent of Yakutia lies within the Arctic Circle and all of it is covered by eternally frozen ground - permafrost - which greatly influences the region's ecology and limits forests in the southern region.
	www.traveleastrussia.com /yakutia.html (1029 words)

	Yakutia-from 1917
		In September 1921, a coalition of Yakut Nationalists, K.D.s and S.R.s overcame the Soviets in Northern Yakutia and besieged Yakutsk.
		Yakutia was also hampered in trading with other parts of the Soviet Union, by the high cost of transport which added 149 per cent to the cost of flour and 267 per cent to the cost of kerosene (then essential for lighting and heating).
		Reindeer herders in the northern and upland regions of Yakutia resisted collectivisation.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /heather.hobden1/1917on.htm (10793 words)

	Animal and Plant Diversity and Ecology in Siberia
		The Arctic zone of Sakha Republic (Yakutia) with its vast tundra and forest-tundra ecosystems is a huge reservoir of organic material accumulated during centuries.
		Universally distributed and near-surface laying highly-iced frost is a conservative of the greenhouse gases of the past époques accumulated during millennia.
		On the other hand, relative atmosphere enrichment by CO is facilitated by anthropogenic degradation of forests of cryolithozone, which leads to a decrease in the volume of photosynthetic carbon dioxide absorption and to loss of ecological importance of boreal forests.
	www.bionet.nsc.ru /misc/ecopro/eng/3_3_1.html (1472 words)

	About Sakha Republic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Sakha Republic (Yakutia) has an independence within the Russian Federation (Independent Internal Republic of Russian Federation).
		The supreme legislative body of state authority in Sakha Republic (Yakutia) is bipartisan State Assembly of Sakha Republic (IL TUMEN).
		For all that Yakutia's summer is quite hot, with temperature sometimes reaching up to 40 degrees Centigrade.
	www.sakha.ru /Eversion/HTMLs/about.htm (503 words)

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