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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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town of See also:Asiatic See also:Russia, See also:capital of the See also:province of the same name, in 62° 2' N. and 129° 44' E., 1165 m. N.E. of See also:Irkutsk, on a See also:branch of the See also: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 See also:seminary and a See also:cathedral. Its merchants carry on See also:trade in furs, See also:mammoth See also:ivory and See also:reindeer hides. The town was founded in 1632.

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