Yakutia, The Republic of Sakha

Yakutia, The Republic of Sakha – a territorial entity of the Russian Federation within the Far Eastern Federal District. The area is 3,103,000 km² (¹/₅ of Russia and ¹/₃ of Europe) (33 administrative regions, 13 cities, 57 worker settlements, and 354 village administrative offices). It adjoins seven territorial entities of the RF. The population is about one million (the urban population is 65 %). The population density is 0.3 people per 1 km². The largest cities are as follows: the capital is the city of Yakutsk which was founded in 1633 (208,500), the city of Neryungri (78,000), the city of Mirny (38,000), the city of Lensk (30,000), and the city of Aldan (24,600). Formerly, the entity was a part of the Yakut region in 1922 – the Yakut ASSR (Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic) within the RSFSR. In line with the formation of the Chukchi and the Evenki national districts in 1930, part of the YASSR was handed over to the formations. In 1990, the Republic announced its sovereignty....