Yakut Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic

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Territory of the Yakut ASSR, today the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)

The Yakut ASSR ( Yakut Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic ) was an autonomous Soviet republic in the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR) within the Soviet Union . It existed from 1921 to 1991. The Siberian area is 3,130,200 square kilometers and is inhabited by only about one million people. The capital was Yakutsk . The climate is very inhospitable, temperatures below −50 degrees Celsius are not uncommon. The area has rich mineral resources of coal, gold, diamonds, tin, mica, rock salt and natural gas, but these are very difficult to reach and poorly developed. Little traffic makes the development of the barely inhabited country difficult. The most important river is the Lena , on which shipping is operated. During the Soviet era, industry was established, which led to the immigration of a large number of Russians. With the dissolution of the USSR in 1991, the region was granted extensive autonomy rights. Today it is part of Russia as the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) .

literature

  • Yevgeny Zhukov and others: Sovetskaya istoritscheskaja enziklopedija: Tom 16 . Sowetskaja enziklopedija, Moscow 1976, col. 869 ff. (Russian)