Yakutsk

On the Russian president’s instructions, a full-cycle movie pavilion, the largest in Russia beyond the Urals, will be built in Yakutsk.

The last leg flew out of Yakutsk, a gray city in Russia’s far east, whose name has, like Siberia’s, become shorthand for exile.

As Bering waited for Anna to solidify her grip on the throne, he and Kirilov worked to find a new, more dependable administrator to run Okhotsk and to begin work on improving the roads between Yakutsk and the coastal settlement.

Elsewhere, instructions were sent ahead to Yakutsk, Irkutsk and Okhotsk to aid Bering's second expedition – and thus, the naivety of the first expedition in assuming compliance was repeated.

He was in Yakutsk in June 1700 and in February 1701 he reached Moscow where he presented his report.

On the journey his methods were so rough that most of his men sent a letter of protest to Yakutsk.

Oymyakon and Yakutsk are the only other places in the world with a temperature range higher than convert.

The cultural life of Yakutsk is constantly developing.

The overland journey from Yakutsk to Anadyrsk took about six months.

The rapid growth of forced labor camps in Siberia was also a major factor encouraging Yakutsk’s development.

There was so little pasture in the area that pack horses sometimes had to be returned to Yakutsk unloaded.

The Yakutsk Voyevoda quickly became the most important Russian official in the region and directed expansion to the east and south.

Whilst Spangberg headed east to Okhotsk, Bering waited in Yakutsk, preparing two ships on the Lena (one would be captained by Vasili Pronchishchev and the other first by Peter Lassenius and later by Dmitry Laptev ).

Yakutsk did not grow into a city until the discovery of large reserves of gold and other minerals in the 1880s and 1890s.