Sakha Republic

Short description: Administrative division of eastern Russia

"Yakutia" redirects here. For other uses, see Yakutia (disambiguation).

Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)

Republic

Республика Саха (Якутия)
Other transcription(s)
• Yakut| Саха Өрөспүүбүлүкэтэ
• Romanisation| Saxa Öröspüübülükete

Flag

Coat of arms

Anthem: State Anthem of the Sakha Republic[1]

File:Anthem of the Sakha Republic.ogg

Coordinates:  [ ⚑ ] : 66°24′N 129°10′E﻿ / ﻿66.4°N 129.167°E﻿ / 66.4; 129.167
Country| Russia
Federal districts of Russia| Far Eastern[2]
Economic region| Far Eastern[3]
Capital| Yakutsk[4]
Government

• Body| State Assembly (Il Tumen)[5]
• Head[5]| Aysen Nikolayev
Area

[6]

• Total| 3,083,523 km2 (1,190,555 sq mi)
Area rank| 1st
Time zones
most (excluding districts in UTC+10:00 and UTC+11:00 time zones)| UTC+09:00 (Yakutsk Time)
Oymyakonsky, Ust-Yansky and Verkhoyansky districts| UTC+10:00 (Vladivostok Time)
ISO 3166 code| RU-SA
License plates| 14
Official languages| Russian;[7] Yakut[8]
Website| sakha.gov.ru

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Sakha,[lower-alpha 1] officially the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia),[lower-alpha 2] is a republic of Russia, and the largest federal subject of Russia by area. It is located in the Russian Far East, along the Arctic Ocean, with a population of one million.[9] Sakha comprises half of the area of its governing Far Eastern Federal District, and is the world's largest country subdivision, covering over 3,083,523 km2 (1,190,555 sq mi).[10] Yakutsk, which is the world's coldest major city,[11] is its capital and largest city.

The republic has a reputation for an extreme and severe climate, with the second lowest temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere being recorded in Verkhoyansk and Oymyakon (second only to Summit Camp, Greenland), and regular winter averages commonly dipping below −35 °C (−31 °F) in Yakutsk. The hypercontinental tendencies also result in warm summers for much of the republic.

Sakha was first home to hunting-gathering and reindeer herding Tungusic and Paleosiberian peoples such as the Evenks and Yukaghir. Migrating from the area around Lake Baikal, the Turkic Sakha people first migrated to the middle Lena River sometime between the 9th and 16th centuries, likely in several waves, bringing the pastoral economic system of Inner Asia with them.

The Russians colonised and incorporated the area as the Yakutsk Oblast into the Tsardom of Russia in the early-mid 17th century, obliging the indigenous peoples of the area to pay fur tribute. While the initial period following the Russian conquest saw the Sakha population drop by 70%, the Imperial period also saw the expansion of the native Yakuts from the middle Lena along the Vilyuy River to the north and the east displacing other indigenous groups. Yakutia saw some of the last battles of the Russian Civil War, and the Bolshevik authorities reorganised Yakutsk Oblast into the autonomous Yakut ASSR in 1922. The Soviet era saw the migration of many Slavs, specifically Russians and Ukrainians, into the area.

On 27 September 1990, the area became the Yakutskaya-Sakha Soviet Socialist Republic, and on 27 December 1991, it became the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia).

## Contents

* 1 Etymology
* 2 Geography
* 2.1 Time zones
* 2.2 Rivers
* 2.3 Lakes
* 2.4 Mountains
* 2.5 Peninsulas
* 2.6 Islands
* 2.7 Natural resources
* 2.8 Climate
* 3 Administrative divisions
* 4 History
* 4.1 Pre-history
* 4.2 Early history
* 4.3 Russian conquest
* 4.4 Russian Empire
* 4.5 Soviet era
* 4.6 Post-Soviet era
* 5 Demographics
* 5.1 Settlements
* 5.2 Vital statistics
* 5.3 Ethnic groups
* 5.4 Languages
* 5.5 Religion
* 5.6 Education
* 6 Politics
* 7 Economy
* 7.1 Mining
* 7.2 Transportation
* 8 Media
* 9 Culture
* 10 National days
* 11 See also
* 12 Explanatory notes
* 13 References
* 13.1 Citations
* 13.2 General and cited references
* 14 External links

## Etymology

The exonym Yakut comes from the Evenk term Yako (also yoqo, ñoqa, or ñoka), which was the term the Evenks used to describe the Sakha. This was in turn picked up by the Russians.[12] The Yukaghirs, another neighbouring people in Siberia, use the exonym yoqol ~ yoqod- ~ yoqon- (Tundra Yukaghir) or yaqal ~ yaqad- ~ yaqan- (Kolyma Yukaghir). The self-designation Sakha may be of the same origin (*jaqa > Sakha following regular sound changes in the course of development of the Yakut language) as the Evenk and Yukaghir exonyms for the Yakuts.[13] It is pronounced as Haka by the Dolgans, whose language is a close relative of the Yakut language.[14][15]

## Geography

Fauna of the Sakha Republic: Ross's gull, the Siberian crane, polar bear, horse and reindeer. Russian post miniature sheet, 2006.

* Borders:
* internal: Chukotka Autonomous Okrug (660 km) (East and Northeast), Magadan Oblast (1520 km) (East), Khabarovsk Krai (2130 km) (Southeast), Amur Oblast (South), Zabaykalsky Krai (South), Irkutsk Oblast (South and Southwest), Krasnoyarsk Krai (West).
* water: Arctic Ocean (including Laptev Sea and Eastern Siberian Sea) (North).
* Highest point: Peak Pobeda (3,003 m)
* Maximum N–S distance: 2,500 km (1,600 mi)
* Maximum E–W distance: 2,000 km (1,200 mi)

Sakha stretches to the Henrietta Island in the far north and is washed by the Laptev and Eastern Siberian Seas of the Arctic Ocean. These waters, the coldest and iciest of all seas in the Northern Hemisphere, are covered by ice for 9–10 months of the year. New Siberian Islands are a part of the republic's territory. After Nunavut was separated from Canada's Northwest Territories in 1999, Sakha became the largest subnational entity (statoid) in the world, with an area of 3,083,523 km2 (1,190,555 sq mi),[10] slightly smaller than the territory of India (3.3 million km2), but still slightly larger than Argentina.

Sakha can be divided into three great vegetation belts. About 40% of Sakha lies above the Arctic Circle and all of it is covered by permafrost which greatly influences the region's ecology and limits forests in the southern region. Arctic and subarctic tundra define the middle region, where lichen and moss grow as great green carpets and are favourite pastures for reindeer. In the southern part of the tundra belt, scattered stands of dwarf Siberian pine and larch grow along the rivers. Below the tundra is the vast taiga forest region. Larch trees dominate in the north and stands of fir and pine begin to appear in the south. Taiga forests cover about 47% of Sakha and almost 90% of the cover is larch.

The Sakha Republic is the site of Pleistocene Park, a project directed at recreating Pleistocene tundra grasslands by stimulating the growth of grass with the introduction of animals which thrived in the region during the late Pleistocene – early Holocene period.

### Time zones

Time zones in Sakha  Yakutsk Time | 00

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Vladivostok Time | 00
Magadan Time | 00

Sakha is the only federal subject of Russia which uses more than one time zone. Sakha spans three time zones.[16] Like the rest of Russia, it does not use daylight saving time.

Map | Time zone | Abbr. | UTC offset | Areas

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75px | Yakutsk Time | YAKT | 00 | Most of the republic's territory
75px | Vladivostok Time | VLAT | 00 | Districts of Oymyakonsky, Ust-Yansky and Verkhoyansky
75px | Magadan Time | MAGT | 00 | Districts of Abyysky, Allaikhovsky, Momsky, Nizhnekolymsky, Srednekolymsky and Verkhnekolymsky

### Rivers

Ura River Olyokma River Lena Pillars

The largest river is the navigable Lena River (4,400 km). As it moves northward, it includes hundreds of small tributaries located in the Verkhoyansk Range.

* Lena River
* Vilyuy River (2,650 km) Lena River tributary
* Markha River (1,181 km) Vilyuy River tributary
* Morkoka River (812 km) Markha River tributary
* Tyung River (1,092 km) Vilyuy River tributary
* Aldan River (2,273 km) Lena River tributary
* Amga River (1,462 km) Aldan River tributary
* Maya River (1,053 km) Aldan River tributary
* Uchur River (812 km) Aldan River tributary
* Olyokma River (1,320 km) Lena River tributary
* Linde River (804 km) Lena River tributary
* Nyuya River (798 km) Lena River tributary
* Olenyok River (2,292 km)
* Kolyma River (2,129 km)
* Indigirka River (1,726 km)
* Selennyakh River (796 km) Indigirka River tributary
* Alazeya River (1,590 km)
* Anabar River (939 km)
* Yana River (872 km)
* Adycha River (715 km) Yana River tributary
* Oldzho River (330 km) Yana River tributary
* Bytantay River (620 km) Yana River tributary

### Lakes

Lake Ozhogino

There are over 800,000 lakes in the republic.[17] Major lakes and reservoirs include:

* Lake Bolshoye Morskoye
* Lake Bustakh
* Emanda
* Lake Mogotoyevo
* Nedzheli
* Lake Nerpichye
* Lake Ozhogino
* Lake Suturuokha
* Tabanda
* Ulakhan-Kyuel
* Vilyuy Reservoir

### Mountains

Verkhoyansk Range.

Sakha's greatest mountain range, the Verkhoyansk Range, runs parallel and east of the Lena River, forming a great arc that begins in the Sea of Okhotsk and ends in the Laptev Sea.

The Chersky Range runs east of the Verkhoyansk Range and has the highest peak in Sakha, Peak Pobeda (3,003 m (9,852 ft)). The second highest peak is Peak Mus-Khaya reaching 2,959 m (9,708 ft).

The Stanovoy Range borders Sakha in the south.

Ulakhan-Sis Range famous for its unusual kigilyakh rock formations

### Peninsulas

The Republic's extensive coastline contains a number of peninsulas; from west to east the most prominent are:

* Uryung-Tumus Peninsula
* Nordvik Peninsula
* Terpyay-Tumsa Peninsula
* Bykovsky Peninsula
* Buor-Khaya Peninsula
* Manyko Peninsula
* Shirokostan Peninsula
* Merkushina Strelka Peninsula
* Lopatka Peninsula
* Dogukan Peninsula

### Islands

From west to east, the main islands of Sakha are:

* Preobrazheniya Island
* Bolshoy Begichev Island
* Maliy Begichev Island
* Peschany Island
* Salkay Island
* Orto Ary
* Daldalakh
* Dyangylakh Island
* Dunay Islands
* Leykina Island
* Islands of the Lena Delta
* Brusneva Island
* Muostakh Island
* Ulakhan Ary Island
* Yarok Island
* Shelonsky Islands
* Makar Island
* Stolbovoy Island
* New Siberian Islands (by far the largest group)
* De Long Islands
* Medvezhyi Islands
* Kolesovsky Island
* Kolesovskaya Otmel
* Gabyshevskiy Island
* Kamenka Island
* Markhayanovskiy Island
* Gusmp Island
* Sukhanyy Island

### Natural resources

Udachnaya pipe diamond mine

Sakha is well endowed with raw materials. The soil contains large reserves of oil, gas, coal, diamonds, gold, silver, tin, tungsten and many others. Sakha produces 99% of all Russian diamonds and over 25% of the diamonds mined in the world.[18][19]

### Climate

Sakha is known for its climate extremes, with the Verkhoyansk Range being the coldest area in the Northern Hemisphere. Some of the lowest natural temperatures ever recorded have been here. The Northern Hemisphere's Pole of Cold is at Verkhoyansk, where the temperatures reached as low as −67.8 °C (−90.0 °F) in 1892 and 1885, and at Oymyakon, where the temperatures reached as low as −67.8 °C (−90.0 °F) in February 1934.

Average daily maximum and minimum temperatures for selected locations in Yakutiya[20][21][22][23] City  | July (°C)  | July (°F)  | January (°C)  | January (°F)

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Aldan | 23.0/11.1 | 73.4/52.0 | −21.3/−30.1 | −6.3/−22.2
Neryungri | 22.3/11.2 | 72.1/52.2 | −26.2/−33.2 | −15.2/−27.8
Olyokminsk | 25.1/12.2 | 77.2/54.0 | −26.0/−33.9 | −14.8/−29.0
Oymyakon | 23.0/6.9 | 73.4/44.4 | −42.1/−49.3 | −43.8/−56.7
Verkhoyansk | 23.4/10.0 | 74.1/50.0 | −41.6/−47.7 | −42.9/−53.9
Yakutsk | 25.8/13.1 | 78.4/55.6 | −34.0/−39.8 | −29.2/−39.6
Saskylakh | 16.8/7.5 | 62.2/45.5 | −30.1/−37.5 | −22.2/−35.5
Tiksi | 12.7/4.7 | 54.9/40.5 | −25.9/−33.1 | −14.6/−27.6

Average annual precipitation: 200 mm (central parts) to 700 mm (mountains of Eastern Sakha).

## Administrative divisions

## History

### Pre-history

Siberia, and particularly Sakha, is of paleontological significance, as it contains bodies of prehistoric animals from the Pleistocene Epoch, preserved in ice or permafrost. In 2015, the frozen bodies of Dina and Uyan the cave lion cubs were found. Bodies of Yuka and another woolly mammoth from Oymyakon, a woolly rhinoceros from the Kolyma River, and bison and horses from Yukagir have also been found.[24] In June 2019, the severed yet preserved head of a large wolf from the Pleistocene, dated to over 40,000 years ago, was found close to the Tirekhtyakh River.[25][26][27]

Ymyakhtakh culture (c. 2200–1300 BC) was a Late Neolithic culture of Siberia, with a very large archaeological horizon. Its origins were in Sakha, in the Lena River basin. From there it spread both to the east and to the west.[28]

### Early history

The Turkic Sakha people or Yakuts may have settled the area as early as the 9th century or as late as the 16th century, though most likely there were several migrations. They migrated up north from around Lake Baikal to the middle Lena due to pressure by the Buryats, a Mongolic group.[29]

The Sakha displaced earlier, much smaller populations who lived on hunting and reindeer herding, introducing the pastoralist economy of Central Asia. The indigenous populations of Paleosiberian and Tungusic stock were mostly assimilated to the Sakha by the 17th century.[30]

### Russian conquest

Main article: History:Russian conquest of Siberia

The Tsardom of Russia began its conquest of the region in the 17th century, moving east after the defeat of the Khanate of Sibir.[31][32][33] Tygyn, a king of the Khangalassky Sakha, granted territory for Russian settlement in return for a military pact that included war against indigenous rebels of all North Eastern Asia (Magadan, Chukotka, Kamchatka and Sakhalin).[31][32][33] Kull, a king of the Megino-Khangalassky Sakha, began a Sakha conspiracy by allowing the first stockade construction.[31][32][34]

1821 map of Yakutsk Oblast.

In August 1638, the Moscow Government formed a new administrative unit with the administrative centre of Lensky Ostrog (Fort Lensky), the future city of Yakutsk, which had been founded by Pyotr Beketov in 1632.[31][32][33]

The arrival of Russian settlers at the remote Russkoye Ustye in the Indigirka delta is also believed to date from the 17th century.[35] The Siberian Governorate was established as part of the Russian Empire in 1708.

Russian settlers began to form a community in the 18th century, which adopted certain Sakha customs and was often called Yakutyane (Якутя́не) or Lena Early Settlers (ленские старожилы). However, the influx of later settlers had assimilated themselves into the Russian mainstream by the 20th century.[31][32][33]

### Russian Empire

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British explorer and missionary Kate Marsden in Yakutsk, 1891

Yakutsk Oblast in the early 19th century marked the easternmost territory of the Russian Empire, including such Far Eastern (Pacific) territories as were acquired, known as Okhotsk Okrug within Yakutsk Oblast. With the formation of Primorskaya Oblast in 1856, the Russian territories of the Pacific were detached from Sakha.

Members of the Siberian Regional Duma from Yakutsk, 1917

The Russians established agriculture in the Lena River basin. The members of religious groups who were exiled to Sakha in the second half of the 19th century began to grow wheat, oats, and potatoes. The fur trade established a cash economy. Industry and transport began to develop at the end of the 19th century and in the beginning of the Soviet period. This was also the beginning of geological prospecting, mining, and local lead production. The first steam-powered ships and barges arrived.

Sakha's remoteness, compared to the rest of Siberia, made it a place of exile of choice for both Tsarist and Communist governments of Russia. Among the famous Tsarist-era exiles were the democratic writer Nikolay Chernyshevsky; Doukhobors, conscientious objectors whose story was told to Leo Tolstoy by Vasily Pozdnyakov; the Socialist Revolutionary Party member and writer Vladimir Zenzinov, who left an account of his Arctic experiences; and Polish socialist activist Wacław Sieroszewski, who pioneered in ethnographic research on the Sakha people.

A Sakha national movement councillor emerged during the 1905 Revolution. A Yakut Union was formed under the leadership of a Sakha lawyer and city councillor by the name of Vasily Nikiforov, which criticised the policies and effects of Russian colonialism, and demanded representation in the State Duma. The Yakut Union acted to make the city council of Yakutsk stand down and was joined by thousands of Sakha from the countryside, but the leaders were arrested and the movement fizzled out by April 1906. Their demand for a Sakha representative in the Duma, however, was granted.[36]

### Soviet era

Sakha was home to the last stage of the Russian Civil War, the Yakut Revolt. On 27 April 1922, former Yakutsk Oblast was proclaimed the Yakut ASSR, although in fact the eastern part of the territory, including the city of Yakutsk, was controlled by the White Russians.

Platon Oyunsky, who wrote the traditionally-oral olonkho epics

The early Soviet period saw a flourishing of Sakha literature as men such as Platon Oyunsky wrote down in writing the traditionally oral and improvised olonkho, in addition to composing their own works. Many early Sakha leaders, including Oyunsky, died in the Great Purge.

Autonomous Yakut SSR, 1928

Sakha experienced significant collectivisation between 1929 and 1934, with the number of households experiencing collectivisation rising from 3.6% in 1929 to 41.7% in 1932. Policies by which the Sakha were harshly affected resulted in the population dropping from 240,500 in 1926 down to 236,700 at the 1959 census.[37]

Sakha's demographics shifted wildly during the Soviet period as ethnic Russians and Ukrainians, among other groups, settled the area en masse, primarily in Yakutsk and the industrial south. Previously, even Yakutsk had been primarily Sakha and Sakha-speaking. With the end of korenizatsiya, usage of the Sakha language was restricted in urban areas such as Yakutsk, which became primarily Russian-speaking.

### Post-Soviet era

Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in December 1991, the Yakut Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic was officially reconstituted as the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), a federal subject within the newly formed Russian Federation.[38] In April 1992, Moscow formally recognised this status, granting Sakha significant autonomy; most notably, a 1992 agreement allowing the republic to retain 20% of its diamond industry profits, a landmark concession deviating from decades of centralised resource extraction.[39]

During the early 1990s, Sakha saw a rise in ethnic and nationalist activism. Political movements such as Sakha Omuk (founded 1990) and the more radical Sakha Keskile promoted Yakut sovereignty, resource self‑management, and cultural revival. These movements led to the republic's 1990 declaration of sovereignty (celebrated each year on September 27) and a gradual shift away from the ethnic suppression of the Soviet era.[38][39][40]

Economically, Sakha faced the tumultuous transition to a market economy amid systemic Soviet collapse. The regional government actively supported privatisation of state enterprises, offered tax incentives, subsidies, and direct investment to buffer the population from economic shocks.[40][41][42] The republic also passed legislation in the 1990s to protect Indigenous land use rights and foster the creation of clan-based communities, reinforcing traditional livelihoods.[39]

In 2000, Sakha was incorporated into the newly created Far Eastern Federal District, one of eight federal districts established by President Vladimir Putin to centralise administrative oversight.[39][43][44] While this shift integrated Sakha into Far East economic development initiatives—including tax incentives, special economic zones, and infrastructure investments—these programs have often favoured industrial and extractive interests, occasionally sidelining Indigenous land rights.[39]

Under Putin, federal centralisation increased. Regional autonomy has been curtailed through legal reforms—such as a 2009 removal of sovereignty references from the republic’s constitution and renaming the republic’s presidential post in 2014—and through restrictions on local veto powers regarding resource projects.[39] At the same time, Sakha’s economy, driven by mining (diamonds, gold, uranium, oil, and natural gas), has shown resilience. Wages in the region now outpace national averages when adjusted for cost of living.[41] Yakutsk remains the hub of administrative and economic leadership, buoyed by tourism and essential infrastructure projects, though remote areas still lag behind.[40][41][45]

## Demographics

Population: 958,528 (2010 Census);[46] 949,280 (2002 Census);[47] 1,081,408 (1989 Census).[48] Population density is 0.31 per km2 (2019), which is one of the lowest among Russian districts. Urban population: 65,45% (2018).[49]

### Settlements

Largest cities or towns in the Sakha Republic

2021 Russian Census

Rank  |  | Administrative division | Pop.
1 | Yakutsk | City of republic significance of Yakutsk | 355,443
2 | Neryungri | Neryungrinsky District | 53,409
3 | Mirny | Mirninsky District | 34,045
4 | Aldan | Aldansky District | 21,590
5 | Lensk | Lensky District | 21,392
6 | Aykhal | Mirninsky District | 13,370
7 | Udachny | Mirninsky District | 12,930
8 | Suntar | Suntarsky District | 10,302
9 | Nyurba | Nyurbinsky District | 10,138
10 | Vilyuysk | Vilyuysky District | 10,032

### Vital statistics

Historical population

Year| Pop.| ±%
1897 | 269,880| —
1926 | 283,468| +5.0%
1939 | 413,198| +45.8%
1959 | 487,343| +17.9%
1970 | 664,123| +36.3%
1979 | 838,808| +26.3%
1989 | 1,081,408| +28.9%
2002 | 949,280| −12.2%
2010 | 958,528| +1.0%
2021 | 995,686| +3.9%
2025 | 1,007,058| +1.1%
Source: Census data, estimate[50]
Breakdown of population changes, 1939–2002 Statehood Day celebrations in Yakutsk Vitim, Sakha Republic Dapparay Cruise on the Lena River

Source: Russian Federal State Statistics Service

Year  | Average population (x 1000)  | Live births  | Deaths  | Natural change  | Crude birth rate (per 1000)  | Crude death rate (per 1000)  | Natural change (per 1000)  | Fertility rates

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1970  | 674  | 13,899  | 5,700  | 8,199  | 20.6  | 8.5  | 12.2  |
1975  | 775  | 15,636  | 6,242  | 9,394  | 20.2  | 8.1  | 12.1  |
1980  | 887  | 18,132  | 7,501  | 10,631  | 20.4  | 8.5  | 12.0  |
1985  | 1,002  | 22,823  | 7,266  | 15,557  | 22.8  | 7.3  | 15.5  |
1990  | 1,115  | 21,662  | 7,470  | 14,192  | 19.4  | 6.7  | 12.7  | 2.46
1991  | 1,110  | 19,805  | 7,565  | 12,240  | 17.8  | 6.8  | 11.0  | 2.32
1992  | 1,090  | 17,796  | 8,710  | 9,086  | 16.3  | 8.0  | 8.3  | 2.17
1993  | 1,072  | 16,771  | 9,419  | 7,352  | 15.6  | 8.8  | 6.9  | 2.08
1994  | 1,051  | 16,434  | 10,371  | 6,063  | 15.6  | 9.9  | 5.8  | 2.07
1995  | 1,029  | 15,731  | 10,079  | 5,652  | 15.3  | 9.8  | 5.5  | 2.01
1996  | 1,015  | 14,584  | 9,638  | 4,946  | 14.4  | 9.5  | 4.9  | 1.88
1997  | 1,003  | 13,909  | 9,094  | 4,815  | 13.9  | 9.1  | 4.8  | 1.81
1998  | 986  | 13,640  | 8,856  | 4,784  | 13.8  | 9.0  | 4.9  | 1.80
1999  | 970  | 12,724  | 9,480  | 3,244  | 13.1  | 9.8  | 3.3  | 1.71
2000  | 960  | 13,147  | 9,325  | 3,822  | 13.7  | 9.7  | 4.0  | 1.77
2001  | 954  | 13,262  | 9,738  | 3,524  | 13.9  | 10.2  | 3.7  | 1.78
2002  | 950  | 13,887  | 9,700  | 4,187  | 14.6  | 10.2  | 4.4  | 1.85
2003  | 949  | 14,224  | 9,660  | 4,564  | 15.0  | 10.2  | 4.8  | 1.86
2004  | 950  | 14,716  | 9,692  | 5,024  | 15.5  | 10.2  | 5.3  | 1.91
2005  | 950  | 13,591  | 9,696  | 3,895  | 14.3  | 10.2  | 4.1  | 1.74
2006  | 950  | 13,713  | 9,245  | 4,468  | 14.4  | 9.7  | 4.7  | 1.73
2007  | 951  | 15,268  | 9,179  | 6,089  | 16.1  | 9.7  | 6.4  | 1.92
2008  | 953  | 15,363  | 9,579  | 5,784  | 16.1  | 10.1  | 6.1  | 1.92
2009  | 955  | 15,970  | 9,353  | 6,617  | 16.7  | 9.8  | 6.9  | 2.00
2010  | 958  | 16,109  | 9,402  | 6,707  | 16.8  | 9.8  | 7.0  | 2.02
2011  | 957  | 16,402  | 8,992  | 7,410  | 17.1  | 9.4  | 7.7  | 2.06
2012  | 956  | 16,998  | 8,918  | 8,080  | 17.8  | 9.3  | 8.5  | 2.17
2013  | 955  | 16,704  | 8,351  | 8,353  | 17.5  | 8.7  | 8.8  | 2.17
2014  | 956  | 17,010  | 8,209  | 8,801  | 17.8  | 8.6  | 9.2  | 2.25
2015  | 958  | 16,459  | 8,233  | 8,226  | 17.1  | 8.6  | 8.5  | 2.19
2016  | 961  | 15,424  | 8,052  | 7,372  | 16.0  | 8.4  | 7.6  | 2.09
2017  | 963  | 13,954  | 7,817  | 6,137  | 14.5  | 8.1  | 6.4  | 1.93
2018  | 964  | 13,234  | 7,572  | 5,662  | 13.7  | 7.8  | 5.9  | 1.85
2019  | 967  | 12,819  | 7,611  | 5,208  | 13.2  | 7.8  | 5.4  | 1.82
2020  | 972  | 13,097  | 9,081  | 4,016  | 13.4  | 9.3  | 4.1  | 1.86
2021  |  | 12,309  | 10,600  | 1,709  | 12.5  | 10.8  | 1.7  | 1.73
2022  |  | 11,824  | 8,319  | 3,505  | 11.9  | 8.4  | 3.5  | 1.62
2023  |  | 11,194  | 7,721  | 3,473  | 11.2  | 7.7  | 3.5  | 1.55
2024  |  | 10,778  | 8,243  | 2,535  | 10.7  | 8.2  | 2.5  | 1.52

### Ethnic groups

Yakuts celebrating Yhyakh. Yakuts form the easternmost indigenous community of Turkic peoples.  Ethnic map of Yakutia by urban and rural settlements, 2002 and 2010 censuses.

Russians

Yakuts/Sakha

Evenks

Evens

Chukchis

Yukagirs

Dolgans

According to the 2021 Census, the ethnic composition was:[51]

* 469,348 Sakha (55.3%)
* 276,986 Russians (32.6%)
* 24,334 Evenks (2.9%)
* 13,233 Evens (1.6%)
* 11,203 Kyrgyz (1.3%)
* 7,169 Ukrainians (0.8%)
* 6,572 Buryats (0.8%)
* 5,620 Tajiks (0.7%)

Historical population figures are shown below:

Ethnic
group  | 1926 Census  | 1939 Census  | 1959 Census  | 1970 Census  | 1979 Census  | 1989 Census  | 2002 Census  | 2010 Census  | 2021 Census1

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Number  | %  | Number  | %  | Number  | %  | Number  | %  | Number  | %  | Number  | %  | Number  | %  | Number  | %  | Number  | %
Sakha  | 235,926  | 81.6%  | 233,273  | 56.5%  | 226,053  | 46.4%  | 285,749  | 43.0%  | 313,917  | 36.9%  | 365,236  | 33.4%  | 432,290  | 45.5%  | 466,492  | 49.9%  | 469,348  | 55.3%
Dolgans  | 0  | 0.0%  | 10  | 0.0%  | 64  | 0.0%  | 408  | 0.0%  | 1,272  | 0.1%  | 1,906  | 0.2%  | 2,147  | 0.3%
Evenks  | 13,502  | 4.7%  | 10,432  | 2.5%  | 9,505  | 2.0%  | 9,097  | 1.4%  | 11,584  | 1.4%  | 14,428  | 1.3%  | 18,232  | 1.9%  | 21,008  | 2.2%  | 24,334  | 2.9%
Evens  | 738  | 0.3%  | 3,133  | 0.8%  | 3,537  | 0.7%  | 6,471  | 1.0%  | 5,763  | 0.7%  | 8,668  | 0.8%  | 11,657  | 1.2%  | 15,071  | 1.6%  | 13,233  | 1.6%
Yukaghir  | 396  | 0.1%  | 267  | 0.1%  | 285  | 0.1%  | 400  | 0.1%  | 526  | 0.1%  | 697  | 0.1%  | 1,097  | 0.1%  | 1,281  | 0.1%  | 1,510  | 0.2%
Chukchis  | 1,298  | 0.4%  | 400  | 0.1%  | 325  | 0.1%  | 387  | 0.1%  | 377  | 0.0%  | 473  | 0.0%  | 602  | 0.1%  | 670  | 0.1%  | 709  | 0.1%
Russians  | 30,156  | 10.4%  | 146,741  | 35.5%  | 215,328  | 44.2%  | 314,308  | 47.3%  | 429,588  | 50.4%  | 550,263  | 50.3%  | 390,671  | 41.2%  | 353,649  | 37.8%  | 276,986  | 32.6%
Ukrainians  | 138  | 0.0%  | 4,229  | 1.0%  | 12,182  | 2.5%  | 20,253  | 3.0%  | 46,326  | 5.4%  | 77,114  | 7.0%  | 34,633  | 3.6%  | 20,341  | 2.2%  | 7,169  | 0.8%
Tatars  | 1,671  | 0.6%  | 4,420  | 1.1%  | 5,172  | 1.1%  | 7,678  | 1.2%  | 10.976  | 1.3%  | 17,478  | 1.6%  | 10,768  | 1.1%  | 8,122  | 0.9%  | 4,262  | 0.5%
Others  | 5,260  | 1.8%  | 10,303  | 2.5%  | 14,956  | 3.1%  | 19,770  | 3.0%  | 32,719  | 3.8%  | 59,300  | 5.4%  | 48,058  | 5.1%  | 46,124  | 4.9%  | 49,070  | 5.8%
1 146,918 people were registered from administrative databases, and could not declare an ethnicity. It is estimated that the proportion of ethnicities in this group is the same as that of the declared group.[52]

### Languages

The official languages are both Russian and Sakha, also known as Yakut, which is spoken by roughly half of the republic's population. In the 2021 census, 95% of Yakuts, 72% of Evenks and 60% of Evens declared Sakha as their native language.[53] The Sakha language is a member of the Turkic language family, belonging to the Siberian branch. It is closely related to the Dolgan language of the former Taymyr Dolgano-Nenets Autonomous Okrug.

The Sakha Republic is also home to many of the world's speakers of Tungusic languages, primarily of Evenki and Even. Additionally, Chukchi and the dialects of the Yukaghir language family are spoken in the northeast.

Ethnicity  | Native language

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Russian | Sakha | Other
Russians  | 99.4% | 0.4% | 0.2%
Yakuts  | 5.0% | 95.0% | 0.0%
Evenks  | 12.3% | 72.4% | 15.3%
Evens  | 10.7% | 60.2% | 29.1%

### Religion

Religion in Sakha Republic as of 2012 (Sreda Arena Atlas)[54][55]

|  |  |  |
Russian Orthodoxy |

| 37.8%
Protestantism |

| 0.8%
Other Christians |

| 0.8%
Islam |

| 2%
Tengrism and other native faiths |

| 13%
Spiritual but not religious |

| 16.6%
Atheism and irreligion |

| 25.6%
Other and undeclared |

| 4%

Before the arrival of the Russian Empire, the majority of the local population was Tengrist, similar to the other Turkic people of Central Asia, or in Paleoasian indigenous shamanism with both 'light' (community leading) and 'dark' (healing through spirit journey) shamans. Under the Russians, the local population was converted to the Russian Orthodox Church and required to take Orthodox Christian names, but in practice generally continued to follow traditional religions. During the Soviet era, most or all of the shamans died without successors. In the 1990s, a neopagan shamanist movement called aiyy yeurekhé was founded by the controversial journalist Ivan Ukhkhan and a philologist calling himself Téris.[56] This group and others cooperated to build a shaman temple in downtown Yakutsk in 2002.[57]

Transfiguration of Jesus Christ Cathedral in Yakutsk

Currently,[when?] while Orthodox Christianity maintains a following (however, with very few priests willing to be stationed outside of Yakutsk), there is interest and activity toward renewing the traditional religions. As of 2008, Orthodox leaders described the worldview of the republic's indigenous population (or, rather, those among the population who are not completely indifferent to religion) as dvoyeverie (dual belief system), or a "tendency toward syncretism", as evidenced by the locals sometimes first inviting a shaman, and then an Orthodox priest to carry out their rites in connection with some event in their life.[58]

According to the Information Centre under the President of Sakha Republic (Информационный центр при Президенте РС(Я)), the religious demography of the republic was as follows:[59] Orthodoxy: 44.9%, Shamanism: 26.2%, Non-religious: 23.0%, New religious movements: 2.4%, Islam: 1.2%, Buddhism: 1.0%, Protestantism: 0.9%, Catholicism: 0.4%.

According to a 2012 survey,[54] 37.8% of the population of Sakha adheres to the Russian Orthodox Church, 13% to Tengrism or Sakha shamanism, 2% to Islam, 1% are unaffiliated Christians, 1% to forms of Protestantism, and 0.4% to Tibetan Buddhism. In addition, 26% of the population deems itself atheist, 17% is "spiritual but not religious", and 1.8% follows other religions or did not give an answer to the question.[54]

### Education

The most important facilities of higher education include North-Eastern Federal University (previously Yakutsk State University) and Yakutsk State Agricultural Academy.

## Politics

Russia Day celebrations in Mirny, 12 June 2014.

The head of government in Sakha is the Head (previously President). The first Head of the Sakha Republic was Mikhail Yefimovich Nikolayev.[60] As of 2021, the head is Aysen Nikolayev, who took office on 28 May 2018.

The supreme legislative body of state authority in Sakha is a unicameral State Assembly known as the Il Tumen. The government of the Sakha (Yakutia) Republic is the executive body of state authority.

The republic fosters close cultural, political, economic, and industrial relations with the independent Turkic states through membership in organisations such as the Turkic Council and the Joint Administration of Turkic Arts and Culture.[61][62][63]

## Economy

Unusual gold specimen from Bulun District, Lena River basin. Weight is about 6 grams.

The largest companies in the region include Alrosa, Yakutugol, Yakutskenergo, and Yakutia Airlines.[64]

Controversial social support policy in the area is largely afforded to people less at need despite rural poverty remaining high.[65]

### Mining

The Mirny diamond mine and other diamond mines are important sources of exports for the region.[66][67] In addition, tin and gold mining have been major but controversial industries for over 100 years.[68][69][70][71]

### Transportation

Water transport ranks first for cargo turnover. There are six river ports, two seaports (Tiksi and Zelyony Mys). Four shipping companies, including the Arctic Sea Shipping Company, operate in the republic. The republic's main waterway is the Lena River, which links Yakutsk with the rail station of Ust-Kut in Irkutsk Oblast.

Yakutsk Aeroport, the main air-traffic hub of the republic.

Air transport is the most important for transporting people. Airlines connect the republic with most regions of Russia. Yakutsk Airport has an international terminal.

Two federal roads pass the republic. They are Nizhny Bestyakh–Skovorodino (A360 Lena highway) and Nizhny Bestyakh–Magadan (M56 Kolyma Highway). However, due to the presence of permafrost, use of asphalt was formerly impractical, and therefore the roads were made of clay until being paved by 2014. Prior to the paving of these roads, when heavy rains blew over the region, the roads often turned to mud, sometimes stranding hundreds of travellers in the process.[72] The Lena Bridge is under construction across the Lena, which will connect Yakutsk to Nizhny Bestyakh, and thus the rest of the Russian road network, year-round. Construction began in 2024, and is planned to last until 2028.[73]

The Berkakit–Tommot railroad is currently in operation. It links the Baikal-Amur Mainline with the industrial centres in South Sakha. Construction of the Amur–Yakutsk Mainline continues northward; the railway was completed to Nizhny Bestyakh, across the river from Yakutsk, in 2013. Though this one-track railroad from Tommot to Nizhny Bestyakh was under temporary operation (30% of its full capacity), the federal agency for railways declared that this railroad would be in full operation in fall 2015. Since 2019, there have been passenger trains between Nizhny Bestyakh and the rest of Russia.[74]

## Media

NVK Sakha (national broadcaster company Sakha, Национальная вещательная компания Саха, "Саха" көрдөрөр иһитиннэрэр тэрилтэтэ), the largest media company in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia). The company owns dozens of TV channels in Yakutia, Russia, and other countries. The main broadcasting languages are Yakut, English, Russian and Evenk. It was founded in 1992 after the collapse of the USSR. 70% of the shares are owned by the Russian VGTRK, 25% are owned by Yakutia, and 5% are in free float. NVK Sakha owns its own animation and film production studios, and some music studios. Since 2018, it has also been streaming 24/7 on YouTube.

## Culture

Sakha dance with traditional clothing

Points of interest in the city of Yakutsk include:

* the State Russian drama theatre named after Alexander Pushkin
* the Sakha Theater named after Platon Oyunsky
* the State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre named after D. K. Sivtsev
* Suorun Omoloon, the Young Spectator's Theatre

There are a number of museums as well. These include the National Fine Arts Museum of Sakha, the Museum of Local Lore and History named after E. Yaroslavsky, and the Khomus Museum and Museum of Permafrost. In September 2020, the Gagarin Centre for Culture and Contemporary Art was opened in the Gagarin District of Yakutsk.[75]

The Yakuts have fully preserved their native language, which differs significantly from other Turkic languages by the presence of a layer of unique Paleo-Asiatic vocabulary. The Yakut language has a developed literary tradition with many styles and genres, and the ancient Sakha epic Olonkho is recognised by UNESCO as a masterpiece of the oral and intangible heritage of humanity.[76]

In the 2010s, a movie boom began in Yakutia. The local film industry was nicknamed "Sakhawood".[77]

## National days

* 27 April: Republic Day
* 21 June: Yhyakh festival (also known as Sakha New Year)

## See also

* Cuisine of Sakha
* Lena Pillars
* Tukulan
* List of rural localities in the Sakha Republic
* Music in the Sakha Republic
* Tuymaada
* Yakutian knife
* Yakut language

## Explanatory notes

1. ↑

* Russian: Якутия
* Yakut: Саха Сирэ, romanized: Saxa Sire, sah

2. ↑

* Russian: Республика Саха (Якутия)
* Yakut: Саха Өрөспүүбүлүкэтэ, romanized: Saxa Öröspüübülükete, sah

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58. ↑ Елена Дятлова (Yelena Dyatlova) (1 October 2008). "В Якутии господствует двоеверие (Ч. 1) (Yakutia is dominated by a dual belief system)". http://www.taday.ru/text/135461.html. "Во многих случаях нам говорили, что при совершении тех или иных обрядов или просто действий приглашают сначала шамана, потом священника. Правда, именно в таком порядке, признавая христианство чем-то высшим по отношению к местной магической языческой традиции, но это соединяя. Даже среди тех представителей якутской интеллигенции, с которыми мы общались, это стремление к синкретизму было отчетливо приметно." (An interview with Maxim Kozlov, a Moscow priest who had recently returned from a missionary trip down the Lena along with the Bishop of Yakutsk.)
59. ↑ "РЕЛИГАРЕ – Современная религиозная ситуация в Республике Саха (Якутия): проблемы и перспективы". Religare.ru. http://www.religare.ru/2_43720.html.
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### General and cited references

* Верховный Совет Республики Саха (Якутия). 4 апреля 1992 г. «Конституция (основной закон) Республики Саха (Якутия)», в ред. Конституционного закона №581-З 53-IV от 22 июля 2008 г. (Supreme Council of the Sakha (Yakutia) Republic. 4 April 1992 Constitution (Basic Law) of the Sakha (Yakutia) Republic, as amended by the Constitutional Law #581-Z 53-IV of 22 July 2008. ).

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