Yakutsk
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| Weather | 4°C, Wind NW at 11 km/h, 82% Humidity |
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| Postal code(s) | 677xxx |
| Elevation | 95312 |
| Local time | Monday 01:54 |
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| Population | 282,419 (2012) |
| Did you know | Yakutsk is the third-most-populous city / town in the Russian Far East (299,169). |
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| ID | 1139277 |
About Yakutsk
Yakutsk is a Russian port city on the Lena River, in east Siberia. It's home to the Mammoth Museum, with millennia-old fossils of woolly mammoths. The Melnikov Permafrost Institute Underground Laboratory has a tunnel showcasing fossils, including a mammoth calf, in below-freezing temperatures. The Yakut State Museum of History and Culture of the Northern Peoples houses Ice Age fossils, including mammoths and rhinos.
