Administration of the city district of Yakutsk
Since 1632
Russia
Far Eastern Federal District of the Russian Federation
Yakutsk
677000, Lenin Ave. 15
Assets
Yakutsk is the capital of the Sakha (Yakutia) Republic, one of the oldest cities of Siberia.
Foundation date - on September 25, 1632 when the group of the Yenisei centurion Pyotr Beketov, inspecting banks of the river of Lena, put the Lensk jail on the right river bank in 70 km. to the north of modern Yakutsk.
It is renamed into Yakutsk in 1643. Yakutsk, being voyenno - administrative and shopping center of all Lensk region, since 1708 it was subordinated Siberian, at the end of the 18th century - Irkutsk to provinces. In 1822 Yakutsk becomes the regional city, and since 1851 Yakutia receives the status of independent area as the province with the center in Yakutsk.
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