53-506: Okhotsk (Russian: Охотск , IPA: [ɐˈxotsk] ) is an urban locality (a work settlement ) and the administrative center of Okhotsky District of Khabarovsk Krai , Russia , located at the mouth of the Okhota River on the Sea of Okhotsk . Population: 4,215 ( 2010 Census ) ; 5,738 ( 2002 Census ) ; 9,298 ( 1989 Soviet census ) . It was named after
106-609: A certain Mongolian admixture prior to migration in the 7th century. The Yakuts originally lived around Olkhon and the region of Lake Baikal . Beginning in the 13th century they migrated to the basins of the Middle Lena , the Aldan and Vilyuy rivers under the pressure of the rising Mongols . The northern Yakuts were largely hunters, fishermen and reindeer herders, while the southern Yakuts raised cattle and horses . In
159-593: A coastal settlement and not a port. In 1682, Okhotsk had eight dwellings and five other buildings. When the Russians entered the Kamchatka Peninsula , they had to travel overland from the north. In 1714, Peter the Great sent a party of shipbuilders to Okhotsk to provide faster access to the furs of Kamchatka. In 1715, they built the vessel Vostok , and in 1716–17, Kozma Sokolov sailed it to Kamchatka. For
212-803: A national revival occurred in the early 20th century. The last conflict of the Russian Civil War , known as the Yakut Revolt , occurred here when Cornet Mikhail Korobeinikov , a White Russian officer, led an uprising and a last stand against the Red Army . In 1922, the new Soviet government named the area the Yakut Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic . In the late 1920s through the late 1930s, Yakut people were systematically persecuted, when Joseph Stalin launched his collectivization campaign. It
265-410: A number of Yakut cattlemen living there. There was so little pasture in the area that pack horses sometimes had to be returned to Yakutsk unloaded. The harbor was ice-free from May to November, but the sailing season ran only from June through September. The town was built on a low, narrow spit blocking the mouths of the two rivers. The harbor inside the spit was large but shallow; three quarters of it
318-928: Is a traditional fish salad. This cuisine is only used in Yakutia . According to the 2010 census, some 87% of the Yakuts in the Sakha Republic are fluent in the Yakut (or Sakha) language , while 90% are fluent in Russian. The Sakha/Yakut language belongs to the Northern branch of the Siberian Turkic languages . It is most closely related to the Dolgan language , and also to a lesser extent related to Tuvan and Shor . The primary Y-chromosome DNA haplogroup for
371-487: Is possible that hunger and malnutrition during this period resulted in a decline in the Yakut total population from 240,500 in 1926 to 236,700 in 1959. By 1972, the population began to recover. Currently, Yakuts form a large plurality of the total population within the vast Republic of Sakha . According to the 2010 Russian census, there were a total of 466,492 Yakuts residing in the Sakha Republic during that year, or 49.9% of
424-665: The Okhota River , whose name is a corrupted Evenk word okat , "river". Okhotsk was the main Russian base on the Pacific coast from about 1650 to 1860, but lost its importance after the Amur Annexation in 1860. It is located at the east end of the Siberian River Routes on the Sea of Okhotsk where the Okhota and Kukhtuy rivers join to form a poor-but-usable harbor. In 1639, the Russians first reached
477-730: The Siberian branch of the Turkic languages . According to Alexey Kulakovsky, the Russian word yakut was taken from the Evenki екэ , yekə̄ , while Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer claims the Russian word is actually a corruption from the Tungusic form. According to ethnographer Dávid Somfai , the Russian yakut derives from the Buryat yaqud , which is the plural form of the Buryat name for
530-758: The Soviet time, each of the republics of the Soviet Union , including the Russian SFSR , had its own legislative documents dealing with classification of inhabited localities. After the Dissolution of the Soviet Union , the task of developing and maintaining such classification in Russia was delegated to the federal subjects . While currently there are certain peculiarities to classifications used in many federal subjects, they are all still largely based on
583-531: The 1620s, the Tsardom of Muscovy began to move into their territory and annexed or settled down on it, imposed a fur tax and managed to suppress several Yakut rebellions between 1634 and 1642. The tsarist brutality in collection of the pelt tax ( yasak ) sparked a rebellion and aggression among the Yakuts and also Tungusic -speaking tribes along the River Lena in 1642. The voivode Peter Golovin, leader of
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#1732766302011636-678: The 17th century for the Evenks on the upper Angara and for Evens residing on the lower Kolyma in the early 19th century. Additionally there are many similarities between the clothing of the Tumats and Altaic cultures. Archeological work on Pazyryk culture sites have turned up both hats dyed red and tail-coats made of sables. While the "tails" were not dyed red, they were sewn with red dyed thread. Stylistic and design choices are also comparable to traditional Khakas and Kumandin clothing. Some peaceable interactions including intermarriage did occur with
689-631: The 1820 census, five Sakha men lived in the fort with 260 people, working for the Russian-American Company , a fur-trading business. This fort became a melting pot of different cultures, including Russians, Native Alaskans and local Native American tribes, such as the Kashaya Pomo. The Sakha were part of the diverse workforce that supported the fort operations in areas, such as hunting, trapping, farming and construction. By 1860, there were at least 20 Sakhas living at Fort Ross before
742-522: The Lena to flee from the Mongols. The subsequent cultural melding that occurred between these incoming migrants eventually created the Yakuts. The Sagay Khakas of Abakan River were presented as the origin of the ethnonym Sakha by Evers and Gornovsky. In the mid-19th century Nikolai S. Schukin wrote "A Trip to Yakutsk” based on his experiences visiting the area. He presented a somewhat different origin of
795-480: The Pacific 105 kilometres (65 mi) southwest of Okhotsk at the mouth of the Ulya River . In 1647, Semyon Shelkovnikov built winter quarters at Okhotsk. In 1649, a fort was built (Kosoy Ostrozhok). In 1653, Okhotsk was burned by the local Lamuts . Although the Russian pioneers were skilled builders of river boats, they lacked the knowledge and equipment to build seagoing vessels, which meant that Okhotsk remained
848-771: The Paleoasians of the Siberian Coast like the Chukchi, Itelmen, and Koryaks all share reverence for the Raven. Many researchers have concluded that the Yakut ethnogenesis was an admixture of Turks migrating from Lake-Baikal and native Yukaghir and Tungusitic peoples residing around the Lena River. Okladnikov detailed this conceived admixture process as the following: "...the Turkic-speaking ancestors of
901-633: The Raven, who was alternatively referred to as “Our ancestor”, "Our deity", and “Our grandfather" by the Khorolors. This reverence arises from the Raven enabling a struggling human (either the first Khoro man or his mother) to survive by giving a flint and tinder box. Their mythos is similar to cultures from both sides of the Bering Sea. The Haida, Tlingit, Tshisham of the North American Pacific Northwest Coast and
954-517: The Sakha (i.e. Yakuts) are the least russified ethnic group in Russia and that the knowledge of the native language is widespread, particularly (as is often said) due to the cold and freezing nature of their geographical habitat, and Russians’ general avoidance of colonizing those lands. Certain rock formations named Kigilyakh , as well as places such as Ynnakh Mountain , are held in high esteem by Yakuts. The cuisine of Sakha prominently features
1007-702: The Sakha population. This genetic bottleneck has been dated approximately to 1300 CE ± 200 ybp and speculated to have been caused by high mortality rates in warfare and later relocation to the Middle Lena River. The primary mitochondrial DNA haplogroups are various East Asian lineages, making up 92% of the total: haplogroup C at 36% to 45.7% and haplogroup D at 25.7% to 32.9% of the Yakut. Minor Eastern Eurasian mtDNA haplogroups include: 5.2% G , 4.49% F , 3.55% M13a1b , 1.89% A , 1.18% Y1a , 1.18% B , 0.95% Z3 , and 0.71% M7 . According to Fedorova, besides East Asian maternal lineages, "the mtDNA pool of
1060-642: The Samoyedic peoples. The Tumat stand out in Yakut tradition as a numerous and powerful society, with constant conflict once happening with them on the Vilyuy River . Their households were semi-subterranean with sod roofing and are comparable to traditional Samoyed dwellings. The term Doubo ( Chinese : 都播 ) was used in medieval Chinese historical works in reference to the Sayano-Altai forest peoples. Vasily Radlov concluded that Doubo referred to
1113-645: The Samoyedic peoples. Doubo is additionally seen as the origin of the ethnonym "Tumat" by L. P. Potapov. The Yakuts called the Tumat people "Dyirikinei" or "chipmunk people" (Yakut: Sдьирикинэй), arising from the Tumatian "tail-coat." Bundles of deer fur were dyed with red ocher and sewn into Tumatian jackets as adornments. Tumat hats were likewise dyed red. This style was likely spread by the Tumatians to some Tungusic peoples. Similar clothing has been reported during
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#17327663020111166-489: The Tumats. One such example is the life of Džaardaakh ( Russian : Джаардаах ), a Tumatian woman. She was renowned for her physical strength and martial repute as an archer. However Džaardaakh eventually married a Yakut man and is considered a notable ancestor of the local Vilyuy Yakut. The origin of her name has been linked to a Yukaghir word for ice (Yukaghir: йархан). The ancestors of Yakuts were Kurykans who migrated from Yenisey river to Lake Baikal and were subject to
1219-470: The Yakut is N-M231 . While found in around 89% of the general population, in northern Yakutia it is closer to 82%. N-M231 is shared with various other Eastern Siberian populations. The remaining haplogroups are approximately: 4% C-M217 (including subclades C-M48 and C-M407), 3.5% R1a-M17 (including subclade R1a-M458), and 2.1% N-P43 , with sporadic instances of I-M253 , R1b-M269 , J2 , and Q . According to Adamov, haplogroup N1c1 makes up 94% of
1272-549: The Yakut people regarding agriculture. The discovery of gold and, later, the building of the Trans-Siberian Railway , brought ever-increasing numbers of Russians into the region. By the 1820s almost all the Yakuts claimed to have converted to the Russian Orthodox church, but they retained (and still retain) a number of shamanist practices. Yakut literature began to rise in the late 19th century, and
1325-605: The Yakuts based upon local oral histories. Groups of Khakas inhabiting the southern Yenisey watershed migrated north to the Nizhnyaya Tunguska River to the Lena Plateau and finally onward to the Lena River. Schukin is credited as introducing the concept of Yenisey Khakas as the ancestors of the Yakut into Russian historiography. The most authoritative account in support of the Yenisey origin hypothesis
1378-409: The Yakuts not only pushed out the aborigines but also subjected them to their influence by peaceful means; they assimilated and absorbed them into their mass... With this, the local tribes lost the former ethnic name and a proper ethnic consciousness, no longer separating themselves from the mass of Yakuts, and [were] not opposed to them... Consequently, as a result of the mixing with Northern aborigines,
1431-601: The Yakuts", there was no compelling evidence connecting them with the Khori Buryat. A more recent argument by Zoriktuev proposes that the Khorolors were originally Paleo-Asians from the Lower Amur River. In contrast to their Yakut relatives, Khoro folklore focuses largely on the Raven, with some tales about the Eagle as well. In the mid 18th century Lindenau noted the Khorolors focused their religious devotion on
1484-604: The Yakuts, yaqa . The Yakuts call themselves Sakha , or Urangai Sakha (Yakut: Уран Саха , Uran Sakha ) in some old chronicles. All of these are derived from a word related to Turkish yaka (geographical edge, collar) referring to the Yakuts' remote position in Siberia. An early work on the Yakut ethnogenesis was drafted by the Russian Collegiate Assessors I. Evers and S. Gornovsky in
1537-555: The Yakuts. They are mentioned as 7th-century tributaries of the Tang dynasty , reportedly living on the Angara and around Lake Baikal. Radlov hypothesized they were a mixture of Tungusic and Uyghur peoples and the forebears of the Yakut. The Khoro (Khorin, Khorolors,Khori) Yakut maintain their progenitor was Uluu Khoro, rather than Omogoy or Ellei. Scholarship has not definitively established their ancestral ethnic affiliations. Their homeland
1590-528: The coast that produced 14–36 tons of salt annually; in 1827, it was worked by a hundred and fifty exiles and about a hundred guards and overseers. Bering's men found valuable sea otters east of Kamchatka, and fur hunters began island-hopping along the Aleutian Islands . Furs were brought back to Okhotsk and carried inland, mostly to be sold to the Chinese at Kyakhta . The Russian-American Company
1643-552: The demise of the Soviet Union. Okhotsk is served by the Okhotsk Airport . Okhotsk has a subarctic climate ( Köppen climate classification Dwc ) with very cold, dry winters and mild, wet summers. Types of inhabited localities in Russia The classification system of inhabited localities in Russia and some other post-Soviet states has certain peculiarities compared with those in other countries. During
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1696-491: The first scholars and expert sailors, and led to a great deal of building. In 1742, there were fifty-seven already-established buildings, forty-five newer buildings in Bering's "expedition settlement," and eight ships in the harbor. Anton de Vieira was the town's governor at that time; he was of Portuguese origin, son of a Jewish father and Christian mother. From 1737 to 1837, there was a salt works several kilometers west on
1749-403: The formation of the modern Yakuts. The consistency of related artistic embellishments on the traditional clothing of the Buryat, Samoyed, and Yakut led one scholar to conclude they are related. Toponymic data of Yakutia indicates there was once a presence of Paleoasian and Samoyed habitation in the region. Vilyui Tumats reportedly practiced anthropophagy and seen as an "ethnocultural marker" of
1802-462: The harbor; because the harbor was shallow, Yakuts had to wade with loads from shore to barge. Fresh water had to be fetched from 4 km ( 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 mi) away. Goods could not be brought down along the Kukhtuy River because of swamps. In 1840, Vasily Zavoyko became head of the Russian-American Company post at Okhotsk and decided to move the post south to Ayan , a move that
1855-595: The late 18th century. At an unspecified time in the past certain tribes resided around the western shore of the Aral Sea . These peoples later migrated eastward and settled near the Tunka Goltsy mountains of modern Buryatia . Pressure from the expansionist Mongolian Empire later made many of those around the Tunka Goltsy relocate to the Lena River. Several additional Altai-Sayan region tribes later arrived on
1908-527: The native populations of Sakha contains a small (8%), but diverse set of western Eurasian mtDNA haplogroups, mostly present among Yakuts and Evenks", the most common being H and J. The Sakha American Cultural Association, a non-profit organization established in Seattle, Washington in 2024 " The Sakha people had made a temporary footprint in the U.S. in 1820 at Fort Ross in Jenner, California. According to
1961-602: The next 145 years, Okhotsk was the main Russian seaport on the Pacific, supplying Kamchatka and other coastal settlements. In 1731, the Siberian Military Flotilla was established here. In 1736, Okhotsk was moved 3 km (2 mi) downstream to a spit of land at the mouth of the Okhota River, converting the ostrog into a proper port. Vitus Bering 's two Pacific expeditions ( 1725–1729 and 1733–1742 ) brought in large numbers of people, including
2014-493: The region due to rising pressure from the incoming Yakuts. While some remained and intermarried with the newcomer, most went to the northern tundra. The Ymyyakhtakh are an ancient people of the Lena River. A burial ground was excavated and anthropologists I.I. Gokhman and L.F. Tomtosova studied the human remains and published their results in 1992. They concluded that some of the Late Neolithic population took part in
2067-613: The settlement while others visited the town itself. They also fished for salmon in the Okhota River. Okhotsk was of some military importance during the Russian Civil War , when the White army generals Vasily Rakitin and Anatoly Pepelyayev used it as their place of arms in the Far East . Okhotsk was also a launch site of sounding rockets between 1981 and 2005. The rockets reached altitudes of up to 1,000 km [1] . The importance and population of Okhotsk sharply declined following
2120-467: The south. From 1870, Okhotsk was supplied from Nikolayevsk-on-Amur . Further loss of importance came in 1867 when Russian America (Alaska) was sold to the United States . The total population decline of Okhotsk went from 1,660 in 1839 to one hundred in 1865. Between 1849 and 1866, American whaleships cruised for bowhead whales in the waters off Okhotsk. Some caught whales within sight of
2173-637: The southern ancestors of the Yakuts supplemented their culture and language with new features distinguishing them from other steppe tribes." Traditional Yakut histories contain stories of the aboriginal peoples of Yakutia. From the subarctic Bulunsky and Verkhoyansky Districts accounts state that the Black Yukaghir (Yakut: хара дъукаагырдар) descended from migrants pushed north from the Lena River. Related stories recorded in Ust'-Aldanskiy Ulus and Megino-Kangalassky District mention certain tribes leaving
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2226-486: The system used in the RSFSR. In all federal subjects, the inhabited localities are classified into two major categories: urban and rural. Further divisions of these categories vary slightly from one federal subject to another, but they all follow common trends described below. In 1957, the procedures for categorizing urban-type settlements were further refined. Multiple types of rural localities exist, some common through
2279-700: The total population of the Republic. The Yakuts engage in animal husbandry, traditionally having focused on rearing horses , mainly the Yakutian horse , reindeer and the Sakha Ynagha ('Yakutian cow'), a hardy kind of cattle known as Yakutian cattle which is well adapted to the harsh local weather. There is a widespread notion among other ethnic minorities in Russia based on their experience (for example, among geographically close Mongolic Buryats ) that
2332-400: The traditional drink kumis , dairy products of cow, mare, and reindeer milk, sliced frozen salted fish stroganina ( строганина ), loaf meat dishes ( oyogos ), venison , frozen fish, thick pancakes, and salamat —a millet porridge with butter and horse fat. Kuerchekh ( Куэрчэх ) or kierchekh , a popular dessert, is made of cow milk or cream with various berries . Indigirka
2385-480: The tsarist forces, responded with a reign of terror: native settlements were torched and hundreds of people were killed. The Yakut population alone is estimated to have fallen by 70 percent between 1642 and 1682, mainly because of smallpox and other infectious diseases . In the 18th century the Russians reduced the pressure, gave Yakut chiefs some privileges, granted freedom for all habitants, gave them all their lands, sent Eastern Orthodox missions, and educated
2438-613: The whole territory of Russia, some specific to certain federal subjects. The most common types include: Yakuts The Yakuts or Sakha ( Yakut : саха , saxa ; plural: сахалар , saxalar ) are a Turkic ethnic group native to North Siberia, primarily the Republic of Sakha in the Russian Federation . They also inhabit some districts of the Krasnoyarsk Krai . They speak Yakut , which belongs to
2491-419: The word Khoro as arising from the Tibetan word hor ( Standard Tibetan : ཧོར ). For example, according to G. N. Runyanstev, during the 6th through 10th centuries CE the inhabitants of Lake Baikal were called Chor. Okladnikov guessed that Khoro sire was near China and adjacent to the X . This premise is not universally accepted and has been challenged by some researchers. George de Roerich has argued that
2544-434: The word is based on the Chinese word hu ( Chinese : 胡 ), a term used as general reference by the Chinese to refer to various Iranian or Turkic peoples of Central Asia. In contemporary Tibetan hor is used to describe any pastoralist "nomad of mixed origin" regardless of their ethnonym. After researching their origins, Ksenofontov concluded that while the Khorolors were "formed from parts of some alien tribe that mixed with
2597-468: Was a mud flat during low water. Large ships could cross the bar only on a high tide. Ice-choked water during the spring breakup frequently flooded the town (twenty times from 1723 to 1813), as did high surf on a number of occasions. In 1810, the Okhota River, its mouth jammed by ice, cut a new channel through the spit and isolated the townsite; the town was moved to the spit east of the harbor mouth five years later. Goods now had to be unloaded and barged across
2650-412: Was completed in 1845. The Yakutsk-Ayan Track was built and then rebuilt in 1852 at a cost of 20,000 rubles, bypassing Okhotsk. In 1849, Siberian governor Nikolay Muravyov-Amursky followed the Russian-American Company's example and decided to move the Siberian Flotilla to Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky and other government facilities to Ayan. The Amur Annexation in 1860 continued the shift of Russian focus to
2703-539: Was founded in 1799 with its base at Okhotsk, which brought in more money to the town. In 1822 the Scottish traveler Captain John Cochrane ranked Okhotsk just after Barnaul as the neatest, cleanest, and most pleasant town he had seen in Siberia. From at least 1715, it was clear that Okhotsk was a poor site for a city. In addition to the difficult track inland, the harbor was poor, and the short growing season and lack of plowland meant that food had to be imported. Around 1750, there were only thirty-seven peasant families and
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#17327663020112756-426: Was somewhere in the south and called Khoro sire. When the Khorolors arrived in the Middle Lena remains uncertain, with scholars estimating from the first millennium to the 16th century AD. Among scholars a commonly accepted hypothesis is that the Khoro Yakut originate from the Khori Buryat of Lake Baikal, and therefore spoke a Turko-Mongolic language. This is largely based on their similar ethnonyms. Proponents see
2809-432: Was written by Nikolai N. Kozmin in 1928. He concluded that some Khakas moved from the Yenisey to the Angara River due to difficulties in the regional economy. In the 12th century Buryats arrived at Lake Baikal and through military force pushed the Khakas to the Lena. In 1893, Turkologist scholar Vasily Radlov connected the Kurykans or Gǔlìgān ( Chinese : 骨利干 ) Tiele people from Chinese historical accounts with
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