Yakutsk, chief town of a government in Eastern Siberia, on a branch of the Lena, and about 4 miles from the main stream. It has a cathedral and several churches, and there are a few merchants trading in hides, furs, and mammoth tusks. Pop. 5300. The dreary government of
Yakutsk consists of the basin of the Lena River, and has an area equal to four-fifths of European Russia (see RUSSIA). The Yakuts (see SIBERIA) are of Turkish stock.