Large Rivers: Geomorphology and Management, pp. 225, John Wiley & Sons, 2008, ISBN 978-0-470-72371-5, ... The Lena River is an important waterway, navigable for almost all its length. Yakutsk (the most important town of the Lena Basin), Olekminsk, Lensk, Kirensk, and Osetrovo are the biggest ports on the river. Yakutsk is the capital of the Sakha Rebuplic (Yakutia), the largest republic in the Russian Federation ...
Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization: Yearbook 1996, Christopher A. Mullen, pp. 109, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1997, ISBN 978-90-411-0439-7, ... The soil contains large reserves of oil, gas, coal, diamonds, gold and silver ... During the period of Soviet rule the largest area containing prison camps (gulags) was built in Sakha ...
