1. The historian Yakut described it picturesquely as a "mother of castles".

2. A Yakut tribesman was out of place in Irkutsk.

3. I ask Vasily Illarionov, the head of the Yakut Language and Culture Department at the local university, what role the weather played in folklore./yakut.html

4. Potential natural gas resources in Yakut and Sakhalin of Far Eastern Russia total 16-7 trillion cubic meters, with proved reserves of 1. 57 trillion cubic meters.

5. In these conditions, traditional Yakut food always made use of whatever it could.

6. Yakut horses can be often seen in these places. This semi-wild animal is as much unpretentious as the Kalashnikov rifle.

7. The lowest temperatures are found in the Yakut, where they drop to as low as minus 70.6 degrees centigrade.

8. 1970s and 1980s was the first stage of Yakut administrative transport, the main transports were civilian intellectuals.

9. This was only one of the many directions in which the Yakut people spread from their homeland on the Lena.

10. "Of course it's cold, but you get used to it, " says Nina, a Yakut woman who spends eight hours every day standing at her stall in the fish market.