The skeleton of a rhinoceros found near the village of Churapcha, one of the mast valuable exhibits of the Geological Museum of the Yakut Research Centre. Forty per cent of its territory is beyond the Polar Circle. Yakutia is rich in diamonds and gold, in tin and antimonium, in oil, coal, and irop ore. It has many mines for the extraction of non-ferrous metals and other minerals.
Agriculture is very poor due to the permafrost.
Climatic conditions are extremely severe. Yakut State University and one more institute Diamonds of Yakutia.