page_title: Sakha
section_title: Rivers
hierarchical_section_title: Sakha / Geography / Rivers
caption_attribution_description: Русский: Поездка на Ленские столбы на теплоходе «Демьян Бедный», 31.07.2015 - 02.08.2015. День второй. Виды со смотровой площадки.
context_page_description: Sakha, also known as Yakutia or Yakutiya, and officially known as the Republic of Sakha, is a federal Russian republic.
  It had a population of 958,528 at the 2010 Census, mainly ethnic Sakha and Russians.
  Comprising half the Far Eastern Federal District, it is the largest subnational governing body by area in the world at 3,083,523 square kilometers. Its capital is the city of Yakutsk. It is also known for its extreme and severe climate, with the lowest temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere being recorded in Verkhoyansk and Oymyakon, and regular winter averages commonly being below −35 °C in Yakutsk. The hypercontinental tendencies also result in very warm summers for much of the republic.
  Sakha was first home to hunting-gathering and reindeer herding Tungusic and Paleosiberian peoples such as the Evenks and Yukaghir. Migrating from the area around Lake Baikal, the Turkic Sakha people first settled the middle Lena sometime between the 9th and 16th centuries, likely in several waves, bringing the pastoral economy of Central Asia with them.
context_section_description: The largest river is the navigable Lena River (4,400 km). As it moves northward, it includes hundreds of small tributaries located in the Verkhoyansk Range.
  Lena River
  Vilyuy River (2,650 km) Lena River tributary
  Markha River (1,181 km) Vilyuy River tributary
  Morkoka River (812 km) Markha River tributary
  Tyung River (1,092 km) Vilyuy River tributary
  Aldan River (2,273 km) Lena River tributary
  Amga River (1,462 km) Aldan River tributary
  Maya River (1,053 km) Aldan River tributary
  Uchur River (812 km) Aldan River tributary
  Olyokma River (1,320 km) Lena River tributary
  Linde River (804 km) Lena River tributary
  Nyuya River (798 km) Lena River tributary
  Olenyok River (2,292 km)
  Kolyma River (2,129 km)
  Indigirka River (1,726 km)
  Selennyakh River (796 km) Indigirka River tributary
  Alazeya River (1,590 km)
  Anabar River (939 km)
  Yana River (872 km)
caption: Lena Pillars.
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