Verkhoyansk
Verkhoyansk (; ) is a town in Verkhoyansky District of the Sakha Republic, Russia, located on the Yana River in the Arctic Circle, from Batagay, the administrative center of the district, and north of Yakutsk, the capital of the Sakha republic. As of the 2010 Census, its population was 1,311. Verkhoyansk holds the record for the highest temperature ever recorded north of the Arctic Circle, with , and it also holds the record for the lowest temperature ever recorded in Asia, , the largest ever temperature range recorded. The cold record is shared with Oymyakon.
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Verkhoyansk is a remote Arctic town in Russia's Sakha Republic with a population of about 1,300 people, located on the Yana River north of the Arctic Circle. It holds two notable climate records: the highest temperature ever recorded north of the Arctic Circle and the lowest temperature ever recorded in Asia, giving it the largest temperature range on record.
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- Верхоянск
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- Yakut
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- Pole of Cold in Verkhoyansk
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- right
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- Sakha Republic
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- Verkhoyansky District
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Verkhoyansk (; ) is a town in Verkhoyansky District of the Sakha Republic, Russia, located on the Yana River in the Arctic Circle, from Batagay, the administrative center of the district, and north of Yakutsk, the capital of the Sakha republic. As of the 2010 Census, its population was 1,311. Verkhoyansk holds the record for the highest temperature ever recorded north of the Arctic Circle, with , and it also holds the record for the lowest temperature ever recorded in Asia, , the largest ever temperature range recorded. The cold record is shared with Oymyakon.
==History== Cossacks founded an ostrog in 1638, southwest of the modern town. The ostrog's name "Verkhoyansky", roughly translating from Russian as [thing/ostrog] on the Upper Yana (grammatically, it's only a masculine adjective), derived from its geographical location on the upper reaches of the Yana River. In 1775, it was moved to the left bank of the Yana River to facilitate tax collection. It was granted town status in 1817. Between the 1860s and 1917, the town was a place of political exile, with some of the more prominent exiles including the Polish writer Wacław Sieroszewski, as well as Bolshevik revolutionaries Ivan Babushkin and Viktor Nogin.