Yakutsk, a capital town in East Siberia, on a branch of the Lena; occupied chiefly by traders in furs, hides, &c.; is said to be the coldest town in the world.
Population (circa 1900) given as 5,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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