Word: yakutia
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...administration will also join the parade, even though they mostly inhabit hundreds of tiny islands and enclaves that have few of the ethnic and economic prerequisites for nationhood. If the 100 million non-Russian residents of the Soviet Union could have their way, such new nations as Azerbaijan and Yakutia would also be independently seated...
Spaced across Siberia, at approximately 1,000-mile intervals, are three other industrial complexes. One is based on the coal and iron ore of the Kuznetsk Basin, the second on the hydroelectric power of the Angara River, the third on the mines of Yakutia...
...John Gunther's High Road (ABC, 8-8:30 p.m.). The author of Inside Russia Today turns his TV eye to Siberia, shows on film the operation of the trans-Siberian railway, the diamond mines at Yakutia, the emerging wealth and power of the region east of the Urals...