Mining Industry of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) and Problems of Environmental and Social Security of Indigenous Peoples

• Published in: Land
• Main Authors: Evdokia Burtseva, Anatoliy Sleptsov, Anna Bysyina, Alla Fedorova, Gavril Dyachkovski, Alevtina Pavlova
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2022
• Subjects: Arctic; sustainability; anthropogenic load; environment; indigenous peoples; quality of life; pollution; health; Indigirka; Kolyma; Sakha; Yakutsk; kolyma river; Republic of Sakha; Yakutia; Siberia
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/land11010105

The Republic of Sakha (Yakutia; RS(Y)) is located in the northeast of Siberia (Russia) in the basins of the Lena, Yana, and Indigirka rivers, in the lower reaches of the Kolyma River. Yakutia is an industrial–agrarian republic with a developed mining, fuel, and energy industry. Indigenous peoples li...