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Verkhoyansk
Verkhoyansk (; , ''Verxoyanskay'') is a town in Verkhoyansky District of the Sakha Republic, Russia, located on the Yana River near the Arctic Circle, north of Yakutsk. Population:
==History==
Cossacks founded an ostrog in 1638, southwest of the modern town. The ostrog's name ''Verkhoyansky'', roughly translating from Russian as ''Town on the Upper Yana'', 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.
In January 2012, the town was attacked by a pack of about 400 wolves. According to biologists, the attack was due to a mass migration caused by a shortage in the wolves' natural food sources, in particular blue hares. About 3,500 wolves are believed to live in the Sakha Republic, an area larger than Argentina; however, according to the local government, the area can realistically only support 500 wolves. Locals were forced to patrol on snowmobiles until government forces could reach the area. According to the Agriculture Ministry, wolves killed 313 horses and over 16,000 reindeer in 2012.
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