On the Route of the Biological Subunit of the Commission for the Study of Productive Resources of the Yakut ASSR, Headed by L.V. Bianchi and A.I. Ivanov, in Central Yakutia in 1926

Abstract

The routes of the biological subunit of the Yakut complex expedition of the USSR Academy of Sciences for the study of the productive resources of the Yakut ASSR, working on the left bank of the Lena River in Central Yakutia in 1926, are described. From June 26 to July 12, the expedition of the Zoological Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences traveled along the Lena River valley from Yakutsk to the Aldan River mouth and back to Namskoe. Then, from July 26 to September 15, a trip was made to the Lena-Vilyui interfluve from Namskoe via Badarannakh Station of the Yakutsk-Vilyuisk road and Tit-Ary Station on the Lena and back to Yakutsk. Geographic coordinates of the zoological collection localities along the whole route are given; many of the visited localities are not marked in the modern maps.