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The Lena-Amga interfluve of Central Yakutia is characterized by taiga-alas landscape. A feature of this area is a plain covered mainly larch taiga, the uniformity of which the thermokarst basins of alases violate. Alas represent a rounded or elongated hollow formed by years of soil defrosts, the bottom of which is covered by extremely nutritious for cattle meadow grass. The vegetation of alas represents meadow and praire system. For now days, Alas are the most important places for agriculture. A large number of ol...

This article deals with problems of the ancient settlement of Northern Yakutia. Across the Arctic of Yakutia, in the basin of river Uélé, Anabar, Olenek, lower Lena, Indigirka, Kolyma and Islands of the Arctic Ocean discovered and excavated hundreds of monuments of stone and early metal ages in ancient times, the main migratory paths were rivers flowing into the Arctic Ocean, which originate from Central Yakutia. Currently in the Arctic Yakutia there are about 20 sites of mammoth hunters, especially in the basins ...