Abaga

Abaga lies in the Amga basin of central Yakutia, where Sakha households kept horses and cattle on river meadows, and hunters and fishers worked the surrounding forest and lakes. The land is taiga of larch and birch, broken by small lakes and hay meadows, with long and severe winters. Russian service parties reached the Lena country in the 1620s and 1630s and began collecting yasak, the fur tribute, from its peoples.