Bagaca

Bagadya lies in the Vilyuy country of the Sakha Republic, in the forested northern basin of the Vilyuy, the longest tributary of the Lena. Early Russian mentions of the river date to the first half of the seventeenth century, when a winter quarters (zimovye) was set up on the upper Vilyuy and grew into the town of Vilyuysk. Sakha herders and fishermen had used the river's meadows and lakes long before that, moving with cattle and horses between summer and winter grounds.