Boronuk

Boronuk lies in the Yana basin of northeastern Siberia. The Yana runs between the Lena and the Indigirka to the Laptev Sea, its valley a cold country of larch forest, meadows and frozen rivers. Cossack parties reached the river in the 1630s, either by sailing down the Lena and along the Arctic coast or by crossing the Verkhoyansk Range to its upper course. Sakha and Evenki households who lived along the river then came under the fur tribute these parties demanded.