Xahaaçıya

Kazachye stands on the lower Yana where the Kazachka enters the river, south of the great delta that opens onto the Laptev Sea. The surrounding lowlands belong to a northern world of tundra and long winter ice. In the seventeenth century Russian expeditions followed the Yana into this country and established winter quarters along its course. The river offered the principal line of communication through a region whose channels and lakes change with the seasons.