Lienskey

Lensk stands on the Lena, at a place formerly known as Mukhtuya. The settlement is dated to no later than 1663 and is linked to an earlier Evenki camp. In the eighteenth century a postal station was established on the Yakutsk–Irkutsk route to serve the Second Kamchatka Expedition. A contemporary account describes two recently built log yurts kept for the postal service on the left bank of the Lena.