Maalykaan

Malykan lies in the middle Lena country, along the great river route through central Siberia. Its wooded banks and river channels link the settlements between Olyokminsk and Yakutsk. In the eighteenth century Malykan was among the postal stations established along the Vitim–Yakutsk route. Drivers and horses carried messages and travellers from station to station across the long distances separating communities on the Lena.