Yaksha (russian: Якша) is a
settlement
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*Human settlement, a community where people live
*Settlement (structural), the distortion or disruption of parts of a building
* Closing (real estate), the final step in executing a real estate transaction
*Settlement (fin ...
in
Troitsko-Pechorsky District of the
Komi Republic
The Komi Republic (russian: Республика Коми; kv, Коми Республика), sometimes simply referred to as Komi, is a republic of Russia located in Eastern Europe. Its capital is the city of Syktyvkar. The population of th ...
,
Russia
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, located in the upper streams of the
Pechora River.
The Pechora is not navigable above Yaksha, and even Yaksha itself is reachable by boat only during the late spring and early summer, when the water level is higher. In the past, Yaksha was the northern (Pechora) end of the
portage road connecting
Cherdyn in the
Kama River
The Kama (russian: Ка́ма, ; tt-Cyrl, Чулман, ''Çulman''; udm, Кам) is a long[«Река ...]
basin with the Pechora. A project of building a
narrow-gauge railroad
A narrow-gauge railway (narrow-gauge railroad in the US) is a railway with a track gauge narrower than standard . Most narrow-gauge railways are between and .
Since narrow-gauge railways are usually built with tighter curves, smaller structur ...
in the area to connect the Pechora Basin with that of Kama was considered in the late 19th century, but never acted upon. The 20th century plans for a
Pechora-Kama Canal came to nought as well.
Since 1935, the main office of
Pechora-Ilych Nature Reserve
Pechora-Ilych Nature Reserve (russian: Печоро-Илычский заповедник, ''Pechoro-Ilychsky zapovednik'') is a Russian 'zapovednik' (strict nature reserve) in the Komi Republic, Russia. It currently occupies 7,213 square kilometer ...
has been located in Yaksha.
Sources
Alexander Nikolaevich Shuvalov (Александр Николаевич Шувалов), "Pechora's White Nights" (БЕЛЫЕ НОЧИ ПЕЧОРЫ)(A guidebook). Moscow, Profizdat, 1991.
(Pechora Portages) in
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary Pechora-Ilych Nature Reserve
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Rural localities in the Komi Republic
Portages