Editing Yakutsk (section)

==Culture==
There are several theaters in Yakutsk: the State Russian Drama Theater, named after [[Alexander Pushkin|A. S. Pushkin]]; the Sakha Theater, named after [[Platon Oyunsky|P. A. Oiyunsky]]; the Suorun Omoloon Young Spectator's Theater; and the State Academic Opera and Ballet Theater, named after D. K. Sivtsev.

Museums include the National Fine Arts Museum of Sakha; the Museum of Local Lore and History, named after [[Yemelyan Yaroslavsky|E. Yaroslavsky]]; and the only museums in the world dedicated to the [[khomus]] and [[permafrost]]. In September 2020, the Gagarin Center for Culture and Contemporary Art was opened in the Gagarin District of Yakutsk.<ref>{{Cite web |date=August 31, 2022 |title=Доев Дмитрий: "За пять лет в Якутии появилось почти три тысячи новых мест в учебных заведениях" |url=https://sakhalife.ru/doev-dmitrij-za-pyat-let-v-yakutii-poyavilos-pochti-tri-tysyachi-novyh-mest-v-uchebnyh-zavedeniyah/ |access-date=2023-03-23 |website=SakhaLife}}</ref>

In 2021, the construction of the "State Philharmonic of Yakutia. The Arctic Center of Epos and Arts" began.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Доев Дмитрий: "С помощью ГЧП в Якутии создана принципиально новая база для учреждений образования и культуры" |url=https://astv.ru/news/materials/2022-09-23-doev-dmitrij-s-pomosh-yu-gchp-v-yakutii-sozdana-principial-no-novaya-baza-dlya-uchrezhdenij-obrazovaniya-i-kul-tury}}</ref>

The annual [[Yhyakh|Ysyakh]] summer festival takes place the last weekend in June. The traditional Yakut summer solstice festivities include a celebration of the revival and renewal of the nature, fertility and beginning of a new year. It is accompanied by national Yakut rituals and ceremonies, folk dancing, horse racing, Yakut ethnic music and singing, national cuisine, and competitions in traditional Yakut sports.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Celebrate Ysyakh festival in Yakutsk... |url=https://airrussia.us/celebrate-ysyakh-festival-in-yakutsk-2 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230121153937/https://airrussia.us/celebrate-ysyakh-festival-in-yakutsk-2 |archive-date=January 21, 2023 |access-date=February 16, 2015 |website=Air Russia}}</ref>

There is a local punk scene<ref>{{Cite web |last=Sanna, Jacopo |date=January 11, 2019 |title=The Punk Scene in Yakutsk, Russia Turns Isolation Into Inspiration |url=https://daily.bandcamp.com/2019/01/11/yakutsk-punk-scene-list |access-date=2019-02-12 |website=Bandcamp Daily |language=en}}</ref> in Yakutsk, with many bands.

The city has an increasingly vibrant film industry that has been gaining international recognition over recent years for its unique style and the way its filmmakers portray the region and its people.<ref>{{Cite magazine |title=Why the Film Industry Is Thriving in the Russian Wilderness |url=https://time.com/longform/film-industry-russia-yakutia/ |access-date=2021-08-27 |magazine=Time |language=en}}</ref> The regional film industry has come to be nicknamed "Sakhawood".<ref>{{Cite news |last=Luxmoore |first=Matthew |date=June 13, 2021 |title=Deep In Siberia, 'Sakhawood' Is Putting The Global Film Industry On Alert |url=https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-siberia-movie-industry-indigenous-culture-sakhawood/31304753.html |access-date=2021-08-27 |work=Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty |language=en}}</ref>

People in Yakutsk wear very fluffy and fuzzy clothing, and in extremely cold weather they  cope by sheltering indoors in warm housing, which is believed to lower Yakutsk's increase in winter mortality rates compared to the seasonal rise in mortality seen in milder regions of the world.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Donaldson |first=G C |last2=Ermakov |first2=S P |last3=Komarov |first3=Y M |last4=McDonald |first4=C P |last5=Keatinge |first5=W R |date=October 10, 1998 |title=Cold related mortalities and protection against cold in Yakutsk, eastern Siberia: observation and interview study |journal=BMJ: British Medical Journal |volume=317 |issue=7164 |pages=978–982 |doi=10.1136/bmj.317.7164.978 |issn=0959-8138 |pmc=28681 |pmid=9765165}}</ref>