在哈利亚赫村的一场葬礼中，伊戈尔·伊万诺夫的棺木从乌克兰前线4500公里外运回；他为给孩子买房而签约参军，却只作战了几个月便失踪，遗体被找到后，他去寻找父亲的儿子也在行动中失踪。红与黑的葬礼符号把这一家庭在战争中的连续损失压缩成了一个清晰的人口代价案例。

雅库特面积大于阿根廷，但人口仅100万（其中一半为雅库特人），冬夏温差从-60°C到40°C；Mediazona统计该地区在乌克兰战争中死亡人数超过2500人，竟高于人口为其5倍的圣彼得堡。按人均计算，这意味着雅库特的死亡负担至少是圣彼得堡的5倍，显示出明显失衡的地区性伤亡集中趋势。

尽管雅库特贡献了全球四分之一的钻石，并在2010年代形成电影与科技增长高点，战争后出现了可量化下滑与社会重构：2022年动员时约400名女性抗议即被驱散，2024年奥列涅克斯克因迁徙监测中断损失四分之一鹿群，且一名少年在1月军事展品事故中死亡。与这些损失并行的趋势是消费替代、媒体去新闻化、征兵景观常态化，以及部分外流人口在高压环境下回流。

At a funeral in Kharliakh, Igor Ivanov’s coffin returned from 4,500 km away in Ukraine; he had enlisted to earn enough for a flat for his children, fought only a few months, went missing, and after his body was found, his son who went to search for him also went missing in action. The red-and-black funeral symbolism compresses this family’s consecutive war losses into a clear case of demographic cost.

Yakutia is larger than Argentina but has only 1 million people (half Yakut), with temperatures ranging from -60°C in winter to 40°C in summer; Mediazona reports more than 2,500 war dead from the region, exceeding St Petersburg despite that city having five times the population. On a per-capita basis, this implies Yakutia’s death burden is at least 5x higher, indicating a sharply uneven regional concentration of casualties.

Although Yakutia produces a quarter of the world’s diamonds and peaked in film and tech growth in the 2010s, the war period shows measurable decline and social restructuring: about 400 women protesting mobilization in 2022 were quickly dispersed, Oleneksk lost a quarter of its herds in 2024 after migration monitoring was cut, and a teenager was killed in January at a military exhibit. Running alongside these losses are trends of consumption substitution, depoliticized local media, normalized military recruitment imagery, and partial return migration under pressure.

Source: How the war in Ukraine affects Siberian Russia

Subtitle: It has changed Yakutia, but not its core

Dateline: 2月 26, 2026 04:27 上午 | Yakutsk