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| VEF-2025: Yakutia to surprise visitors with baby mammoth and cave lion cubs | |
| 2025-09-03 | |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] Visitors to the Eastern Economic Forum, which starts September 3–6 in Vladivostok, will have access to two world-class scientific sensations at once. The carcasses of ancient animals, the baby mammoth Yana and the cave lions Boris and Sparta, have already been delivered to the Yakutia pavilion in special cryochambers. It is presented at the Far East Street exhibition, and the unique exhibits that have become world-famous were discovered at different times on the territory of the republic. In 2025, the main theme of the tenth, anniversary Eastern Economic Forum will be "The Far East: Cooperation for Peace and Prosperity". The business program includes more than 100 thematic sessions, divided into seven blocks. More than 4.5 thousand people from more than 70 countries and territories are expected to take part in the forum. "And we thought: how can Yakutia surprise with its pavilion this year? We received a proposal to take the baby mammoth Yana there, who made a splash in the world. In the first 24 hours, publications about Yana's presentation collected about 19 million views," Anatoly Nikolaev, rector of the North-Eastern Federal University, told TASS on September 2. The baby mammoth's carcass was discovered in June 2024 in the Batagaika thermokarst slump. The find was made public on March 27, 2025, at a scientific seminar at the North-Eastern Federal University. An autopsy of the carcass was also performed there. Scientists have suggested that Yana is the oldest of the six previously discovered baby mammoths in the world, excluding fragmented remains. The researchers emphasize that Yana is one of the best preserved baby mammoths in the world. The perfectly preserved specimens of cave lion cubs discovered in 2019 in the Abyisky district also became a world-class sensation.
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