[2] The president of Sakha Omuk was Andrei Borisov [ru], a popular theatre director and a member of the Congress of People's Deputies of the Soviet Union.
[5] Further, the arrival of thousands of Slavic labour migrants to work in Yakutia's mining industry had caused a massive demographic shift, with Yakuts dropping from 90% of the population in 1920 to 33.4% by 1989.
As a result of these factors, popular anger at the Soviet system reached a boiling point among Yakuts in the later half of the 1980s, with riots in the regional capital of Yakutsk in 1986.
[8] Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Sakha Omuk advocated for greater interconnectedness between the Yakut and the Turkic peoples within the Commonwealth of Independent States.
[10] Even after President Nikolayev began to distance himself from Sakha Omuk, the party continued to retain significant stature within the government, and despite its self-proclaimed status as "constructive opposition", its members held multiple ministries.