Welcome to the coldest village on Earth
The Russian village of Yakutsk in Oymyakon
Average temperature for January standing at -50C
The village
is known as the 'Pole of Cold'. Daily problems that come with living in
Oymyakon include pen
ink freezing, glasses freezing to people's faces and batteries losing
power. Locals are said to leave their cars running all day for fear of
not being able to restart them
A woman walks over an ice-encrusted bridge in Yakutsk
The Village is home to about 500 people
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Oymyakon is 750 metres above sea level, which means that the length
of a day varies from 3 hours in December to 21 hours in the summer
Oymyakon village at dawn with a plume of smoke rising from the heating plant. Most people still burn coal and wood
for heat. When coal deliveries are irregular the power
station starts burning wood. If the power ceases, the town shuts down in
about five hours, and the pipes freeze and crack
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A Communist-era monument marking the record-breaking temperature of
-71.2 recorded in the village in 1924. It reads 'Oymyakon, the Pole of
Cold'
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