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This is the harshest place on our planet where people live constantly. There are about five hundred of them in the Yakut village. Main occupation the local population is cattle breeding, reindeer herding and fishing. In summer, people go to the so-called flyers for haymaking. In Oymyakon all signs of civilization are evident: there is cellular communication, the Internet and an airport built during the war years. There is a hospital, schools – regular and musical, kindergarten, club, library, gym, bakery, gas station and shop. By the way, food prices in Oymyakon are higher than in the Russian capital: a loaf of bread, for example, costs 50 rubles.
Oymyakon’s stagnant cold makes its way to the bones
The village is located at an altitude of 741 meters above sea level. Winter in Oymyakon Valley flows very cold air. And although the wind not here, standing cold, as locals say, permeates through.
The lowest temperature in the village was noted in 1938: -77.8 degrees Celsius. Meteorologists and scientists have long argued over which from the settlements of Yakutia is more “cold” – Oymyakon or Verkhoyansk. Recent evidence suggests Oymyakon, where absolute annual minimums are 3.5 degrees lower.
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The difference in winter and summer temperatures here reaches 104 degrees. By the way, the highest summer temperature was recorded in 2010: +34.6 degrees Celsius.
However, most of the year Oymyakon is in the snow. Eternal Frost prevents people from digging graves properly, and everyone prays, so that their loved ones do not die in the winter.
The shortest day of December lasts here for three hours; summer is it is time for white nights when it is light round the clock. This time of year, in in turn, it also has a significant temperature difference: during the day it can go up to +30 degrees, and at night fall below zero.
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Kids in Oymyakon dress “in cabbage”, leaving open Only eyes. At the same time, they can only walk on a sled, since it’s very difficult for children to walk in their “hundred clothes”. what for schoolchildren, primary school students stay at home temperature is -52 degrees, and at -56 degrees school.
The adult population of Oymyakon dresses in down jackets and fur coats hats and boots made of deer skins. People are forced to tweak two or three pairs of pants, socks, tights. A person is saved from frostbite a hat covering the forehead and a scarf raised to the nose. However, there are cases when local beauties wore nylon tights in 50-degree frost and managed not to freeze.
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For cars, villagers have heated garages; driver in front Departure for 10-15 minutes heats the engine. If the garage absent, the engine is not jammed at all. In car cabs install additional stoves, and ride on the Arctic diesel fuel (diesel fuel and kerosene are mixed). Many drivers they make a pipe with their own hands, with the help of which they heat up fuel. Yakut truckers have not been jamming their engines for months cars.
Nature and animals of Oymyakon
The nature of Oymyakon is beautiful and unique: there are streams, not freezing in 70-degree frost, and ice not melting in 30 degree heat.
Of all Oymyakon animals, they are able to transfer winter cold only horses, dogs, and, of course, reindeer. Warm cow the barn is released at a temperature not lower than —30 degrees, while udders put on special warm bras. Cats in winter and they don’t let them out at all, and if some extreme She will jump out of the house herself – frostbite is guaranteed to her. Concerning dogs, they are taken home on especially cold days or allowed into the garage. The rest of the time these animals spend on the street.
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Today many tourists come to Oymyakon – Russian travelers and foreigners. Among the local sights – preserved buildings of the Gulag camps, a museum covered in secrets and legends Lake Labynkyr and Moltanskaya rock and, of course, the local frosts themselves. Every spring in the village hosts a festival called “Oymyakon – the pole of cold”, and then here you can see a lot of Santa Clauses, gathered together from around the world.
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