The village of Oymyakon

The picture story for those who complain about the cold! You urgently need to go to the village of Oymyakon, because it's cold here in the present. In January, the temperature here can hold fast for weeks at around minus 50 ° C, so it is not surprising that this town is rightly called the coldest in the world. The lowest temperature ever was ... Oimyakon -71, 2ºC !!!




The village is home to around 500 people. In the 20s and 30s of the last century it has been a stop for shepherds reindeer. In the years of the Soviet Union was an attempt to "anchoring the" nomads, because the government considered them unmanageable. As a result, there was a village.
Cold usual thing!



Word Oymyakon means "non-freezing water" - in honor of the nearby hot springs. Frozen? Heating of the bones in a hot spring.



At the memorial sign denotes a mark of the record low temperature in the history of the village.



The peasant Nikolai brought their cows to drink water on a narrow strip of thermal waters at the edge of the village. Despite the terrible cold of winter, in June, July and August are often the temperature + 30 ° C.



There are few that grows, so people eat the meat of deer and horses. The village has only one store, and local residents are working reindeer herders, hunters and fishermen.



Most of the houses still burn coal and wood for heating. There are few modern amenities.



52-year-old Alexander Platonov - a retired teacher - went to the toilet, which is located behind his house. Many travel companies offer to visit the village and try to live in such conditions.



By the way, the only local school is closed only at temperatures below -52ºS.



Oymyakon lies about two days drive from the city of Yakutsk - the capital of the region.



His serve two airports in the capital city has a university, schools, theaters and museums. In the photo: the road to Oymyakon, nicknamed "Dear bones».



Toilet at a gas station on the road to Oymyakon.



This Yakutsk student at a bus stop in the capital.



Common problems faced by residents Oimyakon every day freeze the ink in the pens, batteries lose power, and many locals leave the cars run all day, because fear that they simply can not make them anymore.



And here's a gas station on the road to Oymyakon.





The only shop in the village.



Road of Bones to Oymyakon.



Ojmjakon on the map of the Russian Federation.



Source: arctic-blog.livejournal.com