A statue of Ivan Kraft, one of the first governors of Yakutia, stands caked in frost most of the year. Amos Chapple A Yakutian woman in the city center. Steam from factories, cars and people creates a ...
With permanently frozen ground and temperatures that have reached -90 degrees Fahrenheit (-67.7 Celsius), the remote Siberian town of Oymyakon is the coldest permanently inhabited place on Earth.
Oymyakon, a remote village in Siberia's Sakha Republic, is recognized as the coldest permanently inhabited place on Earth, with temperatures plummeting to -67.7 degrees Celsius. Despite the brutal ...