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Stories from the Hidden Worlds – Oymyakon, Russia

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Oymyakon is known as “The Pole of Cold.”
A small town of 500 located in the Republic of Sakha in northeast Russia, it’s widely regarded as the coldest inhabited town on Earth. Temperatures there average around -58° F during the winter months.

Oymyakon has two main valleys beside it. These valleys trap wind inside the town and create a colder climate. However, children are still allowed to go to school if it is warmer than −55.0 °C (−67.0 °F). Some years the temperature drops below 0 °C (32 °F) in late September and may remain below freezing until mid-May. In Oymyakon sometimes the average minimum temperature for January, February, and December remains below −50 °C (−58 °F). Sometimes summer months can also be quite cold, but June and July are the only months where the temperature has never dropped below −10 °C (14 °F). Oymyakon and Verkhoyansk are the only two permanently inhabited places in the world that have recorded temperatures below −60.0 °C (−76 °F) every day in January.

Deep in Russia’s frozen hinterland, where temperatures plunge and winters stretch endlessly, the residents of a remote town have built lives in one of the world’s most unrelenting environments. This is Oymyakon, a town of a few hundred people nestled between two valleys in Russia’s far-flung Sakha Republic. The town – a cluster of wooden houses whose foundations are sunk deep into permafrost – has earned the reputation of the coldest inhabited place on the planet. In temperatures reaching nearly -70 degrees Celsius, the people of Oymyakon have developed a distinctive culture. But two days’ drive from the nearest city, the people’s way of life here is constantly imperiled by the sub-arctic conditions. Venturing out into this icy world is a matter of life and death.
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33 thoughts on “World's Coldest Place: Oymyakon, Russia | Stories from the Hidden Worlds | Free Documentary”

  1. Deep in Russia’s frozen hinterland, where temperatures plunge and winters stretch endlessly, the residents of a remote town have built lives in one of the world’s most unrelenting environments. This is Oymyakon, a town of a few hundred people nestled between two valleys in Russia’s far-flung Sakha Republic. The town – a cluster of wooden houses whose foundations are sunk deep into permafrost – has earned the reputation of the coldest inhabited place on the planet. In temperatures reaching nearly -70 degrees Celsius, the people of Oymyakon have developed a distinctive culture. But two days' drive from the nearest city, the people’s way of life here is constantly imperiled by the sub-arctic conditions. Venturing out into this icy world is a matter of life and death.

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  4. I love & enjoy watching how other cultures live. This may be the coldest place on earth, but it's seems like a great place of community, and the people respect their neighbors and have lived this way for so many years. Maybe they can teach Americans, that simple life is a great life. I would love to go visit there. Great documentary ❤️

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  11. Sorry but that is just not true I do not think. If Ice and cold water kills germs and bacteria then why have scientists found hundreds of thousand – to – millions + year old life forms in the ice and under ice miles deep lakes in the arctic and Antarctic

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  18. I worked in northern Canada in -47c I can't imagine how bone chilling it must be when It moves past -50c and the wind chill that comes with that 🤤

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  20. I doubt this is actually the coldest place on Earth, or even the coldest inhabited place. I have no doubt at all that it's beyond the pale and experience of most of us – it's certainly beyond mine.

    But the South Pole is actually inhabited year-round. There's a permanent research station there that houses some 40-50 people in winter, and a few hundred in summer. They go outside to work regularly, every day possible in some jobs. There are documentaries and individual videos of the place and people doing that work, even in -88 F temperature with wind chill at -122 F. Yes, of course, they have all possible clothing and equipment to ensure survival and enable work, and still there are limits to shift length outdoors. But survival also depends on the work getting done, for the machinery needs upkeep and fuel and people need to eat and have water. I have heard more than one reliable source call it the most challenging environment on the face of the Earth, and I have to give it its due.

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  31. I was surprised that they don't actually speak Russian. It sounds like they speak some sort of Turkic language. Do people from countries where languages from the Turkic etymology are spoken understand their language?

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  32. That putin wants to send this culture of people to war first, and any ethnically different people's from russia for his ethnic cleansing, just do what you have to do. G-d bless y'all.

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