Many claim that Ojmjakon is the coldest inhabited place on Earth. It is a village located in Yakutia in the eastern part of Siberia. The lowest temperature was measured in February 1933, and it was -71.2 degrees Celsius. It is a number you will see written on numerous souvenirs in Ojmjakon. Although it has never been measured again, the winters here are quite harsh. For example, in January it is perfectly normal for a thermometer to show -50 degrees Celsius.
Once upon a time, Ojmjakon was a place where cattle breeders stopped to water reindeer in a nearby thermal spring that never freezes, but today it is home to about five hundred inhabitants. Life in the winter months is not easy, but the population has adapted to extreme conditions.
The country is permanently frozen throughout the year and almost nothing succeeds, so the population mainly feeds on fish, reindeer and horse meat and dairy products. Also, in the forest they collect wild berries which they mix with frozen milk to get an ojmjakon specialty similar to kyorchekh ice cream. Just one pair of gloves or one coat is not enough for you here. The population dresses in many layers, and leaves the house only when they have to. It is not surprising that car engines cannot be started in such conditions, nor that planes cannot take off.
