Oymyakon

Sakha · Russia

Oymyakon, Russia
Photo: Ilya Varlamov, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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December to February
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A remote Yakutian village often cited as the coldest permanently inhabited place on Earth. Its extreme winters, frozen rivers and hardy way of life draw a trickle of intrepid cold-weather travelers.

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