That's how he ended up inYakutsk, Russia. The capital city of the vast (1.2 million square miles) Siberian region known as the Sakha Republic, Yakutsk is widely identified as the world's coldest city. “No other place on Earth experiences this temperature extreme,” Iuncker says. What are...
6) Oymyakon, Siberia, Russia (-67.7°C) Oymyakon is thecoldest permanently-inhabited place on Earthand is found in the Arctic Circle’s Northern Pole of Cold. In 1933, it recorded its lowest temperature of -67.7°C. With a population of below 500, schools will shut only if it’s colder...