World's coldest city: Homes have three doors, phones freeze, and children go to school and to -40 degrees C

When we get temperatures down below zero, most people barely get out of the house. But these days seem almost springing compared with what the inhabitants of Yakutsk, the coldest city in the world, experience. This Russian city, located some 250 miles [450 km] south of the Arctic Circle, regularly experiences temperatures of -45 ° C.E. and the January average is about -50 ° C. The absolute cold record, 71 °C, has been measured in the village of Oymyacon, considered the coldest inhabited site on the planet.

In this extreme climate, the air is cold enough to numb your skin in just a few minutes. Breathing becomes painful, eyelids freeze, while the metal of <x0djeg” is touching it with bare hands. Lifts are a daily danger, and people come out of the house just wrapped in special clothing layers. And spit it out before it hits the ground.

The Yakutsk is built on permafrost, land that never melts, nor in wine. For this reason, buildings are built, not directly on earth, but on pillars, so that their heat does not melt and destabilise the base. Water pipes and sewers are extremely isolated or placed on the ground. In some areas, especially in villages like Oymyaconi, there is no sewer at all because the pipes would freeze, so the toilets are out of the house even when it's -50 °C.

To prevent polar air from entering directly, many houses and buildings have two or even three doors at a time, such as a buffer zone that preserves heat. Outside ladders are often covered with tires or carpets because everything is constantly frozen and slippery broadcasts Telegragraphy.

And the cars here live differently. Those who do not have heated garages leave their engines running all night because otherwise, they will no longer be able to start in the morning. Oil and engine oil are hardened by cold. Phones and cameras are also frozen and turned off in a few minutes.

In markets fish are sold frozen, just like wooden sticks. The cut is made of axes or saws, not knives. Food is naturally stored in cold, no refrigerator. Paradox is that during the summer, when temperatures may rise to over 100 degrees Fahrenheit [30 ° C], the city faces many mosquitoes because it is located near the Lena River, and the ground below remains frozen.

Yakutsk has some 355 thousand inhabitants, who deal mainly with livestock, fishing, and mining industries. In reports, many say that the body and the mind simply get used to this climate. For us, this is normal”, they say. Children usually go to school and to -40 degrees The lesson is only canceled when temperatures drop below -50 °C.

In this city, glasses may stick to the face if you touch them with bare hands, metal burns from the cold just as the fire burns, while in the cemetery the opening of a tomb is almost impossible because the ground is strong as concrete.