How to survive the coldest city on earth
YAKUTSK (Russia) – Temperatures plunged to minus 50° Celsius (-58 Fahrenheit), this week in Yakutsk, during an unusually long cold snap in the Siberian capital known as the coldest place on Earth.
It is situated 5,000 km (3.100 miles) east Moscow on the Russian Far East’s permafrost. The residents of this mining city frequently see their thermometer drop to below 40.
“You can’t fight it. Anastasia Gruzdeva said, “You either adjust and dress accordingly, or you suffer.” She was outside, wearing two scarves and two pairs of gloves, as well as multiple hats.
“You don’t feel the cold in the city.” Perhaps it’s because your brain prepares for it and tells it everything is fine,” she explained in the city covered by icy mist.
Nurgusun Starostina from another locality, who sells frozen fish in a market without a refrigerator or freezer, stated that there are no special ways to combat the cold.
She said, “Just dress warmly.” “In layers, like a cabbage!”
(Reporting by Reuters, Editing by Andrew Cawthorne