When the heat waves of summer keep you up at night in a pool of sweat think of Oymyakon – a Siberian village that has just recorded a numbing temperature of -62°C (-82°F).

Oymyakon is the second coldest place in the world, right after your ex’s heart. It is a permanently inhabited settlement in Northern Russia where 500 locals experience long, freezing winters every year. After living there for generations, for them, any temperature under -30°C (-22°F) is just a regular Tuesday.

The place where your eyelashes freeze and your saliva transform into tiny icicles that spear your lips used to be a stopover for reindeer herders in the 1920s. Back then, people would make a quick stop to water their animals, take a dip in the nearby thermal springs and move on.

The Soviet authorities, however, deemed the place as perfectly habitable, so they forced the people to stay around a little longer.

Almost a century later, their descendants are still there, and if you don’t consider the glacial temperatures that they have to endure, it looks as if they were living in a winter wonderland.

h/t siberiantimes

 

1. This happened in Siberia, in a village called Oymyakon. This is practically the coldest inhabited human settlement in the world

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2. The temperature fell to a record, never before seen -62°C (-80°F)

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3. Even though the cold is so harsh it could freeze you up in a matter of minutes, life in the town still follows its course…

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4. Outside, thermometers can’t even go any lower when displaying the temperature:

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5. People are actually still going to work

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