Description
Temperatures have plummeted to minus 50 degrees Celsius this week in Yakutsk during an abnormally long cold snap in the Siberian city known as the world's coldest. Located 5,000 km (3,100 mi) east of Moscow in the permafrost of the Russian Far East, residents of the mining town often see the thermometer regularly dip well below -40.
"You can't do anything about this. You either adjust and dress accordingly or you suffer. You have to wear at least two scarves, two pairs of gloves and multiple hats and hoods etc.
"You don't really feel the cold in the city. Or maybe it's just that the brain prepares you for it and tells you that everything is normal," she added in the city shrouded in freezing mist. The natives have become accustomed to the climatic conditions. But the situation is difficult here, the pipes can burst or break. Everything is hard and frozen. Batteries burst in the apartments, and sewer pipes froze completely. a market without the need for a refrigerator or freezer, he said that there were no special secrets to deal with the cold.
