Look Inside The Worldтащs юааcoldestюаб City Oymyakon, russia, located nearly 600 miles east of yakutsk, is sometimes called the "world's coldest village," since its population is relatively small by comparison. Oymyakon, russia, located nearly 600 miles east of yakutsk, is sometimes called the "world's coldest village", since its population is relatively small by comparison. still, the village has reached some shocking extremes over the years, including a minus 88 degree cold spell in 2018 that was even colder than the average temperature on mars.
юааyakutskюаб Worldтащs юааcoldestюаб City Records Minus 50 Degrees Celsius Welcome to winter in yakutsk, the coldest city in the world. residents of this notoriously frosty city, the capital of russia’s sakha republic in eastern siberia, regularly deal with. Yakutsk has an average annual temperature of −8.0 °c (17.6 °f), winter high temperatures consistently well below −20 °c (−4 °f), and a record low of −64.4 °c (−83.9 °f). as a result, yakutsk is the coldest major city in the world (although a number of smaller towns in that region are slightly colder). In a remote region in russia, six time zones away from moscow, lies the coldest city on earth. rich with natural resources, yakutsk is home to 270,000 residents brave enough to face the extreme cold. Permafrost covers 15 per cent of the earth's land mass, and 65 per cent of russia's, says mark shats, a researcher at yakutsk's permafrost institute. "but other countries try to avoid building.