In Yakutsk, the world’s coldest city, temperatures have dropped to minus 50 degrees Celsius (-58 degrees Fahrenheit) this week as a result of an unusually prolonged cold wave.
The inhabitants of the mining community frequently witness the thermometer consistently go well below minus 40. The settlement is situated on the permafrost in the Russian Far East, 5,000km (3,100 miles) east of Moscow.
VIDEO: BITINGLY COLD
In Yakutsk, a city in Russia’s east Siberia, 450km south of the Arctic circle, local weather services warn that temperatures could sink as low as -62°C.
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“You can’t fight it. You either adjust and dress accordingly or you suffer,” said Anastasia Gruzdeva, outside in two scarves, two pairs of gloves and multiple hats and hoods.
“You don’t really feel the cold in the city. Or maybe it’s just the brain prepares you for it, and tells you everything is normal,” she added in the city shrouded by icy mist.
There are no unique techniques for surviving the cold, according to Nurgusun Starostina, a different local who sells frozen fish at a market without the use of a refrigerator or freezer.
“Just dress warmly,” she said. “In layers, like a cabbage!”
