The communist-era monument near the entrance of the town marks the record-breaking temperature of -96.16° F, recorded in the village in 1924. The sign reads, "Oymyakon, the Pole of Cold.
Pupils in a Siberian town are still going to school after outdoor temperatures plunged to -50C (-58F), it's been reported. Oymyakon in Russia's Sakha Republic of north-eastern Siberia might be in ...
A young businessman, Tuman Kyryarba, dreams to organize an extreme route to the Oymyakon district in Yakutia’s south-east. It is Russia’s coldest area, where in winter temperatures may drop to ...