Visiting the COLDEST CITY in the World (-71°C, -96°F) YAKUTSK / YAKUTIA

yakuza is the capital of Sahara republic an autonomous region that is allied with Russia 280 miles away from the north pole since this place is the most north eastern point of Siberia it is very much isolated from the rest of the world outside temperature is around negative 58 degrees Fahrenheit the boiling water is about 212 degrees Fahrenheit

The lowest air temperature ever measured in this region is negative 96.16 degrees Fahrenheit it is as if it belongs to another planet a banana left outside can turn into a hammer in minutes

people cannot wear metal frame glasses here because the metal could stick to their skin and if they wanted to takeoff their glasses their flesh might be chewed out this is a piece of meat that looks very much like human flesh let's just put it in contact with metal

Natural gas pipes and they have to be laid above the ground because the underground is frozen with ice there is actually a 100 foot thick mass of ice under the city

River is completely frozen during the soviet era people who contradicted Stalin's ideas were exiled to Sahara republic region they were politicians businessmen etc. as a matter of fact some of these people who live in

yakuza right now are their grandchildren so this place used to be land of exile today there is a city life going on but we could call this life and i sail it pushes the limits of human nature no matter how much we bundle up nothing is enough to keep our bodies warm

If you have a car here you have a big problem winter lasts for six to seven months here and in that time you can never drive your car if you insist on driving it you can never stop your vehicle's engine for example the car with a running engine you can see here is empty there is nobody inside

There are hundreds of cars like this the reason why the engine is running if it stops it can be completely covered with ice and the engine oil will freeze as

The owner of this vehicle must have decided not to run his or her car for a while just after 20 minutes of the engine being off it is common to give up hope

Russia is a country that is quite rich in oil and natural gas resources even the exhaustible freezes that's how cold

It is there are special covers for protection sometimes this is not enough too people who can afford it keep their vehicles in a heated garage because these vehicles are constantly running there is a constant layer of exhaust smoke over the city range of visibility is often below 200 feet due to the small the houses

Here have completely different architecture the reason why the buildings are built on pillars is that the ground is covered with ice and there is a possibility of ice shift old houses start to lean over after a decade or so

Because the amount of ice either increases or decreases it feels like pins and needles the worst thing that could happen is to get frostbite considering a refrigerator operates at about 40 degrees Fahrenheit

A freezer operates at about negative four degrees Fahrenheit since the temperature here is negative 58 degrees Fahrenheit everywhere you can see here could function as a very high tech freezer that's why some people are able to store their fruits or their meats just by hanging them outside their windows can I make a sled out of this

If you would stay outside for more than 15 minutes you would experience problems such as skin burns and difficulty in breathing chill that starts with the needle pre-clack pain frostbite followed by sensational bones and then it could result in death

Twenty percent of the world's total diamond resource are in yakuza in addition to that there are also all the elements in the periodic table

There are many mammoth and dinosaur fossils under the acratia territories in these areas where mammoths once ruled their intact corpses still show up as the ice melts today

In this land where people cannot engage in agriculture or farming people eat fish one of the most important features of this market is that they display the fish in public stalls rather than in refrigerators outside is much colder than any refrigerator

A piece of meat left outside once spoiled for months there are also frozen rabbits here they are consumed a lot including with the ducks horse meat is also very common it is about 45 pounds

They take this fish as a whole put it outside and consume it for days this one is also on sale it never spoils of course