How to live in Yakutsk, the coldest city in the world where the temperature reaches -50 degrees

During the winter, it is often heard that experts recommend dressing like an onion, in layers, to withstand the low temperatures. This recommendation is essential in Yakutsk, in Siberiaknown as the coldest city in the world.

Located 5,000 km east of Moscow, in the permafrost of the Russian Far East, residents of the mining town of a million often see the thermometer drop well below -40 degrees. Now, in an abnormally long cold snap, temperatures hit minus 50 degrees.

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winters of Yakutsk can be extreme, even by Russian standards, and January is usually the coldest month in that territory. Although used to freezing temperatures, residents of the remote region are taking extra precautions to stay warm.

Yakutsk winters can be extreme, even by Russian standards. (Reuters).

An inhabitant of the place named Anastasia Gruzdeva said in dialogue with the Reuters news agency: “You can’t fight it. Either you adjust and dress accordingly or you suffer.”. In the meantime, he was wearing two scarves, two pairs of gloves, and multiple hats and hoods.

The layers, according to another resident selling frozen fish at a local market, are the key. “Just bundle up. Layered, like a cabbage,” he said.

Yakutsk winters can be extreme, even by Russian standards. (Reuters).

Thermal clothing for -20ºC or -30ºC is found in shopping centers and outdoor businesses and wolf, fox, mink or Sibelin sable coats They are part of the urban landscape. It’s more, natural furs are not a luxury, but a necessity, the key to survival Yakutsk. They are even used in footwear, since in the worst winter months the only thing that keeps feet warm are “unty”, boots made of reindeer skin, the typical animal of these latitudes.

Of course you can’t go outside without a hat and many times you put it on top of a balaclava that only exposes your eyes. In the midst of this cold wave, some remembered when their eyelashes froze in 2018.

the yakuts they are so used to this extreme life that, only when the thermometer reaches -45ºC, classes are suspended in schools. Instead, adults continue their working life without alterations.

Source: Elcomercio