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Life in Oymyakon - the World's Coldest Village

Some new pictures and videos have emerged from the world's coldest permanently-inhabited settlement - the village Oymyakon in the Russian region of Siberia. I really don't know how the residents manage to stay put there, but they do, sometimes braving temperatures as cold as -62°C (-80°F). Take a look at what life is like in this most hostile of environments: 
 
The remote Siberian village of Oymyakon is the world's coldest permanently-inhabited settlement. 
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The mercury on the thermometer there recently dipped to -62°C (-80°F). Brrr! 
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Nevertheless, life in a village cold enough to freeze your eyeballs hasn't stopped. 
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Local students only stop attending class when the temperature dips below -52°C (-62°F).
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People still go to work as they would do anywhere else.
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It's so cold that street vendors don't even need to refrigerate their fish. 
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With that being said, they need to keep themselves as warm as can be. 
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Extreme weather attracts extreme tourists. See below... 
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The icy landscape makes for a perfect shot of a ballerina posing in -41°C temperatures.
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Imagine standing about selling fish in this cold. 
The village lies in the Oymyakonsky District or Russia's Sakha Republic.
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The name Oymakyon means "unfrozen patch of water, where fish spend the winter". 
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Some say that the word means "frozen lake". 
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The weather was so cold on one day that it managed to break the village's new thermometer. The temperature reached -62°C.
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Some 500 people still live in the village. 
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It lies at about 750 meters above sea level. 
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Yakut horses are well-accustomed to the temperatures. 
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The village has been nicknamed the Northern Village of Cold. 
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Winters are long and excessively cold in Oymyakon.
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They don't stop the locals from going about their lives, however. 
Incredibly, though, summertime temperatures can reach 30 °C (86 °F) 
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Oymyakon was a stopover for reindeer herders back in the 1920s and 1930s.  
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The settlement became permanent due to the Soviets forcing the area's nomadic population to put down firm roots. 
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One positive effect of the cold is that the village looks like a winter wonderland for much of the year. 
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The extreme cold even makes mine tunnels beautiful. 
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Back in 1933, the lowest-ever temperature in the Northern Hemisphere, -67.7°C (−89.9°F), was recorded in the village. 
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Daylight ranges from a mere three hours in December to 21 hours in June. 
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Make it quick if you want to go sightseeing in winter!
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Who knows? Maybe icy lashes will become a new beauty trend!
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