Reporting from Yakutsk, Russia — Vlad Sleptsov stepped onto the small stage of a back-alley bar in deepest Siberia. Stage lights illuminated his spiky, bleached-blond hair. Shirtless and with his back ...

Frostbite and hypothermia are 'almost as common as the cold itself' in the bone-chilling Siberian city of Yakutsk. With December temperatures ranging between -31 and -41 fahrenheit, and an average of ...

As the coldest city in the world, its freezing temperatures can be challenging to endure, though one resident explained how ...

What's cooler than being cool? If you live in Yakutsk, Russia, just about everything. The shocking, otherworldly facts about Yakutsk are almost never-ending (its only highway is called the "Road of ...

Valery Sharifulin/TASS It’s a city of diamonds, mammoths, and thinly-sliced raw frozen fish that locals call ‘stroganina’. If you are afraid of the cold, then come here in the summer! You will find it ...

Atlas Obscura on Slate is a blog about the world's hidden wonders. Like us on Facebook, Tumblr, or follow us on Twitter @atlasobscura. To watch the sun rise during winter in Yakutsk, you need to set ...

With temperatures that hover around the -40° Fahrenheit mark for at least three months of the year, Yakutsk in eastern Siberia claims the title of coldest city in the world. Sure, other places have ...

Temperatures fell to minus 50 degrees Celsius this week in Yakutsk region of Russia located in Siberia which is known as the coldest place on earth. The mining city which is located 5,000 km east of ...

Yakutsk, a remote city in Eastern Siberia along the Lena River, is the coldest city in the world. Located 1840 km away from Irkoustk and 5000 km away from Moscow, this city founded in 1632 by the ...

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