Oymyakon, located in Russia’s Siberian republic of Yakutia, is the coldest permanently inhabited place in the world. The remote village, which has a population of around 800, registered a ferocious minus 71.2 degrees in 1926.

This place is freezing! It’s so cold, locals say that birds freeze to death in mid flight.

The name Oymyakon means “non-freezing water” because of the natural hot spring close to the village.

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