Pole Cold, Oymyakon, Yakutia. The village of Oymyakon is the coldest settlement in the world

Hello! My name is Nikolai, I am 38 years old and I want to tell you my story. So it happened that my mother was born on the cold pole. Probably dear readers, you are aware enough to know that the Pole of the Cold does not coincide with the North Pole, nor with the South Pole, but is located in Yakutia, in the village of Oymyakon. In fact, the inhabitants of the neighboring Verojansk Yaro argue that they have colder, but is documented, it is colder in Oymyakon, even if it is not so, then they still believe.

My parents, being naive students, came here at the end of the 60s from Novosibirsk, on the distribution after the institute. I do not know what they did, they never raised this topic in the family, but it so happened that my sister and I were born here. Svetlana after school went to study in Vladivostok, got married there and remained at the warm Japanese sea for life (for us Vladivostok is a very warm city). I learned to the electrician in Yakutsk and returned to my native village. From Yakutsk to Oymyakon about a thousand kilometers. There is no bus message all year round. In the summer, in the public transport, it is still possible to get, and in the winter you have to take UAZ "Bukaku" and ride on it along the snow-covered desert. The road takes an average of thirty hours, so that only a wealthy person can afford to leave or come to the Oymyakon in the winter. Not winter here only from the second half of May to the first half of September. Everything else time is a cold dog.

It is funny to read news or watch the plots on television, where they tell how Moscow froze in twenty degrees of frost, our children cease to go to school only when the column on the thermometer falls below sixty degrees. Twenty degrees with a minus sign - fabulous warm, minus thirty - light coolness. In January, in Oymyakne, the average temperature is 55 degrees below zero, in February even colder, at sixty. People persistently carry such weather gifts. Even in the summer periodically there is a negative temperature, no reason to speak about the tan in such a climate, it is necessary only to survive.

My parents worked on meteorological station. In theory, it was already possible to retire after fifteen years of work, but they worked twenty-two years - and then left for a big land, where it was hard for several years. In Oymyakne, due to the high ambient temperature, there are no viruses at all, they simply die here. On the mainland, any cold, any flu may be fatal for Northerner. Now, after the parents south, I went to Novosibirsk. While I live here just a year, but about everything in order. Let's start with the fact that the village is such a Oymyakon.

Village Oymyakon

Who needs Oymyakon - it is not clear. The authorities have long ceased to pay attention to the problems of the poor Northerners. Before moving to Novosibirsk, I worked as an electrician at the airport. Electrician - loudly said. On the cold pole, he looks like an old building, similar to the barn, with knocked out windows, eliminated by the doors and furniture, assembled through the neighbors who threw their homes. No one finances the airport, so all his staff is a dispatcher, the explosive of the runway, the electrician survive, as they can. We paid a salary, but they did not give money to repair and other needs at all. After I quit, the inspector began to combine his work with the work of the electrician. Sunny in my work was nothing - it was necessary to simply organize the illumination of the runway. On the frost, the light bulbs exploded, even being under the hood. There are, of course, special lamps that frost are not terrible, but no one has allocated money for them. You can, of course, in the dark, do not fly, but in the winter we have light only four hours, of which two hours are twilight. You want, do not want, and the light on the band it is necessary. If nothing changes, then soon the dispatcher will quit the airport, then the viewer will probably have to combine three positions.

In the dilapidated building, here is the airport, there is a waiting room. It looks like a room with two old sofas. It is very cold in it, because the old airport and the slits are sinking.

Next to the airport is the cow and kindergarten. Now he works only half, children in Oymyakon still have. A little indeed - a huge field that even a very drunk man can be called even a very drunk man, this is our runway.

The airport was organized during the times of the Great Patriotic War. There was an aviation base of the Pacific Fleet, which made raids on Japan. After graduation, the airport began to exploit for peaceful purposes, for civilians. Only two models of aircraft flew here - An-2 and An-24. Flights are prohibited at a temperature of minus six degrees Celsius and below. In Soviet times, the aircraft flew all year round, then, when restructuring, the flights stopped, which almost killed the village, but after a few years they resumed again. True, now the message with Yakut is only in the summer. Previously, there was another flight to the village of Ust-Neura, but he was covered as close as possible. In winter, you can only get to the big city on Uaza.

With our frosts, the car is not devoured. At truckers in Yakutia, the motors work in general without shutdown. For two hours of downtime, everything will frozen so - that then you have to wait for the summer to get started. On the large ground, the car is heated in warm boxes, in car wash. We have nothing like that in Oymyakon. And in general, in the whole of Yakutia, probably, only in Yakutsk you can meet warm boxes. If you leave the machine with the engine turned on for four hours, it will also freeze, the wheels will turn into stones. Of course, you can move on such a car, but very neatly and slow. Imagine, ride on wheels that remind the shape of the egg - is it convenient? And we had every winter so ride. You go slowly and think: "Yes, if he damn this north, I will go to Sochi, buy a house." And then you are not leaving anywhere. And it's not because you love this Oymyakon so much and these frosts, it's just spinning everything again, it begins to spin and no longer before. It is necessary to survive here.

No rare cases when the wheels are bursting in winter. Iron frames of cars are regularly cracking, plastic bumpers - crumpled from frost into dust. The most cruel, which can happen to the car enthusiast - if the stove breaks in his car. Of course, everything is sick and the doors, and the windows, but the cold still enters the car, and she herself cools because of the external air itself. If the stove covered - wear everything that you find and how you want, Trani to the nearest village. True, we don't have in the central part of Russia, and two hundred, and three hundred kilometers can be driving until someone find, but you can and all five hundred.

People on the big earth are afraid that the dollar will grow, the ruble will fall, the tariffs will be raised, etc. etc. In Oymyakon, the main fear - energy problems. In such a frost, we start relative to ordinary everyday joys to relate. The entire village is heated from the diesel electrical station. There is no need to talk about any boiler room in such a frost, too large losses will be. Our DES, in my century, several times faced in the most cracked cold. Moreover, in my memory, no one has never done the overhaul of the power plant. Benefit from Yakutsk promptly reacted to the breakdown and sent the workers brigade. Nevertheless, the male population, at this time, tried not to make a frozen water supply, which would break through the later, after the power of the power plant. All who could have taken a soldering lamp and warmed the pipes.

In each house there is a tan here, because it is fraught with hot water with a sixty-per-degree frost - at best she will just cool down. But to the person reached a person, at least cold, it is necessary to heat the pipe with electricity. For this they are put on special heating cables, and from above the casing. If the power plant ceases to work, the pipes cease to heal, and the casing is able to keep warm only a certain time - then it becomes missing. You have to skip the casing and warm the pipe by a soldering lamp. If the pipe breaks down - to replace it unreal before the summer. Imagine to leave a hospital, school or kindergarten without water?

Yes, there is a hospital and a school on the cold pole, and the store. Work is not only for harsh men, but also for fragile women. Even children in Oymyakon are not like on the big earth. She is ready to frost and harsh Yakut weather from youngsters. When the window is completely cold - no heating helps. Schoolchildren sit in the lessons in the coat (the coat is specifically stored in the school, because it is not reasoned to carry it with him, and the gel handles warm them, which, in theory, do not freeze in the cold.

To clothes, the attitude in Oymyakne is not at all like on the big earth. Beautifully ugly - no matter. The main thing is that the heat was. If a couple of minutes join the street in a thin jacket, then the sleeve can break away, or the collar. This Oymyakonets on the legs wears the Unit from the Camus, the skin of the lower part of the northern deer. For one pair of unites it is necessary ten cameras, that is, the fur with ten legs of the deer. The length of the fur coats must be delivered to the CNT. Otherwise, you can frozen your knees and the shin. On the head - a fur hat made of sands, minks or foxes, for those who live more compromising. Without scarf, it is impossible to go out on the street. With a strong frost, breathe on the street only through a scarf. Thus, at least some amount of warm air falls into the lungs. At low temperatures, the oxygen content in the air is very small, so the average human breathing is twice as well. If you exhale in the cold in silence, you can hear a rustling, it freezes exhaled air. Oymyakan frosts are not scary of colds, but frostbite here to get lighter of lung - it can also be protected only with a warm scarf.

The nature of women does not change in a plus twenty, nor in minus sixty. Even on this weather in Oymyakne, you can go out to go out in stockings and a short skirt, however, there will be a long-pretty fur coat on top, but the essence does not change. It is enough to declare dancing - and beauties, from all the nearest villages will eat to show yourself and look at others. There are still women in Yakut villages.

Children Pole Cold

It happened that I don't have our children. The wife was, but the children did not send the kids. Somewhere I read that the children themselves choose their parents, none of them wanted to live on the pole of the cold. Reasonable guys, nothing to say. No matter how hard it was necessary to adult people, children are harder than doubly. When I was completely even a bloop, then before moving to the street, I was dressed at half an hour, and all this very much resembled a mysterious ritual. First wear warm underwear, then woolen pants, and from above - cotton overalls. On the body - a bike shirt, from above - a warm sweater. And then, on top of the image of the cabbage - a cycaic fur coat. On the legs - ordinary socks, woolen socks and boots. On the head - a knitted hat, and from above - cygic. On the palms - hare mittens. Walking in such a knightly costume did not work absolutely. Therefore, small children are not listed here on the street, but in the sleds. Just so put the child in Sanki - it is impossible to heat the litter on the stove, first to lay it, and to sit down on top. Outside, the baby remains only eyes and eyebrows, the rest of the body is not cold.

Are you from the north, and what do you have all the walruses there?

Are you a singer? Well, sleep! Are you from the north? Can you walk in winter without a hat? When I just moved to Novosibirsk and told that he had grown on Oymyakon, everyone was very surprised. It was believed that we can barely walk in the snow in a fifty-degree frost. On the contrary - the north the man lives, the more carefulness treats warmth and, accordingly, the warmer dresses.

Until recently, no one worried in Yakutia. Now lovers are also a bit, but even accidents are not scared. For example, there is a bad tradition in Russia - into the hole to dive to baptism. It is surprising that the Orthodox Church is told, they say, not the church of this rite and in general it is harmful, and the people every year more and more dives into the hole. Before Yakutia, in the middle of the two thousandths, also reached this fashion at false-plane. Several dozens of people she cost health, and someone, probably, and life. Imagine, after the window minus fifty-five degrees, the water temperature is three degrees above zero. Understood - you go dry in the snow to the water - no problems, dying - generally cool, warm, but it is worth getting out, as legs instantly come with ice. I myself had a witness, as the first desperate cough dived into the hole. We looked up and then their ice from ice. Russian people - he is much on a bad business. None of experiments with a molding on the pole of the cold ended - began to dive, but having a bucket with hot water at hand. A person gets out of the water and poured a hot track in front of him so that he can get to the car, wander and dress in dry. Another way is to dive in shoes, shoes do not parse ice. In a drunk, dive into the hole is categorically prohibited.

In general, if you drank, it is better not to go out. Alcohol is not saving from frost. He is rather an enemy than a friend. Fall, fall asleep - not difficult. In the best case, the frozen limbs amputate. Although is it possible to name the best? From alcohol in the north is a lot of trouble. Previously, there was a dry law in Oymyakon. Nobody introduced him, he was just, and people observed him. The instinct of self-preservation was suggested that the sin is better even half a liter in the house do not hold. Want to drink - drink a little bit at home. Now you can read, then about the bottom of the frozen to death, something about the friend. Vodka in the cold freezes, like mercury hydraulic devices, which are below forty-five degrees of frost do not work. In the village, residents use alcohol degrees, but rather not for use, and so for Hochma. It is clear that and so that behind the window is cold, and what is the difference how much - fifty degrees or fifty five?

In Oymyakne, the most ordinary items and things acquire very unusual forms. For example, the police here never wear clubs - they are hardening and burst when they hit as glass. The fish extracted in the frost from the water, in five minutes it becomes glass. Lingerie has to be dried very carefully. In a couple of minutes, it becomes a stake in the cold, and two hours later, things already need to be brought back. If you do it inactively, the pillowcase or a duvet cover can be broken in half.

Winter on the street, from all pets can endure only dogs, horses and, of course, reindeer. Cows most of the year spend in warm bread. They can be released on the street only when the thermometer column will rise above the thirty degrees of frost, but even then at such a temperature on the udder it is necessary to wear a special bra, and then his animal wrinkles. No one uses refrigerators most of the year here, keeping meat, fish and lingonberries on the veranda. To chop the meat with an ax - otherwise it will turn into a fine pinch, it has to saw it. Local residents patiently suffer from avitaminosis. They are trying to fight with him, but it gives only a small vitamin tool.

People at the cold pole look much older than their years, and more than fifty five years live only units. Separately, it is worth saying about the funeral in the conditions of our climate. There is even a saying here - God forbid you die in winter. The graves dig up a whole week. The land first warmed the stove, then the scans are hammered by the soil of centimeters for twenty, then they warm again and again doubt and so while the depth does not reach two meters. Terrible work. There is no full-time dealers in Oymyakon, digging the grave falls completely on the shoulders of relatives and friends.

Oymyakon now

Now there is still a pole of cold work. It will always be here, while there are people, but every year the inhabitants are becoming less. Someone dies, someone leaves for big land. Earlier, near Oymyakon, a large livestock state farm and a farm worked, where the Chernobourk was bred. She had the best. Probably, it is not in vain that the fastest frost, the better the fur. Now the complex and farm closed. The number of people is working at the airport, someone works at the substation, the meteorological station is still functioning. From a big land, people do not come to work here, except for very desperate bravets, but these hands can be counted on the fingers of one hand over the past ten years. Salary for the Northern standards are not the highest, but when I speak Novosibirsk, I received 72 thousand rubles in Oymyakon - all the eyes dreameterably. They simply do not know that chocolate is there seven hundred rubles per tile, and all other products are also very expensive.

Away from the cold

After the divorce with the wife and death of the parents, I started a real depression. Although parents lived far away, but once a year I stably chose to them, looked at the huge Novosibirsk and envied all people living there. None of you understand how difficult it is to own your existence in the conditions of inhuman cold. To thirty-five years, my body probably had a biological age of a fifty-year-old man. Its teeth at all practically left. Thirty-seven should have been fifteen years old, as I worked in Oymyakne, which means it was a pension. After my pension, I did not overturn a day. Waited when the first UAZ goes to Yakutsk, gathered the expensive memory things and left away. I said goodbye to several people, went around the last time the native village and that's it.

Then there was a paper red tire with an absorber from Oymyakon, a flight to Novosibirsk, a passport desk, justice, etc. etc. From parents in the city there was a two-bedroom apartment on Serebryannikovskaya Street, so I live almost in the center. I don't know any problems, every new day is really new for me. I had a computer for a long time, but only in Novosibirsk I discovered the Internet. At first, embarrassing felt in the supermarket and in the subway, confused the crowds of people on the streets. Living in the north, you spend a huge amount of time with yourself or with your loved ones. Thus, even the most sociable person risks becoming an introvert. I still have difficulty tie a conversation with a stranger. Though I served in the army, and lived in Yakutsk, while I studied in a technical school - it's still not used to the huge human masses. And here, here, on the big earth, people are much more sociable than we have, in the north. I recently found all my buddies in classmates, who left Oymyakon before - no one forgins and does not want to go back.

The only thing that sometimes dreams is our warm stove. Where I, being a little more little boy, slept in long winter nights. I slept on the furnace, and my mother got up very early and prepared in this furnace for us. Dream This is so real that immediately after him I wake up and I can not understand for a long time, where I am, and then I go to the window and I look at big beautiful houses, sometimes I see how people walk down the street and do not hunt into the scarf and understand what I am In a completely different, warm world. Not once heard that Novosibirsk consider the cold city. It depends on what to compare it.

Here is a chic infrastructure. You can leave or fly anywhere. Thousands of northerners who were in conditions of harsh nature are not in their will, but because they were born there, dream of living in Novosibirsk or the like big and warm city, where water runs from under the crane all the time, and does not freeze for months, where you can not be afraid, that the car will stall - and you will freeze to death. By the way, I recently bought myself a car - Renault Logan. She started at me without autorun in winter, in the thirty-graduated frost, when neighboring cars stood with a cola. My new buddy Shurik is kidding that the engine understands that I am Northerner and can not be in front of me so that it widespread, because of the clock.

Life in forty years old just begins ...

I was so raised that he always considered it, as if after forty - the sunset was already starting. I look at Siberians now, they are walking with young girls in forty years old, they look like an old man in general, they do not consider themselves. So far I have it new. When I asked on the new work of my colleague: "What do you think, how old are I?". She immediately replied: "Fifty?". On the one hand was ridiculous, and with another awkward. I just thirty eight, and that means you can begin a new life and even to start children. So far, however, on this soil is not all smooth.

I work by electrician based on supply. Not the most romantic profession, women give bosses or narrow specialists with great salary, I have no position, no salary, and even with health problems. How starts in the city of any epidemic - I immediately begin to get sick. There is no immunity to sores from a big land, but in one winter, that he lived here, no matter what wow hesitated. Siberian weak frost does not leave any traces on my skin. What will happen to me, an ordinary Oymyakan man further - unknown, but I am sure that nothing bad will not happen. The past is forgotten, the future is closed, present - granted.

Instead of pre-school

I hope that someday the authorities are distracted from their PR, their money and their dirt and will pay attention to the problems of ordinary people. We are a lot of us. Probably, we are not seven spans in the forehead that we can not find a place under the sun, but we are also people and also worthy of little, but happiness. If somewhere in the remote village of Yakutia in the winter, the child begins to hurt and the paramedic, he spread his hands, then nothing will help you. No roads, there are no messages, there is no chance. In the region they produce diamonds, we bring a lot of money to a lot of money, where are they all going? Why do you need these small villages where it is impossible to live? So let Vladimir Putin neither the sifurser saves or dives behind the amphoras, but will come in Yakutia and look like people live there. I do not want to seem like a whitewalk, but with such a path to the Russian north - we will soon lose control over this territory. There will be one big white desert. Give it better to the Japanese to the Japanese, enough to teach their imperialist ambitions. It is impossible to manage - do not need to torment people? Northerners never complain about his life, only being here, in Novosibirsk, I realized how bad to live in Oymyak.

P.S. To us in Oymyakon, in my memory, foreigners arrived more (Japanese, Canadians, Americans, Norwegians) than Russians. Russian Tolstos, who arrived on separate aircraft, just for the sake of the joke, looked at the coldest place on Earth, and citizens of other states were interested in how we live in such harsh conditions. It is said that they even tried to help, but because of the bureaucratic wires nothing came out. In my opinion, it says a lot ...

The village of Oymyakon (Yakut. Өimөkөөn) is located in the eastern part of Yakutia and is the center of the rural settlement "Borogonsky 1st Vassel". The villages in Yakutia are called villages or villages, which are lower administrative units and are parts of the uluses. Currently in Yakutia there are 364 clips. What is the famous village of Oymyakon in Yakutia? He is known for being the so-called "Pole of the Cold" - the coldest place in Russia, with the most severe conditions for living. Nevertheless, the Oymyakan ulus can not be called deserted. Only in the village itself in 2010 there were 462 inhabitants. The national composition is Russians and Yakuts. People in Oymyakon are very friendly and have become accustomed to tourists who often visit this village.

Not everyone knows where Oymyakon is on the map of Russia. The village stands on the left bank of the Indigirk River, in the eastern part of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia). These are amateur latitudes, a little south of the northern polar circle, if more precisely - 63 ° 27'00 "northern latitude. The height above sea level is 745 m. In this valley, this is of particular importance, since the height of the location of the place lowers the temperature of 4 degrees relative to theoretically observed at sea level.

The village of Hara-Tumul is the closer to Oymyakon. It is located in the same ulus, and the distance between settlements is only 4 km along the highway or 3 km in a straight line. Significantly then village - Yurgri, Tomtor, Yuzheuy. To get to Yuchjui from Oymyakon on the way would have to make an arc through Tomtor. The length of the path will be 100 km. In a straight line - about 28 km. Tomtor on the highway 38 km, and in a straight line 20 km. Oymyakon is in such a place where these 38 km can be considered or immediately proximity, or a very large distance. Close, because it is just 1 h. 48 m way by car. Far, because if something happens to the car, and the help does not sing in a timely manner, then natural conditions will not be joking.

The coldest place in Russia

Three settlements of Yakutia are fighting for the opportunity to call themselves the coldest place in Russia. This is Oymyakon, Tomtor and Verkhoyansk. The authorities of Yakutia decided this issue in favor of Verkhoyansk. In favor of Tomtor, he says that 2 km from him is the airport, where the air temperature is usually measured regularly. Oymyakon, he entered the story in many respects due to the fact that the so-called not only the village, but also the whole ulus, all the place.

So, the climatic conditions on the pole of the cold are complex, and they are determined by several factors. First, the village of Oymyakon is located in the valley, and it is located in a small pitcher, lowland, where cold air rushes. Secondly, far enough to the ocean, so the climate of the Oymyakon is sharply continental. Third, height above sea level. Fourth, proximity to the polar circle. As a result, the absolute minimum of December and January -65.4 ° C, and February -64.6 ° C. The average temperature in Oymyakne during these months is -42 ° C to -50 ° C. Summer, on the contrary, can be very hot. Hearing the phrase "Oymyakan tan" should not rush to smile. The heat on the pole of the cold keeps not long, but in July the temperature can reach +34.6 ° C. The average temperature of July from +14 to +22 ° C.

According to unofficial data, the temperature record in Oymyakne was recorded in 1938 and amounted to -77.8 ° C. It would be possible to say that this is the lowest temperature in Oymyakne, but no one knows, and suddenly it was less. The fact is that there are very few thermometers in the village that can reflect frost below -60 ° C. Approximately such marks (below -70 ° C) are indicated on two monuments of temperature. One stands in the center of the village, and above it are large letters - "Polyus Cold" Oymyakon ".

Translated from the Yakut word "Oymyakon" means "non-freezing water". They actually are on the edge of the village. Local residents lead there to eat domestic cattle. In any frost, the temperature of the thermal source water does not fall below + 30 ° C.

How to get to Oymyakon

The length of the route from to Oymyakon is approximately 928 km. Time on the way is about 22 hours.

The site of the route in the immediate vicinity of the pole of the cold is called "Road of Bones". This is connected not so much with the danger of the path in our time, as with the stages of the prisoners, which were walking along this road on foot in Stalin's times, but it was not all reached the camps. There is and continues the operation of the airport in Oymyakne, but the message by air is not regular.
The distance from Moscow to Oymyakon is about 9200 km along the road. Time in the way will take 130 hours.

Despite the long distance, tourists very often visit this place. Come here even from other countries.

Life in Oymyakne

The history of the Pole of Oymyakon Cold is rooted in a deep past. The occurrence period in this oblast valley cannot be specified. Once there were yakuts-reindeer herders, who used to be a nomadic lifestyle. The Soviet government was extremely negatively looked at nomads, since they are extremely difficult to control. For this reason, their strength was forced to turn the parking into a permanent village and abandon nomadic reindeer herding. Later, the "Archipelag Gulag" contributed later. In the mouth of the indigracy and then dozens of camps are located in the area. Many prisoners, immediately after liberation, could not leave the place and remained in settlements. Here they sent exile. For example, the last two years have served the writer Wamlam Shalamov in Tomtor. In the village of Oymyakon, at secondary school, a local history literary and historical museum is also discovered, which is not dedicated to the Yakut culture, and writers, poets, artists, culture and scientists who have served in these parts the term of conclusion or sent to reference. There is also a monument to the victims of the Stalinist repressions "Bell Memory".

If the traveler still arrives on the aircraft, he will see a strange dilapidated wooden structure with two boiled windows. Above the door shield with the inscription "Oymyakon Airport". Below the inscriptions broken doors, and indoors no furniture. This is a waiting room. No need to try to set the length of the runway. She has no length, or it is equal to the width of a large abandoned field, which takes airplanes. The most common model is An-2. Less often, An-24. The fact is that once, in the years of the Great Patriotic War, there was a military air base, which prisoners were built, and served civil. Smooth and relatively reliable plot has been preserved in our time. Flights exist only between the city of Yakut and the center of Ulus, the village of Ust-Nehra.

Life in Oymyakon is quite difficult, and much goes to the side of the decline, but not the development. Frost on the cold pole imposes its mark on everything. The population of Oymyakon was never surprised that the car engine did not join all night, because the trip is scheduled for morning, but in the morning it can not start it. There is a school in the village, and children are released from classes only at temperatures below - 60 ° C.

There is no public transport in the village of Oymyakon, therefore, the parents will take the students on sledding or sleigh. This is done mainly due to the fact that they are coming so that they lose their ability to move on their own. In class schoolchildren sit in the upper clothes and constantly healed the breath of the paste in the handles. A place where Oymyakon is creating difficulties in everything. His long ago, all those who are not ready to deal with the natural conditions of the Pole of the Cold have long been abandoned. However, the struggle is committed even for the possibility of burial. Drop the grave here is not easy. I have to warm up the land for a long time, then remove one layer, and then warm the fires again.

One store design is not very different from the airport. The same dilapidated structure, but only windows and doors are safe. The inhabitants of the Oymyakon is many times more likely, since it is almost the only way to acquire a number of food, cigarettes, alcohol. The main occupation of local residents is cattle breeding, reindeer herding, hunting and fishing. Cattle is casting almost all residents of the cold pole, and fish are also catching, but here is bread or tobacco, there is no more vodka where.

By the way, you can drink alcohol in winter in Oymyakon only if there is a complete confidence that you do not have to go anywhere. It is better to do this in the house with the stove, because interruptions in heating happen constantly. Frost below -60 ° C completely denies heating alcohol. Drunk man becomes helpless and at any moment can lose consciousness. It happens even if you drink quite a bit. Falling on the snow is in this case fraught with frostbite and fatal outcome. Here, after all, the pole of the cold.

Photos of the village of Oymyakon

Below are unique photos of the "Pole of the cold" - the village of Oymyakon.

The first thing that comes to the person who even knows a little about Oymyakon is a terrible cold, standing here for almost all year round and not in vain the city received his title as an unofficial pool of cold. The officially registered minimum temperature is -69.6 degrees, but there are other, not official data. For example, in 1938, the temperature was -77.8 degrees, however, these values \u200b\u200bdid not fall into the official chronicles. But the winter of the 38th was not the coldest and in 1916 the temperature dropped to -82 degrees, which is only 7 degrees below the official record, which was recorded at the East station located in Antarctica. But if you consider the fact that the station is at an altitude of 3.5 km above sea level, then the coldest place remains Oymyakon. This village and its competitor in Yakutia - Verojansk, who officially owns the status of the Pole of the Cold, however, in Verkhoyansk there is no registered temperature -69,8 and unofficial data on lower temperatures.

Interesting and average annual temperature in the village. From mid-November to mid-March, the weather here rarely exceeds the value in -40 degrees and fifty-degree frosts is a normal phenomenon for the Oymyakon. And if you consider the fact that the polar winter comes in these months and a little light to become only for lunch, then this place seems to be with another planet. In the summer, the temperature is kept in the area of \u200b\u200b10-15 degrees, but here there are its own records and in 2010 the temperature rose to 35 degrees of heat, and the sun was shining around the clock, because the yard was a polar summer.

You will not be guessed as translated from the Evenki Oymyakon, but it translates very simple - non-freezing water. Yes, it is here, at the cold -50 cold, there are rivers and lakes where the water is boil and it has just an explanation: the ground in these edges freezes to a depth of one and a half kilometers, and when the underground lakes and groundwater begin to freeze, they naturally Increase in volume and literally pushed non-nimble water to the surface.

Despite the fact that the temperature here is extremely low, people first settled here precisely because they found food for livestock here. It is not a deer here, but small tundra horses, which and in winter perfectly find themselves food, feeding grass from under the snow. Oymyakonye is located in a large valley in the surroundings of the mountains, the height of which is 2km and is a tundrostepse and precisely because this climate has been formed here, thanks to which the horses find themselves food. Also, thanks to the surrounding mountains, dry and sunny weather is always here.

Did you know that Yakutia still in the Soviet years occupied the 4th country number on the average number of long-livers? But this is not the fiction and the legend there should be not only Caucasian longevity, but also North, Yakutskaya. Former anniversary, earlier, few people could be surprised here, but scientists did not spend research in this area, and it was not possible to clearly say that many people live here for a long time. And people live here in perfect ecology: clean air, crystal clear water, viruses and bacteria in such a cold simply do not survive, and they feed on local exclusively by environmental products, but about bad habits and should be forgotten. But there are disadvantages in the form of a lack of many vitamins and minerals in local food. However, despite the long-life, people look old here than in fact, not only the cold, but also a dry and severe climate, as well as the lack of the sun.

Life in Oymyakon is a real test year round and life here is not like on the big earth. The most importantly and system-forming electricity in the city, because if it won't be at least for a week, then the entire infrastructure in the village will simply freeze and it will have to be changed. For example, the pipes along which water is coming to the buildings are warmed with special cables laid along the pipe and protected by the heat healing casing. If suddenly, for some reason, there will be no reasons for a long time, then the pipes will be frozen and after the supply of water is simply filled without preheating, and it will be possible to honor them only in summer.

A separate story is the cars that are not devoured here all the winter, because if you drown it at least for 2 hours, it will be possible to start at best in March. Also the wheels in case of idle for more than 4 hours, even with the engine turned on, simply turn into stones, and the oval form. On such wheels, it is impossible to slow down, and if you go quickly, they just get squeal. About foreign cars here in winter at all and speech does not go and survive our cars exclusively here. When the temperature approaches a -50 degree, then no heating is coping with only small rooms, and for example, schoolchildren are sitting in the lessons in the coat, and this is in the order of things.

Do you know why the Siberians are not frozen in the lung frost? No, not because Siberians and are accustomed to the cold, but because the warmth is dressed. And indeed, clothing here are somewhat different than on the big earth. The main thing is not a beauty, but as far as he warms in -55 degrees. Local hide from frost everything that is only possible, while it is desirable to leave only eyes unacqualified. Those who older are already accustomed to, but the dressing of children is a whole sacrament, and a walk - skating on sledes, because the smashed karapuz simply cannot move from the number of clothes on it.

Despite all the seeming romance of Oymyakon, life here is terribly hard and most people look much older than in fact and retirement come out after 15 years of work, i.e. If we consider the fact that with higher education here work almost no one, then by 40 years, and then and by 35 local people are not retired.

Currently, Oymyakon is a small village with a population of a little more than 500 people. Despite its remoteness, life in the city is, and and how else can be in the city where gold is mined. The best times of course behind and remained somewhere in the USSR, and people slowly go back to where, after all, to live in such conditions oh, how not just. This is only in Russia you can get gold and at the same time live very hard.

Although the money of course there is there and the average salary is not small, higher than even on average in Moscow, but prices are 5-10 times higher than in other regions. And during the time of the USSR, there was for example the best farm for the breeding of Chernoburki, with the warmest fur in the world, because animals grew in terrible frosts. There were here and ordinary farms with cows and chickens, and other enterprises, research stations, and now there is almost nothing, only the mining of gold and a farm for the needs of residents remains.

How to get

Despite its location, regular excursions and tours are held here and you can only get into this edge. It is better not to take risks, too dangerous, unless in the summer you can try to go to your course. A trip to the Oymyakon in winter can be easily compared with flight to Mars.

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Before reading the text on behalf of the site administration, I would like to say a few words about this material. A real hero of this story turned to us - Oleg Sukhakhov, who lived in the extreme conditions of the Russian North, and on the reasons for whose stories, as it turned out later, this essay was prepared. An interview with Oleg Sukhukhovov correspondent of the Moscow Komsomol Center from first killya can be read on this.

Since our resource is free, to track whether the author of the material has a real life experience in Oymyakon, we cannot reliably. Nikolai Fateev, unfortunately, no longer responds to our questions.

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About myself…

Hello! My name is Nikolai, I am 38 years old and I want to tell you my story. So it happened that my mother was born on the cold pole. Probably expensive readers, you are aware enough to know that the Pole of the cold does not coincide with the North Pole, nor with the South Pole, but is in, in the village of Oymyakon. In fact, the inhabitants of the neighboring Verojansk Yaro argue that they have colder, but is documented, it is colder in Oymyakon, even if it is not so, then they still believe.

Village Oymyakon

Who needs Oymyakon - it is not clear. The authorities have long ceased to pay attention to the problems of the poor Northerners. Before moving to I worked as an electrician at the airport. Electrician - loudly said. On the cold pole, he looks like an old building, similar to the barn, with knocked out windows, eliminated by the doors and furniture, assembled through the neighbors who threw their homes. No one finances the airport, so all his staff is a dispatcher, the explosive of the runway, the electrician survive, as they can. We paid a salary, but they did not give money to repair and other needs at all. After I quit, the inspector began to combine my work with the work of the electrician. Sunny in my work was nothing - it was necessary to simply organize the illumination of the runway. On the frost, the light bulbs exploded, even being under the hood. There are, of course, special lamps that frost are not terrible, but no one has allocated money for them. You can, of course, in the dark, do not fly, but in the winter we have light only four hours, of which two hours are twilight. You want, do not want, and the light on the band it is necessary. If nothing changes, then soon the dispatcher will quit the airport, then the viewer will probably have to combine three positions.

In the dilapidated building, here is the airport, there is a waiting room. It looks like a room with two old sofas. It is very cold in it, because the old airport and the slits are sinking.

Children Pole Cold

Are you from the north, and what do you have all the walruses there?

Oymyakon now

Away from the cold

Life in forty years old just begins ...

Instead of pre-school

What do we have the North Pole, when we have your own. Think Siberian frosts are minus 20 ... minus 30. The inhabitants of Oymyakon will laugh at you for a long time. For them, it is "slightly cool." "Cold" for locals begins from minus 50, and that is not a reason to sit at home.

Oymyakon is recognized as the coldest place of the northern hemisphere. Its so calling the "Pole of the Cold". Although Officially, the Pole of the cold is called Verkhoyansk, which is 650 kilometers from the north-west. The average annual temperature difference in these settlements is usually not more than 3 degrees. But in this case, we will still consider the pool of the cold, it is Oymyakon (scientists by the way are still arguing to someone of two applicants to give the palm of championship).
By and large, Oymyakon, it is customary to call not only the village itself, but also its vast surroundings. The center of Oymyakon is the village Tomtor.

Oymyakon on the map

Geographic coordinates 63.459807, 142.781696
Distance from the capital of Russia of Moscow about 5300 km
The nearest airport is Yakutska about 680 km (though, there is a local airfield in Oymyakne, but it does not reach the title of airport, and it is located 40 km from the village itself, and 2 km from Tortor)

Oymyakon is a small village in the Oymyakan ulus (analogue of the area usual) of Yakutia on the left bank of the Indigirk River. It is characteristic that this settlement is located south of the northern polar circle in the Oymyakan valley and far from the ocean, so the climate here is sharply continental. All conditions have been created in order for cold air from the surrounding mountains as it were, the height of which comes to 2 km.

Oymyakon in numbers

Minimum fixed air temperature -71.2 degrees
Height above sea level 745 meters
Population for 2010 462 people
Duration of the day from 4h.36m. until 20h.28m.
Maximum fixed temperature +34.6 degrees

It would seem that a man forgot here? Conditions for living here are difficult to call favorable. But, nevertheless, the person settled here for a long time. And the reason is that in these places it is grazing (no matter how paradoxically sounded it) a special kind of horses. The Yakut horse is squat and pretty shaggy can find a meal, picking frozen ground with a hoof in search of grass. In addition, golden veins were found in these places, and now more than 5 tons of gold per year are produced here. Also extracted antimony.

It is difficult to live here. Winter takes two thirds of the year. Summer is short and cold, but there are exceptions, and instead of 10-15 degrees, air is heated up to +35 (fixed in 2010, but it is rather an exception than the rule).

Exceptionally virgin nature surrounds Oymyakon. In winter, the landscape is filled with a variety of shades of white. All trees are covered with snow "from head to head." Surrounding simply unreal beauty.

Translated from Evenki Oymyakon - non-freezing water. It is here that in minus 50 and 60 degrees can be found non-freezing rivers. This is due to the presence of warm keys drowning from the bowels of the earth. Extreme lovers can even swim
According to unofficial data, the air temperature in the winter of 1938 dropped to minus 77.8 degrees. And in 1916 to minus 82 degrees. But reliable information about it was not preserved
Schoolchildren do not attend classes, if on the street below -58 degrees
Locals seem older than their years due to climate features
At temperatures below 50 degrees, you can hear as local, "stars whisper" say. This is an unusual sound similar to a mixture of wind and a sleeper grain. This is how the breath of man freezes
Fuel consumption when driving on a car, in the winter increases by about twice. Without unnecessary need, locals do not go away if the temperature is below -55 degrees
Car tires are strongly distilled on the cold and can even split
Local motorists insulate the windows of their cars with extra glasses (sometimes they are glued directly on tape)