Almost without exception, the women wear fur from head ... the region is ready for the onset of winter. The Lena river, more than 10 miles wide at Yakutsk, is not bridged anywhere for hundreds ...

people and cars cannot rise,” according to the North-Eastern Federal University in Yakutsk. “It is not a good idea to walk out in the streets in winter when the temperature falls below -40C ...

However, during summer, Yakutsk can get warmer than the UK, with average temperatures climbing after late winter and thawing out by May. July sees highs of 26C, while August varies between 22C and 9C.

According to him, Yakutsk is largely influenced by complex climatic and natural phenomena, in summer – heat, midges and mosquitoes, in winter – extremely low air temperatures. He also stressed that ...

UP to the present time Yakutsk, in North-east Siberia, has often been cited as the place of our earth where the winter is coldest, while the minima observed during Arctic expeditions are believed ...