Visiting the COLDEST CITY in the World (-71°C, -96°F) YAKUTSK / YAKUTIA

[Music] Siri what is the temperature it's - 47° outside air temperature in Antarctica is -4.8 De F or -20° C here it is - 58° F or- 47° C [Music] our LS are not used that's why we're coughing the weather here is very cold and dry there's a large population living approximately 300,000 inhabitants yusk is the capital of Sahar Republic an autonomous region that is allied with Russia 280 Mi away from the North Pole since this place is the most Northeastern point of siber area it is very much isolated from the rest of the [Music]

world outside temperature is around 58° F the boiling water is about 22° f as you see it instantly turns into ice crystals the lowest air temperature ever measured in this region is 9616 f it is as if it belongs to another planet a banana left outside can turn into a hammer in minutes people cannot wear metal frame glasses here because the metal could stick to their skin and if they wanted to take off their glasses their flesh might be teared out this is a piece of meat that looks very much like human flesh let's just

put it in contact with metal as you can see these are natural gas pipes and they have to be laid above the ground because the underground is Frozen with ice there's actually a 100t thick mass of ice under the city look this river is completely Frozen during the Soviet era people who contradicted Stalin's ideas were exiled to Sahar Republic region they were politicians businessmen Etc as a matter of fact some of these people who live in yakut right now are their grandchildren so this place used to be land of Exile today there is a city

life going on but we could call this life an ice H it pushes the limits of human nature no matter how much we bundle up nothing is enough to keep our bodies warm if you have a car here you have a big problem winter lasts for 6 to 7 months here and in that time you can never drive your car if you insist on driving it you can never stop your vehicle's engine for example the car with a running engine you can see here is empty there's nobody inside there are hundreds of cars like this

the reason why the engine is running if it stops it can be completely covered with ice and the engine oil will freeze as you can see the owner of this vehicle must have decided not to run his or her car for a while just after 20 minutes of the engine being off it is common to give up home another Frozen car here waiting to be reused next summer this car is running right let's see if there's anybody inside yeah nobody can you imagine what a huge base of energy this actually is fortunately Russia is a

country that is quite rich in oil and natural gas resources even the exhaust SM freezes that's how cold it is there are special covers for protection sometimes this is not enough too people who can afford it keep their vehicles in a heated garage because these vehicles are constantly running there's a constant layer of exhaust smoke over the city range of visibility is often below 200 ft due to the SM the houses here have completely different architecture the reason why the buildings are built on pillars is that the ground is covered with ice and there is

a possibility of ice shift old houses start to lean over after a decade or so because the amount of ice either increases or decreases it feels like pins and needles the worst thing that could happen is to get Frost biked considering a refrigerator operates at about 40° f a freezer operates at about -4° F since the temperature here is 58° fite everywhere you can see here could function as a very Hightech freezer that's why some people are able to store their fruits or their meat just by hanging them outside their windows can I make a

sled out of this I just took off my gloves for just a minute for filming now it hurts terribly my eyelashes are Frozen to I'm trying to break the ice move move if you would stay outside for more than 15 minutes you would experience problems such as skin burns and difficulty in breathing chill that starts with a needle pre like pain frostbite followed by sensation and then it could result in death she took off her gloves for just 5 minutes to filming her fingertips instantly turned white our microphone is giving a red warning it is

not working properly the camera is also not working as it should it's cover is frozen our phones don't work as well her battery was about 10% a couple of minutes ago and then it suddenly died whereas it was actually full what you see behind me is a cemetery the thickness of the ice under my shoes is about 100 ft and this ice mass under the city does not melt even in the summer so how do people bury the dead they gather pieces of coal and burn them for 2 to 3 days once the coal is

burned the blocks of ice F and it can be easily removed using shovels finally the area can be excavated to a depth of 6 to 7 ft the body of a person who died 100 or 200 years ago can be found very robust even today 20% of the world's total Diamond Resource are in yakut in addition to that there are also all the elements in the periodic table there are many Mammoth and dinosaur fossils under the acua territories in this area areas where mammoths once red their intact corpses still show up as the ice melts

today in this land where people cannot engage in agriculture or farming people eat fish one of the most important features of this Market is that they display the fish in public stalls rather than in refrigerators outside is much colder than any refrigerator a piece of meat left outside more spoiled for months there are also Frozen rabbits here they're consumed a lot including with the Ducks horse meat is also very common it is about 45 lb they take this fish as a whole put it outside and consume it for days this one is also on sale

it never spoils of course it ears are not moving at all how many hours you work here for a day for how long let's R do this how many layers of floating they stand on such first they do not feel the cold coming to their [Music] feet you could think who make up the majority of the population are turkey in origin 38% of the population are Russian in origin okay byebye there are only such dogs here unfortunately cats cannot survive only mammals with a really thick fur there are two layers of glass inside the cars

so when the air conditioner warms the interior it doesn't lose its temperature immediately the scariest thing about being on the road is that people whose cars break down have a risk of dying if they cannot fix it within 30 minutes otherwise engine oil under the hood freezes in minutes if people get stranded in these rural areas with no phone signal they have no choice but to freeze to death within a couple of hours that's why every driver carries a toolbox in his or her car our journey to the Village was completed with a dock sled

ride during our time on the dark sled I nearly lost an ear that was exposed to the rim and the C the pain was unbearable Maria just accepted us to her village house we're going to know more about these mysterious yakut people can you see it as thick as my finger I cannot feel it it's quite numb look my other ear is much thinner horses here are much shorter than the usual horses their bodies are conditioned to be short that's how they can keep themselves warmer less surface area to worry about they gave us their

own clothes we bundled up you can tell by looking at the Frozen boat that we're walking on a frozen leg we try to hit it at a 90° angle we just drill a 20 to 25 in diameter hole CES will come and meet their water needs we're constant is removing the ice how long it takes for this water to again completely covered with ice in 1 hour is cows in this Village are always kept in the barns in Winter they don't ever feel they do of course that's why they don't spend much G what's exactly

your ear got FR bitten if like it lasted longer it would be very dangerous they will have to cut it right if they cannot save it they can cut it because the the cells are dead for your ear it's a traditional yakut medicine fat of uh Bear yeah my father took it from Hunters yes this will help forpit and also if you burn it if you look at it from behind you'll see it more clearly it is seriously swollen and they call it frostbite I will probably have rised my entire ear if I had been

in the cold for more than 15 minutes the Nature has no joke here what is the coldest temperature you have ever witnessed the coldest temperature is -71 C what is cold for you if I have good clothes if I have enough clothes before 40 is not like real winter temperature for me -41 48 it's like fine below 48 it's cold and theow 52 it's very cold and every degree feels the funny thing like cold weather feels like fire like like burning yeah that's true now my ear is burning I feel it's so hot sometimes people

drink too much and they fall asleep somewhere outside and one night outside some people I didn't have proper clothes and they went to the woods and their car broke down they couldn't call someone because no for service yeah and it ended what do you think about nature whole lifestyle of yaku people of Saha people is taking care of nature respecting Early Childhood me and my family we used to go to the woods to fish to hunt it's just a part of our life and we always remember that we are not the owners of this pl

we are just guests for example we always make a ritual when we go to pick some berries we always take a little food with us we leave it on the ground and say nature please share with us please give us some food it's for the master of that land for the spirit you believe Nature has a spirit yeah for example when we go to the forest you shouldn't speak loud because you can disturb the spirits you shouldn't drink there have fun there throw the garbage don't bother don't disturb don't destroy Yak religion is not something

which is written in a book or there is a church like there is one center of our religion but it's not something that like in other religions that we do every day should pray we we don't do something like that but it's in our mind it's in our lifestyle it and it's all related to nature for what you have you T nature instead of gods the gods are nature yeah our gods are like part of the nature now I understand yeah why don't you migrate to South where it's warmer because living in these temperatures is

like torture it's a torture for you but not for us the first reason is my family like my family is here and for me the best is to be close to my parents to my brothers and secondly I like the nature here it's very pure like the ecology is very pure and it's for me and for my like future children breathing fresh air it's yeah it's very important third because of our culture I want I want to preserve our language our traditions and give them to the next Generations Yakutsk has Summers as well in July

the average daily temperature is about 67° F due to global warming ice Mas of our world is melting and Mammoth corpses are coming up but also wires is hiding for thousands of years which modern humans have never met before can come to light when Europeans migrated to North America the flu they took with themselves to the continent killed most of the Native Americans who had been isolated for centuries the flu didn't kill us because our immune system was strong similarly ancient diseases to which we are not immune can come to light with the melting of

the ice in these regions of the world and have devastating consequences thank you for watching this video was the first episode of a traval documentary series called rediscovery I go to the unique places which are not known to many and make a documentary about them with a comprehensive approach the next coming video on this channel will be second episode of rediscovery I went inside of this huge ice mass and discovered the Perma Frost during the whole documentary series we got to know more about incredible daily life in 67° F these mysterious yakut people and their

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