Residents of the mining city, located 5,000 kilometres east of Moscow on the permafrost of Russia's Far East, regularly witness the thermometer plummet well below minus 40.
Digital Desk: Temperatures in Yakutsk have dropped to minus 50 degrees Celsius this week due to an unusually protracted cold spell in the Siberian city recognized as the coldest on the planet.
Residents of the mining city, located 5,000 kilometres east of Moscow on the permafrost of Russia's Far East, regularly witness the thermometer plummet well below minus 40.
"You are unable to stop it. Either you adjust and dress appropriately, or you suffer "Anastasia Gruzdeva, who was dressed in two scarves, two pairs of gloves, and a variety of hats and hoods, remarked this outside.
"In the city, you don't feel the cold. Or maybe it's just your brain preparing you for it and telling you everything is OK "In the metropolis enveloped in freezing mist, she said.
Another resident, Nurgusun Starostina, who sells frozen fish at a market without the use of a fridge or freezer, stated that there were no particular cold-weather strategies.
"Just wear something warm," she said. "Like a cabbage, in layers!"
