Oymyakon is a rural locality of the Oymyakonsky District of the Sakha Republic, Russia. It is located along the Indigirka River. It is one of the coldest permanently inhabited localities on earth, with down to -50°C in the winter. There are no roads connecting it to the rest of the countries in the summer, but in the winter the Indigirka River serves as a highway to bring food and supplies to the remote village. It hosts less than 500 habitants, who live mostly from hunting, fishing and, in the summer, cultivating the fields. It is surrounded by a pine forest inhabited by reindeers and semi-wild horses. Why would someone come here? Well, some of us have lived here their whole lives, some simply came looking for a simpler life, or maybe to run away from their past.
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oymyakon is one of the coldest places on earth. in the winter, it's the only place where people can find shelter and food for thousands of kilometers. it's not much, but you'll be happy to find it when there's a snow storm outside and your hair is literally frozen. in the summer, you'll still be happy to find it if you need to take a boat to go to a bigger city. don't be put off by the leader statue that seems to have been forgotten when communism fell, or the half-wild horses wandering in the streets, the place is more welcoming than it looks. center of the town, outskirts of the town, outside the village.
around the village are hundreds and hundreds of miles of tundra and forest to go through before you encounter any other inhabited place or city. some live in the forest, in small cabins made of wood and metal, sometimes along the river. the reindeers are lead to their pastures, even in the winter, and some even keep fishing in the river even with the ice being sometimes more than a meter thick. not far from Oymyakon, the Indigirka river takes a turn, creating an elbow, in the shape of a small lake. In the summer, you can take the boat from the docks to reach Oust-Nera or Iakoutsk and in the winter, the river acts as a road. In both cases, it can take up to several days to reach any city. docks, reindeer pastures, forest, Индигирка's elbow, tundra.
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