Oymyakon

Oymyakon is a rural locality (a selo) in Oymyakonsky District of the Sakha Republic, Russia, located in the Yana-Oymyakon Highlands, along the Indigirka River, northwest of Tomtor on the Kolyma Highway. Oymyakon is currently the coldest permanently inhabited human settlement on Earth.

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Oymyakon is a village in the Sakha Republic of Russia, located in Asia. It sits at an elevation of 745 meters above sea level and is situated next to the Indigirka body of water. The settlement has a population of 560, though other records list it as 800. Its official name is Өймөкөөн, and it uses Yakut and Russian as its official languages.

The village operates in the UTC+10:00 time zone and has a local dialing code of 41154. Its postal code is 678752. Oymyakon features a wet continental climate, also classified as continental. It holds a minimum temperature record of -67.7 and a maximum temperature record of 34.6.

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Place details

Locality: Оймякон
Region: Республика Саха (Якутия)
Country: Россия
Population: 800
Timezone: Asia/Magadan

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Key facts

Russian rural locality.en_name: Oymyakon
Russian rural locality.ru_name: Оймякон
Russian rural locality.loc_name1: Өймөкөөн
Russian rural locality.loc_lang1: Yakut
Russian rural locality.image_skyline: Oymyakon_-_190228_DSC_5642.jpg
Russian rural locality.map_label_position: right
Russian rural locality.federal_subject: Sakha Republic
Russian rural locality.adm_district_jur: Oymyakonsky District
Russian rural locality.inhabloc_cat: Rural locality
Russian rural locality.inhabloc_type: Selo
Russian rural locality.mun_district_jur: Oymyakonsky Municipal District
Russian rural locality.pop_2010census: 462
Russian rural locality.postal_codes: 678752
Russian rural locality.dialing_codes: 41154

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Travel guide

Understand

Geographic peculiarities of the vast continental region of Siberia create extraordinarily low temperatures in certain parts of the Sakha Republic (Yakutia). The coldest temperature ever definitively measured in the Northern Hemisphere was at Verkhoyansk, although there are other claimants to the title in the region. The average January temperature in Oymyakon, for one, is 61 degrees below zero Celsius. There is an odd competition among villages in the region for the title of the northern hemisphere's coldest place.

These conditions have created a weird sort of opportunity for adventure travel. Every year since 2001, the Annual Pole of Cold Festival takes place there. The exhibition of the national clothes, applied art and the national food of the people of the North, deer-drawn race teams, ice fishing and other activities are held during the festival. The major event of the festival is the auto tour Yakutsk-Oymyakon, 1,270 km (789 mi) of snowy trails including 403 km (250 mi) of regularity rally. Although this event is an extreme sport it also includes sightseeing, visiting museums, ethnographic complexes and historic places. Santa Claus from Lapland and Father Frost from Veliky Ustyug are regular visitors to the festival.

Get in

Usually travellers get in via Yakutsk, the administrative centre of Yakutia (Republic of Sakha) and drive from there.

See

In you have the opportunity to experience extremely cold temperatures.

Do

Here you'll have a lot of things to do: meteorological observations, ice fishing, attending folklore concerts, and the Ceremony of the Pole of Cold Certificate Award.

Sleep

In Oymyakon you can stay with local families. Staying at locals' houses enables you to see and feel Russian life.

Go next

Vostok, a Russian (Soviet) research station in East Antarctica, is the southern Pole of Cold; it measured the coldest recorded naturally-occurring temperature on Earth of −89.2 °C (−128.6 °F) in 1983.

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Encyclopedic overview

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Contents

Etymology
Geography
History
Religion
Climate
See also
Notes
References
Videos
External links

==Etymology== The settlement is named after the Oymyakon River, whose name reportedly comes from the Even word kheium, meaning "unfrozen patch of water; place where fish spend the winter". However, another source states that the Even word heyum (hэjум, хэюм; kheium may be a misspelling), which means "frozen lake", may be where it gets its name.

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