what it's like living in the coldest town on earth? how to live and survive when the
temperature falls below minus 60 degrees by celsius. the extreme low temperatures
are cold enough to freeze car batteries meanwhile a thick fog is a constant presence in the city
giving its otherworldly aura. why do people choose to live in such a harsh environment? this video
is about how people are living and enjoying life in the coldest town on earth yakutia.
hi guys i am Kiun, i grew up in the coldest place on earth yakutia. many people were asking about
our daily life during the wintertime. there is also a lot of fun during the wintertime in
Yakutia. you can do a lot of funny experiments outside and everything can be immediately be
frozen, for example, the fruits can be frozen so fast so you can just use them
as a hammer and the wet clothes they freeze really fast and so they become like a paper
the traditional yakutan cuisine is also influenced a lot by our climate and one of my favorites
traditional frozen dish it's stroganina. Stroganina is the frozen raw fish sliced
into a thick layer so you can just eat this stroganina with the salt and pepper and it's so
delicious. also one of my favorite frozen salads it's indigirka. it's a frozen fish cubes with the
oil onion pepper and salt. it's so delicious as well. also in our traditional cuisine we have a
frozen horse meat, frozen raw horse liver which is eaten raw and you need to eat it immediately.
one of the yakutian dessert is a kyercheh, it's like ice cream but made by cream and berries
digging the walls is really expensive in yakutia due to the thick layer of the thick
permafrost so in a lot of yakutian villages no water treatment facilities. so they don't
have any other options, they're going to the lake and cutting these ice blocks for an hour
i actually tried this ice water myself from the lake
and it actually tastes much more better than the water from the tap
i remember when i was a kid i was always wearing a lot of furs
the hat made by furs, the mittens and also the traditional yakutian boots
made by a deer fur it's one of the must-have boots during the wintertime in yakutia
i remember when i was going outside i was always wrapping my face with a scarf
and after 15 minutes going outside my eyelashes and eyebrows is always covered with the frost so
when you are walking around the city you can also barely see anything around you because the city
is shrouded in a frosty frog it's actually also really dangerous if you forget your
mittens at home you can easily freeze your fingers and i remember when i was a kid i also freezed
a lot of times my cheeks so it's really important to wrap your face with a scarf
so that's pretty much what i wanted to talk about our winter lifestyle in yakutia
i hope you liked this video and it was interesting for you bye bye see you in the next video