yakutsk the coldest city in the world where the temperature goes down to minus 71 degrees
my hometown i've had thousands of questions from all over the world how are the homes
heated how do we shower and bathe how are people living and enjoying life how do you get around
how do you stay warm and protect yourself what are the rules and tricks to survive and many more
in this video i will answer these questions and share with our fascinating lifestyle in yakutia
so winter swimming can be very very dangerous for those people who is not used to do that and
the people who is normally doing this ice swimming they are training for many years
so most people begin with just a few seconds of working their way up to 30 seconds or a minute
they might swim in a short circle and hop out to warm up
andre knows only too well it's the extremities that will start to shut down first
so it's straight on with the boots and gloves and not much else
so the people who are living in the towns normally have a shower in their apartments
and the water is cured inside insulated and heated pipes but the pipes cannot be placed underground
during the permafrost so they are left outside and what about small villages, unfortunately,
there are no water pipes exist so normally they have their own bathhouse/russian banya they are
heating up this bus house to 150 degrees by filling the oven with wood it takes
a lot of time and effort to do that the people normally take a bath maybe twice or once a week
i think this question is really good because when i was a kid
i used to take a bus to go to the school and i remember
one day, i was waiting a bus for 20 or 30 minutes outside and i cried, i still remember how it was
sooo cold. I felt like my body was burning and it was really painful so i even cried but right now,
the government are built the heated bus stops so the people can go inside and wait a bus
in Yakutia our winter lasts seven months and i think Yakutian people are very
talented and creative. a lot of people are painting
for most Yakutian men, hunting is very very popular and also ice fishing
no, definitely not. Not Yakutian people. you can imagine how is it cold during the wintertime to
ride a bicycle but there are one foreigner who was riding a bicycle from one town to another town
and i think he was riding for a few kilometers i'm not sure how long he was riding his bicycle
but i think it's really really dangerous to do that and i don't really recommend
for someone who is planning to go to Yakutia to ride a bicycle
it's very dangerous especially during the wintertime. if the car batteries freeze,
people freeze to death. so normally if you're traveling from one city to another city
it's better to have a few cars together and in yakutia if you are taking a long distance
by car people usually preparing their car in advance
and they are covering their car batteries by some special cover so it's not freezing
it's very very common to be frostbitten and i did myself as well. most of the people in yakutia
they're getting light frostbite when you're not covering your face you will get frostbite,
your nose, your cheeks and it's quite common. we usually use a bear fat, so the bear fat with its
rich chemical ingredients is very helpful for frostbite.
in the big cities buildings are usually heated by hot water flowing through the
pipes and in the small villages they usually use the traditional wood-fired heating system
it's called a russian stove and it's when people are filling the
woods inside of the oven and they usually prepare these woods in advance during the summer time
the most important thing is to know what to wear and we usually wear a lot of layers of clothes
and people in yakutia they are covering their
body with the fur coat with the fur hats with the mittens with the fur boots. Boots are traditional
Yakutian boots made by reindeer fur and if you go out without a proper dressing outside it's can be
really dangerous and can threatening to your life so after being outside for 15 or 20 minutes you
can feel how the cold reaching your bones and how your body is burning, so you have to go outside
15 or 20 minutes at a time and go to heat maybe inside of the building and then go outside again.
so that's all and thank you so much for your love and support i really really appreciate
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