Visiting the COLDEST CITY in the World (-71°C, -96°F) YAKUTSK / YAKUTIA

[Music] siri what is the temperature it's minus 47 degrees outside air temperature in antarctica is negative 14.8 degrees fahrenheit or negative 20 degrees celsius here it is negative 58 degrees fahrenheit or negative 47 degrees celsius [Music] our lungs are not used that's why we're coughing the weather here is very cold and dry there's a large population approximately 300 000 inhabitants yakuza is the capital of sahara republic an autonomous region that is allied with russia 280 miles away from the north pole since this place is the most north eastern point of siberia it is very much isolated from the rest of the world [Music] outside temperature is around negative 58 degrees fahrenheit the boiling water is about 212 degrees fahrenheit as you see it instantly turns into ice crystals the lowest air temperature ever measured in this region is negative 96.16 degrees fahrenheit it is as if it belongs to another planet a banana left outside can turn into a hammer in minutes people cannot wear metal frame glasses here because the metal could stick to their skin and if they wanted to take off their glasses their flesh might be turned out this is a piece of meat that looks very much like human flesh let's just put it in contact with metal [Applause] as you can see these are natural gas pipes and they have to be laid above the ground because the underground is frozen with ice there is actually a 100 foot thick mass of ice under the city look this river is completely frozen during the soviet era people who contradicted stalin's ideas were exiled to sahara republic region they were politicians businessmen etc as a matter of fact some of these people who live in yakuza right now are their grandchildren so this place used to be land of exile today there is a city life going on but we could call this life and i sail it pushes the limits of human nature no matter how much we bundle up nothing is enough to keep our bodies warm if you have a car here you have a big problem winter lasts for six to seven months here and in that time you can never drive your car if you insist on driving it you can never stop your vehicle's engine for example the car with a running engine you can see here is empty there is nobody inside there are hundreds of cars like this the reason why the engine is running if it stops it can be completely covered with ice and the engine oil will freeze as you can see the owner of this vehicle must have decided not to run his or her car for a while just after 20 minutes of the engine being off it is common to give up hope another frozen car here waiting to be reused next summer this car is running right let's see if there's anybody inside yeah nobody can you imagine what a huge base of energy this actually is fortunately russia is a country that is quite rich in oil and natural gas resources even the exhaust smoke freezes that's how cold it is there are special covers for protection sometimes this is not enough too people who can afford it keep their vehicles in a heated garage because these vehicles are constantly running there is a constant layer of exhaust smoke over the city range of visibility is often below 200 feet due to the small the houses here have completely different architecture the reason why the buildings are built on pillars is that the ground is covered with ice and there is a possibility of ice shift old houses start to lean over after a decade or so because the amount of ice either increases or decreases it feels like pins and needles the worst thing that could happen is to get frostbite considering a refrigerator operates at about 40 degrees fahrenheit a freezer operates at about negative four degrees fahrenheit since the temperature here is negative 58 degrees fahrenheit everywhere you can see here could function as a very high tech freezer that's why some people are able to store their fruits or their meats just by hanging them outside their windows can i make a sled out of this i just took off my gloves for just a minute for filming now it hurts terribly my eyelashes are frozen through i'm trying to break the ice move move if you would stay outside for more than 15 minutes you would experience problems such as skin burns and difficulty in breathing chill that starts with the needle pre-collect pain frostbite followed by sensationalists and then it could result in death she took off her gloves for just five minutes to film me her fingertips instantly turned white our microphone is giving a red warning it is not working properly the camera is also not working as it should this cover is frozen our phones don't work as well her battery was about 10 percent a couple of minutes ago and then it suddenly died whereas it was actually full what you see behind me is a cemetery the thickness of the ice under my shoes is about 100 foot and this ice mask under the city does not melt even in the summer so how do people bury the dead they gather pieces of coal and burn them for two to three days once the coal is burnt the blocks of ice fall and it can be easily removed using shovels finally the area can be excavated to a depth of six to seven points the body of a person who died 100 or 200 years ago can be found very robust even today twenty percent of the world's total diamond resource are in yakuza in addition to that there are also all the elements in the periodic table there are many mammoth and dinosaur fossils under the accretia territories in these areas where mammoths once wrote their intact corpses still show up as the ice melts today in this land where people cannot engage in agriculture or farming people eat fish one of the most important features of this market is that they display the fish in public stalls rather than in refrigerators outside is much colder than any refrigerator a piece of meat left outside was spoiled for months there are also frozen rabbits here they are consumed a lot including with the ducks horse meat is also very common it is about 45 pounds they take this fish as a whole put it outside and consume it for days this one is also on sale it never spoils of course its ears are not moving at all how many hours do you work here they stand on such first they do not feel the cold coming to their feet [Music] who make up the majority of the population are turkey in origin 38 of the population are russian in origin there are only such dogs here unfortunately cats cannot survive only mammals with a really thick fur there are two layers of glass inside the cars so when the air conditioner warms the interior it doesn't lose its temperature immediately the scariest thing about being on the road is that people whose cars break down have a risk of dying if they cannot fix it within 30 minutes otherwise engine oil under the hood freezes in minutes if people get stranded in these rural areas with no phone signal they have no choice but to freeze to death within a couple of hours that's why every driver carries a toolbox in his or her car our journey to the village was completed with the dark slate right during our time on the dark slant i nearly lost an ear that was exposed to the rim and the coal the paint was unbearable maria just accepted us to her village house we're gonna know more about these mysterious yakut people can you see it as thick as my finger i cannot feel it it's quiet now look my other ear is much thinner horses here are much shorter than the usual horses their bodies are conditioned to be short that's how they can keep themselves warmer less surface area to worry about they gave us their own clothes they bundled up you can tell by looking at the frozen boat that we're walking on a frozen lake we try to hit it at a 90 degree angle we just drilled it 20 to 25 inch diameter hole cubs will come and meet their water needs we're constantly removing the ice how long it takes for this water to again completely covered with ice in one hour cows in this village are always kept in the barns you winter what's exactly your ear got first bitten if like it lasted longer it will be very dangerous they will have to cut it right if they cannot save it they can cut it because the the cells are that for your ear it's a traditional yakut medicine fat of bear yeah yeah my father took it from hunters yes this will help presbyter and also if you burn it if you look at it from behind you'll see it more clearly it is seriously swollen and they call it frostbite i will probably have risked my entire ear if i had been in the cold for more than 15 minutes the nature has no joke here what is the coldest temperature you have ever witnessed the coldest temperature is negative 71 celsius what is cold for you if i have good clothes if i have enough clothes before negative 40 it's not like real winter temperature for me negative 41 negative 48 it's like fine below negative 48 it's cold and below negative 52 it's very cold and every degree feels the funny thing is like cold weather feels like fire like like burning yeah that's true now my ear is burning yeah i feel it's so hot sometimes people drink too much and they fall asleep somewhere outside and one night outside some people didn't have proper clothes and they went to the woods and the car broke down they couldn't call someone because no foreign service yeah and it ended what do you think about nature the whole lifestyle of people of saha people it's taking care of nature respecting it early childhood me and my family we used to go to the woods to fish to hunt it's just a part of our life and we always remember that we are not the owners of this land we are just guests for example we always make a ritual when we go to pick some berries we always take a little food with us we leave it on the ground and say nature please share with us please give us some food it's for the master of that land for the spirit you believe nature has a spirit for example when we go to the forest you shouldn't speak loud because you can't disturb the spirits you shouldn't drink there have fun there throw the garbage don't bother don't disturb don't destroy the yacht religion is not something which is written in a book or there is a church like there is one center of our religion but it's not something that like in other religions that we do every day we should pray we don't do something like that but it's in our mind it's in our lifestyle it and it's all related to nature for what you have you thank nature instead of god the gods are nature our gods are like part of the nature now i understand why don't you migrate to south why it's warmer because living in these temperatures is like torture it's a torture for you but not for us the first reason is my family my family is here and for me the best is to be close to my parents to my brothers and secondly i like the nature here it's very pure like the ecology is very pure and it's for me and for my like future children breathing fresh air it's yeah it's very important third because of our culture i want i want to preserve our language our traditions and give them to the next generations yakutsk has summers as well in july the average daily temperature is about 67 degrees fahrenheit due to global warming ice mass of our world is melting and mammoth curves are coming up but also viruses fighting for thousands of years which modern humans have never met before can come to light when europeans migrated to north america the flu they took themselves to the continent killed most of the native americans who had been isolated for centuries the flu didn't kill us because our immune system was strong similarly ancient diseases to which we're anatomy can come to light with the melting of the eyes in these regions of the world and have devastating consequences thank you for watching this video was the first episode of a tribal documentary series called rediscovery i go to unique places which are not known to many and make a documentary about them with a comprehensive approach the next coming video on this channel will be second episode of rediscovery i went inside of this huge ice mask and discovered the permafrost during the whole documentary series we got to know more about incredible daily life in negative 67 degrees fahrenheit these mysterious yakut people and their surprising culture if you don't want to miss that video and to watch all of our videos definitely subscribe i would also like to thank my team for creating this project with me goodbye now rujicinet was here [Music]

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Id: Fz4ZMLsPzqM

Length: 16min 44sec (1004 seconds)

Published: Fri May 21 2021

Reddit Comments

[u/FuelModel3]

It may be the coldest city in the world in the winter but right now that whole region is having unprecedented wildfires.

[u/I_Take_Fish_Oil]

Really enjoyed watching that, thanks for sharing op.

[u/SilverbackBob]

A sister city to Fairbanks, AK for 33 years now.

[u/BobsBarker12]

Notice this guy bought something from the merchant he interviewed, this is how you do it.

[u/dancingbanana123]

Yakutsk is the capital of the Sakha Republic, an autonomous region that is allied with Russia.

Wait do they not see themselves as part of Russia? I thought they were the equivalent of a state or province, but is that not the case? The wiki page says, "In 1992, after the fall of the Soviet Union, Sakha was recognized in Moscow as the Sakha (Yakutia) Republic under the jurisdiction of the Russian Federation. Sakha is historically part of Russian Siberia, but since the formation of the Far Eastern Federal District in 2000, it is administratively part of the Russian Far East." It sounds like Russia at least sees them as part of Russia, but do the people that live there not see it that way?

[u/Thing_in_a_box]

This brings up something. Where would you rather live, Yakutsk or Death Valley?

[u/abdoanmes]

No thank you.

[u/foreignmacaroon6]

Except the gas pipes over ground, fossils, burning dead people and double windows in cars (In houses it's mandatory), that's pretty basic in Finland as well. We usually have just 20-30 degrees below zero. No smog though. It's more managable than these current +35 heat waves without air conditioning.

[u/aniaran]

Lived in an area that got down to -60 a couple times before wind chill and it's nothing to fuck around with. I'd still take it over extreme heat in a heartbeat but it will absolutely destroy you in a fucking hurry if you're not aware of your current condition and how easy it is to get frostbite and slip into hypothermia.

Was still shocking to me when my EFI snowmobile wouldn't even turn over. That was about the moment I realized that the cold was substantially more dangerous than what I'd been used to prior.