Uploaded April 2022 | Updated September 2026, 4 hours ago

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I spent several days with the locals of a Russian village Oymyakon. Oymyakon is Russia's and World's coldest inhabited place, and I thought that the only thing people do there is survive and suffer from the Cold. I was very wrong. Let's see what I found out from the locals

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Time codes:
0:00 Welcome to Yakutia
0:49 Trip to Oymyakon. First stop - Khandyga
4:13 The road of bones - Kolyma
7:33 Stuck in the middle of frozen nowhere. Again
10:32 Welcome to Oymyakon
14:10 Tasting raw foals meat
16:17 Going on winter fishing
18:04 Culture of Sakha people (Yakuts)
20:54 How do people live in Oymyakon?
24:34 Ice bathing in the coldest place on Earth

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