Author gave Yakutsk the title of the world's coldest city. The republic capital won two candidates for the title – Yellowknife in Canada and Ulanbaatar in Mongolia. The article brings the characteristics of three cities and life realities in each of them in the conditions of extreme cold. The article also proposes entertainment for cold cities' inhabitants as splashing the boiling water into the 40 below-zero-degrees cold air.
“What's the world's coldest city?
Yellowknife in Canada, where windchill regularly takes the temperature below -30C? Ulaanbaatar in Mongolia, where you have to thaw the ground to bury people? Or Yakutsk in Russia, which few aeroplanes are rated to visit?
If the 3 million sq km Sakha Republic were a sovereign nation, rather than a federal subject of Russia, its capital, Yakutsk, would hold the coldest national capital title as well as that of the coldest major city in the world. With an average winter temperature of -34C, Yakutsk – home to 270,000 people just south of the Arctic Circle – is so cold that the airport can’t accept most aeroplanes, which are not usually rated for lower than -40C. The cold saps energy from mobile phones, which must be periodically rewarmed. Even building houses is a challenge, as the pressure of a large structure melts the ground and causes it to sink, forcing engineers to use a device called a thermosyphon to keep the ground frozen year-round.
Traditional Yakutsk cuisine includes frozen Arctic cisco fish served with mustard sauce, and greenhouses are the only source of fresh vegetables. There’s even a Museum of Permafrost, a hoarfrost-encrusted institution that boasts the residence of the Russian Santa and serves vodka in shotglasses made of ice».
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