Hard To Run
Hard To Run

In Oymyakon, if you leave your car outside, its engine won’t start again due to cold. Suppose you got to a nearby shop and can’t go back because your car isn’t ready to start. But here people find out their own hack for it. They leave the engine on so that car keeps going. Other times they have to park their car inside heated garages

As They Say

“Cars are kept in heated garages or, if left outside, left running all the time. Crops don’t grow in the frozen ground, so people have a largely carnivorous diet—reindeer meat, raw flesh shaved from frozen fish, and ice cubes of horse blood with macaroni are a few local delicacies,” said one of the residents.

A Chapter In Time
A Chapter In Time

In an effort to combine their territories, Russian and American forces built an airfield in Oymyakon during World War II. Due to the lend-lease policy, American aircraft’s were brought to the Eastern Front from Alaska on ferries. Third regiment pilots that were flying from Fairbanks to Yakutsk used the airfield.

Just One Shop

There is just one working shop in the area during the winter season. The shop is the only spot where people can get all the things they want. Around 500 people in a village and everyone shows up at one shop. The shopkeeper must be knowing about everyone’s background in the village by now.

How Dogs Live?

Dog breeds that grow thick fur can survive in this village. This picture is of a dog who had quite a thick fur to stay warm in the cold. Puppies, however, need more care. They have short hair at the time of birth and if not taken in a warm place, their chances to survive are minimal.

Coal Heating Plant

To give them a little relief there is a coal heating plant which gives them warm in the chilling weather. As long as people are happy living there, it is going well. But the beauty and peace of this place that might not find anywhere else.