Sorry Houston, but it's not as cold as it could be. That honor goes to Oymyakon, a Russian village in the Siberian region of Yakutia. It's named after the nearby Oymyakon River which translated means ...

Yeah, it sucks to live on the East Coast this week, especially if you have to do things like go outside occasionally (incidentally, how long can dogs go without peeing? Till spring, right?). But at ...

Oymyakon, a tiny hamlet in Russia (with the population of around 500), is that part of our world where people suffer to survive almost every day! Known as the coldest inhabited place on Earth, life of ...

Oymyakon, Russia, which is widely considered the coldest inhabited place on Earth, is not living up to its reputation. The town hit a maximum recorded temperature of 88.8 degrees Fahrenheit (31.6 ...

Seven hardy swimmers took a true polar plunge as they braved bone-chilling temperatures and dipped into icy water in Oymyakon, Russia, last Sunday. Touted as the coldest permanently inhabited place on ...

A young businessman has long wanted to organize an extreme route in the Oymyakon district in the north-east of Yakutia - after all, this is the coldest point in Russia MOSCOW, February 10. /TASS/. A ...

Think the polar vortex is bad? Imagine living in a place where the weather is four times as bad, almost all the time. Welcome to Oymyakon, Russia, a remote village that's generally considered the ...

Saying this village is cold is an understatement… Welcome to Oymyakon, a remote Siberian village, where the average temperature in January is -50 degree Celsius and inhabitants’ eye lashes freeze ...

UST-NERA, Yakutia, Russia (Reuters) - In winter it gets so cold that metal snaps. When the weather is warmer people make a living sifting the earth for fragments of gold in the Oymyakon district of ...