Oymyakon, Russia
From series “15 Sparsely Populated Places for Solitude with Wildlife”
Oymyakon is one of the most thinly populated and isolated places in the world. The reason covers in its climate. The temperature goes lower 60 degrees below zero Celsius in winter. Its population is about 500 people, notwithstanding the severe living conditions, locals don’t want to leave their houses. Every single day they have to struggle against difficulties of the subpolar region.
The main problem of the region is the uninterruptible power supply. All lines of communication depend on this. If the colony will stay without water for more than a week, all lines of communication include pipelines will freeze. Drivers in Oymyakon have to keep a number of important rules on the roads. In winter they never cut the engine.
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