[Pan_Yan]

I grew up in Montana but I've lived down south for long enough that I'd be willing to try it for a few weeks. I'n not sure I could hang for a full winter, though.

[AU72]

Siberian sushi, river fish caught in the winter are instantly flash frozen. Use a sharp knife and slice thin slices and wash down with vodka.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

I’ve lived through -39 in Bozeman, Montana once...

As they say, when we spoke, our words would freeze and drop to the ground, not thawing until Spring (read July). As the built up words thawed, it sounded like crowds of people shouting outside.

[Ouderkirk]

I’m living in the frozen northeast....I’ll pass.

[nascarnation]

270k is a LOT of people.

I visited Fairbanks AK last year and was surprised by how small it was.

[zeestephen]

Is Yakutsk still part of the “Risk” board game?

As I recall (from the 1960’s version), me and my junior high school pals would mass HUGE armies in Alaska and Yakutsk, and then engage in suicidal mass slaughters trying to break into Asia or North America on alternate turns.

[kidd]

Yakutsk and Irkutsk - the only territories in Risk that never have a big battle. But they were always fun to pronounce.

[AnAmericanAbroad]

Heh.

-40 to -70? Nope.

Reminds of a poem about the Kolyma Basin in Siberia, home of many a Gulag camp.

“Kolyma; wonderful planet.
Twelve months winter
The rest...summer.”

[mrsmith]

Stock up on fuel, food and on supplies for making alcoholic beverages and the winter just flies by whever you are.
And remember: no lawn mowing in winter!

[SkyDancer]

Maybe we should send Al Gore there to warm things up.

[Gay State Conservative]

Earlier this month I spent a night in city 200 miles north of Montreal and the temp went to -42 Celsius...which is something like -46F.I wanna tell ya...that's COLD! The gas station where I went to fill up told me their diesel pumps weren't working because it was too cold.

[Vigilanteman]

I had thought cities bordering on the Arctic ocean like Archangel, Murmansk or Barrow, Alaska would be the world's coldest. But Yakutsk has AVERAGE highs in December and January below -30. I guess its inland location and long distance from any large body of water makes for these temperature extremes.

What keeps people there beyond the fact that one-fifth of the world's diamonds are mined in the general vicinity?

[Disambiguator]

It’s probably that cold in places in Nunavut, Canada. There are almost no cities in that province...

[Cementjungle]

Doesn't look to bad... the forecast for today is a high of -36 degrees!

http://www.accuweather.com/en/ru/yakutsk/290150/weather-forecast/290150

[Perseverando]

Just checked Wunderground.com for several cool locales. Current temps are:

Yakutsk, Russia -45 F.
Ojmjakon, Russia -48 F.
Vostok, Antarctica -57 F.

[envisio]

No thanks. I like the cool weather and all.

See, I said “cool”.

This is just ridiculous.

[Gumdrop]

Are you certain that the coldest city is not in Minnesota? I am getting cold just thinking about going outside again today. So, we are now in February and our average high temperature in Minneapolis now is about 27 degrees F - but all this week we are hovering around zero to 10 degrees F. By my math, that means we are about 20 degrees below normal all this week.

Not to worry though, because they are promising the temperature over the weekend will be warmer - all the way up to about 12-15 degrees.

[Justa]

“If-you-thought-it’s-cold-where-your-are-just-think-if-you-lived-in-Yakutsk” bump.

Global Warming remains real -you’re hotter than Yakutsk.

/s

[SgtHooper]

Has to be wind temperature

[KosmicKitty]

What fuels their economy?

I mean. you probably don’t have a thriving tourist economy supporting people.

[Fzob]

The fact that Yakutsk is responsible for a fifth of the world’s production of diamonds might explain why 270K people live there.