The Pole of Cold - Tomtor and Oymyakon (91 images)
Journey to the Pole of Cold (4) - Oymyakon/Tomtor
Often people talk about a coldest temperature of -71.2 C which was measured in Oymyakon - there are even monuments with that value. But this value is just theoretical based on a real measured temperature of -44 C degrees in 1924 and it was obtained by extrapolation method rather than measured directly. So - not real. The coldest real measured temperature in Oymyakon was a temperature of -67.7 °C in 1933.
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Often people talk about a coldest temperature of -71.2 C which was measured in Oymyakon - there are even monuments with that value. But this value is just theoretical based on a real measured temperature of -44 C degrees in 1924 and it was obtained by extrapolation method rather than measured directly. So - not real. The coldest real measured temperature in Oymyakon was a temperature of -67.7 °C in 1933.
This was...
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The Pole of Cold - Tomtor village seen from a...
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The Pole of Cold - the road to Tomtor village...
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The Pole of Cold. Portrait of an inhabitant of...
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The Pole of Cold - local inhabitant burning...
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The Pole of Cold - Alexei Vinokurov mayor of...
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The Pole of Cold - local inhabitant at the...
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The Pole of Cold. Portrait of a shop assistant...
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The Pole of Cold - local inhabitant grandmother...
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The Pole of Cold - Portrait of a Yakutian horse...
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The Pole of Cold - Yakutian horse at a horse...
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The Pole of Cold - Horse breeder with a...
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The Pole of Cold - Yakutian horses at a horse...
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The Pole of Cold - Horse breeder with a...
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The Pole of Cold - early morning sun in the...
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The Pole of Cold. Permafrost cave which was...
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The Pole of Cold. The Yakut Father Frost...
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The Pole of Cold. The sport complex at the...
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The Pole of Cold. Yakutian wrestling...
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The Pole of Cold. The sport complex at the...
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The Pole of Cold. Young sportsman at the sport...
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The Pole of Cold. Young sportsmen at the sport...
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Afternoon sun and housing at the Oymyakon...
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The Pole of Cold - Portrait of a man protecting...
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The Pole of Cold. Visitor at the Pole of Cold...
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Deep frozen clothes hanging outside for drying...
