The central square of Yakutsk on a -48c day Village of Oymyakon. Picture: Amos Chapple/REX/Shutterstock/Australscope

A toilet on the tundra at a petrol stop on the road to Oymyakon Village of Oymyakon. Picture: Amos Chapple/REX/Shutterstock/Australscope

Communist-era monument marking the record-breaking temperature of -71.2 recorded in the village in 1924. It reads “Oymyakon, the Pole of Cold”. Picture: Amos Chapple/REX/Shutterstock/Australscope

A young student poses for a portrait at a bus station in Yakutsk Village of Oymyakon. Picture: Amos Chapple/REX/Shutterstock/Australscope

A digger delivers fresh coal to the heating plant in Oymyakon Village of Oymyakon, which is considered to be the coldest permanently inhabited settlement in the world, Russia. Picture: Amos Chapple/REX/Shutterstock/Australscope

Oymyakon’s only shop Village of Oymyakon. Picture: Amos Chapple/REX/Shutterstock/Australscope

A petrol station on the road to Oymyakon Village of Oymyakon. Picture: Amos Chapple/REX/Shutterstock/Australscope

Cows walk back to their sheds after watering in the thermal spring Village of Oymyakon. Picture: Amos Chapple/REX/Shutterstock/Australscope

Oymakon village at dawn with a plume of smoke rising from the heating plant Village of Oymyakon. Picture: Amos Chapple/REX/Shutterstock/Australscope

Cows walk back to their sheds after watering in the thermal spring Village of Oymyakon. Picture: Amos Chapple/REX/Shutterstock/Australscope

Summer shoes waiting out the winter in a shed in the suburbs of Yakutsk. Picture: Amos Chapple/REX/Shutterstock/Australscope

A patch of the thermal spring on the outskirts of Oymyakon Village of Oymyakon. Picture: Amos Chapple/REX/Shutterstock/Australscope

Frost-encrusted house in the city centre of Yakutsk. Picture: Amos Chapple/REX/Shutterstock/Australscope

Young Yakutians let loose in a well-heated nightclub in Yakutsk. Picture: Picture: Amos Chapple/REX/Shutterstock/Australscope

A statue of Ivan Kraft, one of the first governors of Yakutsk. Picture: Amos Chapple/REX/Shutterstock/Australscope

A woman in the city centre of Yakutsk. Picture: Amos Chapple/REX/Shutterstock/Australscope

A local woman enters Preobrazhensky Cathedral in a swirl of freezing mist Yakutsk. Picture: Amos Chapple/REX/Shutterstock/Australscope

A young East Siberian Laika in Oymyakon Village of Oymyakon, which is considered to be the coldest permanently inhabited settlement in the world. Picture: Amos Chapple/REX/Shutterstock/Australscope

A view of Stalin’s “Road of Bones”, the route to Oymyakon, on a -50c evening Village of Oymyakon, which is considered to be the coldest permanently inhabited settlement in the world, Russia. Picture: Amos Chapple/REX/Shutterstock/Australscope

The “Road of Bones” leading to Oymyakon Village of Oymyakon. Picture: Amos Chapple/REX/Shutterstock/Australscope

A woman walks over an ice-encrusted bridge in Yakutsk Village of Oymyakon. Picture: Amos Chapple/REX/Shutterstock/Australscope

Farmer Nikolai Petrovich waters his cows at a patch of thermal water at the edge of Oymyakon Village of Oymyakon. Picture: Amos Chapple/REX/Shutterstock/Australscope

A man leaves his van and walks into Oymyakon’s only shop as paper waste is burnt in a 40 gallon drum Village of Oymyakon. Picture: Amos Chapple/REX/Shutterstock/Australscope

The central square of Yakutsk on a -51c day Village of Oymyakon. Picture: Amos Chapple/REX/Shutterstock/Australscope

Alexander Platonov, 52, a retired teacher, dressed for a quick dash to the outdoor toilet at his home in Oymyakon Village of Oymyakon. Picture: Amos Chapple/REX/Shutterstock/Australscope

An East Siberian Laika puppy Village of Oymyakon, which is considered to be the coldest permanently inhabited settlement in the world. Picture: Amos Chapple/REX/Shutterstock/Australscope

The “Road of Bones” leading to Oymyakon Village of Oymyakon. Picture: Amos Chapple/REX/Shutterstock/Australscope