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