So you can imagine what kind of precautions the residents of Oymyakon, a village in the Russian region of Yakutia and the coldest permanently inhabited place on Earth, are having to take right now.

That jumps to a tolerable 46 degrees in summer, however. The brave citizens of Oymyakon, Russia, must guard against frozen eyelashes and, according to The Weather Channel, average temperatures of ...

However, during summer, Yakutsk can get warmer than the ... a 21-hour drive will take you to Oymyakon, an even colder inhabited location. With a record low of -71.2C, Oymyakon's roughly 500 ...