Oymyakon is a small village located in the north-eastern Russian Republic of Sakha. Oymyakon boasts an average winter temperature of -49 ºF, with a one-time world record low of -96.16 ºF.
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Oymyakon means "non-freezing water", situated as it is to a nearby hot spring at a toasty 32 ºF.
There is no mobile coverage in Oymyakon and even if it did, it would be unusable as most electronics stop working in freezing temperatures.
