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YAKUTSK, Russia, Jan 15 (Reuters) - Temperatures person plunged to minus 50 degrees Celsius (-58 Fahrenheit) this week successful Yakutsk during an abnormally agelong acold drawback successful the Siberian metropolis known arsenic the coldest connected earth.
Located 5,000 km (3,100 miles) eastbound of Moscow connected the permafrost of the Russian Far East, residents of the mining metropolis often spot the thermometer regularly driblet good beneath minus 40.
"You can't combat it. You either set and formal accordingly oregon you suffer," said Anastasia Gruzdeva, extracurricular successful 2 scarves, 2 pairs of gloves and aggregate hats and hoods.
[1/5] Fish vendors Marina Krivolutskaya and Marianna Ugai airs for a representation astatine an open-air marketplace connected a frosty time successful Yakutsk, Russia, January 15, 2023. REUTERS/Roman Kutukov
"You don't truly consciousness the acold successful the city. Or possibly it's conscionable the encephalon prepares you for it, and tells you everything is normal," she added successful the metropolis shrouded by icy mist.
Another resident, Nurgusun Starostina, who sells frozen food astatine a marketplace without the request for a fridge oregon freezer, said determination were nary peculiar secrets to woody with the cold.
"Just formal warmly," she said. "In layers, similar a cabbage!"
Reporting by Reuters; Editing by Andrew Cawthorne
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