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The Coldest Town: Life in Siberia's Pole of Cold |
| Section: CULTURE / PEOPLES |
| Author: Bryan Alexander |
| Publication:
The World & I Online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/2001 |
| Size: 1,514 Words, 8,813 Characters |
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Verkhoyansk, situated on the bank of the Yana River in the Russian republic of Yakutia, has the distinction of being the coldest place in the Northern Hemisphere. If you work on the theory that the farther north you go from the equator the colder it gets, you would expect the North Pole to be the coldest place, but Verkhoyansk, which lies some 150 miles south, gets much colder. The town first made history on January 15, 1885, when the record-breaking temperature of --90.4*F was measured there, a record that still stands, though it has come close to being broken a few times. In 1996, for example, despite global warming, a temperature of --85*F was recorded. Though Verkhoyansk competes with another town in Yakutia, Oimyakon, for the dubious privilege of being the coldest town in the world, most climatologists agree that Verkhoyansk is the winner.
Coincidentally, the...
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...th virtually no health care were brought home to me when I visited a horse herdsmen's camp at nearby Korban. One herdsman told me that because he was thirty-six years old, he would be eligible for a pension the following year. When I told him that I thought thirty-seven was quite young to receive a pension, he replied, "You have to remember that few of us here reach the age of forty-seven."
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