MINUS 7 1℃, known as the "cold pole" of the earth, how do people live here?

There used to be a saying that winter in the north depends on heating, and winter in the south depends on righteousness. Although this is a joke, it also reflects people's helplessness to the cold.

But whether in the north or the south, the cold temperature has a bottom line and will not exceed the tolerance of people. The average annual temperature in this place is-16, which is around -40 for most of the year and as low as -7 1 in the coldest time. This is the famous Oymyakon.

Oymyakon is located in eastern Siberia, in the permafrost zone, known as the cold pole of the northern hemisphere.

What is the concept of -7 1? At this temperature, most tools and machinery will fail. If people are outdoors, without protective measures, cold can destroy human epidermal tissue in a few seconds, causing frostbite. Here, you can clearly hear the sound of exhaled gas turning into ice slag. It only takes a few minutes to freeze people into ice. This is a real forbidden area, but a group of people have lived here for generations.

Their name is Yakut and they live in a small village with a population of only over 600. This humble village has many things that ordinary people can't understand.

Under the long-term low temperature, Yakutia people learned a pair of bronzed skin and iron bones. In their view, the temperature above MINUS 48 degrees is normal, and all work and actions will not be affected. At this temperature, kindergarten children will go to school as usual, and only below this temperature will classes be suspended temporarily, while the standard of primary school suspension is higher, below MINUS 54 degrees.

The unusually cold also makes their house more special. First of all, it is extremely difficult to break the ice with tools. You must act quickly, otherwise the ice will recover immediately. If you are a first-time visitor here, you may not recover as fast as the ice.

After breaking the ice, the only advantage of burying the stake deep underground is that it does not need reinforcement, and cold compress is the best fixative.

The house must be more than one meter above the ground, otherwise the heating of the house will soften the ice surface of the foundation, leading to collapse accidents.

The structure of their house is even more peculiar, very thick, and it is simply a small city wall with at least five windows. These houses are in other places. I wonder if they are bunkers.

For local residents, the biggest problem is water use. Water pipes are as thick as oil pipelines, with multiple layers of insulation in the middle, but they are also easy to freeze. So their water pipes are also equipped with automatic heating stations along the way to ensure the passage of water.

In Oymyakon, it takes several times the normal time to do anything, and it takes at least five days to dig a cemetery. The workload is too heavy.

Glass bottles don't exist here, and no matter how strong the bottle is, it will crack here, so there is a magical phenomenon, that is, when buying milk, you can buy it directly by tuo, take a large piece of iced milk home, and melt it in the pot after taking it back.

Here, except people, almost no other creatures can be seen, and so can food. The fish caught in the ice cave was alive and kicking when it was first taken out, and turned into frozen fish the next second.

Vegetables and fruits are the rarest, and only a few can be delivered easily, and they are all frozen vegetables, so the price will be more expensive.

Of course, although this place is terrible, not everyone can come. The only way to get here is the famous road to death in Russia, with a long uninhabited area in the middle.

Driving through here is like dancing on the tip of a knife. Don't slam on the brakes, slam the direction, and don't turn off the engine. Even at night, the vehicle must always keep running. Once the engine is turned off, it only takes a few minutes for the vehicle to ignite. In this case, it is impossible to see the sun the next day without rescue and cold protection tools.

Moreover, except for Russian off-road vehicles and jeeps, other vehicles can't run here, and it is even difficult to start.

It is such an extremely cruel place, but the people here are very happy. They are hospitable and always keep a positive state, so as early as the Soviet period, this is the famous hometown of longevity.

It is worth mentioning that with global warming, the temperature in Oymyakan reached 30 degrees Celsius for the first time in 20 10, which made the local people half dead. It was really interesting.

Can you accept such a temperature?