Oymyakon, the Coldest Village on Earth

A local woman enters Preobrazhensky Cathedral in a swirl of freezing mist in the city of Yakutsk, Russia, considered to be the coldest city in the world, January 2014. (Photo by Amos Chapple/REX Features)

A statue of Ivan Kraft, one of the first governors of the republic of Yakutia, in Yakutsk, Russia, January 2014. (Photo by Amos Chapple/REX Features)

A guard dog in the suburbs of Yakutsk, Russia, January 2014. (Photo by Amos Chapple/REX Features)

A frost-encrusted house in the city center of Yakutsk, Russia, January 2014. (Photo by Amos Chapple/REX Features)

Shoes hang in a shed in the suburbs of Yakutsk, Russia, January 2014. (Photo by Amos Chapple/REX Features)

A man leaves his van and walks into Oymyakon, Russia’s only shop as an oil drum full of paper waste burns in the distance in January 2013. (Photo by Amos Chapple/REX Features)

The “Road of Bones” leading to the village of Oymyakon, Russia, January 2013. (Photo by Amos Chapple/REX Features)

A gas station on the road to the village of Oymyakon, Russia, considered to be the coldest permanently inhabited settlement in the world, January 2013. (Photo by Amos Chapple/REX Features)