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Oymyakon [a] is a rural locality (a selo) in Oymyakonsky District of the Sakha Republic, Russia, located in the Yana-Oymyakon Highlands, along the Indigirka River, 30 km (19 mi) northwest of Tomtor on the Kolyma Highway.
The Oymyakon Plateau (Russian: Оймяконское плоскогорье, Yakut: Өймөкөөн үрдэлэ) is a mountain plateau in the Sakha Republic, Far Eastern Federal District, Russia. The plateau is in the area of the famous Oymyakon Depression , where record low temperatures are registered, although the region is about 3,000 ...
The landscape of the district is mostly mountainous. The Nera Plateau is located in the eastern part of the district, the Tas-Kystabyt Range in the central area, the Oymyakon Highlands and the Elgin Plateau in the west, the Suntar-Khayata Range at the southwestern end and some ranges of the Chersky mountain system in the north.
Oymyakon, Russia: The Coldest Town on Earth Oymyakon, Russia, which is widely considered the coldest inhabited place on Earth, is not living up to its reputation. The town hit a maximum recorded ...
On Feb. 6, 1933, 92 years ago, Oymyakon, Russia, plunged to minus 89.9 degrees. That still stands as the world's coldest temperature recorded at any permanently inhabited town.
The average height of the plateau surface is between 300 meters (980 ft) and 700 meters (2,300 ft) in the upper course of the Yana River to the northwest, and to the southeast between 1,400 meters (4,600 ft) and 1,500 meters (4,900 ft) in the Oymyakon plateau. Individual peaks of the ranges rise up to 2,000 meters (6,600 ft).
Aeroport (Russian: Аэропорт) is a rural locality (a selo), and one of four settlements in Borogonsky 2-y Rural Okrug of Oymyakonsky District in the Sakha Republic, Russia, in addition to Tomtor, the administrative center of the Rural Okrug, Agayakan and Kuydusun.
The weather station is in a valley between Oymyakon and Tomtor. The station is at 750 m (2,460 ft) and the surrounding mountains at 1,100 m (3,600 ft), causing cold air to pool in the valley: recent studies show that winter temperatures in the area "increase" with elevation by as much as 10 °C (18 °F). [ 6 ]