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Oymyakon is located near the historic Road of Bones. [12] Over the last few decades, the population of Oymyakon has shrunk significantly. The village had a peak population of roughly 2,500 inhabitants, but that number has dwindled to fewer than 900 in 2018. [Videos 1] The local economy is mostly fur trading and ice fishing. [13]
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).
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.
The average low temperature in Oymyakon in January is −50°C. [11] In 2020, a teenage motorist froze to death by following Google Maps directions to use the shorter but abandoned section of the road via Tomtor, on which his car broke down, and his surviving travel mate lost most of his limbs due to frostbite. [12]
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 ...
Tomtor (Russian: Томтор; Yakut: Томтор) is a rural locality (a selo), the administrative centre of, and one of four settlements in addition to Aeroport, Agayakan and Kuydusun in Sordonnokhsky Rural Okrug of Oymyakonsky District in the Sakha Republic, Russia.
The world's lowest temperatures for inhabited places have been recorded in this region. In the south of the East Siberian Mountain System lies the area of the famous Oymyakon Depression, where record low temperatures are registered, even though the region is about 3,000 kilometres (1,900 mi) to the south of the geographic North Pole. [5]
Verkhoyansk (Russian: Верхоянск, IPA: [vʲɪrxɐˈjansk]; Yakut: Верхоянскай, romanized: Verxoyanskay) is a town in Verkhoyansky District of the Sakha Republic, Russia, located on the Yana River in the Arctic Circle, 92 kilometers (57 mi) from Batagay, the administrative center of the district, and 675 kilometers (419 mi) north of Yakutsk, the capital of the Sakha republic.