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| | Oymyakon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26) |
 | | Oymyakon (ÐймÑкон in Cyrillic, alternative spellings: Oimekon, Oimyakon, Oymiakon, Oimiakon, Oimjakon, Ojmiakon, Ojmjakon, Ojmyakon, Oymjakon) is a village located along the Indigirka River in the north-east of the Sakha Republic in Eastern Siberia, Russia, at.It has about 800 inhabitants. |
 | | Oymyakon is known as one of the candidates for the Northern Pole of Cold, because on January 26, 1926, a temperature of −71.2 °C (−96.16 °F) was recorded there (however, this fact is arguable, the temperature was not directly measured but obtained by extrapolation). |
 | | Oxford geographer Nick Middleton's television series and accompanying book on people who live in extreme climates discusses his visit to this village, and describes ways in which inhabitants cope with the extreme cold. |
| www.dejavu.org /cgi-bin/get.cgi?ver=93&url=http%3A%2F%2Farticles.gourt.com%2F%3Farticle%3DOymyakon%26type%3Den (259 words) |
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