Oymyakon - How to Survive at the Coldest Inhabited Place on Earth | Free Documentary Shorts

Omniacon is the coldest inhabited place on earth. The temperature difference between outside and inside is over 60 degrees. For the 500 inhabitants of omniacon winter is almost eight months long. The family of nikolai are yakuts, a tribe with turkish and mongolian roots. They have been living in siberia since the 12th century. It's still pitch black in omyacon at eight. o'clock in the morning. inside the house it's 20 degrees celsius. for both the cows and the people it's all about survival. [Music]. hello pasha little darling, it's time to get ready for school. There are two things which are always. running in homes in omniacons: the stove and the television. this is how omyacons residents find out. what's happening in the rest of the world the. temperature difference of over. 60 degrees between outside and inside makes for constant dressing and. undressing annoying but unavoidable. In the winter fresh grass only grows from may to august. so we cut everything within a radius of. 60 to 70 kilometers. and only in the summertime do the cows give milk. Now in winter at -5 degrees  celsius in. the barn for both cows and people it’s. all about survival for both people and the cattle. [ music] It's still. pitch black here in o myacon at 8. o’clock in  the morning. The children go to the local school. unless they’re closed due to extreme cold. but more about that later. the smoking chimneys in Omyacon show. it's the cold that determines life here. We need enough to last the whole winter. we’ve cut the grass at the end of the summer. we don’t have enough for the whole winter. We’ll have to cut more in the summer, so we cut it in the winter. It’d be better if we had more grass in this cold, but we only have a small amount in summer. It grows in May so fresh grass grows from May to august, which is the only time the people can eat. in winter we don't have enough to eat. we eat black tea and fried. pastries in this cold, a high calorie diet is no problem. The people live in a small village near. the siberian tiger. i grew up in a small village near. omyacon. The father is a woodcutter. his wife oxana is a nurse in o myacon's. only hospital. and the family's three children. go to the local School. unless it is closed due to extreme cold. The record occurred in 1926. at minus 71.2 degrees celsius, the. record now is -6.2 degrees c Celsius. The. temperature difference between the outside and the inside is over 60 degrees. inside. inside the house is 20 degrees Celsius, which explains oxana's summer style outfit. [music] The family are yakuts this. tribe with turkish and. monglian roots has been living in Siberia since the. 12th century. The father is niklai, a yakut, and his wife is a nurse in the town's only hospital. He has three children who go to school every day.