The village of Oymyakon, with its heating plant chugging coal smoke into the freezing air. It was dubbed “The Pole Of Cold” after recording a temperature of minus 71.2° degrees Celsius in 1933. The record freeze was just a few degrees shy of the minus 78.5°C temperature of dry ice. (Photo by Amos Chapple/Courtesy Images/RFE/RL)
