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An ice residence of Chyskhaan, the Yakut Lord of the Cold, in the Ebe-Khaya cave near the village of Tomtor in Oymyakon District in the east of Russia’s Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) on December 16, 2021. The village of Oymyakon makes one of the two localities (along with the town of Verkhoyansk) of the Pole of Cold of the Northern Hemisphere, with the temperature of –71.2°C (96.2°F) recorded here in January 1924. Founded in 1931, Oymyakon District has deposits of gold, silver, tin, tungsten, lead, zinc, and antimony; the region’s agriculture is based on horse and reindeer breeding. (Photo by Vadim Skryabin/TASS)
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