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Preface
Recently, it has been cooling down all over the country, and the weather is more than ten degrees below zero, which is unbearable, so do you know how Siberians living at minus 70 degrees survive the winter?
In the land of Siberia, there are only two seasons, one is winter and the other is about winter, we all know that the weather in the northeast is very cold, but compared to Siberia, it is a drop in the bucket.
minus 70 degrees
It is said that the local winter is very long, and the minimum temperature can reach minus 70 degrees, and the reason why it is so cold is because its geographical location makes it the "flood outlet" of Li Xiang in the cold air of the Arctic high pressure zone.
Cold snaps continue to hit the land, resulting in only 3.5 hours of sunshine in winter, and the Sakha Republic in the Yana Basin, which has nine months of winter, is one of the coldest regions in Siberia.
It is about 1/3 the size of China and a little larger than India, but it has a population of less than 1 million!
Food, shelter and travel here can be endured, but when going to the toilet is more difficult, now the network has been very developed, you may have learned about the unique life of Siberians through the Internet, because the local conditions are very difficult, they must go out tightly wrapped, in such bad weather, going out not only requires courage, but also needs the blessing of external forces.
If you don't wear thick enough, you won't be able to stay outside for a while and you will be frozen, you may have seen such pictures, your eyelashes are frozen, your clothes are frozen by the cold weather, people here generally rely on walking in winter, and you rarely drive, because the car will be in such a situation, and you can't get started.
On this land, Oymyakon, known as the "coldest settlement in the world", is located on the edge of the Yana Basin, which is beautiful but also full of challenges, and the indigenous people here live a winter life of isolation, which is one of the most unique in Siberia.
The wind is howling all year round, for the residents here, they will be like animals hibernating, when the winter is not coming, they will prepare the food for the winter in advance, because of the weather, the people here have no way to grow vegetables, and transportation is also a big problem, so they mainly rely on goat's milk and reindeer, and eat basically meat.
In order to preserve food, every local household has a granary and cellar, the large one is twenty or thirty square meters, the small one is only five or six square meters, generally in the underground of the main house, because the underground temperature and humidity can be controlled by heating, and the vents must be opened when the temperature is high, otherwise all will freeze.
The population gap between the east and west of Russia is very large, most people live in western Europe, and the economy is relatively developed, but Russia is the largest country in the world, and there are people living everywhere.
In the beginning, many pioneers came to live in Siberia, and during the Soviet Union, many people were sent here because of many political problems, which increased the local population, and later to build railways and allocate resources, after the construction of the Trans-Siberian Railway, more and more people lived here.
For local residents, the best option in winter is to stay at home, as their homes usually have multiple warmth measures, but even then it is difficult to withstand the cold, and the temperature in the room can be maintained at a few degrees above zero.
The architecture of their houses is also very different from ours, we live in a place where there is not so much permafrost, most of it is normal soil, but here in Siberia the soil is basically permafrost. Therefore, when building a house, they will maintain a certain height from the ground, so as not to collapse the house when it melts.
However, the people who live in this place basically live longer, because of the low temperature environment, some viruses and bacteria cannot survive, and the people who can survive in this environment basically have very strong resistance.
Abundant resources
And in this icy and snowy land, there are huge treasures, this region is also the great granary of Russia, where the most fertile black soil is located, the most prominent of which is forestry resources, here is one of the largest forests in the world.
Forests are lush and diverse, and forests not only provide people with daily necessities such as wood and paper, but also play an important role in maintaining ecological balance in the climate.
The Siberian forest, the timber content of the former Soviet Union is more than 75%, in addition, there are a lot of water resources here, many rivers originate here, such as the very famous freshwater lake Baikal is from here, it is the world's deepest and oldest large freshwater lake, storing 20% of the world's freshwater resources.
The region is also rich in mineral resources, natural gas and oil, and there are many wild animals and fish, which can even exceed the resources of many countries combined.
It's a pity that such a large area, covering so many resources, is that the living conditions are too harsh, because of the proximity to the Arctic Ocean, the temperature here is extremely low and very dry.
lavatory
The biggest challenge for people here is to go to the toilet, because of the special geographical location, most of the indigenous people are unable to repair the toilet at home, and the most common toilet here is the outdoor wooden thatched pit, just like the dry toilet in the rural areas of the northern part of the mainland.
If you want to go to the toilet, you have to go to the outdoor simple toilet, because Siberia is a special location, sometimes there will be wild beasts, and the smell of human secretions will attract wild animals, so many people will carry a stick with them when they go to the toilet to defend themselves.
In addition to self-defense, you can also prevent your legs from squatting or freezing in the toilet and still rely on this stick to walk, and in case the urine is frozen into ice, you can also have a stick to break it.
More than half of the 17,000 settlements in Siberia are temporary, mostly herding people who live in nearby towns and cities.
There are more than a dozen villages in less than 300 kilometers from Yakutsk to the town of Sangar, but these villages become very quiet in winter, because there are no people living in them, and some villages know that there is no one without going in, because there are no footprints on the road and there is no heating smoke over the houses.
tourism
Although the environment is very bad, but the scenery is still very good, if someone wants to travel where must do a good job, suddenly to such a cold place body is afraid to be unbearable.
So you have to bring your medicine and some thick clothes, but even if you do, you still need to buy some clothes when you go to the local area, because if you haven't been anywhere, you will never think how cold it is, and only when you go can you really experience how difficult the living conditions are here.
Because the local area is vast and sparsely populated, everyone must follow the arrangement of the tour guide and do not do private activities, otherwise it is easy to get lost, and there is a possibility of being frozen if you stay outdoors for a long time.
As we all know, Russians love to drink, but in Yakutsk, shops are forbidden to sell alcohol at night, because many people will lose consciousness after getting drunk, and may fall directly outdoors, and are likely to freeze to death, so some cities in Siberia are prohibited from selling alcohol at night.
All in all, wintering in Siberia is very challenging for many tourists, but it is something that locals have become Xi to.