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A woman with a mask and fur coat in Yakutsk
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The Russian city of Yakutsk on the Lena River is considered the coldest city on earth.
The current temperatures are seven degrees Celsius below the average January value of around minus 43 degrees Celsius.
Because of this, Yakutsk students have to study from home temporarily.
The schools remained closed, but there was distance learning, the authorities of the Siberian metropolis in the Far East federal district announced on Thursday.
In the south and west of Siberia, meteorologists measured new cold records in December.
In the village of Teguldet near the city of Tomsk, the temperature had dropped to minus 49 degrees.
In Novosibirsk - the largest city in Siberia - temperatures between minus 37 and minus 41 degrees were measured.
According to meteorologists, it was sometimes as cold as it had been in the past 50 to 100 years.
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