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The territory of Yakutia is the coldest inhabited region in the northern hemisphere of the Earth. There are actually two poles of cold there - Verkhoyansk and Oymyakon. This locations have extremely low air temperature. In Verkhoyansk the temperature of -67,8 degrees Celcius was recorded in 1885 by exiled revolutionary. Verkhoyansk Museum is officially called "The Museum "Pole of Cold",and there is a memorial sign "The Pole of Cold” in the city. In 1926 geologist Obruchev calculated that in Oymyakon in the upper reaches of the Indigirka river, temperatures can drop to the level of -71,2 degrees Celcius, and this assumption even has its own memorial. In 1933 in Tomtor, where the Oymyakon meteorological station is located, the temperature dropped to -67,7 degrees. Over the last 15 years, the lowest temperature was recorded twice in Tomtor, the temperature was -61,1 and -64,4 degrees. People in Tomtor and in Verkhoyansk at a temperature of -50 degrees begin to hear the “whispers of the stars", a strange noise, similar to the sound of a falling grain or wind, and actually it is the sound of a frozen breath.
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