The official weather station at the 'pole of cold' registered minus 59C, but locals said their readings were as low as minus 67C - less than 1C off the lowest accepted temperature for a permanent settlement anywhere in the world.

And that record-breaking recording was taken in the town back in 1933.

One villager in Oymyakon recorded a temperature of minus 67C, while others agreed that the official reading of minus 59C did not tell the full story.

The digital thermometer was installed last year to help Oymyakon market itself to tourists, but it gave up the ghost at minus 62C.

The digital thermometer was installed to help Oymyakon market itself to tourists but gave up the ghost
The village is home to 500 hardy people and was a stopover for reindeer herders in the 1920s and 1930s
Lower temperatures are recorded in Antarctica, but here there are no permanently inhabited settlements


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