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Where Russia’s Winter Begins
By Linda Tancs
In Siberia’s Yakutian permafrost some say Russia’s winter begins. With winter temperatures easily hitting minus 50 degrees Fahrenheit there, it may even seem neverending. Yakutian settlements also boast world records as the “pole of cold,” the coldest place in the northern hemisphere. It should come as no surprise that this is where you’ll find the Permafrost Kingdom, an ice cave some 492 feet long located at Chochur Muran mountain. After donning a warm coat and boots, you’ll see ice crystals and sculptures aglow in rainbows of light through the slippery corridors. Opened in 2008, the “kingdom” is in its infancy compared with the prehistoric permafrost underscoring the entire Yakutian region, the onetime home of the extinct woolly mammoth.
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