COLDEST City on the Planet!! (-42°)

Hey guys, welcome back to the channel. We're still in Yakutsk. It's a wonderful city, I love it. We're gonna go walking around downtown, go to the Lenin statue, and a whole bunch of other random stuff today. But we're starting off the day with some very good Siberian dumplings. So we have some Siberian dumplings. It's got pork and beef inside of it. You might call them manti, I guess, in Russian. It's got some, not really curry, I think it's turmeric, yeah, and coriander. Turmeric, coriander, and it's lamb. Lamb inside it, yeah. And of course, we have some borscht. Every good day starts with some borscht. So, the music is loud. We're gonna finish the food, we'll go for a walk. It's minus 42 today, so it's gonna be a nice, chilly day. Okay, so, we are back. Like I said, this is Yakutsk. Going down the street, this is called, basically, Lenin street. Because going down this way, it goes down to the city square, which is where Lenin is. There's a big Lenin statue, I should say. But I wanted to show you guys that even here, it's so cold, it's about minus 42 today or something. It's so cold that the snow doesn't even know how to act like snow. I mean, look at it. And it can't stick to anything, even the trees. It's just like, it doesn't know what to do. Okay, we're gonna go down to the Lenin statue now. You know, I should clarify that because it's so cold here, most people, they wrap up their vehicle like this, under these thick thermal blankets, and then they break down here the number of the vehicle, just so that when they want to start the car, then the car has a blanket. The car can stay warm enough. So here, if you stop your vehicle, and you just leave it, and you're like out in the middle of the woods or something, the only way to start the vehicle again then is to actually crawl underneath it and start a fire to physically heat up the engine block. So most people then, they wrap it up like this, and then they put the blanket on top. Otherwise, people like here in this parking lot, they'll just leave, oh there you are, people here, they'll just leave the vehicle, they'll just leave it on, like they'll leave it on for like three hours, four hours, five hours. Okay, so now we're in like the city center. This is kind of like the old town area, but what I really love most about Yakutsk is that if you're dressed well, the weather isn't so bad. I mean, we have a saying for Scandinavians that there's no such thing as bad weather, it's just bad clothes. So if you're dressed well, it's okay. And this is a really beautiful city to walk around because they have lots of traditional things. Look over here, I like how the light always flickers on camera. I don't know why, it's normal for me. Here we have a monument, I'm sure it's a World War II monument. Really nice control area. And then up there is the statue of Lenin. It looks like kind of like weirdly like dystopian here because not only is it just like so quiet and empty, but like this big radio tower you see in the background, how it's just kind of like faded off, faded off into the distance, like I don't really know what it's for. It reminds me of Chernobyl. And the face of Lenin up here is all covered in snow. I love how it's got the red one up there. Just like at the Kremlin, it's a red star. All right, now we're up on the banks of the Lena River. And like I said, Yakutsk is beautiful because it has all these great big statues. It's really, really beautiful. Here we got the church over here. Beautiful. I love the city. And then this is the Lena River. It's all frozen over, of course. And the Lena River should be frozen over until about June or so. Perhaps what's so interesting about statues like this is that if you look at the fine details, you can always find like small hints of curiosity. So as I was looking at this one, for instance, so of course, right here you have a guy of obvious Russian descent, Slavic. You can tell by his face, the way he dresses, even by his feet. And here on the side, you have Yakutian. Not only by, of course, you can tell Asian and all the people are Asian, but they're wearing the Yakutian boots that are made of animal fur. So not like normal boots. But here, you know, you have all the kids looking at him. And up there you have the lady that's the leader. One of the huge ways that the Sakha Republic or Yakutsk differentiates itself from the rest of Russia is that people here don't necessarily believe, they're not like Moscow or St. Pete where they believe in the church. Here the people believe in nature. So this would be a great representation of that. We got some more of them. Again, actually here we have the church. I think that might actually be that church over there. But right next to the river's banks and everything. This one is really curious to me over here though. Because like I said, the people here don't necessarily, they're not like Orthodox here. But here we have an Orthodox minister, obviously of Slavic descent. You know, he's giving his hands like this, a sign of a blessing. That's actually one of the more famous signs that Jesus always uses in paintings. Da Vinci has a really wonderful painting by Jesus where he's got his fingers like this, the sign of a blessing. And so here the priest, the Pope, I guess the Orthodox priest is giving a blessing. And then again, over here you have all Yakutians, all native people. And again, you can tell by the shoes. They're really beautiful shoes actually. And they're super, super warm. You have the kid and the lady in traditional clothing. Bazaar. We're walking a little bit more in the city. We found some kind of, it looks like a little forked town. A little bazaar. This lady is totally dressed like a local. That's the way you do it. What did you find? It's like the shape of a... You think you got to pick it up? It's good, huh? Get some more of our frozen fish. Frozen berries. What is this? It's intestines. A horse? Yeah. The stomach part of a horse. And I thought they're just like, they're straight up blocks. That looks like a liver over there. They have liver over here. I'm not quite sure what this is, but... Okay, that's going to wrap it up for today's video. It's getting kind of cold. The temperature is going down again. Really, really beautiful city of Yakutsk. I would highly, highly recommend visiting. I mean, the cold is really, it's pretty manageable. It's not that bad. So, say goodbye to Lenin. The very watchful eye of Lenin. I want to come back in the summertime when everything is all clear, because it'd be a really beautiful city to stroll around. So, goodbye. Do svidaniya from Yakutsk.