The coldest city on earth, Ojmjakon, lies in the Republic of Yakutia (Siberia, Russia), in the valley of the upper Indigirka river, at 740 metres above sea level. With an average temperature of -48oC in January, it has a lowest record of -70oC.
Discovered on 15-11-1990 in La Silla by Elst, E. W.