Photographers Travel To World’s Coldest Inhabited Village Where Eyelashes Freeze And Even Thermometer Breaks

A Chapter In Time

In an effort to combine their territories, Russian and American forces built an airfield in Oymyakon during World War II. Due to the lend-lease policy, American aircraft’s were brought to the Eastern Front from Alaska on ferries. Third regiment pilots that were flying from Fairbanks to Yakutsk used the airfield.