The northern hemisphere is currently in the grip of severe cold and many Russian cities are covered in snow. One of them is Yakutsk, also known as the coldest city in the world. The temperature in this city drops below minus 60 degrees Celsius. Schools here are closed when temperatures reach minus 42 degrees Celsius to minus 50 degrees Celsius. Holidays are given to young children first, and as the temperature drops, older children are also given holidays.
Yakutsk and Norilsk, another city in the same region, are two cities that remain frozen almost all year round. Yesterday, the temperature in Yakutsk dropped to minus 48 degrees Celsius, and school children were dismissed. Videos of children playing on the ice after being sent home from school are going viral on social media. At such a low temperature, the children had a holiday, but the stray dogs and cats in the city have no one to turn to because there are only a few shelters for these stray animals in the city and they are forced to freeze in the snow.
Videos and photos of the animals are also going viral on social media, with animal rights groups around the world raising their voices and calling on Yakutsk authorities to protect the animals from the cold. Careful arrangements should be made for this. In the scenes posted on the social media of the city, everything looks frozen in the snow. Whether it is a bicycle or a car parked outside the house, there is such a layer of snow on everything that it makes a person feel cold.
