VERKHOYANSK

vyĕrkhəyänskˈ, town, Sakha Republic, NE Siberian Russia, on the Yana River, near the Arctic Circle. A river port, a fur-collecting depot, and the center of a reindeer-raising area, it lies in the coldest area of the earth. The lowest temperature recorded there was −90 degrees Fahrenheit (−68 degrees Celsius). Founded in 1638, it was a place of political exile until 1917.

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books on: Verkhoyansk  - 72 results

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Natural Regions of the U.S.S.R
Book by L. S. Berg; Macmillan, 1950
Subjects: Botany--Soviet Union, Physical Geography--Soviet Union, Zoology--Soviet Union
Bilibin 1935 draws the Verkhoyansk range as far south as the lower course...the region of the road from Yakutsk to Verkhoyansk, 2000 m.; the range decreases in elevation to the north. The Verkhoyansk range belongs to the category of folded...
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Physical Geography of Asiatic Russia
Book by S. P. Suslov, Noah D. Gershevsky, Joseph E. Williams; W. H. Freeman, 1961
Subjects: Physical Geography--Asiatic Russia
...which there are two cold areas, one at Verkhoyansk, the other, and colder, at Oimyakon. Verkhoyansk lies in a vast basin, surrounded by...temperatures are observed. Isotherms encircle Verkhoyansk more or less concentrically. Conditions...
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Geography of the Northlands
Book by George H. T. Kimble, Dorothy Good; American Geographical Society and J. Wiley, 1955
Subjects: Arctic Regions
...trend east-west. On the west the Verkhoyansk Mountains form the watershed between...from 8,000 ft. in the south. The Verkhoyansk Mountains have been uplifted recently...table-topped mountains. East of the Verkhoyansk Mountains the upper courses of the Indigirka...
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The Soviet Union Today: A Concise Handbook
Book by Kenneth R. Whiting; Praeger, 1966
Subjects: Soviet Union
...the northeast of the plateau is the Verkhoyansk Range. The only lowlands, located...extremely continental. The district around Verkhoyansk and Oimyakon is the "cold cellar...low of -- 126 F. was registered at Verkhoyansk. Even lower temperatures have been...
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Siberia and the Exile System - Vol. 1
Book by George Kennan; The Century Co., 1891
Subjects: Siberia (Russia)--Description And Travel, Siberia (Russia)--Exiles
rian pole of cold is at or near Verkhoyansk. A long series of Russian observations...months. In 1869, the thermometer at Verkhoyansk went repeatedly below -- 70 degrees...islands, reports a minimum temperature at Verkhoyansk of -- 87 ; and a previous record of...
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journal articles on: Verkhoyansk  - 2 results

 
 
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Russia's Geography and Climate: John Etty Examines How Far History Has Been Moulded by Environment
Journal article by John Etty; History Review, 2007
Subjects: Economic geography--Evaluation, Geography, Historical--Evaluation, Historical geography--Evaluation, Russia--Economic aspects, Russia--Environmental aspects, Russian history--Evaluation
...a continental climate. The coldest weather is experienced in the north and east, yet summer weather patterns mean that Verkhoyansk in Siberia has the earths widest temperature range, with a record low of -68 degree C and a record high of 37 degree C...
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'An Anthropological Concept of the Concept': Reversibility among the Siberian Yukaghirs./Un <>: De la Reversibilite Chez Les Yukaghirs De Siberie
Journal article by Alberto Corsin Jimenez, Rane Willerslev; Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Vol. 13, 2007
Subjects: Anthropological research, Concepts--Analysis, Indigenous peoples--Economic aspects, Indigenous peoples--Social aspects
...the Yukaghirs occupied a huge territory, ranging from the Lena to the Anadyr Rivers, and were bounded in the south by the Verkhoyansk Mountains and in the north by the Arctic Ocean. However, by the end of the nineteenth century, when the Russian anthropologist...


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magazine articles on: Verkhoyansk  - 3 results

 
 
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The Coldest Town - Life in Siberia's Pole of Cold
Magazine article by Bryan Alexander; World and I, Vol. 16, February 2001
Subjects: Cold adaptation--Methods, Cold--Social aspects, Human beings--Influence of climate, Humans, Siberia--Natural history
...January in the small Siberian town of Verkhoyansk. Although the temperature is --70...for keeping out Siberias winter cold. Verkhoyansk, situated on the bank of the Yana River...North Pole to be the coldest place, but Verkhoyansk, which lies some 150 miles south...
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This Side of Ultima Thule: A Dispatch from Eastern Siberia, a Realm of Steel-Shattering Cold, Nullifying Vastness, and Withered Hopes, Which Is Sometimes Called "The White Hell"
Magazine article by Jeffrey Taylor; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 279, April 1997
Subjects: Siberia
...people. Little else about Siberia lends itself to handy comparisons. The greatest known temperature variations occur in Verkhoyansk, where Soviet meteorologists have recorded both -90degrees and 98degrees. About 400 miles to the southeast lies the coldest...
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This Side of Ultima Thule
Magazine article by Jeffrey Tayler; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 279, April 1997
Subjects: Russian foreign relations--United States, Siberia, Travelers--Personal narratives, United States, United States foreign relations--Russia, United States foreign relations--Siberia
...people. Little else about Siberia lends itself to handy comparisons. The greatest known temperature variations occur in Verkhoyansk, where Soviet meteorologists have recorded both -90 and 98. About 400 miles to the southeast lies the coldest inhabited...


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Besieged by Wolves; 400-Strong Pack Strikes Fear in Isolated Siberian Village
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), February 8, 2011
...rarely rising above minus 40c, life in Verkhoyansk is a battle at the best of times. But...been told their lives were at risk. In Verkhoyansk region, everybody who can hold a rifle...from helicopters. The accounts from Verkhoyansk, which have surprised wolf experts...
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Besieged by Wolves; 400-Strong Pack Strikes Fear in Isolated Siberian Village
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), February 8, 2011
...rarely rising above minus 40c, life in Verkhoyansk is a battle at the best of times. But...been told their lives were at risk. in Verkhoyansk region, everybody who can hold a rifle...from helicopters. the accounts from Verkhoyansk, which have surprised wolf experts...
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Have These Ruthless Killers Lost Their Fear of Humans? as 400 Ravening Wolves Lay Siege to a Village
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), February 10, 2011
...According to reports, the wolves have already killed and eaten 30 of the villages horses, no doubt leaving the people of verkhoyansk terrified about what the predators will turn to next. Pet dogs? children? No wonder hunting parties armed with rifles...
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Have These Ruthless Killers Lost Their Fear of Humans? as 400 Ravening Wolves Lay Siege to a Village
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), February 10, 2011
Subjects: Pets
...According to reports, the wolves have already killed and eaten 30 of the villages horses, no doubt leaving the people of verkhoyansk terrified about what the predators will turn to next. Pet dogs? children? No wonder hunting parties armed with rifles...
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Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), November 15, 2006
...20C home freezer -25C British Antarctic Survey Laboratory, Cambridge -30C Supermarket freezer -35C North Pole -70C Verkhoyansk in Siberia -78C South Pole -120C THE LONDON KRIOTHERAPY CENTRE FOR AND AGAINST DOCTORS have mixed views about the cryotherapy...


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encyclopedia articles on: Verkhoyansk  - 7 results

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Verkhoyansk
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
VERKHOYANSK vyerkh yansk , town, Sakha Republic, NE Siberian Russia, on the Yana River, near the Arctic Circle. A river port, a fur...
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Verkhoyansk Range
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
VERKHOYANSK RANGE mountain chain, c.600 mi (970 km) long, E Siberian Russia, in the Sakha Republic. It forms a vast arc along the Lena...
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Siberia
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...from southwest to northeast) the Yablonovy, Stanovoy, Verkhoyansk, Kolyma, and Cherskogo ranges. In the center of E Siberia...rigors of the climate and the difficulties of communication. Verkhoyansk , the coldest permanently inhabited settlement on earth...
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Climate
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Tripoli) and Siberia (with the lowest recorded surface temperature, 93.6 degrees Fahrenheit, or 70 degrees Celsius, at Verkhoyansk). Marine climates are characterized by small annual and diurnal temperature variation and by copious rainfall on the windward...
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Russia
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...see Siberia .) The climate of Russia, generally continental, varies from extreme cold in N Russia and Siberia (where Verkhoyansk, the coldest settled place on earth, is situated), to subtropical along the Black Sea shore. The soil and vegetation...
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