The Siberian cold pole "hibernates" for six months a year, how to solve it by eating, drinking, and Lazar?
On February 6, 1933, at the request of the USSR Meteorological Service, cities all over Siberia reported the temperature at that time, and the temperature in Oymyakon was minus 677 degrees Celsius, while the temperature in Verkhoyansk is -678 degrees Celsius. In the "coldest part of Siberia", one uses mercury and the other uses more accurate ethanol, the difference in measurement between the two can be as much as 02 degrees Celsius, which has also made the name of the "cold region" in the region controversial for a long time.
Before leaving, the Russian tour guide Nisaline told me that Verkhoyansk is almost the same distance from Yakutsk as well as Oymyakon, it is a triangle, but Verkhoyansk has an airfield and a station, and Oymyakon is an empty place, and the Kolyma highway is the only way to get there from Yakutsk.
That's why I go to Verkhoyansk, because in the summer I walk along the Kolyma road, and in winter the scenery is similar to that of Siberia, and secondly, Verkhoyansk is less famous than Oymyakon's "Cold Pole", but more importantly, the annual Verkhoyansk "Cold Pole Festival" is about to begin.
In 1638, the Cossacks of the East Slavic branch occupied the steppe, which was originally the steppe of the Siberian Ninits, and in 1817 it was incorporated into the Russian language, based on a nearby river, which was incorporated into the Russian language. Interestingly, there is no historical information about the exact area and borders of Verkhoyansk, and even the Tsarist Empress Catherine jokingly said: "Whatever you want." ”
Looking down from the top of the ***, the Siberian mountains are shrouded in snow, before landing, the flight attendant announced that the temperature here has reached minus 45 degrees Celsius, and from the airport, you can see the cold pole town of Siberia, which was won by the local **, and later established the world's first Arctic museum, but it was soon closed and no one came again.
In Russia's current ** plan, Verkhoyansk is just a small town, after all, the number of residents here has exceeded 1,000, but the real city construction and passenger flow are inferior to Oymyakon, and Oymyakon has only more than 500 inhabitants and can attract 50,000 tourists a year, while Verkhoyansk is at most less than 10,000 a year, one of the biggest reasons for this is that the means of transport and transportation here are much richer than Verkhoyansk.
The "Cold Pole Festival" originated from the customs and Xi of the Yakut people in the Sakha Republic, according to the tour guide, the Nenets had originally mixed with the Yakurs for a period of time, and later scattered with the invasion of the Mongol army, thus forming a unique Mongolian, East Slavic, Nenets, Yakutia four unique civilizations, and Oymyakon, more than 600 kilometers away, called it the "Cold Pole Festival".
The Mongols sacrificed to the gods, the Nenets sacrificed to the land, the Yakuts sacrificed everything in the world, and only the Eastern Slavs participated in religious ceremonies.
In order to get a better understanding of the situation of the local population, we came to the village of the Nenets, who, according to the Russian population, are a "rare" race, with no more than forty-one thousand people recorded, most of whom live in the Yamal Autonomous Okrug, of which the Nenets in Verkhoyansk have about 22 families and more than 100 people.
Aklinti, a woman named Aklinti, tells us about the Nenets, who believe that the Nonets are a patriarchal society, they practice shamanism and are not allowed to marry. So in the course of hundreds of years of development, many Nenets people have been constantly improving their Xi customs, the Nenets of Verkhoyansk have become mothers, and the Xi customs of shamans have been transformed into the worship of the land.
He had four sons and a daughter, and his daughter was married to a Yakur, so his son-in-law had to live with his wife, but Aklinti did not force him, he only asked the son-in-law to come here for a few months in the summer, to help him with some building reinforcements, and to buy some game, horses, sausages, and so on. Her daughter, a well-known reindeer expert, was hired by the BBC as a tour guide and led a team of more than 20 people to go around the entire city of Triangle (Yakutsk, Verkhoyansk, Oymyakon), a record that has not yet been broken.
In addition to reindeer, he also fishes, and in the winter, he goes to the Yana River with the young adults of the village to hunt for the winter, and the food he harvests is divided evenly as a winter reserve, although the quantity is not much, but it is better than nothing.
Every winter, the Nenets hunt for ten days in the winter, and then hibernate from November until April of the following year.
Aklinti's youngest son, who used to go to school in Yakuzik and is one of the few children in the village who can speak basic English, often refers to winter as "hibernation," when the lowest temperature can reach minus 60 degrees Celsius, so low that even locals don't spend 15 minutes outside without protection.
Not only are there reindeer, but there are also Siberian bantam horses such as Verkhoyansk and Yakutsk, which are very sturdy and can run for tens of kilometers in a row, and are considered to be the only hybrids in Siberia that have been mated to Icelandic horses, and they are excellent for transporting grain and grain.
There is also a special kind of work in Verkhoyansk, that is, lumberjacks, who deliver goods to the village of Nonets in winter, but unfortunately, by the time we got there, they had already left. Under the explanation of the tour guide, they learned that wood is an indispensable food for local residents in winter, and in the past, when there was no ban, they all cut down trees by themselves, but since 2005, all residents have to get wood from loggers hired by the state, and if they build a house, they can get a subsidy of 25 cubic meters per person, and in winter it is 5 cubic meters, and they have to pay for more than this standard.
Most of the houses were made of wood, only the stables and deer sheds were made of brick and stone, and on the way back, we happened to meet the son of the proprietress who was repairing a reindeer wagon, and when they saw us walking by, they laughed and began to introduce us to the coldest places in Siberia: with frozen bananas and apples, iron nails were inserted into the wood.
It's the first time I've seen someone take the fruit and smash it with a hammer, and if it weren't for my own experience, I wouldn't have believed that bananas and apples would be so hard.
Like most small towns in Siberia, the inhabitants here wear reindeer, which is said to be rare in recent years, although it is not as warm as bear skin, but deerskin hats, deerskin scarves, deerskin boots, deerskin jackets, this dress is worth at least more than 100,000 rubles, which is converted into RMB that is more than 9,000 yuan. By the way, the dress is never washed off, so the smell is just too bad.
In the villages of the Nenets people, people have two kinds of food, one is "wine without wine", one is pickled cucumbers, one is raw meat, one is pickled cucumbers, one is cabbage, one is chili, and a mouthful of vodts, and then accompanied by a piece of raw meat, a bowl of pickles, and the whole body is warm (don't say the taste, I will vomit when I eat it).
Without drinking, they will eat foods such as meat, cream cheese, jams, potatoes, bread, etc., which are the most common high-calorie foods in Siberia, without which they simply do not survive the winter.
On the first day, I noticed that the locals don't like to drink water, and unless there are special circumstances, there will not even be any soup or juice. Later I found out that the reason why they don't like to drink water is because of convenience, and you can imagine what it would be like to go to the toilet in minus 50 degrees Celsius.
It is difficult for the average person to understand how people live in the cold winter of Siberia without experiencing it personally, so I can only describe it in two words: difficult!