Road trip 2021: Magadan – Yakutsk – Moscow. How to survive at the Oymyakon Pole of Cold

How did we get the idea for a road trip from Magadan to Yakutsk to Moscow?
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The route is over 12,000 km (7,500 miles) long:
Magadan – Susuman – Ust – Nera – Oymyakon – Tomtor – Khandyga – Yakutsk – Neryungri – Chita – Ulan-Ude – Irkutsk – Tayshet – Krasnoyarsk – Kemerovo – Novosibirsk – Omsk – Tyumen – Yekaterinburg – Kungur – Naberezhnye Chelny – Nizhny Novgorod – Moscow

It was actually really simple. Thanks to a certain nasty virus, the entire world was shut down. Pretty boring, right? I mean, you can’t really fly anywhere. So we had to come up with something else to do. We dug around in the archives and asked other travelers about interesting places to go in Russia in the winter. They had a bunch of different suggestions, one of which was Oymyakon.

I agreed pretty much right away. I figured we could go there during the holiday break, soak in the local atmosphere, and see what -50°C (-58°F) really feels like. But instead of “zip over to the pole of cold, freeze our butts off, and then go back,” we found ourselves in a magical world of white expanses, endless roads, and constant motion. We were all just enchanted and hypnotized by it. And we froze our butts off too, of course :)

But when we got to Yakutsk, I realized that we couldn’t just stop there. So we traded in our horses and buggies and kept going until we got to Moscow. But that wasn’t so much for tourism or curiosity as for work — we had to meet with partners and clients from all over the country.

00:00 Start
0:31 Magadan
1:20 Susuman
2:08 Abandoned Soviet Mining Town Kadykchan
2:30 Ust-Nera
3:19 Olchansky Pass
3:39 Oymyakon
5:04 Khandyga
5:25 Our cars
6:54 Yakutsk
7:59 Lena river
9:17 Baikal - Amur Mainlain
9:59 The republic of Buryatia
10:19 Baikal
11:06 Kranoyarsk
11:55 Europe - Asia border
13:08 Moscow

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