According to the Guinness Book of Records, the lowest temperature recorded in a place where there is a permanent population is the Siberian village of Oymyakon in Russia, where the temperature reached -68°C in 1933 (the coldest ever recorded outside Antarctica).

據吉尼斯世界紀錄記載，位于俄羅斯西伯利亞地區(qū)名為奧伊米亞康（Oymyakon）的村莊是世界上有常住人口最寒冷的地方。1933年，這里的氣溫曾一度跌至零下68攝氏度（南極以外有記錄最冷的地方）。