Yakutsk, in eastern Siberia, is one of the world’s coldest cities; temperatures in January average -40C. Alex Vasyliev started photographing his cold and isolated home town to stave off tedium. Yakutsk seemed unbearably boring and ugly to me. Local people are accustomed to such conditions, but living in the winter is hard here,” he says. Life stops.”

Source: The Guardian January 05, 2019 16:52 UTC