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The first who discovered the Pole of Cold was political prisoner I.A. Khudyakov. In January 15, 1885 in Verkhoyansk he fixed air temperature at minus 67.8º Celsius. It was the lowest temperature in the world at that time.
Near the village of Tomtor (Oymyakonsky region) there is a pillar with the inscription “AGCEEP 1926” (Astronomical Geological Committee Eastern Expedition Point). S.V. Obrutchev set this pillar. In 1929 the Academy of Sciences founded the meteorological station here. In February, 1933 the lowest temperature was fixed at –67.7º C. The same year the maximum temperature was fixed at +38º C. Thus the highest amplitude in the world was registered at –105.7º C.
In the Verkhoyansk museum “The Pole of Cold” there is the paper about the dislocation of the Pole of Cold: “The real minimum temperature –67.7º C was recorded in the place of Oymyakon (Crest-Tomtor) on February 6, 1933. But in Verkhoyansk the temperature was lower as minimum on 0.1º , i.e. –67.8ºC (1885, January, 15)”. In 2004, the government of the Sakha Republic officially declared Verkhoyansk as the Pole of Cold, the coldest place in the northern hemisphere.
However, the lowest temperature –88.3º C was fixed at Vostok Station in the Antarctic in August 24, 1960. Back | 
