YAKUTSK: Temperatures have plunged to minus 50 degrees Celsius (-58 Fahrenheit) this week in Yakutsk during an abnormally long cold snap in the Siberian city known as the coldest on earth.Located 5,000 km (3,100 miles) east of Moscow on the permafrost of the Russian Far East, homeowners of the mining city often see the thermometer routinely drop well listed below minus 40.

You cant combat it.

You either change and dress accordingly or you suffer, stated Anastasia Gruzdeva, outside in two scarves, two sets of gloves and multiple hats and hoods.Vendor Yegor Dyachkovsky, 45, poses for a picture at an al fresco market on a wintry day in Yakutsk, Russia.

You do not truly feel the cold in the city.

Or possibly its simply the brain prepares you for it, and tells you whatever is typical, she added in the city shrouded by icy mist.A pedestrian crosses a road on a frosty day in Yakutsk, Russia.Another resident, Nurgusun Starostina, who sells frozen fish at a market without the requirement for a refrigerator or freezer, said there were no special tricks to handle the cold.Vendor Svetlana Belyayeva presents for an image at an outdoor market on a frosty day in Yakutsk, Russia.

Just dress warmly, she stated.

In layers, like a cabbage! A view shows an outdoor market on a frosty day in Yakutsk, Russia.