Welcome to my channel! I’m **Kiun B**, a native Siberian born and raised in **Yakutsk**, the **coldest inhabited city on Earth**. In this chilling episode, I take you inside an **–71 °C fish market**, the most extreme living and trading environment I’ve ever experienced.
Join me as we: • Navigate freezing stalls where fish is traded in sub-zero temps • Meet local vendors who bravely work in the Arctic cold • Uncover how life and commerce persist in the world’s harshest marketplace
► Don’t miss: “What I Eat in a Day in the Coldest City on Earth” and “How Living in the Coldest City Affects Our Body”
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00:20Not everyone can live here, where temperatures reach minus 71 celsius
00:31Look at the temperature guys
00:42And in my village it's negative 54
00:46We arrived at the fish market
00:51It's so different from every market in the world
00:54All shops are here, the city depends on the frozen fish
01:01It came directly from the river, the whole town relies on the river
01:07Even their drinking water is from the river and not ground water
01:11Because as I told you before, they can't
01:13There is no ground water here, it's completely frozen
01:17Very famous, popular frozen fish market
01:22Yes, and it's also something very local
01:26So they bring it from the lake, right?
01:29Yes, the fish, most of the fish is caught from the north of Yakutia
01:34From the lakes
01:35From the lakes, and people love to eat frozen fish here
01:38Yes, normally we eat it frozen
01:41This is very good fish
01:42Really frozen?
01:43I didn't know you could eat it frozen
01:47I mean, it's frozen
01:48How do you eat?
01:49Like you cut it like this?
01:50Yeah, we cut it
01:51There are many ways
01:53So one of the ways is just to cut it
01:55And eat the thin slices
01:57With the salt and pepper
01:59And it's really good
02:01It's traditional in your kuta
02:03Yeah, it melts in your mouth
02:05And tastes really nice
02:06So they eat it frozen
02:07She said, it melts in your mouth
02:09I mean, it melts when you eat it
02:11I'm freezing, I can't hold the...
02:14Oh, I'm freezing
02:15I'm getting freezing
02:16Can you hold the camera?
02:18Yes
02:18Thank you guys, thank you
02:21They're inviting us for dinner
02:24It's kid of horse
02:26Little horse
02:27Yeah, yeah
02:28He's famous here, right?
02:30Yeah
02:30They eat horse meat here
02:32It's a tradition here in Yakutsk
02:35They all eat horse meat
02:37Frozen fish
02:42Is everyone's favorite food here
02:45You know, I can't eat it specifically
02:53This is how they eat it
03:01They slice it up and then eat it
03:03I will try it now
03:04It's frozen fish
03:06Oh, I should dip it in this
03:11It's like eating raw fish
03:13It's delicious though
03:14They say that fish do not suffer
03:17Because it freezes as soon as it comes out of the water
03:20Here you will find one of the most difficult jobs in the world
03:291995 year
03:32Every day this woman stays here
03:341995?
03:36Yes
03:37How old is she?
03:38Early life
03:39I think around 60
03:4260?
03:43And she works here every day?
03:44Yes, for sure
03:45And look her skin
03:47It's so nice because it's already working with the trees
03:51Okay, how many hours per day?
03:53The winter time is 10 to 6
03:56About 8 hours per day working
03:59She's standing here
04:00Is it cold?
04:01It's cold
04:02Look, inside shoes, something like that
04:08She stands here
04:09She stands on this because the ground is too cold
04:13She's 60 years old
04:16And stands here for 8 hours every day
04:18She sells frozen fish
04:19In the local market
04:21We have a t-shirt from camel soup
04:24Yes, I'm wearing this
04:26Here, here
04:28Here, here
04:29Here, here
04:29Here, here
04:30Here, here
04:31Here, here
04:32Here, here
04:33But it's so warm
04:34It's so warm
04:35Five jackets
04:36She says that it's not good
04:38This is not good
04:39This is not good for this job
04:41We cannot job only in nature
04:43Like animals
04:44Or, yes
04:45She says anything made in a factory will not keep her warm
04:48Really hard work
04:49I think this is one of the most difficult jobs in the world
04:52Because I can't stay here for more than 5 minutes
04:54She's really tough
04:56I've been here for 3 minutes
04:58And look at my face
04:59My lashes are freezing
05:00Everyone's eyelashes are frozen
05:03I want to
05:10She says that
05:11Buy a ticket
05:12And she will come
05:13Yes
05:14I want to go to Dubai
05:15I want to go to Dubai
05:16I want to go to Dubai
05:18Now we are going to find some fishers
05:21Who were fishing on this river
05:25It's minus 47 degrees outside
05:26but how do they get the frozen fish we had to go find fishermen in these freezing temperatures
05:41that the house of fishers local fishers they sit inside this house and the fishing here frozen
05:50fish by good luck please if I can go go back just go straight okay come back to you you can't have
06:00your hands out for more than two minutes let's see and understand how we get you fishing no here yes
06:07he's hitting this side the car it's a very cold and look at this maybe you're fishing here yes
06:14hey how are you let's go let's go hey he will show us how he catches frozen fish look look how crazy
06:33right look he's sitting inside the car he puts the fishing rod through here this is insane man I
06:44never seen this in my life this is how they catch fish in the coldest city in the world this is how
06:55they fish and you find it in the frozen market in the city we loved the city and went to the river
07:00we're now at the frozen river small fish and catch big fish after catching the fish will will be frozen
07:10right now for human he catches fish while sitting inside the car the fish freezes as soon as it comes
07:18out of the river yes yes he goes to another place like a five kilometers and catch a big one and after he
07:33come back to Yakutsk tomorrow he will use this for larger fish what you say about mr. Putin huh he catches
07:41the smaller fish here and then drives show to us how he catch a big big fish the problem with this cold
07:50weather is that the camera freezes and stops working every two minutes and so does the phone I deal
07:59the last time coronavirus heal all my business and now I'm fish here
08:18it's like a hobby he don't need to do it for money yes all people scared to fishing on this temperature
08:34it's a big extreme that's our life in the north of Russia guys and so kind people thank you
08:42you can hear the sound of Yakutian musical instrument it's called homus this region has native people who
09:00are so different from everyone else in everything in culture food and lifestyle you are Russian but you
09:07look different yeah so I am Yakut I am representative of the indigenous people of Siberia we are native of
09:17Yakutia so our ancestors lived here for thousand years we are but we are still part of Russia um Russians
09:28like the one that you probably imagine they are very different from us we have common language of course I
09:35speak Russian but we also speak our native language Yakut language or Sakha it's different it belongs to
09:43Turkic group of languages don't yeah everything is different with Russians like the cuisine is different
09:52the mentality culture the weddings this is our hotel why do people live here even though
10:05life is hard why don't they move to a warmer place we have ice breakfast five five minutes more frozen fish so
10:17Yakutia is famous for its natural very beautiful pure diamonds this region has the biggest diamonds mine
10:24the region with the most diamonds in the world it has many strange things like this whole the biggest in
10:32the world like this mine this mine is in Mirni Sakha Republic that is why the city is developed and rich despite the tough freezing temperature
10:43so we went to diamonds market black diamond and this one is the most expensive Yakutia is our region Republic is famous for diamonds one fourth of diamonds of the world are mine here diamond is everywhere here nice yes here you can buy relatively cheap diamond good quality they will be really pure we're in a diamonds shop now this region is so famous for its diamonds
11:11they have a mine that's they have a mine that's considered the biggest in the world a big hole in the city of Mirni it's about two hours from here and it belongs to the same area so that's why Russia is so interested in Sakha and the whole Siberian region because it's full of diamonds this is one carat diamond nine nine thousand dollar
11:33what are the activities to do here it's currently foggy and minus 44 degrees
12:01it's not that cold today
12:03it's not that cold today
12:04what can we do in the coldest city in the world
12:19what can we do in the coldest city in the world
12:22huh
12:24it's a sauna
12:25okay
12:27sauna
12:28Russian sauna right
12:29you can call it banya
12:30they have a sauna in every house
12:33we're in the sauna right now it's next to their house
12:36it's a traditional sauna it's part of their culture
12:39it's so hot in here while it's minus 50 Celsius outside
12:42so they come here and spend time in the sauna
12:46Then they take off their clothes and jump outside, so they're telling me now to try it since it's part of their culture
12:54They go outside and jump in the snow, but they don't feel cold because they just got out of the sauna
12:59They use this mint to put on their body
13:03It's about a hundred degrees inside this room
13:16Unbelievable, I have to jump in the snow
13:29How are you bro?
13:32How are you? I'm Russian
13:34You're Russian right now?
13:36You're Russian for five minutes only
13:39Just stop right now
13:41Just now
13:46Yeah, typical day
13:49Wow
13:51This is crazy
13:53They're playing football while the temperature is minus 50
13:58They're playing football
14:00It's minus 50 now
14:02Russians can handle the cold especially the indigenous Yakuts the Yakutians the people of this city
14:10They can handle very tough temperatures their life is so extreme
14:14I thought it was boring, but after trying the sauna, I saw that you can do some activities
14:21It's a football, it's a football, baby
14:23You can't the ball is going to freeze the game will be over after the first goal
14:29It's so extreme
14:31The last day in the coldest city in the world
14:47They already left and I'm all alone here now
14:49I came here to celebrate six million subscribers the coldest city in the world
14:53How about okay? I know I'm asking a lot, but I'll go to the Amazon in Brazil for the seven million
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