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In Yaktusk and Oymyakon in Russia, temperatures regularly dip to -50 degrees Celsius.
If you think it's a bit nippy in the UK, you've never experienced cold like this - a recent thermometer reading in the region clocked in at -62 Celsius, breaking in the process.
The Siberian Times meanwhile, reports that local residents have seen temperatures as low as -67 Celsius in some areas.
As the video at the top of this article shows, some Asian tourists also decided to take a brief bath in the thermal springs, during the cold snap.
We wrote about the area last year, noting the photography of Amos Chapple, from New Zealand.
Here are some of his best shots:
A toilet on the tundra at a petrol stop on the road to Oymyakon.
Picture: Amos Chapple/REX/Shutterstock
A frost-encrusted house in the city centre of Yakutsk.
Picture: Amos Chapple/REX/Shutterstock
A statue of Ivan Kraft, one of the first governors of Yakutia .
Picture: Amos Chapple/REX/Shutterstock
A local woman enters Preobrazhensky Cathedral in a swirl of freezing mist.
Picture: Amos Chapple/REX/Shutterstock
Omyakon's only shop.
Picture: Amos Chapple/REX/Shutterstock
Summer shoes waiting out the winter in a shed in the suburbs of Yakutsk.
Picture: Amos Chapple/REX/Shutterstock
A woman in the city centre of Yakutsk.
Picture: Amos Chapple/REX/Shutterstock
A man leaves his van and walks into Omyakon's only shop as paper waste is burnt in a 40 gallon drum.
Picture: Amos Chapple/REX/Shutterstock
Cows walk back to their sheds after watering in the thermal spring in Oymyakon.
Picture: Amos Chapple/REX/Shutterstock
A woman walks over an ice-encrusted bridge in Yakutsk.
Picture: Amos Chapple/REX/Shutterstock
A young student poses for a portrait at a bus station in Yakutsk.
Picture: Amos Chapple/REX/Shutterstock
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