Shortly after six in the morning, Irina checks the thermometer outside the window. The temperature is minus 50 degrees Celsius. Good news, her eight-year-old son can go to school today. The children of the 500-inhabitant village of Oymyakon in Yakutia are only free from the cold when the temperature falls below minus 54 degrees. Irina goes into Aliosha’s room to wake him up. The boy’s first route out of the house leads to the unheated outhouse in the garden. Quickly, quickly, in what is probably the coldest permanently inhabited place in the world, no one stays outside in winter longer than absolutely necessary. Before Alioscha leaves for school, his mother wraps him in as thick and dense clothing as possible. The eight-year-old has to walk quickly, just not dawdle. When the cold bites here, it quickly becomes life-threatening. Alioscha trudges one kilometer across the country through deep, powdery snow to his school. He is traveling alone.
Release the children! – Knowledge
