Tomtor is the name of several rural localities in the Sakha Republic, Russia

Russia

Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

. The most notable one is on the Kolyma Highway. Thirty kilometers (19 mi) northwest is Oymyakon

Oymyakon

Oymyakon is a village in Oymyakonsky Ulus of the Sakha Republic, Russia, located along the Indigirka River, 30 kilometres northwest of Tomtor on the Kolyma Highway.-Geography:...

, known chiefly for recording the coldest temperature on Earth at a locality with permanent, year-round habitation (thus not counting Antarctica). Tomtor has a small airport with weekly flights to Yakutsk

Yakutsk

With a subarctic climate , Yakutsk is the coldest city, though not the coldest inhabited place, on Earth. Average monthly temperatures range from in July to in January. The coldest temperatures ever recorded on the planet outside Antarctica occurred in the basin of the Yana River to the northeast...

 and Ust-Nera

Ust-Nera

Ust-Nera is an urban locality and the administrative center of Oymyakonsky District of the Sakha Republic, Russia, located at the confluence of the Nera and the Indigirka Rivers. Population:...

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