The coldest inhabited place on Earth On 6 February 1933, a temperature of minus 67.7 degrees Celsius (−90 °F) was recorded at the weather station in Oymyakon in the Republic of Sakha, northeast Russia. This is the lowest temperature ever recorded in the northern hemisphere, and is the lowest temperature ever recorded for any permanently inhabited location on Earth. This picture gallery looks at Ruslan, 35, loads blocks of ice onto a truck outside Yakutsk, capital of the Republic of Sakha Picture: REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov