Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 June 1904 — World’s Coldest City. [ARTICLE]

World’s Coldest City.

The coldest city In the world Is Yakutsk, Eastern Siberia, In the empire of the czar and the Russians. It Is the great commercial emporium of East Siberia and the capital of the Province of Yakutsk, which, In most of Its area of 1,517,063 square miles, is a bare desert, the soil of which Is frozen to a great depth. Yakutsk consists of about four hundred houses of European structure, standing apart The intervening spaces are occupied by winter yoorts, or huts of the northern nomads, with earthen roofs, doors covered with hairy hides and windows of ice. Caravans with Chinese and European goods collect the produce of the whole line of coast on the Polar Sea between the parallels of 70 degrees and 74 degrees from the mouth of the River Lena to the farthest point Inhabited by the Chookchees. Last year a colporteur of the British and Foreign Bible Society made a tour of eleven weeks down the Lena, a river 3,000 miles long, visiting Yakutsk and selling gospels In their own language to the Yakuts In the villages along the banks.—Leslie’s Weekly.