Delyankir


Delyankir is a rural locality under the administrative jurisdiction of the Settlement of Artyk in Oymyakonsky District of the Sakha Republic, Russia, located from Artyk on the Kolyma Highway on the border with Magadan Oblast. Its population as of the 2010 Census was three people, down from four recorded during the 2002 Census.

Climate

Delyankir has an extreme subarctic climate with very short and mild to cool summers, followed by very long, dry and extremely cold winters. Although summers are very mild on average, sometimes it can be surprisingly hot, especially for a place with such northerly latitude. The highest recorded temperature in July was 35.1°C. It is one of the coldest places in the northern hemisphere and the world, alongside Oymyakon and Verkhoyansk. Although in terms of the lowest-ever recorded temperature Oymyakon remains the coldest verifiable location, the year-round average temperature recorded at Delyankir's weather station between 1951 and 1989 was, lower than that of Oymyakon.
Delyankir is also one of the rare places in the world with a temperature amplitude higher than 100 °C.