March is usually the month when winter loosens its frozen grip, but in the Siberian Far East, March nights are colder than most places around the world. With temperatures dropping to -20° Celsius (-4° Fahrenheit) at night, Russia’s Yakutia Region is definitely not the place you want to be caught outdoors for long periods of time, without proper clothes.
Wednesday, 6 May 2026
Doctors Thaw Man Back to Life After He Fell Asleep on a Bench in Russia's Coldest Region
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“A night out in Yakutia ended with a Russian man clinically frozen on a park bench, his heart stopped and his body temperature plunged to 24°C. An anesthesiologist spent over five hours slowly rewarming him like a human microwave dinner, then managed to restart his heart after 25 minutes of CPR — and the man walked out of hospital five days later.”
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