Greetings from Khatanga. How to live and heat a house at -55 ° outside the window?

Khatanga is a small village in the Krasnoyarsk Territory - the northernmost settlement in Taimyr. And Khatanga is known primarily for the fact that it has a pronounced subarctic climate: in summer, the heat can reach +33°C, and in winter - drop to -55 ° C.

About 3,500 residents of Khatanga now live in such harsh conditions (and at the best times there were 9,000 people).

Even food is most often brought here by helicopter, or by sea - via the Northern Sea Route.

Before I tell you how people heat their homes at temperatures, I’ll show you what the roads in Khatanga are made of.

I bet you have never seen such roads anywhere!

This is not the black earth in the photo above! This is a waste of metallurgical production, which is located just 100 kilometers from Khatanga. It is very expensive and far to import granite here, and the only way to fill the road is to use fine slag.

But in this way, slag is sometimes taken out from the shop:

Pay attention: the wheels smoke, and they are watered with a hose - they are extinguished!

And now to the main thing - how do the residents of Khatanga heat their homes?

As you may have guessed, if there is a metallurgical production nearby, then there must be coal!

In the swampy tundra, it is impossible to get firewood, not to install a state district power station, and there is no need to use a peaceful atom - the population is small.

Therefore, the only way to heat a home in a frost of -55 ° С is to bring coal from the nearest deposit (about 120 km).

Are you still complaining about the hard life in the gray suburbs?

I am no more =)

P.S.: I will be glad to your comments, I will answer all questions!