Russia may be known for great culture, world-class great museums and home to one of the world’s most charming cities in St. Petersburg, but its overall quality of life score is 86.27, putting it on par with its cultural rivals in Ukraine.

Russia offers a great transportation network and some benefits for those with children, but expats find it a struggle to settle in.

• Bottom rank for language.
• 77% pleased with transport infrastructure.
• Weather seen as a negative by 48%
• 42% regard the economy negatively.
• Long working days, unsatisfied with work-life balance.

Disadvantages: Russia has been facing some economic issues, with the value of the ruble being low. The society is also pretty insular and not the most welcoming to outsiders or people perceived as being different.

Russian culture is non-individualistic. The power of an individual in Russia is much less than in the west and most deals are pushed through family, friends and acquaintances. A famous Russian saying is, “One is not a soldier in the battlefield.” In Russia, it is necessary to know people in power to make things work.

Based on their responses, we can highlight seven advantages to living in Moscow.

• Moscow never sleeps.
• Pay terminals for cell phone, internet, and utilities payments.
• Vkontakte vs Facebook.
• Text message alerts from the bank.
• Yandex. Traffic.
• Medication without a prescription.
• Marshrutki.

One of the biggest problems in Moscow city is pollution and because Moscow is a megacity there are a lot of factories and people too pollute the city. Last year Moscow city emitted 995 million tons of pollution into the air.

No formal definition of slum is given, as it is generally considered that the city does not have slums, but has communal (shared) flats, dilapidated buildings and deteriorated houses. Before 1992, almost all houses in Moscow were state owned, municipal or corporate.

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In general, the climate of Russia can be described as highly continental influenced climate with warm to hot dry summers and (very) cold winters with temperatures of -30°C and lower and sometimes heavy snowfall. The winter is mostly dry, snow covers the ground from end october to mid march in some years.

Russia has more land area whereas Canada has more maritime exposure, so it’s clear that the former has colder land areas. More than 60% of the land in Russia is permafrost. As for records, the lowest is in Russia at -71.2 degrees Celsius. The record low in Canada is -63 degrees Celsius.

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The average body temperature is 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit. At an internal temperature of 95 degrees, humans can experience hypothermia, shivering and pale skin. At 86 degrees, they become unconscious and, at 77 degrees, cardiac arrest can occur. Most people cannot survive if their core temperature drops to 75 degrees.

High environmental temperatures can be dangerous to your body. In the range of 90˚ and 105˚F (32˚ and 40˚C), you can experience heat cramps and exhaustion. Between 105˚ and 130˚F (40˚ and 54˚C), heat exhaustion is more likely. You should limit your activities at this range.

Yakutsk is the capital city of the Sakha Republic (Yakutia). It used to be a small wooden fort built in 1632 by Russian Cossacks who were exploring Siberia/ Nowadays it is a big city with the population of more than 250,000 people.

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Fairbanks, Alaska

Yakutsk has gained attention as potentially the coldest city in the world, but is worth a visit more for the great natural beauty of its surrounding countryside, unique cryogenic museums, and just for the spirit of adventure in the most remote lands of the world.

Yakutsk is a remote city in Eastern Siberia (population 200,000) famous for two things: appearing in the classic board game Risk, and the fact that it can, convincingly, claim to be the coldest city on earth.

Yakutsk, its capital, is one of the coldest big cities on earth – so cold it’s entirely built on permafrost. Most of its buildings are on pylons or stilts, made of wood or concrete, so they won’t melt the permafrost. It came into being in 1632, when the Yenesei Cossacks built a stockade here on the great Lena River.

East Antarctic Plateau

Vostok station, Antarctica This place is famous for being home to the coldest temperature ever recorded on earth – a mind numbing -89.2°C.

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• Death Valley, California, USA. The aptly named Furnace Creek currently holds the record for hottest air temperature ever recorded.
• Kebili, Tunisia.
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• Turbat, Pakistan.
• Dallol, Ethiopia.
• Aziziyah, Libya.
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• Dasht-e Loot, Iran.