Connecting Moscow to Yakutsk, the coldest city on Earth, Russia's Federal Highway system stretches about 1000-miles across Siberia. During winter the highway becomes an icy death trap, with frozen steppes, icy lakes, mountainous snowdrifts, and the bone-chilling temperatures. During the few summer months, July through August, the 700-mile-long stretch of unpaved road leading to Yukutsk turns into a mud wallow overflowing with traffic.
