Family live under a dome to test out freezing temperatures
The Efremov family, composed of Alexander Efremov, his wife Aina and their daughter and cat, moved into the single-storey wooden house around 40 kilometers (25 miles) from Yakutsk surrounded by a 10-metre (33 feet) high PVC dome at the beginning of March, replacing its previous inhabitants.
While they live in the house the family need to take temperature readings throughout the house and document their experience in a video blog.
The experiment has been running since December 2019 and aims to establish how such constructions are affected by the extreme temperatures in the region where the mercury regularly drops below -40 degrees Celsius (-40 degrees Fahrenheit)
"We had the idea to build a dome over a house to assess how the dome affects not only the comfort of those who live there, but also research the permafrost processes, how the ground behaves, the climate both inside and outside the dome, as well as the reliability and durability of the dome construction itself," said North-Eastern Federal University Highway Faculty Dean Dmitry Filippov said.
