Going home from school, Siberian-style, in violent storm force Arctic winds

Students struggle to stay on their feet on their way back from classes Tuesday in this video from Russkoye Ustye, a village in Allaikhovsky district in Yakutia.

'Oh, cool!' said one teenager as he fought through violent storm force winds of 30 metres a second. 

As the class is blown and battered, voices shout: 'Hold on to each other!', 'Careful, careful!' and 'Don't fall'.

Today temperatures are minus 21C but tonight will plunge as low as minus 44C.

Siberians are used to going to school and work in such cold, but it is the winds - not far short of hurricane force - which led the authorities in the district, larger than Austria or Portugal,  to shot kindergartens and schools today. 

Head of Russkoye Ustye village, Sergey Portnyagin, told the media: 'The gusts of wind are up to 30 metres a second, so neither school nor kindergarten are  working.'