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The city's home to about 300,000 people and much of the architecture is Soviet-era style

black buildings and they're built on permafrost. That's ground that's been frozen continuously

for at least two years. These frozen layers can be as shallow as only a few feet,

but in some parts of the world they can stretch as deep as a mile underground.

Yakutsk is the largest city that has something known as continuous permafrost,

meaning that the soil there never thaws, or at least it didn't before.

But now the residents of Yakutsk are seeing ground that's been permanently frozen for thousands

of years start to shift. The houses are buckling and cracking.

My colleague Anne Simmons is chief of the Wall Street Journal's Moscow Bureau.

She recently returned from a reporting trip to Yakutsk.

How's this used to be built on, where they're all built on piles and they stand on stills.

Many of them are old Soviet-era buildings and they used to be sunk like 26 feet into the frozen

ground, but because the permafrost has been melting, local engineers there tell us that now they

have to dig almost 40 feet down in order to ensure that these piles are anchored in the earth.

There are thousands of apartment buildings here.

Simmons says, according to a local ecologist, fewer than three dozen of this city's 2,000

concrete apartment buildings were deemed safe when tested roughly 10 years ago.

And the problem stretches beyond the city's walls.

The entire region of Yakutia, also known as the Sapa Republic, the thought is making it harder

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