To begin with, Russia is not cold. Well, it is. But not everywhere… it's complicated. Russia is big (in case you're wondering why – we have a special article to answer this too) and, of course, the climate in the Arctic or Siberia differs from that in Sochi and other cities on the Black Sea shore.
The average annual temperature in Yakutsk (Eastern Siberia) is -8.8 Celsius (16.6 Fahrenheit) while in Sochi it is 14.2C (57.5F). If any conclusion can be drawn from it – there are reasons why Yakutsk isn't a host city for the World Cup and Sochi is. And the temperature in Moscow is nudging 27C (80F) as this story is being written… and many Muscovites seem to be missing the long, cold Russian winter.
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