Erzin, RussiaErzin is a rural locality and the administrative center of Erzinsky District of Tuva, Russia. Population:ClimateErzin has an extremely continental cold semi-arid climate, similar to Ulaangom across the border with Mongolia. The extreme temperature inversions of the Great Lakes Depression make Erzin's winters particularly severe. January temperatures are colder than those of Norilsk twenty degrees further north and only warmer than those of Yakutsk.