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There is a Hmong community in Alaska (mainly around Anchorage). Some Hmong maintain that they once lived in a homeland where “days and nights lasted six months, the water was frozen, and snow hid the ground.” Somehow that looks like Alaska.
It makes sense for that place to be Alaska or Russia.
Some people actually say that this place can be found only in the afterlife or in dreams.