From Moscow to Chita: Russia's Winter Season in Photos
Though Russia's prolonged Christmas and New Year's holidays have come to an end, the winter season across the country is far from over.
A January cold wave that arrived in Russia late last week continues to bring record-breaking low temperatures to parts of the Volga and Ural regions, Siberia and the capital Moscow.
Here are 12 photos showing life across Russia's regions amid winter frosts and snowstorms:
A January cold wave that arrived in Russia late last week continues to bring record-breaking low temperatures to parts of the Volga and Ural regions, Siberia and the capital Moscow.
Here are 12 photos showing life across Russia's regions amid winter frosts and snowstorms:
Torzhok, Tver region
A boy runs alongside frozen and snow-covered Tvertsa River in the historic town of Torzhok some 240 kilometers northwest of Moscow.
Maxim Grigoryev / TASS
Yakutsk, republic of Sakha (Yakutia)
A vendor sells frozen fish at a market in Yakutsk, where outdoor temperatures are low enough to make refrigeration unnecessary.
Vadim Skryabin / TASS
Yakutsk, republic of Sakha (Yakutia)
Temperatures below minus 45 degrees Celsius coupled with dense fog and high winds were recorded in at least nine locations across the Far Eastern republic of Sakha.
Vadim Skryabin / TASS
St. Petersburg
Fishermen greet the sunrise in the Gulf of Finland in Russia's second-largest city.
Peter Kovalev/TASS
Moscow
A woman in a snow maiden costume walks along Rybny Lane near Red Square during a snowfall.
Sergei Fadeichev /TASS
Ivanovo, Ivanovo region
A man shovels snow near a circus building in the town of Ivanovo in central Russia.
Vladimir Smirnov / TASS
Chita, Zabaykalsky region
An ice sculpture of a Russian soldier adorns the main square in the city of Chita in Russia's Far East. Local officials chose to replace traditional holiday decorations with military-themed sculptures and army symbols.
Yevgeny Yepanchintsev / TASS
Moscow
A woman is pictured skiing on a slope in a residential area of Moscow.
Pelagia Tikhonova / Moskva News Agency
Moscow
Muscovites go tubing in a park in Moscow's northern Rostokino district.
Pelagia Tikhonova / Moskva News Agency
Moscow
A couple walks by the Kuskovo Estate, once a summer house of the noble Sheremetyev family and which now hosts the State Ceramics Museum.
Alexander Avilov / Moskva News Agency
Moscow
A man with a Christmas tree crosses Moscow's central Manezhnaya Square. Russia's capital is set to experience some of the lowest temperatures in the past 20 years between Jan. 6 and 10.
Valery Sharifulin / TASS
