Russian city Petrozavodsk under heavy snow falls

2016/01/13

Russian city Petrozavodsk was hit by a cyclone Daniella today which resulted in very heavy snowfalls. In a matter of just few hours city was drowning in snow. Sometimes the snow piles were as high as almost 1.5 meter tall. Petrozavodsk is a 300,000 city, capital of Karelia region bordering Finland and Norway. Not a small city, so the traffic in an instant got stuck. Huge city trolleybuses - electric powered buses are not meant to go thru the thick layers of snow on the city streets so they started stopping urgently and blocking the way for others. Let's see how it was thanks to local photographer Igor P.:

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