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Icicles: Winter Makes its Point

Icicles on Ulitsa Narodnogo Opalcheniya slowly sliding down a rooftop.
Vladimir Filonov / MT

Icicles on Ulitsa Narodnogo Opalcheniya slowly sliding down a rooftop.

As winter drags on, Moscow residents become accustomed to the daily challenges it brings: slippery sidewalks, slushy doorways and the scrape of shovels early in the morning as courtyard workers clear the snow that accumulates most evenings. Lurking above from rooftops, gutters and trees are an always-beautiful, occasionally dangerous winter construction: icicles. In this collection of photos from their archive, Vladimir Filonov and Igor Tabakov show us intricate ice patterns both formed in nature and spawned from the water used to fight wintertime fires.
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