Icicles: Winter Makes its Point
The removal of icicles longer than 10 centimeters long is required by law and enforced by authorities.
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A worker banging on ice that collected near a gutter drainpipe on Leontyevsky Pereulok. St. Petersburg Governor Valentina Matviyenko proposed using lasers to remove icicles from buildings, but for the time being, Moscow workers use shovel technology.
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A worker trying to keep his balance while hacking at a series of icicles on Ulitsa Pokrovka. The danger of falling ice is very real — in 2007, a student in Nizhny Novgorod settled a 1.2 million ruble ($50,000 at the time) lawsuit after being hit by falling ice.
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A icicle appearing to reach towards the top of the Christ the Savior Cathedral.
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A boy playing in the woods in the Vladimirskoye Region outside Moscow near some enormous icicles.
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A raven sitting on a tree in the background as icicles on Ulitsa Narodnogo Opalcheniya continue their very slow melt.
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Icicles imitating the downward drip pattern of the paint on the sign below stating that cars cannot park there.
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From fire comes ice: When fires break out in winter, water from both burst pipes and fire hoses freezes rapidly, leaving a ghostly trace on charred buildings. Above, a man observing a sheet of icicles after a fire in January 2005 at Alexandrovsky Sad.
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An officer standing guard outside the offices of newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda after a fire in February 2006.
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Icicles on the Komsomolskaya Pravda building dwarfing the size of the firefighters inspecting them.
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A ropelike structure of icicles clinging to the side of the Dom Na Naberezhnovo, a building across from the Christ the Savior Cathedral that used to house politicians and bureaucrats, after a fire in December 2003.
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A closer look at the pattern in which water settled after the fire at Dom Na Naberezhnovo in December 2003.
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A phone booth, covered with patterns of frozen water, seen after the fire at Dom Na Naberezhnovo in December 2003.
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A tree buckling under the weight of icicles near an historic dacha in the Tsaritsyno neighborhood in southern Moscow that burned down in January of this year.
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A shot from below of icicles creeping out of the historic dacha in Moscow's Tsaritsyno neighborhood that burned down in January of this year.
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