How do Russians build entire cities out of ice? (PHOTOS)

Alexey Malgavko / Sputnik The ice town in Omsk.
Alexey Malgavko / Sputnik
In winter, it's cold, but fun! All over the country, ice towns with slides, mazes, castles and fairy-tale characters are being built for kids. Below we’ve highlighted the most unusual ones from different regions of Russia!

1. ‘Ice Moscow’ in Museon Park, 2022. The Kremlin, St. Basil's Cathedral and the Bolshoi Theater were made out of ice. The slides there were of varying heights.

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Sergey Fadeichev / TASS

2. An ice town with giant penguins delighted visitors in Yekaterinburg in 2019. It was, as the penguins suggest, it was dedicated to Antarctica.

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Donat Sorokin / TASS

3. In Novosibirsk, an ice town was made to look like a medieval castle, 2018. 

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Kirill Kukhmar / TASS

4. An ice town in the polar town of Kirovsk, 2018.

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5. A fairy-tale town in Kurgan in the Urals, 2017.

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Kirill Kukhmar / TASS

6. The ‘Belovodye’ ice town in Omsk, 2016.

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Alexey Malgavko / Sputnik

7. An ice fortress in Chita, 2024.

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Evgeny Epanchitsev / Sputnik

8. Long ice slides and fairy-tale characters made of ice in Krasnoyarsk, 2024.

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Ilya Naymushin / Sputnik

9. An ice town on one of the central squares of the Siberian city of Tomsk, 2018.

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Evgeny Epachintsev / Sputnik

10. ‘Winter vernissage’. An ice town in Perm, 2019.

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URA.RU / TASS

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