Low temperatures are a time for fun in -50C and below - riding bikes, ice swimming or eating frozen noodles.
The results are striking - like real fireworks but entirely without any explosives. Picture: @borozdin3
The amazing snow fireworks are caused by throwing hot water into the cold air in extreme cold.
The results are striking - like real fireworks but entirely without any explosives.
Some locals felt the need to peel off their clothes to mark the deep cold.
Here we show a collection of videos from around Siberia where temperatures have plunged to their lowest of the winter in many areas.
Photographer nicknamed @borozdin3, from Nizhnevartovsk posted a stunning photoshoot where the vaporing water forms wings around a girl.
Ekaterina Varnava, from Krasnoyarsk, posted on 5 February 'For those who are wondering what happens when boiling water meets extreme cold.'
It was -40C at the moment of the shoot, she said.
'For those who are wondering what happens when boiling water meets extreme cold.' Pictures: Ekaterina Varnava, @borozdin3
Officially the coldest in Western Siberia was Tomsk region on the night 1-2 February when the cold hit -48C.
Many people on their own thermometers registered even colder temperatures, for example -52C in Nechaevo, Novosibirsk region.
In Lesosibirsk a man rode a bike at -45C, ,even though this company provides a bus for him to get to work, and he anyway owns a car.
He prefers to ride in the extreme chill.
In Novosibirsk, on February 3 at around -32C, Sergey Mischenko tried to eat instant noodles - but they were frozen.
So he took a plunge in an ice hole.
Sergey’s wife Marina said he came originally from Kazakhstan, but is now a convert to the real cold in Siberia.
Elsewhere local cold swimmers made a photoshoot in the ice hole.
They gave some tips of cold swimming in such temperatures.
First, everything must be done very quickly: if you delay at least two minutes, you freeze both your fingers and your ears.
And, of course, dress speedily after bathing - for example, use two pairs of mittens.
Not everyone likes them cold.
Elsewhere local cold swimmers made a photoshoot in the ice hole. Pictures: Stanislav Lukashevich
On 5 February in Krasnoyarsk actor Sergey Danilenko arranged a protest - he came to the square near the city administration building with a poster declaring: ‘Why it is so cold? Enough!'.
He was quickly kicked out by the guards.
A day earlier an Airbus А-330-300 from Moscow to Krasnoyarsk had to detour as it was about the land.
The reason? It was below -40C and too cold for the aircraft’s tyres.
So the passengers were flown to Novosibirsk instead.
Sergey Danilenko came to the square near the city administration building with a poster declaring: ‘Why it is so cold? Enough!'.
Dubak is the slang name given for strong cold; it provokes a spirit of challenge in Russians as thermometers plunged from the Urals to the Pacific.
Renat Yagudin, from Nosobirsk Hydrometeorological Centre, said: 'From the very first days of February, the frosts have already broken the records of a particular day, beginning on 1 February, when an Arctic anticyclone invaded our region.
‘So, on the night of 2 February, the temperature in the region dropped from -33C to to -45C….
‘It was also cold in the neighbouring Tomsk and Kemerovo regions - around minus 44-45 degrees Celsius.’
Cold provokes a spirit of challenge in Russians as thermometers plunged from the Urals to the Pacific. Pictures: Artem Arafailov, __helena_m__ , Tatyana Kuzmina, Olesya Pavlova, matador_gt, Madina Ogorelkova, katrin22region, Elena De Leske
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