These photos capture traffic crossing an ice bridge across a frozen Siberian river.
Regional traffic services supervise the crossing point on a three-mile (5km) wide stretch of the Yenisei River, south of Krasnoyarsk.
Drivers seem unperturbed at driving the perilous-looking route across the cracked ice connecting the river's banks.
Winter temperatures in Siberia can reach as low as minus 50 Celsius, and the river can freeze to a depth of several metres.
A few hardy souls even sunbathe on the ice on clear winter days.
The world’s sixth largest river in terms of discharge, the Yenisey runs from south to north across the great expanse of central Siberia.
It traverses a vast region of strikingly varied landscapes where ancient peoples and customs as well as an enormous economic infrastructure are found.
The Yenisey basin has a subarctic climate in its northern part and markedly continental conditions in the middle and southern portions.
The cold season prevails from late September to mid-June in the north and from mid-October to late April in the south.
Even summer is cool in the northern basin, with average temperatures of 8 to 12°C in July, when frosts may still occur; but summer is warm in the south, with July averages between 18 and 20 °C.
The peoples of the Yenisey valley are diverse. Around the western headwaters (Great and Little Yenisey), Tyvans (Tuvans) predominate in the rural areas, but they are joined by significant numbers of Russians in Kyzyl, the capital of Tyva.
Hunting, fishing, the breeding of reindeer, and fur farming are the traditional occupations of the more northerly peoples, and there is some mining of coal and nonferrous ores (copper, nickel) around Norilsk.
Regional traffic services supervise the crossing point on a three-mile (5km) wide stretch of the Yenisei River, south of Krasnoyarsk.
Drivers seem unperturbed at driving the perilous-looking route across the cracked ice connecting the river's banks.
Winter temperatures in Siberia can reach as low as minus 50 Celsius, and the river can freeze to a depth of several metres.
A few hardy souls even sunbathe on the ice on clear winter days.
The world’s sixth largest river in terms of discharge, the Yenisey runs from south to north across the great expanse of central Siberia.
It traverses a vast region of strikingly varied landscapes where ancient peoples and customs as well as an enormous economic infrastructure are found.
The Yenisey basin has a subarctic climate in its northern part and markedly continental conditions in the middle and southern portions.
The cold season prevails from late September to mid-June in the north and from mid-October to late April in the south.
Even summer is cool in the northern basin, with average temperatures of 8 to 12°C in July, when frosts may still occur; but summer is warm in the south, with July averages between 18 and 20 °C.
The peoples of the Yenisey valley are diverse. Around the western headwaters (Great and Little Yenisey), Tyvans (Tuvans) predominate in the rural areas, but they are joined by significant numbers of Russians in Kyzyl, the capital of Tyva.
Hunting, fishing, the breeding of reindeer, and fur farming are the traditional occupations of the more northerly peoples, and there is some mining of coal and nonferrous ores (copper, nickel) around Norilsk.
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Source: Daily Mail , Britannica, Reuters
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