While there have been no major frosts in central Russia this year, the country's extreme north, which is located within the Arctic Circle, knows what real winter is and actually enjoys it. Since 2008, the city of Kirovsk in the Murmansk region located in Russia's extreme north celebrates the Near Year holidays by creating a fairytale ice palace and a snow village at the bottom of the Khibiny Mountains.
A visitor at the in Khibiny ice village in Kirovsk.
A woman in the snow village in Kirovsk.
The Khibiny ice city in Kirovsk.
Visitors of the Khibiny ice city in Kirovsk.
Visitors in the ice city in the Murmansk region.
A visitor in the snow village in Kirovsk.
The 'Hyperborea' in the Khibiny ice city.
Visitors of the Khibiny ice city.
A visitor in the snow village in Kirovsk.
Visitors in a tunnel in the snow village tourist center in Kirovsk.
