The weather sharply deteriorates during the fall in Siberia, with strong heavy winds and blizzards arriving throughout its vast territory. Snow starts coating the roads, making them slippery when covered with ice.
However, the local Russian population enjoys the cold weather and first frosts, taking baths in icy-cold water and even riding bicycles on snowy roads wearing warm clothes.
A man walks along the Mikhailovskaya Embankment of the Ob River in Novosibirsk, Russia.
The Bugrinsky Automobile Bridge over the Ob River in Novosibirsk, Russia.
People walk on the ice of the frozen reservoir of the Novosibirsk hydroelectric station.
The Mikhailovskaya Embankment of the Ob River in Novosibirsk, Russia.
A girl from a winter swimming club bathes in an ice-hole in a lake in the Leninsky district of Novosibirsk, Russia.
A man rides a bicycle on the ice of the frozen reservoir of the Novosibirsk hydroelectric station.
People walk on the ice of the frozen reservoir of the Novosibirsk hydroelectric station.
People walk on the ice of the frozen reservoir of the Novosibirsk hydroelectric station.
One of the members of the winter swimming club is bathing in an ice-hole in a lake in the Leninsky district of Novosibirsk, Russia.
The coast of the frozen reservoir of the Novosibirsk hydroelectric station, Russia.
People walk on the ice of the frozen reservoir of the Novosibirsk hydroelectric station.
