Residents of Moscow are helping to clean up the effects of the snowfall

Moscow residents and students are helping the capital cope with the effects of heavy snowfall on January 9th. On January 11, Izvestia spoke with participants in snowdrift harvesting.

According to the volunteers, the city authorities offer good conditions: an 8-hour shift, free lunch and a monetary reward.

"Well, what about it? We need snow removal staff, as the weather conditions are abnormal at the moment," Sergei, one of the cleaning participants, told Izvestia.

Foreigners also wanted to help the utilities clear the snowdrifts. For example, Musa, a volunteer who came to Russia from Africa, is studying medicine at RUDN University. He shared that he was already used to the Russian cold.

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The "snow apocalypse" happened in the capital region

Evgeny Tishkovets, a leading specialist at the Phobos weather center, reported a day earlier that the snowfall recorded in the capital broke a half-century record, becoming the most intense in the last 56 years. He specified that 22 mm of precipitation fell into the precipitation meter at the VDNKh weather station during the day, which was 42% of the monthly norm.

Due to the incident on the night of Friday, January 9, to Saturday, January 10, traffic on some sections of the MKAD was almost paralyzed, and the work of the Moscow airways was disrupted.

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