The Round Ice
Recently a lot of strange round-ice formations have been met in Russia. People don’t know what causes ice to form first big ice circles and then ones of smaller size appear around the mother-formation.
Tram on Ice
One hundred years ago winters in Russia were much more severe. They were so severe that in St. Petersburg they have opened a tram that went on ice of Neva river from one bank to another for 0.03 ruble price, it’s like 3 cents because ruble exchange rate to dollar was almost equal at that times.
The tram-on-ice system got very popular due to low cost compared to other means of on-ground transportation and short time needed to cross the river and was in use for a few years consequently.
It was so popular that visitors from other Russian towns told stories about it in their local places and some time later the same on-ice tram was launched in Nizhniy Novgorod, you can see it on the down-most photo below.
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