Cold Winter 2011

Winter completely come into its possession, bringing cold,
snowfalls and blizzards in many regions of the northern hemisphere.





1. Member of the traditional Christmas marathon in Omsk, where the temperature dropped to -30 degrees Celsius. (ALEXEY MALGAVKO / AFP / Getty IMages)



2. A young man during a blizzard in Philadelphia. (Matt Rourke / AP)



3. Customers in underwear standing in line at the store «Desigual» on the first day of sales in Barcelona. The company «Desigual» offered free clothes to buyers who come to the store in their underwear. (JOSEP LAGO / AFP / Getty Images)



4. Bulgarians are jumping into the icy water during the competition to find a cross in the lake in Sofia during a baptism. It is believed that the one who first finds the cross, which throws into the water priest of the Eastern Orthodox Church, will be healthy all year. (NIKOLAY DOYCHINOV / AFP / Getty Images)



5. The traditional race on the sled in a valley near the Bavarian village of Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. The competition was attended by more than 90 sleds. (CHRISTOF STACHE / AFP / Getty Images)



6. Firefighter rescues a deer on a frozen lake Tenderingsze in Voerde, Germany. Throwing a lasso in a cowboy style, representative of the local fire department helped save a few deer with frozen lake. Five animals were under the ice and got stuck. (PHOTOGRAPH BY: EPA)



7. skier during training on competition «Four Hills» World Cup ski jump in Bischofshofen. (ARBARA GINDL / European Pressphoto Agency)



8. Rime eyelashes horse in the German ski resort of Oberhof. (CHRISTIAN CHARISIUS / Reuters)



9. Fireworks over the ice sculptures at the opening of the 27th International Ice and Snow Festival in Harbin, China. The festival takes place every year, and within it are hundreds of activities related to ice and snow. (HOW HWEE YOUNG / EPA)



10. The officers of the South Korean special forces wiping snow during a winter exercise in Pyeongchang. (Lee Jin-man / Associated Press)



11. Snow and ice on the car Ghorman, California. №5 stretch of highway was closed in both directions most of the day due to severe weather conditions. (Anne Cusack / Los Angeles Times)



12. The contrast of the snow-capped San Gabriel mountains and green palm trees in Los Angeles. (Anne Cusack / Los Angeles Times)



13. Snow on the trees along the road Row Road in Shreveport, Louisiana, after a snowstorm. (Douglas Collier / The Shreveport Times)



14. Colored light bulbs illuminate the icicles on the canopy office outside South Washington Street in El Dorado, Arkansas. (Michael Orrell / The El Dorado News-Times)



15. Davis McCool tries to catch snowflakes language in Oxford, Mississippi. Due to heavy snowfall in the area of ​​Oxford had to close the school and the University of Mississippi. (Bruce Newman / Oxford Eagle)



16. The man at the center of Asheville, North Carolina, after heavy rainfall in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Snowstorm covered the southeastern part of the country with snow and ice. (Scott Halleran / Getty Images)



17. The dew on the web in the first frosty day in northern India on the outskirts of Jammu. (Mukesh Gupta / Reuters)



18. Tigers Siberian tigers in the park in Harbin. This park - one of the largest centers for breeding Siberian tigers. (How Hwee Young / EPA)



19. Ice copy of the Pokrovsky Cathedral on Red Square in Moscow. (Yuri Kadobnov / AFP - Getty Images)



20. Horses pulling a wagon through the snowy woods in Oberhof, Germany. (Christian Charisius / Reuters)



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