YOU WOULD be forgiven for thinking hell has frozen over when looking at these snaps of the Sementnozavodsky region in Russia.
The eerie images, taken 11 miles from the coal-mining town of Vorkuta, depict a derelict ghost town of which every inch is covered in snow.
One of the coldest cities in Europe, Vorkuta plummets to unbearable temperatures as low as -50C in the winter months.
It is the fourth largest city north of the Arctic Circle, hence its extraordinary weather conditions, which sees mammoth buildings covered in blankets of snow.
But the numbing temperatures and rising unemployment have left some areas of the settlement deserted.
Its estimated population of 70,548 people endure short, cool summers and long, snowy winters in the town, that was once home to a Stalin-established Gulag prison camp.
Aerial shots of a construction car park smothered in the white stuff will have Brits thanking their lucky stars next time its windscreen-scraping season. Disused lorries have been buried by the snowfall.
Impressively large icicles dangle in front of the windows and down the front of buildings – and the cold still can't be escaped inside, as frost covers walls, snow sticks to the ceilings, and spills down staircases.
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