Snow removal from Moscow streets in the USSR (17 photos)
Those who happen to be on the streets early in the morning cannot help but notice a large number of different cars coming out to fight the fallen snow. Lined up in ledges, snow removal machines go one after another, moving the snow with steel plows, sweeping the path with rotating brushes. Every day, more than 500 powerful mechanical wipers take part in cleaning Moscow streets and squares. 120 sand spreaders follow them to sprinkle the road (Ogonyok Magazine No. 9, February, 1954).
Removing snow from the streets - the beginning of the last century.
Snow melter near the Alexander Garden. I always thought that snow melters were something modern. And here it is 1910.
Bolshaya Tverskaya-Yamskaya. 1912 The Arc de Triomphe is visible ahead, which used to stand on the square of the Belorussky Station.
Clearing snow from Bolshaya Sadovaya Street - 1941.
Okhotny Ryad. Snow removal. 1947
Usually 400 dump trucks remove snow from morning to evening. On the same days when, in the language of the forecasting institute, precipitation is especially heavy, more than 1,000 cars take to the streets of the capital. Hundreds of tons of snow are dumped daily into the Moscow River and Yauza River, in places where the rivers do not freeze. “If you dump it on the ice,” say the Trust workers, “then in a few days the mountains of snow will reach the very railings of the embankment.”
Most of the snow is hauled outside the city, where powerful bulldozers push it onto fields. In spring, the melted moisture will saturate the earth with moisture. (Text from the article “It’s snowing...”)
There are two snow removal machines - rotors - along the sides of the Khoroshevskoe highway. The propellers, rotating in different directions, rake up the snow, and the fan blades throw it out in jets 40 - 50 meters to the side. (From the text of T. Lordkipanidze’s article “It’s snowing...”).
Snow removal, Moscow, December 1959 | © Life/Carl Mydans
Snow removal on Bolotnaya Street
St. Serafimovich. Snow removal
This is a cleanup day in 1964. There is no Preobrazhenskaya Ploshchad metro station yet; people went home by trams and trolleybuses from the Sokolniki metro station.
Winter day on Pushkinskaya. 1977
Snow removal near the Park Kultury metro station. 1982
Snow removal on Zubovskaya Square. 1982
Photo taken 12.1994. Andronevskaya embankment Kursk railway bridge Dump trucks dump snow directly into the Yauza, ugly things, radishes.
