Saw an amazing thing in St Petersburg - pressure ridge of gulf ice. Ice is thrown ashore by the ebb and flow of seawater, forming these huge (up to 3 m high) ridges. Locals say it happens every year, but I've never seen it before and it felt magnificent to witness.
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Taísia Afónina - At the old Tuchkov bridge (1959)
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Chinese Palace at Oranienbaum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
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Restorer L. Kochetkova cleans the Catherine the Great monument in the Ostrovsky Park (Leningrad, 1959)
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Kronstadt Naval Cathedral in St. Petersburg, RUSSIA
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