Winter has returned to Moscow, and this is no April Fool’s joke,” Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said at a City Hall meeting.

Moscow has not seen so much snow on April 1 in 130 years, said Deputy Mayor Pyotr Biryukov, who assured the mayor that the city would be unburied within 24 hours
City authorities dispatched more than 10,000 snowplows and other street-cleaning equipment to clear the snow.

The massive snowstorm buffeted Moscow for about 18 hours, snarling traffic and blanketing the city in a record 17 cm (6¾ inches) of white.

Morning traffic jams paralyzed main roads, including the Moscow Right Road, the Third Ring Road, Leningradskoye Shosse, Volokolamskoye Shosse and Prospekt Mira.

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