Ever wonder where Jack Frost might live? Join RT on a tour of Moscow's icy kingdom. Already known as a realm of ice and snow, Moscow now has a city within a city -- and it too is frozen. It appeared in one of the capital's parks almost overnight, turning it into a true winter wonderland.
Called Moroz ("Frost") City, it is located in Sokolniki Park, north-east of the city center. Exhibitions of ice sculptures are a regular seasonal fixture in the Russian capital, but Moroz City is something the likes of which the city has never seen before. More than a display of frozen statues, this Frost City is very much alive -- you can walk its streets and enter its buildings.
It is all the result of a competition inviting young architects from Russia and neighboring countries like Ukraine and Belarus to show off their talent. Those whose blueprints were selected had five days to complete their buildings, starting on January 5.
More than a thousand specially-made cubes of artificial snow and 500 chunks of ice, brought from outside Moscow, were used. A key condition for participation that houses must have a straightforward design -- and be easy to construct. But the contestants did not settle for simple -- and the result is more than impressive. Moroz City has a hotel, a cinema, a lighthouse and even a prison.
All in all, 20 different teams have created 16 different buildings -- and that despite the unusually warm weather at the beginning of January. For a price of 250 rubles for adults and 150 for kids, you can see and enter them all.
The city is set to remain open for visitors until early March, and will play host to a number of festivals, concerts and exhibitions to give visitors a taste of a real winter fairytale.
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