Black Snow

[LesPalenik]

If photographing winter landscape in Kuzbass, don't compensate with a longer exposure as they told you. In this place, you'll have to shorten the exposure.

A pall of eerie black snow has covered several towns in the Siberian region of Kuzbass, which is home to 2.6 million people and one of the world's largest coal fields.
According to the Guardian and the Siberian Times, the snow is tainted with toxic black coal dust that was released into the air from open coal pits and improperly maintained factories in the region.

https://www.livescience.com/64787-dont-eat-siberian-black-snow.html

[Two23]

Often in late winter here the wind  blows the fine snow off the fields and into drifts, leaving the fields bare.  Subsequent winds (very windy here) blow fine black dirt onto the snow drifts.  The result is a stark  mosiac of black and white.


Kent in SD

[Slobodan Blagojevic]

Toxic?

It must be, ever since it was proclaimed the word of the year 2018.

Otherwise, our dear friends Russians, especially in Siberia, stand a much higher chance of dying of vodka than “toxic” snow.

[LesPalenik]

Kuzbass vodka is cleaner than snow and ice there. And it won't freeze.