“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.
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/snowstorm-paralyzes-moscow-on-april-fools-day/497179.html
http://www.reuters.com/video/2014/04/01/april-comes-to-moscow-with-massive-snows?videoId=301903224&videoChannel=117760
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/news-video/video-april-comes-to-moscow-with-massive-snowstorm/article17752445/
Thanks to Argiris Diamantis for these links