Russia or Boston: Try to Tell the Difference in Photos

Boston continues to be slammed by record snowfall this winter.

ByABC News

February 17, 2015, 2:03 PM

White out conditions on Newbury Street during a blizzard in Boston, Feb. 15, 2015.
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 -- Now that Boston has reached its snowiest month on record, residents may have a better idea what it's sometimes like in one of the coldest regions in the world.

In what has sometimes been referred to as the coldest city in the world, Yakutsk, in Russia's Sakha Republic, no one needs to tell residents to stay indoors. With average winter temperatures around -30 degrees Fahrenheit, they just do.

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Municipal workers clear away snow from the road during heavy snowfall in Moscow, Russia, Feb. 3, 2015.

Russians outside of Siberia also face frigid temperatures. In Moscow, temperatures may be in the teens in the evening, but it feels like 7 degrees.

Elderly women walk under snow and ice laden trees at Central Park in Stavropol, southern Russia, Feb. 13, 2015.

In Boston, 45.5 inches of snow made January the city's snowiest month since such records started being kept in 1872, the National Weather Service tweeted on Sunday. The previous record was 43.3 inches in January 2005.

Four units from the Maine National Guard worked with heavy equipment to remove snow from the Braintree MBTA T station on Ivory Street, Feb. 15, 2015.

Add in a snowy February, and an estimated 95 inches of snow have fallen on Boston so far in 2015.

Simone Chuda,worked to remove snow from the sidewalks in front of her home in Cambridge, Mass., Feb. 15, 2015.

In Siberia, the snowfall may not be as heavy as Boston's this week, but the temperatures are harsher: The evening temperature there today was -21 degrees.

Mid-day in Boston, the temperature was about 17 degrees, but it felt like 6, according to The Weather Channel.

Snow clearing along Varshavskoye Highway as heavy snowfall continues in Moscow, Jan. 21, 2015.

At the end of October 2014, about 14.1 million square kilometers of snow covered Siberia, the second most in records that date to 1967, according to Rutgers University’s Global Snow Lab. The record was in 1976, which broke a streak of mild winters in the eastern U.S., Bloomberg reported.