More than 60-thousand people have come out to keep the streets of Moscow clear. The city was blanketed in its heaviest snowfall since World War One. State news agencies report that thousands of tractors and snow ploughs were deployed. And the mayor says "Moscow is coping". CGTN's Dan Ashby has more.

The heavens may be throwing everything at Russia: But in Moscow - they're throwing it all back. An army of snow ploughs and tens of thousands of workers are fighting the worst snowfall in 100 years. There is so much that it is claiming streets and cars and even whole parks. But they're not giving up.

DAN ASHBY MOSCOW "The snow has been falling for days so that in some areas it's created drifts that are meters high, and yet thousands of people are taking to the streets with tractors, snow ploughs, even devices such as this to keep this city moving."

State agencies say more than 60-thousand people are clearing the snow. The snow has knocked down more than two-thousand trees. But Muscovites refuse to let it bring them down, too. 

"I do like it because it's pretty, it's really beautiful, we love winter, and it's great for kids because they can go skiing and riding down slopes in sledges. But on the other hand it's difficult to move around." "There's a problem when it falls and then melts, but when it just falls and stays like this, then it's OK, it's good for the health and everything!" "I like it! If you have to see Moscow, you have to come in winter."

There is so much snow - they're having to process it. Experts say it's really extreme.

EVGENY TISHKOVETS WEATHER EXPERT "A powerful cyclone from the Balkans has stormed in and clashed with the cold, and all this created a big snow in tense snowfall, and what is often called a black blizzard, while one can't see a thing, then there were gusts of wind at times 25 meters a second."

There is one way people are coping: a quick swig of vodka, of course. And then: ignore the weather altogether. Dan Ashby, CGTN, Moscow.