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400,000 cubic meters of snow removed from Moscow streets in 24 hours

12,000 snow clearing vehicles, 8,000 dump trucks and 5,500 people were used in the snow fighting effort on Saturday-early Sunday.

23:58 21/02/2010

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A total of 392,000 cubic meters of snow have been removed from Moscow streets in the past 24 hours, a spokesman for the Russian capital's authorities said Sunday.

Igor Pergamenshchik said 12,000 snow clearing vehicles, 8,000 dump trucks and 5,500 people were used in the snow fighting effort on Saturday-early Sunday.

He said since the start of the winter, over 17 million cu m of snow have been cleared in Moscow.

Meteorologists say February has seen record snowfalls in the Russian capital in the past 40 years.

MOSCOW, February 21 (RIA Novosti)

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