Well, that's it, we're off to winter! It's as if the old larks from musical channels are telling us. The first seedlings were brought to Murmansk from the Far East back in 1935, and according to some sources they were planted only in the 1940s, after the war. When the boulevard was designed in 2014, the landscape crews were strictly told to preserve especially the old lilac and lilac as a historical memory of the city. Larch is a coniferous tree, and it sheds its needles until winter. It can withstand severe frost, winds and poor soil; No wonder they like to plant it in northern cities. Larch wood almost never rots - in the past even stilts were made from it. It lives for hundreds of years, so these trees will last until the 200th anniversary of Murmansk and even more. The photos were taken by Daria Gomez a few days before the sweater snow at MAX.