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A competitor's beard is covered with ice and snow during a speed skating race in Techendorf, Austria
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A competitor's beard is covered with ice and snow during a speed skating race in Techendorf, Austria
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A boy sits in front of a car covered in ice in Versoix, near Geneva
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An ice sculpture on a pond near the village of Dobra Voda, Kosovo.
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A man smokes a cigerette as he walks in temperatures around -15C in Moscow
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A houseboat is partially submerged in the frozen Zwanenburgwal canal in Amsterdam
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A man exercises near the frozen Tbilisi reservoir in Tbilisi, Georgia
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A man walks past a house that was destroyed when a dam wall broke and flooded the village of Biserm in southern Bulgaria
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Passersby go to rescue a man who fell into a partially frozen lagoon in Venice
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A woman and her son make a snowman in St Peter's Square outside the Vatican in Rome
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Rome's Colosseum hit by heaviest snowstorm in 24 years
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The coldest February in decades continues its icy grip across Europe.
As heavy snow and record-low temperatures bring parts of the continent to a standstill, International Business Times UK takes a look at some of the best images from the big chill.