Snow-covered Hungary – huge snowfalls, winter life pictures in the photos of the past
Snowball battle, 50 centimeters of snow in Budapest, frozen Lake Balaton, traffic difficulties – with the help of the MTVA archive we show the faces of the old plot.
On one of the snowy streets of Budapest, school children got involved in a huge snowball battle in January 1959.
In the winter of 1978, a bus got stuck in Győr-Moson-Sopron county and slipped into the ditch due to heavy snow. The passengers on the bus try to push the vehicle into the ditch with a concerted effort.
Clinging to the platform of a car, two boys sled on a street in Budapest in 1954.
A caravan on the Balaton highway, where in 1959 more than 100 vehicles got stuck in a huge snowstorm.
Children sledding on the sloping roads in Tihany on February 29, 1956. In the background you can clearly see the frozen Lake Balaton.
In January 1966, workers shoveled snow from the streets of the capital into the Danube at the Pest end of the Freedom Bridge.
In 1987, the extraordinary snowfall that lasted for days put the capital’s approximately 2 million inhabitants to the test. The roads of Budapest were covered with 30-50 cm of snow, usually only the main routes could be walked, the access roads were covered with thick snow, most of the cars were also captured by the snow.
