by Telegraph UK
"Every day, I go out into the street as if I was entering a war zone," complained resident Boris Ilinsky, 28.
"I've got to keep my eyes on the ground to avoid slipping and I'm also looking up to avoid falling lumps of ice," he added.
The high toll has prompted residents and relatives of victims to demand action against those responsible for what they believe to be careless clearing of ice from rooftops.
Milana Kashtanova, 21, is the latest victim, and has been in a coma since February, when she was hit by the ice which was being cleared from a rooftop.
"Milana was just walking past a building in the city centre... There was no warning tape, nothing to alert people that people were working on the roof," said Miss Kashtanova's boyfriend, Irinei Kalachev.
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