photographer Mervyn Sequeira sent the message of 'strength and resilience' that she needed amid 'depressing news' to create the ice sculpture ... found the pictures "funny" and they "looked ...

For $19 per household, people can purchase tickets to receive a map guiding them to all of the ice sculptures. Signs near the sculptures display QR codes providing more information and fun facts ...

The ice sculpture festival is a major tourist draw for the former industrial center that still boasts of its proximity to Russia with Tsarist-era architecture found nowhere else in China.