I can’t possibly put it any better than the reporter at RIA Novosti so I won’t even try. The weblink to his article is : http://en.rian.ru/david_burghardt_blog/20110525/164219353.html
The text is copied and pasted below. All I can say is that I can corroborate every word he says! The photos below, taken by me two days ago, back up his claims. I feel his pain. I found some pukh floating in the apartment yesterday and I have no idea how it got indoors. This stuff is more invasive than zebra mussels or purple loosestrife!
What the Pukh?! Not again!
Moscow seems to have two seasons: winter and pukh (pronounced poo-kh). Both of them are white, one is cold and the other is just pukh.
The winter season is pretty much clear to everyone if you know anything about Russia or Moscow, but the pukh season is a mystery to people who have never been to Moscow in the summer. Come to Moscow and I’ll show you some good pukh! Actually, I don’t have to show it to you. You’ll have pukh down your throat, pukh in your nose and eyes, pukh stuck on your clothes and in your hair. In other words, you’ll be completely pukhed if you come to Moscow in summer. Pukh is so important in Moscow that even a Russian pop group, Ivanushki International, sang a song about it a few years ago. The pukh song is still famous and you can hear people singing “Pukh” around the city when it’s pukh season.
So your question now is probably: What the pukh is pukh?
Pukh is the result of a Soviet-era experiment gone totally wrong. In efforts to make Moscow greener and create more oxygen for a healthier life, linseed trees were planted throughout Russia’s capital. The result is that these trees begin producing and releasing into the air a fluffy substance similar to cotton but much lighter, referred to as pukh in Russian. The air becomes thick with this fluffy white stuff and it looks like there’s a blizzard outside in the middle of summer. Or someone up above is having one heck of a pillow fight. Pukh gathers in drifts up against curbs and buildings and the wind will carry it and swirl it around in your face long enough for you to go mad.
The pukh is irritating and causes many people suffering from allergies to just want to curl up and die somewhere. Pukh is not only outside on the streets, it floats into your house, into restaurants and cafes, pukhing your cappuccino, summer salads, and cold beer. Nothing makes me angrier than having my beer pukhed when I’m out with friends.
There is no pukh relief. Not even when you’re sleeping as it gets sucked into your mouth and nose as you sleep at night, and you wake up and wildly hack pukh up and rub your eyes from pukh irritation.
The only slight relief from the pukhing problem are summer rains, which usually don’t last long and once the pavement dries, you’re up to your neck in pukh again. The annual pukh season usually ends somewhere at the end of September, so we’ve got a long pukhing time until we finally swap pukh for the cold fluffy stuff commonly known as snow.
People are so frustrated that someone has even taken to sending a graffiti message to the pukh!
The text is copied and pasted below. All I can say is that I can corroborate every word he says! The photos below, taken by me two days ago, back up his claims. I feel his pain. I found some pukh floating in the apartment yesterday and I have no idea how it got indoors. This stuff is more invasive than zebra mussels or purple loosestrife!
What the Pukh?! Not again!
Moscow seems to have two seasons: winter and pukh (pronounced poo-kh). Both of them are white, one is cold and the other is just pukh.
The winter season is pretty much clear to everyone if you know anything about Russia or Moscow, but the pukh season is a mystery to people who have never been to Moscow in the summer. Come to Moscow and I’ll show you some good pukh! Actually, I don’t have to show it to you. You’ll have pukh down your throat, pukh in your nose and eyes, pukh stuck on your clothes and in your hair. In other words, you’ll be completely pukhed if you come to Moscow in summer. Pukh is so important in Moscow that even a Russian pop group, Ivanushki International, sang a song about it a few years ago. The pukh song is still famous and you can hear people singing “Pukh” around the city when it’s pukh season.
So your question now is probably: What the pukh is pukh?
Pukh is the result of a Soviet-era experiment gone totally wrong. In efforts to make Moscow greener and create more oxygen for a healthier life, linseed trees were planted throughout Russia’s capital. The result is that these trees begin producing and releasing into the air a fluffy substance similar to cotton but much lighter, referred to as pukh in Russian. The air becomes thick with this fluffy white stuff and it looks like there’s a blizzard outside in the middle of summer. Or someone up above is having one heck of a pillow fight. Pukh gathers in drifts up against curbs and buildings and the wind will carry it and swirl it around in your face long enough for you to go mad.
The pukh is irritating and causes many people suffering from allergies to just want to curl up and die somewhere. Pukh is not only outside on the streets, it floats into your house, into restaurants and cafes, pukhing your cappuccino, summer salads, and cold beer. Nothing makes me angrier than having my beer pukhed when I’m out with friends.
There is no pukh relief. Not even when you’re sleeping as it gets sucked into your mouth and nose as you sleep at night, and you wake up and wildly hack pukh up and rub your eyes from pukh irritation.
The only slight relief from the pukhing problem are summer rains, which usually don’t last long and once the pavement dries, you’re up to your neck in pukh again. The annual pukh season usually ends somewhere at the end of September, so we’ve got a long pukhing time until we finally swap pukh for the cold fluffy stuff commonly known as snow.
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| What the pukh?!! |
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| this stuff is everywhere |
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| there is truly no avoiding it... |
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| "I don't love you :P" |
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