An 11-mile stretch of coast was covered in the icy spheres.
The snowballs range from the size of a tennis ball to almost 3ft across.
The spheres result from a rare environmental process where small pieces of ice form, are rolled by wind and water, and end up as giant snowballs.
Locals in the village of Nyda, which lies on the Yamal Peninsula just above the Arctic Circle, say they have never seen anything to compare to them.
Russian TV quoted an explanation from Sergei Lisenkov, press secretary of the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute: “As a rule, first there is a primary natural phenomenon – sludge ice, slob ice. Then comes a combination of the effects of the wind, the lay of the coastline, and the temperature and wind conditions.
“It can be such an original combination that it results in the formation of balls like these.”
In December 2014, a similar phenomenon was witnessed in the Gulf of Finland; and on Lake Michigan in December 2015, the Ura.ru website said.
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