, also ''Harukaze no Snegurochka''''Note:''

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, usually translated as Snow Maiden is a character of Russian fairy tales is a

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, serialized in '' Manga Erotics F'' (

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) from May 2013 to May 2014.Manga Division - Excellence Awards
the 18th Japan Media Arts Festival (retrieved January 15, 2015) In November 2014 the manga received the Excellence Award in Manga Division at the 18th

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Plot

It is a story of a charming wheelchair girl nicknamed Bielka (means "squirrel" in Russian) and her attendant Shchenok (means "puppy" in Russian) taking place in the severe winter cold of

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of the emerging

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of 1933.

References

Fiction set in 1933 2013 manga Ohta Publishing manga Seinen manga Comics set in the Soviet Union {{manga-stub