Eight more people have died as the current cold weather paralyses eastern and northrtn Europe.
Five people froze to death in Moscow overnight and the Russian authorities are struggling to keep ageing heating systems operational.
Temperatures in Moscow eased slightly, rising to -23 Celsius.
The latest deaths announced there brought to at least 76 the number of people killed in Russia in the cold snap of the past week.
A further ten people have died in neighbouring Ukraine, three of them homeless persons in the east of the country who died last night while overnight temperatures fell as low as -23C.
Scandinavia has been hit by heavy snow, gusty winds and freezing cold, with temperatures sinking to -42.6C in the far north.
In Poland, violent snowstorms cut off electricity supplies to several villages in the northeast as weather forecasters predicted temperatures would reach as low as -25C.
With 123 deaths in Poland since October attributed to cold weather, shelters have been set up and police have stepped up checks on squats and isolated cabins.
Meanwhile in Turkey, over 3,600 villages in the north and east were effectively cut off from the outside world.
In the eastern province of Bitlis an avalanche swept a bus into a river, killing eight people and injuring 15 others.
Asia also in deep freeze
Japan's harshest winter in decades finally caught up on Tokyo today as it suffered its heaviest snowfall for five years, forcing flight cancellations and slowing trains.
More than 100 people have died this winter due to heavy snowfall in western, eastern and northeastern Japan, making it the most deadly winter in over 20 years.
And in China, the authorities sent in armed police to help control some 100,000 passengers stranded at Beijing train stations after snowfalls in central China paralysed a key section of the nation's railway grid.
10cm of snow in Zhengzhou, capital of Henan province, was delaying southbound trains on the link between capital and the southern economic powerhouse of Guangzhou.
Another 60,000 people were stranded in Zhengzhou, many huddled in the cold outside the station.
