راسپوتیتسا

Also known as rasputiza, bezdorizhia, mud season

thumb|Spring thaw and huge puddles in Komi Republic, March 2015 Rasputitsa (from ; literally "season of bad roads") is the mud season that occurs in various rural areas of Eastern Europe, when the rapid snowmelt or thawing of frozen ground combined with wet weather in spring, or heavy rains in autumn lead to muddy conditions that make travel on unpaved roads problematic and even treacherous.