Footage uploaded onto YouTube shows a fireball lighting up the night sky over Tver, which is around 100 miles northwest from Moscow, on Wednesday evening.
The explosion happened just before 10pm local time after a tanker containing flammable propane gas caught fire in a car park.
Emergency services battled the flames for 12 hours as the blaze spread to four buses, a minibus and a second tanker.
Despite the size of the explosion, there have been no reports of any injuries.
Watch the video; jump to 2:20 for the explosion:
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