It's Siberia. When December arrives, the mud will become self-paving.
Give it another month, then we're talking.
> The original construction of the runway was done over two years and accomplished using a laser cutter to level the blue ice near the station [...] Finally, two snow groomers with tillers grind a small layer of ice to create a top layer of crushed snow and ice that gives the runway the necessary friction for aircraft to operate.
https://www.flightradar24.com/blog/troll-research-station-ho...
2) snow will also cover the surface, and it's not slippery.
But when it hits, it happens quickly. Every year people dogsled on a lake outside Whitehorse, Yukon in November. Often it's pure liquid on November 20th, and yet they will dogsled on it before the last day of the month.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novosibirsk#Climate
My summary on flying the plane on Stackexchange: https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/101015/how-can-...