This is the terrifying moment an elevator almost chops off a man's head.
CCTV footage shows the man looking at his phone as he walks into the lift, while the doors close around him.
He initially blocks the doors on either side of him, however he is forced to dive backwards as the elevator shoots up.
The close call happened in an apartment block in the city of Krasnodar, Russia.
Residents in the block said the lift had been "shaking" in the weeks before the terrifying incident, local Russian news site 93.ru reports.
Russia has an unenviable reputation for poor safety standards, with the country plagued by crumbling infrastructure and outdated Soviet-era apartment blocks.
It comes after a man who was trapped in an office lift in the UK was left "screaming for help" all night.
Paralegal Azizul Rayhan thought he would never escape, after he went to collect his brother's belongings in the Victory Business Centre in Portsmouth on July 17.
It was around 10.45pm when Azizul entered the lift and became stuck - and he spent seven hours trapped inside the lift overnight.
He feared he was going to run out of air and the lift would drop, as Azizul described it as the 'most horrible night of my life.'
Azizul said: "It was a very horrible experience. I thought the wires had severed or cut down, and I was going to fall down.
"I thought something bad would happen to me, like I might even die, because I did not know if there was enough oxygen in there."
The paralegal pressed the ground floor button but the lift suddenly started shaking and shuddered to an immediate halt.
After becoming concerned he was stuck, Azizul hit the emergency lift button as he tried to seek assistance, but to no avail.
In a desperate attempt to try and leave the lift, he began using his car keys to try and open the lift doors, but failed as it was too heavy.
He admitted if it had worked he would have been out of the lift in half an hour.
"I was screaming the whole night for help, but no-one was around," he told Mail Online.
The 27-year-old became so scared at one point he struggled to breathe.
It wasn't until 5.45am the following day that Azizul was finally released by a business centre employee.
As a result of the traumatic experience, he believes he has developed claustrophobia - a fear of tight spaces - and has now been referred for talking therapy by his GP.
He said: "I couldn't talk for 30 minutes afterwards. It was the most horrible night of my life and my mental suffering is indescribable."
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