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Khreshchenskaya Night in Krasnoyarsk: -30 ° C, Valuev and artificial fonts
On Khreshchenskaya night, from January 18 to 19 in Krasnoyarsk, 6 official places for traditional bathing were organized.
The townspeople could plunge into ice water and wash off sins, both in ordinary ice -cuts cut down on the Yenisei and in the Emelyanovsky Lake, and, for the first time, in wooden bulk lanis, which were installed near the churches of the Nativity of Christ and Mikhail Archangel.
The frost sank at night below -30 ° C, but there were enough people who wanted to swim. According to the forecasts of the Ministry of Emergencies, about 20 thousand people could be throughout the region.
Wooden fonts were filled with water in advance and consecrated.
Everywhere, ambulance cars were on duty. The order was monitored by the reinforced police patrols. And according to eyewitnesses, they very politely called citizens to order.
But the athlete was not allowed to go to the bathhouse immediately after frosty procedures, but they fell asleep with questions. However, apparently, the 30-degree frost of Nikolai Valuev did not bother at all.
He joked a lot, said that he was bathing for baptism from the age of 28 (in August he will be 43), and the first time this happened in St. Petersburg.
Nikolai Valuev has been in Krasnoyarsk for several days on an official visit. He visited a hockey hockey super-cup where the Krasnoyarsk Yenisei won the Universiade-2019 facilities.
Hunger. to which the State Duma deputy plunged, was cut down in the residence of the deputy of the Krasnoyarsk Legislative Assembly Anatoly Bykov.
The way, not only journalists, but also, apparently, his wife, who shot the whole process on the camera of a mobile phone, followed the way he dives into the water.