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Folk Epiphany bathing 2022. Photos from St. Petersburg

Traditional baptismal bathing took place in the cities of Russia, Belarus, Ukraine and other countries on the night of January 18 to 19, on the festival of the baptism of the Lord (Epiphany). The tradition of folk-it is believed that a triple immersion in the consecrated ice hole cleanses of sins accumulated over the year. The most motley audience converges in a single chilling soul and the body of diet. In one wormwood, an engineer-technologist who accidentally allowed himself to be superfluous, and the director of a large company who had to go bankrupt the competitor, can also be together.

This year, baptismal frosts bypassed St. Petersburg. The thermometer arrow dropped no more than 5 degrees below zero, and the water temperature was about 4 degrees with a plus. But the weather did not prevent believers from performing the ceremony.