Hundreds of Russians take chilly dip in icy rivers as they mark Epiphany

Dailymail ^ | 19th January 2012 | Wil Longbottom

[klpt]

Mouths open in shock and muscles tensed at the freezing temperatures, these Russian plunge themselves into icy rivers and ponds across the country to mark Epiphany. In temperatures approaching -10 degrees, hundreds of Russian Orthodox Church followers brave the dip into especially cut holes in the ice om Tyarlevo village, near St Petersburg, at midnight.

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

Hmmm.....Epiphany was on January 6th.

[blueunicorn6]

Jumping into icy water? Well, the guy next to me would’ve been warm for a couple seconds.

[alecqss]

Russian Orthodox Church uses an old calendar, which is 13 days behind. They celebrate Christmas on January 7th, for example.

[fso301]

In case anybody out there doesn’t understand why the Red Army kicked German ^ss in the winter of 1941/42, let them take a look at these pics.

[353FMG]

Those girls were in the Red Army? Wow.

[Bigg Red]

I think my body temperature dropped about 10 degrees just looking at these pictures. Yipes!