Arch-priest of the St. Transfiguration cathedral Father Sergius during the traditional bathing rite on the Orthodox Christian holiday of Epiphany in the Orlino Lake, the Leningrad region.

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A believer during Epiphany bathing in Lake Onega in Petrozavodsk.

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Minister of Resorts and Tourism of the Crimea Yelena Yurchenko takes part in Epiphany bathing in the Black Sea in Yalta.

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Believers during Epiphany bathing in the Black Sea in Yalta.

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Believers in an ice hole near the Peter and Paul Fortress in St. Petersburg.

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Russian Orthodox clergymen and believers during a religious procession before Epiphany bathing in Sevastopol.

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A clergyman blesses the water of the Black Sea before Epiphany bathing in Sevastopol.

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Parents dry their child with a towel after Epiphany bathing in the Black Sea.

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Russian Orthodox believers during Epiphany bathing in the Black See in Khosta.

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A clergyman blesses the water of the Black Sea before Epiphany bathing in Sevastopol. Third right: Sevastopol Governor Sergei Menyailo.

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Russian Orthodox believers during Epiphany bathing in the Black See in Sevastopol.

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A Russian Orthodox believer during Epiphany bathing in the Black See in Sevastopol.

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Russian Orthodox believers during Epiphany bathing in the Black See in Sevastopol.

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A Russian Orthodox believer in an Epiphany ice hole near the Church of the Forty Martyrs of Sebaste in Pereslavl-Zalessky.

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A woman near an ice hole at the Raifsky Monastery of Our Lady on Epiphany Day.

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A procession at the Raifsky Monastery of Our Lady on Epiphany Day.

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Epiphany bathing in the village of Atirka in the Omsk region.

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A congregation member of the Church of Alexander Nevsky during Epiphany bathing.

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Russian Orthodox believers during Epiphany bathing in the Ob River in Novosibirsk.

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A clergyman blesses an ice hole before Epiphany bathing in the Ob River in Novosibirsk.

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A clergyman blesses the water in Novosibirsk's Ascension Cathedral.

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Russian Orthodox believers dip into ice water of the Ob River in Novosibirsk.

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Epiphany bathing at the Black pond in Pavlovsk park in Tiarlevo village in St. Petersburg.

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Epiphany bathing at the Black pond in Pavlovsk park in Tiarlevo village in St. Petersburg.

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Epiphany bathing in the Black Pond of Pavlovsky Park in the village of Tyarlevo, St. Petersburg.

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Epiphany bathing at the Black pond in Pavlovsk park in Tiarlevo village in St. Petersburg.

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Epiphany bathing in an ice hole near the Church of the Forty Martyrs of Sebaste in Pereslavl-Zalessky.

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Epiphany bathing in an ice hole near the Church of the Forty Martyrs of Sebaste in Pereslavl-Zalessky.

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Epiphany bathing in the Jordan near the "Forty Martyrs of Sebaste" church in Pereslavl-Zalessky.

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Epiphany bathing in an ice hole near the Church of the Forty Martyrs of Sebaste in Pereslavl-Zalessky.

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Epiphany service at the "Forty Martyrs of Sebaste" church in Pereslavl-Zalessky.

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Epiphany service in the Church of the Forty Martyrs of Sebaste in Pereslavl-Zalessky.

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Epiphany bathing in the Black Sea on the beach in Adler.

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Epiphany bathing in the Black Sea on the beach in Adler.

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Epiphany bathing on a lake in Leninsky district of Novosibirsk.

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Epiphany bathing at a spring in the village of Staroye Rakamo in the Novgorod region.

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Epiphany bathing in the spring of Staroe Rakamo village in the Novgorod region.

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Epiphany bathing in the spring of Staroe Rakamo village in the Novgorod region.

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Epiphany bathing at a spring in the village of Staroye Rakamo in the Novgorod region.

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Epiphany bathing at a spring in the village of Staroye Rakamo in the Novgorod region.

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Epiphany bathing at a spring in the village of Staroye Rakamo in the Novgorod region.

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Epiphany bathing at a spring in the village of Staroye Rakamo in the Novgorod region.

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Epiphany bathing at a spring in the village of Staroye Rakamo in the Novgorod region.

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Epiphany bathing in a lake in Novosibirsk's Leninsky district.

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Epiphany bathing in a lake in Novosibirsk's Leninsky district.

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Epiphany bathing in a lake in Novosibirsk's Leninsky district.

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Epiphany bathing in a lake in Novosibirsk's Leninsky district.

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Epiphany bathing in a lake in Novosibirsk's Leninsky district.

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A clergyman blesses the water in an ice hole near the Church of the Mantle of Our Lady in the village of Bolshoi Kuyash in the Chelyabinsk region.

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