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For Orthodox Christians January 19 is the feast day of the Epiphany. Services and blessing of the water take place in all churches. Another feature of this feast day is night dip in an ice-hole. In Aktobe the most daring people were not scared off by the frost of -20 degrees and bathed in city ice-holes.
Every year ambulance and rescue service cars patrol the busiest bodies of water where people bathe on the night of the 18th/19th.
Lifeguard Azamat Kurkembayev has been on duty from 10 p.m. According to him, last year not a single accident was registered during Epiphany bathing. However, you always have to be on guard as some bathers like to take a sip of some spirit before taking a dip into freezing water.
By midnight quite a big crowd gathers near ice-holes. Members of rescue teams help thrill-seekers.
Simbay Salzhanov was one of the first to bathe in the ice-hole. “The water is cold, but I got used to such changes in temperature in 6 years of winter swimming.” Simbay-aga is Muslim, but he thinks that religion does not play any role in it. “It is good for health, and there is no difference what you believe in.”
Mostly men are active bathers during Epiphany. Incidentally, many of them take a dip for adrenaline sake. Church also considers bathing in an ice-hole no more than entertainment that does not have anything to do with the feast.
Salavat Dzhumagaliyev has also come for his share of adrenaline. His pals gave him the idea to bathe on freezing Epiphany night. They have been following this tradition for several years now.
Salavat is not too thrilled about this idea, but it is too late to back off.
With vigorous support of his friends, he had a dip in an ice-hole for the first time in his life.
After winter swimming, Salavat announced that he would definitely do it again the following year.
Lyudmila Ushakova is 76 years old. The last 25 of them Lyudmila Vassilyevna has bathed during Epiphany frosts. The woman does not consider herself to be a winter swimmer. She fortifies her health via dousing, and in winter rubs snow into her body. Since that time Lyudmila Vassilyevna has not been in a hospital a single time.
After bathing the energetic old lady shared her experience, “I plunged and the cold spread all over my body, and then I felt a sharp inflow of warmth and energy”.
Epiphany bathing became a good tradition for many people long ago. And if the church distances itself from ice-hole dips, bathers still believe in purification of their bodies and souls during this night.
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В общем никто не заболеет!Reply>
- Куда, падла, лезешь!? А ну ныряй!Reply>
небольшое замечание, может быть и похвастаюсь немного.
мои знакомые в Атырау ежегодно окунаются, но у нас в провинции в отличии от столицы это делают несколько цивилизованнее.
прорубь прорубают аккуратно ровно, как в армии учили- с канитком а не так тяп-ляп дыра какая-то.
(увидел бы мой командир взвода такое безобразие, долго ругался бы:
"все должно лежать паралельно и перепендикулярно, а что не паралельно и не перепендикулярно - то валяется!!!")
никакого мусора вокруг ни то что в столице - куски пенопласта, баклашки валяются - не эстетично понимаетел ли.
рядом костер разводят грамотно, чтобы погреться да так чтобы лед не растаял.
короче к этому делу надо подходить с любовью, как говориться с чувством с толком , с расстановкой,
а не просто где попапло и как попало лишь бы окунуться вниз-вверх типа потыкаться туда-сюда.Reply>
в Урале течение сильное.
стоит нырнуть и при этом если случайно соскользнут руки , то хана,
течение быстро унесет подальше от проруби, а лед толстый, башкой не пробьешь и в вводе даже днем прорубь не увидишь.
рядом с прорубью обязательно должен быть багор.Reply>
Репортаж из АктобеReply>
а представляешь что в столице творится, это же ужас, если еще на пол-пути к ней уже заметны отклонения от нормы в эстетическом отношении! 8-))Reply>
кто ни во что не верит, даже в черта назло всем....
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