This little show of faith happened just a few hundred yards from school one snowy January day. Scores of people turned out for this once-a-year event when people come to "wash away their sins" in the cold Ural River. Story has it that locals from the Russian Orthadox Church help in dunking them in the river as a kind of purification. Indeed, many before they were sumberged in the icy river made a sign of the corss, held their breath and took the plunge. As you can see from the photos, the paricipants included men and women, young and old alike and in one case, a hairy Russian bear!
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