Baptism 2018

• Baptism 2018

Baptism - is the "immersion" in Greek, and one of the main Christian holidays. On the night of January 19 has become fashionable tradition of bathing in the special ice-holes - Jordan, despite some frost.

Even Putin succumbed to fashion. Look.

Bathe, of course, not only in Russia. This fellow climbed into the icy water near Bishkek in Kyrgyzstan. (Photo by Vyacheslav Oseledko):

For Christmas Eve ice on reservoirs is cut in the shape of a cross. This hole is called the Jordan - in memory of the Jordan River. After the priest sanctifies the water wishing to have three times to plunge into it headlong. (Photo by Vyacheslav Oseledko):

Jesus Christ at age 30 was baptized in the Jordan River, from that and started his messianic path of Nazareth.

Krasnoyarsk, Russia. (Photo by Ilya Naymushin | Reuters):

Bathing on Epiphany - a relatively new tradition. Nor in the historical literature of ancient Russia, nor in the memories of pre-revolutionary Russia is difficult to find information that somewhere in the ice cut a Baptism and bathed. (Photo: Olga Maltseva):

Today it's just fashionable. Ivankovichi village, Ukraine. (Photo by Gleb Garanich):

Not far from Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. (Photo by Vyacheslav Oseledko):

Kiev, Ukraine. (Photo Valentyn Ogirenko):

Kiss! (Photo by Gleb Garanich):

In Eastern Europe has its own tradition. Believers and not Serbs dipped three times in ice-cold water, and swim suit on the speed of the cross. Visegrad, Bosnia and Herzegovina. (Photo by Dado Ruvic):

have suffered! (Photo by Dado Ruvic):

The same competition held in Skopje, Macedonia. Winner. (Photo by Robert Atanasovski):

These days, everyone is running for the holy water. It is believed that it has medicinal properties. Tbilisi, Georgia. (Photo by David Mdzinarishvili):

Kiev, Ukraine. (Photo by Sergei Supinksy):

Shoo away! Swans got bathed in their territory by a pond. Kiev, Ukraine. (Photo by Sergei Supinksy):

Brutal bathers in Izmailovo in Moscow. (Photo: Mladen Antonov):

Do not passed fashion and Vladimir Putin, who has plunged into a hole in the lake near the monastery Stolobny Island in Tver Region. The Western press has not passed such an event. for example, The Independent felt that Putin's photos with naked torso reinforce his image "tafgaya" ( "tough guy").