On January 19, the townspeople will celebrate one of the main Orthodox holidays.
According to the Ministry of Emergency Situations of St. Petersburg, the city has equipped more than 20 fonts for baptismal bathing. The website published a preliminary list of places for baptismal bathing.
This year the residents of St. Petersburg have prepared 21 swimming holes, reports channel St. Peterburg. Equipped places appeared on Vasilevsky Island, in Vyborgsky, Krasnoselsky, Kolpinsky, Kronstadtsky, Kurortny, as well as Petrodvortsovsky, Petrogradsky and Pushkinsky areas.
In the equipped places will be changing rooms, heating points and rescuers. When visiting the bathing holes it is necessary to follow the epidemiological safety rules established in the city, QR codes will not be checked.