One of the most ancient holidays of the Christian church, concluding the Christmas-New Year’s season. It is widely accepted that the Baptism water has curative properties and keeps them throughout the course of the year, healing corporal and spiritual illnesses. Every year on January 19 people go swimming in a hole cut in the ice in Vladivostok. Hundreds of Orthodox citizens come to the waterfront at Sportivnaya Gavan, where there is a font for ablution, changing stalls and the organized sale of hot tea