Crowds of Yekaterinburg gathered on the shore of city ponds on the night of January 19 to jump into the hole and capture this heroic feat on the camera. On Shartash near the Church of the Holy Trinity at 23:40 is no longer pushed, and a parking place for the car can only be found with great difficulty. On this shore of the lake there are three fonts. One of them is covered by a tent. Even before 00:00 there lined up a huge line of several hundred people. JustMedia correspondent. ru, having talked with the dipped, found out that for the majority of the participants dipping into the font is an excuse to make photos for social networks or to show relatives. Details of the "night" on Shartash in the JustMedia reportage. en.

Still only on the way to the tent, inside which a font is cut, a young couple asks me to photograph them against the background of the tent. Parents came to the lake with a child. A ten-year-old girl does not dive into an ice-hole, and for her mother, who has a birthday on January 19, is one of the ways to celebrate it.

"Did you turn on the flash?" - Irina is interested in.

- Yes - the young man discontentedly answers and hands me the phone.

The photo was like the owners of the mobile did not immediately. And they even gave a small master class on how to shoot on the phone at night:.

"Let's once again, and then the frames are muddy. Click on the screen to find the faces so that everything is focused. ".

Finally satisfied with the quality of the image, after swimming in the ice hole, the family runs to bask in the car. At this time teenagers approach the tent: one young man and five girls.

- Women separately, men separately, - says a specialist standing at the tent.

- How? We can not separately, we must remove you, - one of the girls refers to a friend.

But in return he meets silence. He, apparently, is not so important photograph from the place.

To swim in a font, a tent closed from the wind, you need to pay 100 rubles. This fact did not make everyone happy.

"For those who did it for the first time, they could do it for free," whisper in the crowd.

Hearing the price tag people go swimming in the neighboring open fonts - they gathered several times more people than a bright tent. On the ice between the tent and the open hole, a man takes pictures of a girl in a black fur coat, who painstakingly poses, jumping on the snow.

"So, we need to take photos and videos, or they will not believe that I jumped", - I hear a dialogue of friends, coming to the font to the right of the tent.

Some townspeople bring their children with a frosty night specially to have someone "click on the memory".

"I have been practicing douche for a year now, so I decided to jump. Here's a daughter asked to remove this all ", - recognizes Yekaterinburg, named Victoria.

Others bring with the same purpose several acquaintances at once, so that one shoots the video, and the second photo.

"Well, everything, I went. Luda, you shoot a video, and you, Nastya, take photos, "- says the man.

Trend "take off how I swim in the ice hole" succumb to even those who walked, but did not take pictures all past years.

"I dip for the third time and each of them as a new born. And she asked to take off her friend for the first time, in order to show her mother later, "the girl Daria explained in a conversation with the agency's correspondent.

Visitors who did not take a phone or camera with them, still fall under the lens, but already a television camera. Therefore, the trip does not remain unseen.

"I'm from volgograd. For the first time I bathe in an ice hole and it so happened that in the Urals. Feel it's time. Here you, of course, will be cooler, "- quickly said Alexander, on the move wiping himself with a yellow towel.

But not for all visitors Shartash towel and a warm blanket was more important than a phone with a camera.

"Have you forgotten your towel?" - Asked a young girl just released from the font of a man.

- Yes, - without much regret, that.

- Are you then, then let's run into the car, - worried woman.

- Well, you took it off, is it okay? He asks his companion on the way to the car.

Feeling how my toes freeze, I also decided to return to the car. On the way to meet her the next gay company. In the hands of one of the girls phone.

- Also shooting? In Instagram will be laid out or just for memory? I'm stopping them..

- And for memory, and in Instagram, - smiling admits Vlad.

- Of course, otherwise (without a photo in the social network, - note. red. ) she would not have gone, - with laughter inserts a replica of another friend of the girl Sergey.

- Are you religious? - it became interesting to me.

- Yes, - confessed Vlad and Sergey.

- What, do not look at me like that.

I'm not a believer, I just turned off the water at home, I came to wash, "their friend said jokingly.

The time is 00:55, cars are approaching to the place, crowds of people with phones at the ready and packages in which a towel and hot tea in a thermos are walking along the road to Shartash.

According to the regional MOE, over 15 thousand people visited the fountain night, of which 8,500 Yekaterinburg citizens.

Detailed PHOTO-REPORT from bathing in the ice-hole to Epiphany, see on our website.