Ice, Ice, Baby! Life in Siberia

Fisherman Alexander Romantsov looks out of the window of his plywood lodge, placed on the frozen surface of the Yenisei River over an ice hole for fishing at the beginning of winter, near the village of Anash, Novosyolovsky District of Krasnoyarsk region.

Snowboarder Roman Andrianov uses old oil barrels for slope style training at the "Little Town in Siberia" snowpark in the Siberian Taiga area, outside Krasnoyarsk.

Oksana Shirshova, unemployed, talks to her neighbors as she carries a shoulder yoke with two buckets hanging on it after taking water from the Teryol river in Verkhnyaya Biryusa village, located in the Taiga area.

Mikhail Demchenko, 58, a father of three adult children who live in another city, strokes his mare named Docha before riding to Taiga forest to gather fire wood for furnace in Verkhnyaya Biryusa village.

Vladimir Korabelnikov, head of a local orphanage and a member of local winter swimming club, swims in the waters of the Yenisei River, with the air temperature at about minus 20 degrees Celsius (minus 4 degrees Fahrenheit), in the town of Divnogorsk.

Fyodor Tremasov walks along a street of the Russian Siberian village of Zelenoborsk.

Russian artist Vasily Slonov carries props he called "Oil Mosquitoes", which are made of stainless steel and glass filled with natural oil, for a demonstration of an installation on a bank of the Yenisei River.

Assistant Anatoly Lyamtsev replaces wheels with mechanisms, designed and produced by Sergei Kasianov (L), before the testing the vehicle on the banks of the frozen Yenisei River during snowfall.

Children pour cold water on themselves under the watch of a fitness coach at a local kindergarten in Krasnoyarsk.



The program, which also involves sports training and sauna usage, has been practiced by the kindergarten for more than 15 years as they believe it has health benefits and keeps the children fit.



Children start pouring cold water on themselves outdoors after about three years of training and undergoing medical tests, and the kindergarten is the only one in the region that practices these exercises, according to employees.