Russian Orthodox Christians in the remote Far Eastern port of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky will mark the Epiphany on Wednesday night by plunging in the Pacific Ocean, church officials said.
Believers will submerge themselves in Avacha Bay three times after the water is blessed during a church service.
The ceremony, which celebrates the baptism of Jesus Christ by John the Baptist in the River Jordan, will be carried out across Russia at midnight.
Avacha Bay is the second-largest bay on Earth, inferior only to Rio de Janeiro's picture-postcard Guanabara Bay.
PETROPAVLOVSK-KAMCHATSKY, January 18 (RIA Novosti)
