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Russians gear up for new Cold War as 1,800 brave skiers strip to bikinis and swim shorts on snowy Siberia slopes
Apr 20, 2021
With international tensions running high, Russians are proving they are ready and fit for a new Cold War.
Some 1,772 hardy souls stripped off to bikinis and swim shorts for a downhill race in icy Siberia .
They braved almost freezing rain in a temperature of just above zero as they gathered at winter resort Sheregesh, in the Kemerovo region of Russia .
The eighth annual GrelkaFest swimwear saw little evidence of social distancing for the semi-naked descent from Mount Zelenaya.
Director Nikita Girin said people had travelled from all across Russia came to break free from “the year of quarantines”.
Months of home working “did not affect the physical condition of our participants”, he said.
The swimsuit procession signals the end of the Siberian skiing season.
Sheregesh is Siberia's most developed downhill skiing resort, located in the Gornaia Shoria range.
Originally constructed as a mining settlement, in Stalinist times there was a local Gulag-forced labour nearby. Its 12,000 inmates built the local railway line.
It comes amid tensions between Russia and Ukraine .
Russia is planning a major warship assault to seize Ukraine's water supply, military sources have claimed.
Ukraine military insiders believe that the "most likely" attack will be a maritime and land assault in the south from Russian-occupied Crimea.
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