Low temperatures are a time for fun in -50C and below - riding bikes, ice swimming or eating frozen noodles.
Ice swimming at night is the best cure for winter blues.
Ice swimmers from team 'Morozhenki' (Ice-creams) in Vladivostok enjoy their own cold war, and insist it is healthy.
Cold water off a ducks back as Russians vow to keep record forever.
It may seem unusual but sunbathing in snow and wearing nothing more than a swimming costume in -10C can help fitness.
Now the fun begins: tourists swimming in -60C and momentous meeting between the seasonal icons Chyskhaan and Grandfather Frost.
Nikolay Petshak, 64, who swam from Russia to America, died in ‘accident’ in river where he carried the Olympic flame.