Uploaded February 2022 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago

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I've got to experience life in Lovozero village on Kola peninsula during a snowstorm and to take part in mass diving in the ice hole. Quite an adventure to dive in subzero water in the Russian Arctic!

0:00 Snowstorm in Lovozero village
15:30 Going to Murmansk for ice bathing

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youtu.be/qgz3XP2aCjE - Life at the edge of Russian North on Kola Peninsula | Murmansk & Teriberka

youtu.be/ZEtzBYfBnSY - I took a Soviet steam train in Karelia | My expedition to the Far North of Russia starts!

youtu.be/awrFPsvx6ik - Slavic languages | Are they similar and can you learn all of them?
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