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Ice Bath Cleanses Russian Orthodox Believers

1 Yuri Maltsev
2 Yuri Maltsev
3 Yuri Maltsev
4 Maxim Shemetov
5 Maxim Zmeyev
6 Sergei Karpukhin
7 Sergei Karpukhin
8 Ilya Naymushin

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