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Baller Babushka Brings It to Baikal

An Irkutsk grandmother has won the internet with an epic video of her drifting over a frozen Lake Baikal, dropping some rhymes, taking a dip in the ice and making it rain as any self-respecting rap star would do.

"So what if it's minus 30, we hang out like in Europe while you sit in your office on your ass," raps cooler-than-you Galina Kharitonova, who also has a solid Instagram feed.

The video was filmed in early February in Listvyanka, "when the most severe frosts hit," Kharitonova told the Komsomolskaya Pravda tabloid.

"But I am not afraid of cold water, because I have been practicing winter swimming for three years," she added.

Here are some of our favorites from Kharitonova's Instagram: