I like it when you guys have me constantly scrambling over to Google with new search terms.
lets see......NEctor Makhno.......Epiphany........
It would seem that quite a bit of this naked dunking in ice water we've been seeing posted in this thread and others could be related to epiphany celebrations. In one article I dug up, it said 30,000 in Moscow went out on one occasion to participate or watch. My eyes popped out a bit as I imagined thousands of Kazantip babes going for a dip in the skinny. But I gather not everyone was there doing it naked.....

Still, 30,000 is a lot of people......but maybe 29,500 were camera weilding tourists....?
thanks!
KLondike