In an ethnic Tatar village in Russia’s Omsk region, drinking water comes from the ice of a local lake, which is cut in winter, carried, and stored for year-round use. It’s a good business for those who do the hard work of collecting the ice.
Originally published at – https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-siberian-tatars-tradition-ice/31145862.html

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