Polar bears club "Silver forest" ivites you to join us for ice swimming in Moscow, Serebryaniy bor at Bezdonnoe lake. Every weekend from 12:00 to 14:00 you can make a refreshing jump to the icy water of our ice hole, make a snow bathing or just splash yourself with cold water, just like do polar bears of our club during last 67 years. Most of them are healthy and happy!
You will be also - just join us!

Ice swimming - is russian method of strengthening one's health through inuring the body to cold. It is treating with very low temperatures and it is supposed to increase the immunity of one's body (efficacy of their immune system). It's something like hydropathy with gradually decreasing temperatures: dousing, "snow bathing" and ice swimming. Ice swimming - it's a lifestyle of every person of our polar bear club. It's a Russian tradition named "Zakalyvanie", and I highly doubt that there a word for "organism hardening/staining in icy water" in English. Most likely, russian word "Zakalyvanie" translates as "hardening the body". The concept of "hardening" inludes anything from taking a plunge of winterbathers in icy water, to cold showers or simply sleeping with open window.

Polar bears club prsident
Sergey Maximov