Robert Nickelsberg/Liaison for TIME.


There are six auspicious bathing days during this year's festival: January 9, 14, 24 and 29 and February 8 and 21. On the holiest day on January 24 -- at the most astrologically auspicious moment -- between 20 and 25 million people bathed in the frigid waters.

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