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Event announces | 1) 24.05.2012: Last bells ringing in Tuvan schools (Tuva) |
2) 01.06.2012: Children's Day (Tuva) |
3) 15.08.2012: Day of the Republic, National festival (Tuva) |
4) 20.08.2012: Kaigal-ool Khovalyg, Peoples Khoomey performer, Huun-Huur-Tu co-founder, turns 52 (Tuva) |
5) 11.09.2012: 80th anniversary of the great khoomeizhi Oorzhak Khunaashtar-ool (Tuva) |
6) 11.10.2012: 68th anniversary of Tuva joining Soviet Union (Tuva) |
7) 03.11.2012: 68th anniverasy of Alexandr Darzhai, Tuvan poet and traslator of Pushkin, Exupery (Tuva) |
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The Christian feast of the Epiphany has been celebrated in Tuva at midnight on January 19 on the Yenissei river near a buddist temple. Orthodox priest Father Viacheslav has made a blessing of the waters ceremony after which people began to dive into a crest-shape ice-hole. It is beleived that diving in water helped cleanse sins and brought spiritual healing. The tradition in Tuva is followed by people of different nationalities. Among the divers members of the government were noted. 
