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A look at the advancing industrialization of the Arctic amid climate change: in 2012, the Russian Arctic was experiencing a surge of activity as the ice across the far north dramatically declined.

Long lines of people waited in freezing temperatures of -20 C (-6 F) for the chance to strip down and jump into a hole cut through the ice, on the traditional holiday of Epiphany.

We met Liudmila Fedorovna near the Ploshad Vosstaniya metro station, where she was performing during rush hour for people hurrying by.