Ice slides for children in Yakutsk: a pensioner has been building them for eight years
For eight years now, a pensioner from Yakutsk builds ice slides for local children on his own.
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Each one takes several days to create. Water has to be fetched from neighboring houses with buckets. But the results are worth it: queues form at the slides, and children are delighted. Many come here after school.
"Our mayors are as far from him as the moon is from them," write There are people in the comments.
They wish the pensioner good health and think about chipping in for a New Year's gift from grateful parents.
That very moment when a miracle is born from cold snow and human warmth.