Young people wearing national dress jump over a fire on Ivan Kupala Day in the western Ukrainian city of Uzhgorod. Ivan Kupala is a pagan fertility rite which has been accepted into the Orthodox Christian calendar. It is a traditional midsummer day in Western Europe with which some pre-Christian traditions have been associated.

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