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At the end of winter, St. Petersburg is filled with the smell of ... cucumbers! 🥒
This is a tradition of the city, but not this vegetable itself ...
The symbol of spring in St. Petersburg is smelt, which smells of cucumbers. Spring without this smell loses its charm!
And for the descendants of the inhabitants of besieged Leningrad (St. Petersburg), it is also a symbol of hope and life.
In those days, people knew that in winter the main thing was to live up to this moment, when smelt came to the Gulf of Finland 🎣. For them, this meant that they would survive ... that they would not starve to death. Spring is coming!
Therefore, we have such a tender attitude towards this fish.
Smelt is part of our history.
And also part of my life is piranha fishing! 🐟 Archived video of the expedition to C, in which I took part.