Person. Galina Krivenko

Galina Krivenko, the Honored Journalist of Ukraine, which is hardening herself for a year, dries herself with the snow on the open frosty air, on January 25, 2000, in the Kyv-based Hydro-park. The grippe epidemic is spreading all over the Ukrainian territory. According to the Regional Health Offices' information, the epidemic boundary was exceeded in Vinnitsa, Zaporozhia, Nikolaev, Odessa, Sebastopol, Rovno, Ternopol, Kherson, as well as in Cherenigovsky, Dnepropetrovsky, Lugansky, Cherkassky regions. More that 515 thousands of people were taken ill with flu and sharp respiratory illnesses, including the 246 thousands of children, in Kyiv - 110 thousands of people, 46 thousands of the amount - are children. The anti-epidemic measures are taken. Photo by Victor Pobedinsky/ UNIAN