(Contemporary urban legend)

Forty years ago, in the spring of 1981, an electrician Gennady Bakanin, walking through the park of Lake Comsomolist (present-day Valea Morilor, that is Valley of Mills) discovered a new, unknown spring. Bakanin had been practicing cold water baths, so, he quickly spread the news of the discovery of a spring with very cold water through the ranks of like-minded people. Since that time, the anonymous spring has become a place of sports pilgrimage for the “walruses” of the capital.

In the same year, in the fall, Gennady’s sister Tamara died during childbirth. Grieving, Bakanin decided to immortalize her name and blessed the spring with her name.

Those who drink water from The “Tamara Spring” claim that the spring water is medicinal. It heals stomach ulcers and gastritis. And women, who cannot get pregnant, after drinking this water become happy moms.

The creator of the spring himself claims that he never gets sick and holds fasting twice a year for forty days, drinking only water from the wonderful spring.