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Siberia’s hardiest diggers put their shovels (xẻng) to work Friday — by testing their grave-digging (đào mộ) prowess (kỹ năng, năng lực, sự thông thạo) at a crematorium (nghĩa trang) in Russia’s third-largest city of Novosibirsk.

The morbid (bệnh tật, ốm yếu; bệnh hoạn) competition (cuộc thi), held every year, says its aim is to raise the prestige of the profession (nâng cao uy tín nghề nghiệp), improve grave-diggers’ work performance and attract younger generations to careers in the funeral industry (ngành tang lễ),

The team from Omsk took home the first-place prize of 30,000 rubles ($400) after setting a new record by digging a grave in under 38 minutes (đội giải nhất được 400 usd, đào một cái mộ chưa đến 38 phút, kỷ lục...), 

Each two-man team had to dig a coffin (quan tài)-sized hole with exact dimensions of 200 centimeters long, 80 centimeters wide and 160 centimeters deep. In addition to size and speed, diggers were judged on technique and accuracy.

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