ITAR-TASS Presents… Russian Streets and Squares Decked Out for the New Year

Children on a merry-go-round in Red Square in Moscow (Federal City of Moscow. Central Federal District) RF

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Festivities at the Christmas Market in Red Square in Moscow

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A view of the Christmas Market on Moscow’s Red Square

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A view of the Christmas Market near the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow

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A couple at Moscow’s Manezhnaya Square

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New Year Tree on Red Square

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Tverskoy Boulevard in Moscow decorated for the upcoming Christmas and New Year celebrations

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A giant decoration made of 9.5-metre-long (31-feet-long) LED lights in Moscow’s Manezhnaya Square

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Most expect the decoration to enter the Guinness Book of World Records

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A high-wire trapeze performer in Moscow’s Red Square with the illuminated GUM department store in the background

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A musician dressed as Ded Moroz (Grandpa Frost) playing a tuba on Tverskaya Square, Moscow

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A Christmas Market on Moscow’s Tverskaya Square

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Moscow’s GUM department store, decorated for the upcoming Christmas and New Year celebrations

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Children looking at New Year decorations in Moscow

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Visitors at skating rink set up by the GUM department store in Moscow

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Street decorated for the upcoming Christmas and New Year celebrations in St Petersburg (Federal City of St Petersburg. Northwestern Federal District) RF

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A decorated New Year tree in Vladimir (Vladimir Oblast. Central Federal District) RF

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A decorated tree in front of the Gorsoviet building ahead of New Year and Christmas celebrations in Yekaterinburg (Sverdlovsk Oblast. Ural Federal District) RF

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Christmas Market on Pionerskaya Square, St Petersburg

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A giant decoration made of Christmas lights at Central Square ahead of New Year and Christmas celebrations in Vladivostok (Primorsky Krai. Far Eastern Federal District) RF

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Decorated New Year Tree in Novosibirsk (Novosibirsk Oblast. Siberian Federal District) RF

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Unlike in many Western nations, where Christmas is the main celebration, New Year is the main winter holiday in Russia. Lights and decorations, giant baubles and street artists, abound in public places ahead of the New Year celebrations.

22 December 2014

ITAR-TASS

http://itar-tass.com/en/non-political/765871

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