New Year is considered to be the main winter holiday in Russia unlike in many Western nations, where Christmas is celebrated more. Lights and decorations, giant baubles and street artists ahead of Russia's New Year celebrations in photo gallery by TASS
Streets and squares decorated ahead of New Year in Russia
Christmas fairs, lights and decorations, giant baubles and street artists ahead of Russia's New Year celebrations in photo gallery by TASS
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Children on a merry-go-round in Moscow's Red Square
© Pavel Smertin/TASS Festivities at the Christmas fair in Moscow
© Pavel Smertin/TASS A view of the Christmas market place at Moscow's Red Square
© AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin Christmas market near the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour
© Vyacheslav Prokofyev/TASS People at Moscow's Manezhnaya Square
© Vyacheslav Prokofyev/TASS New Year tree on the Red Square
© Vyacheslav Prokofyev/TASS Tverskoy Boulevard in Moscow decorated for the upcoming Christmas and New Year celebrations
© TASS/Mikhail Pochuev A giant bauble made of 9,5 meter long LED lights in Moscow's Manezhnaya Square
© Vyacheslav Prokofyev/TASS The bauble is expected to enter the Guinness Book of Records
© Vyacheslav Prokofyev/TASS A ropewalker performs in Moscow's Red Square with the illuminated GUM department store in the background
© Pavel Smertin/TASS A musician dressed as Father Frost (Russian Santa Claus) playing a trumpet at Tverskaya Square, Moscow
© Vyacheslav Prokofyev/TASS A Christmas market at Moscow's Tverskaya Square
© Mikhail Japaridze/TASS Children looking at New Year decorations in Moscow
© Vyacheslav Prokofyev/TASS Moscow's GUM department store, decorated for the upcoming Christmas and New Year celebrations
© AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko Visitors at skating rink organized by GUM department store in Moscow
© Ilya Pitalev/TASS Street decorated for the upcoming Christmas and New Year celebrations in St Petersburg
© Ruslan Shamukov/TASS A decorated New Year tree in the city of Vladimir
© Vladimir Smirnov/TASS A decorated tree seen in front of the city's administration building ahead of New Year and Christmas celebrations in Yekaterinburg
© Donat Sorokin/TASS Christmas market at Pionerskaya Square, St Petersburg
© Ruslan Shamukov/TASS A giant bauble made of Christmas lights at Central Square ahead of New Year and Christmas celebrations in Vladivostok
© Yuri Smityuk/TASS Decorated New Year tree in Novosibirsk
© Yevgeny Kurskov/TASS