MOSCOW, January 1. /TASS/. About half a million people in Moscow celebrated New Year's Eve outdoors, Mayor Sergey Sobyanin said in his Telegram channel.
"Almost half a million people saw in the New Year at the central sites in each district of the capital, in the city parks, at the VDNKh exhibition center and the festival Journey to Christmas," the mayor wrote.
He said that gala concerts, light shows and stage performances were arranged in the evening of December 31 and the first hours of January 1 at 21 parks and 12 district sites.