First official New Year performance for children in USSR was held in the Column Hall of Moscow's House of the Unions in 1936. TASS recalls the images of Soviet New Year celebrations and activities in this gallery.
Soviet New Year memories
TASS recalls the images of Soviet New Year celebrations and activities in this gallery
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New Year celebration in the Column Hall of House of the Unions, Moscow, 1963
© Fotokhronika TASS Father Frost (Russian Santa Clause) and Snegurochka (Snow maiden) entertain children in the Kremlin Palace of Congresses, 1977
© Fotokhronika TASS/Nikolai Malyshev, Valery Khristoforov New Year celebration in the Kremlin Palace of Congresses
© Fotokhronika TASS/Nikolai Malyshev, Alexander Sentsov New Year celebration in the Kremlin Palace of Congresses
© Fotokhronika TASS Customres near the shopwindow of Children's World toy store, 1983
© Fotokhronika TASS/Valentin Sobolev New Year celebration in the Tbilisi Palace of Sports, Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic
© ITAR-TASS People buy TV set ahead of New Year, 1963
© Fotokhronika TASS New Year program on Estonian TV, 1982
© Fotokhronika TASS/Endel Tarkpea New Year celebration in a kindergarten, Moscow, 1964
© Fotokhronika TASS Sale on Arbat street ahead of New Year, Moscow, 1985
© Fotokhronika TASS/Vitaliy Sozinov Father Frost in a winter pioneer camp in Moscow Region, 1984
© Fotokhronika TASS/Valeriy Zufarov, Vyacheslav Un Da-sin Antonov An-2 aircraft delivered New Year trees to local residents in Bukhara Region, Uzbek SSR, 1965
© Fotokhronika TASS/U. Usmanov Father Frost and Snegurochka in Altai Region, 1980
© Fotokhronika TASS/Viktor Sadchikov New Year festivities, 1985
© Fotokhronika TASS/Valeriy Zufarov