Take a glance at what New Year's celebrations were like in the USSR in Sputnik's photo gallery.
© Sputnik / Mikhail Ozersky Ded Moroz (Grandfather Frost) and Snow Maiden at the New Year's holiday in the St. Georgius Hall of the Grand Kremlin Palace, 1963.
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© Sputnik / Mikhail Ozersky
Ded Moroz (Grandfather Frost) and Snow Maiden at the New Year's holiday in the St. Georgius Hall of the Grand Kremlin Palace, 1963.
Guests at the "Russian winter" festival, 1977.
© Sputnik / Alexander MakarovStudents from Patrice Lumumba Friendship University pick presents for the New Year in the State Department Store, 1962.
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© Sputnik / Alexander Makarov
Students from Patrice Lumumba Friendship University pick presents for the New Year in the State Department Store, 1962.
© Sputnik / Yakov BerlinerA woman carries a New Year tree home, Moscow, 1972.
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© Sputnik / Yakov Berliner
A woman carries a New Year tree home, Moscow, 1972.
© Sputnik / Vitaliy AnkovItems from Irina Keichina's collection of 1930s-70s Christmas tree decorations and toys at the "Back to Childhood" exhibition of Soviet Christmas tree decorations held in the A. Sukhanov family House-Museum, Vladivostok.
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© Sputnik / Vitaliy Ankov
Items from Irina Keichina's collection of 1930s-70s Christmas tree decorations and toys at the "Back to Childhood" exhibition of Soviet Christmas tree decorations held in the A. Sukhanov family House-Museum, Vladivostok.
© Sputnik / Anatoliy GaraninA New Year's fair on Pushkinskaya Square, Moscow, 1947.
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© Sputnik / Anatoliy Garanin
A New Year's fair on Pushkinskaya Square, Moscow, 1947.
© Sputnik / Dmitry DebabovDed Moroz (Grandfather Frost) at the Moscow swimming pool, 1973.
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© Sputnik / Dmitry Debabov
Ded Moroz (Grandfather Frost) at the Moscow swimming pool, 1973.
© Sputnik / Fred Grinberg / Go to the mediabank"Street vendor" Nina Korolyova with presents on New Year's eve, 1980.
"Street vendor" Nina Korolyova with presents on New Year's eve, 1980.
© Sputnik / Vladimir FedorenkoDed Moroz (Grandfather Frost) and Snow Maiden visiting a three-year-old girl, 1985.
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© Sputnik / Vladimir Fedorenko
Ded Moroz (Grandfather Frost) and Snow Maiden visiting a three-year-old girl, 1985.
© Sputnik / Boris KavashkinA family decorates a New Year tree, Moscow, 1971.
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© Sputnik / Boris Kavashkin
A family decorates a New Year tree, Moscow, 1971.
© Sputnik / Vladimir FedorenkoNew Year trees near the Children's World store. 1987
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© Sputnik / Vladimir Fedorenko
New Year trees near the Children's World store. 1987
© Sputnik / V. ShiyanovskiyMuscovites celebrating the New Year in Izmailovo Park, 1976.
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© Sputnik / V. Shiyanovskiy
Muscovites celebrating the New Year in Izmailovo Park, 1976.
© Sputnik / Boris KavashkinDed Moroz (Grandfather Frost) greets customers in the Children's World department store, 1971.
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© Sputnik / Boris Kavashkin
Ded Moroz (Grandfather Frost) greets customers in the Children's World department store, 1971.
© Sputnik / Vladimir FedorenkoNew Year’s tree market, 1986.
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© Sputnik / Vladimir Fedorenko
New Year’s tree market, 1986.
© Sputnik / Dmitry DebabovDed Moroz (Grandfather Frost) and a police officer on a Moscow street, 1973.
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© Sputnik / Dmitry Debabov
Ded Moroz (Grandfather Frost) and a police officer on a Moscow street, 1973.
© Sputnik / Yuriy Somov / Go to the mediabankSnow Maiden performing on stage during a Russian Winter Festival at the Exhibition of National Economic Achievements of the USSR.
Snow Maiden performing on stage during a Russian Winter Festival at the Exhibition of National Economic Achievements of the USSR.
© Sputnik / Vsevolod TarasevichNew Year's Eve, 1973.
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© Sputnik / Vsevolod Tarasevich
New Year's Eve, 1973.
© Sputnik / Vladimir FedorenkoOn the streets of Moscow on the New Year's Eve, 1986.
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© Sputnik / Vladimir Fedorenko
On the streets of Moscow on the New Year's Eve, 1986.
© Sputnik / Sergey SubbotinSaleswomen at a New Year's fair in Krylatskoye, 1987.
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© Sputnik / Sergey Subbotin
Saleswomen at a New Year's fair in Krylatskoye, 1987.
© Sputnik / Galina KiselevaA girl by the shop window of Children's World department store in Moscow, 1969.
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© Sputnik / Galina Kiseleva
A girl by the shop window of Children's World department store in Moscow, 1969.
Guests at the New Year's Ball, 1964.