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New Year Celebrations in USSR

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The New Year is Russia's most beloved winter holiday, as it was in the Soviet Union.

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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Ded Moroz (Grandfather Frost) and Snow Maiden at the New Year's holiday in the St. Georgius Hall of the Grand Kremlin Palace, 1963.
© Sputnik / Yuriy Somov / Go to the mediabankGuests at the "Russian winter" festival, 1977.
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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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"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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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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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New Year's Eve, 1973.
© Sputnik / Vladimir FedorenkoOn the streets of Moscow on the New Year's Eve, 1986.
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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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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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A girl by the shop window of Children's World department store in Moscow, 1969.
© Sputnik / Miroslav Murazov / Go to the mediabankGuests at the New Year's Ball, 1964.
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Guests at the New Year's Ball, 1964.
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