Decorations on the streets of Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kazan, Novosibirsk.
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In the run-up to New Year, the urban landscape is transformed. Once familiar streets and shopping malls are changed beyond all recognition, as if in a fairy tale. / GUM department store.
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Moscow is no exception.
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'The Crown', a piece by Italian light installation artist Valerio Festi, was unveiled as part of the Christmas lights festival on Teatralnaya Square in front of the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow.
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Teams of artists from Russia, Italy, France and Canada will decorate the streets and squares of Moscow with grand-scale light installations.
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At New Year it's worth coming to central Moscow just to admire the luminescent beauty, even if shopping is off the agenda.
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Daily life is adorned in every color of the rainbow with these dancing figures on Bolshaya Dmitrovska Street in central Moscow.
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Karl Marx now shares Teatralnaya Square with the luminous number ‘2016’.
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Tsvetnoy Boulevard is decorated with artificial luminous trees and huge red Christmas toys.
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Small houses with Christmas toys, sweets and souvenirs on Nikolskaya Street in Moscow.
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Children's World (Detsky Mir), the central children's store on Lubyanka Square, is full of fairy tales all year round. However, now it looks even more beautiful.
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New Year spreads fast across Russia. Father Frost (Russia’s Santa) is already in the “northern capital” of Russia, St. Petersburg.
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New Year decorations on Palace Square in St. Petersburg.
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Kul Sharif mosque in Kazan decorated for the winter holidays.
Alexey Kryazhev / Ria Novosti
What happens in Siberia? Novosibirsk is also ready for the festivities.
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New Year arrives first in Vladivostok, a city in the east of Russia (6,425 km from Moscow as the crow flies). Enjoy the winter holidays!
