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Russian name for Father Christmas
Who is Ded Moroz?
Drink used to toast to the New Year
What is champagne?
Russians usually celebrate the New Year with this group of people
What is their family/families?
Date on which Russian Christmas falls
What is January 7?
Famous game with shapes invented in Russia
What is Tetris?
Girl who helps Father Christmas on New Years
Who is Snegurochka?
Most popular dish on Russian New Year
What is olivye?
Russians like to start the new year clean of debts and dirt and it is common to book this.
What is Banya/Sauna/Very hot bath.
Holiday on which children get presents
What is New Years?
Largest fortified complex in the world
What is the Kremlin?
Main female character in the Russian film Father Frost/Morozko
Who is Nastenka?
Popular red delicacy to eat on Russian New Year
What is caviar?
The most popular movie to watch on New Years Eve
What is the Irony of Fate (Ирония судьбы)?
Date on which Old New Year is celebrated
What is January 14?
World's longest railway
Trans-Siberian Railway
Item that the suitor in the movie Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka/Night Before Christmas asks the devil to help him obtain for his love
What are the Empress’s shoes?
Popular Eastern European dish during the Christmas and New Years seasons containing wheatberries and poppy seeds
What is kutya?
Television special shown in Russia on New Year's Eve
Little Blue Light/Голубой огонёк
Year that Russia began using the Gregorian calendar
What is 1918?
Russian superstition involving flowers
What is not gifting an even/always giving an odd amount of flowers?
Name of the two children in The Snow Queen/Снежная королева
Kai and Gerta
Popular fruit to eat on Russian New Year
What are mandarins?
Russian Orthodox tradition on January 19 to celebrate the Epiphany
What is ice swimming?
Year that Russian New Year was moved to Jan 1 from March
What is 1699?
Russian volcano that erupted in 2017 after 250 years of dormancy
What is Kambalny?