Around the world there are different versions of the jolly, bearded man who gives gifts to children in December or, in some countries, January. Unlike the bloated, red-coated father Christmas of the ...

Ded Moroz on a flying carpet (All images courtesy Katya Zykova, soviet-postcards.com unless otherwise noted) Santa, poised over the mission control center, peering at a gleaming satellite on the ...

The train is a special project of Russian Railways and the government of the Vologda Region, introduced on December 5, 2021 TASS, November 9. Ded Moroz's (Russian Santa) fairy-tale train from Veliky ...

Despite the difference in calendars that means Russians celebrate Christmas on 7 January, since Soviet times on New Year's Eve the population marks the arrival of Ded Moroz, or “Grandfather Frost” who ...

Russia's Santa Claus train will be skipping some stops in the country this holiday season amid the ongoing war which began after President Vladimir Putin invaded neighboring Ukraine. The project, ...