The New Year festival is the biggest holiday of the year in Russia. Winter holidays are the longest, so there are various festivals and events during that period. The Moscow Christmas Market has been held every year since 2013, but this year it was decided to cancel it due to the coronavirus. Recently, the Christmas market has become popular and is visited by more than 15 million people every year.
(Photo: Last year's Moscow New Year atmosphere)
The colorful green onion bowl is a symbol of Russia! Like the emotional and mischievous Russian people.
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The Maslenitsa festival heralds the arrival of spring! , Let's eat thin crepes "blini" that symbolize the sun!
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The most popular Soviet cartoon in Russian history is "Cheburashka". Cheburashka is a character from the picture book "Gena the Crocodile".
In 1969 the animation director for Soyuzmultfilm created a puppet animation. Since then, Cheburashka has become a popular character.
From January 2023, a movie remake of the animation "Cheburashka" was released in Russia and became a hit during the New Year holidays. The movie theater was full of children. "Cheburashka" is the highest-grossing Russian film of all time, with over 5 billion rubles at the box office.
4 interesting facts about the movie:
・Cheburashka was filmed in southern Russia (Sochi, Pyatigorsk, Kislovodsk).
・Six tons of oranges were used during the filming of the movie.
• 26 rats, 8 parrots, 6 guinea pigs, 1 bulldog and 1 iguana participated.
In the movie, Gena is not a crocodile, but a human (Gennadi) who works as a gardener in an arboretum.
