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 ...

People take a selfie during the Ded Moroz festival in Moscow, Russia, on Dec. 14, 2019. The Ded Moroz (Grandfather Frost or Santa Claus in Russia) festival took place on Saturday in Moscow. (Photo by ...

Several area children received an unexpected visit this Christmas Day from Ded Moroz and his granddaughter, Sngurochka. Ded Moroz, which means “Father Frost,” a figure very similar to Santa Claus, and ...

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 ...

Target destroyed," the air defence operator reports to Ded Moroz. "Right! We don’t need anything foreign in our skies," Ded Moroz responds. The video was published against the backdrop of reports that ...

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 ...

Roscosmos also published an image, made by the Kuban State University, who documented the magical present-giver’s flight over Russia MOSCOW, December 30. /TASS/. Russian space monitoring equipment has ...

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, ...

Ded Moroz (aka Grandfather Frost, Russia’s version of Santa Claus) had god-like status in the Soviet Union. When it came to Christmas gift ideas, most children thought the sky was the limit for Soviet ...