•Резиденция Деда Мороза
[ rizidentsyja deda maroza ]

🔻In 1998, then Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov proposed to officially locate the residence Grandfather Frost, a legendary figure similar to Saint Nicholas, Father Christmas or Santa Claus who has his roots in Slavic pagan mythology, in Veliky Ustyug.

🔻The residence, which is a resort promoted as the Votchina "estate" of Ded Moroz, is a major tourist attraction which includes:

• Father Frost's house
• hotel guest complex
• cottage village "Russian Village"
• sports facilities (including swimming pool and sauna)
• restaurants and cafes
• Children's hotel
• children's playground
• slide attractions
• gift shops
• zoo and winter garden

🔻There is a dedicated post office there that answers children's mail to Ded Moroz.

🔻Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin visited the residence in 2008.

📍Geoposition: Veliky Ustyug, Vologda Region, Russia

📍Official site of the residence

Video by: Марк Орлов

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• Ёлочные шары
  [ yolachnyje shary ]
  Fir tree baubles

🔻The first glass Christmas tree decorations, according to one legend, appeared in Saxony in the 16th century - that is, before the tradition of putting up a Christmas tree in houses spread.

🔻According to another version, the appearance of glass baubles is associated with the failure of the apple harvest in Germany in 1848.

🔻Glassblowers from the town of Laushe made glass apples instead, which were sold with great success. And soon all the inhabitants of Germany began to order glass decorations for Christmas - these were icicles, beads, geometric objects, and figurines.

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