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New Year Celebration in my family starts in the middle of December, when we begin to decorate our apartment and buy presents. We used to decorate an artificial tree, not a real one. Artificial tree stays longer with no cutting needed. We love to decorate the tree with toys, multicolored New Year baubles, sweets and mandarins, then we put a big beautiful star on the top, and little colored lights on the tree branches.

All apartment are adorned with glittering tinsels and with hand-made fir wreath on the door. All of us hide New Year presents under the tree, we love to put the present into special boxes or in wrapping paper, so we never know what is inside. Me and my mom always cook a very sophisticated dinner, including some elaborate dishes and a cake. Our relatives come to our place, and they also put their presents under the tree.

Just before midnight at 11.55 pm our president addresses all the people with his New Year speech. He reflects on the past year, and wishes everybody happiness in New Year. Then we raise a toast while the chiming clock on the Kremlin Tower is counting down the last seconds of the year. After that my grandfather wears a costume of Grandfather Frost, he plays funny games with us, we dance together, sing New Year songs. Late at night we start to open our presents. Magical time! I usually get many nice useful things from my family and relatives!

I love to spend this holiday with my family!

Перевод:

Празднование нового года в моей семье начинается еще в середине декабря, когда мы начинаем украшать квартиру и покупать подарки. Мы привыкли ставить вместо настоящей елки искусcтвенную. Искусственная елка стоит дольше и не нужно рубить настоящие деревья. Мы любим украшать ее игрушками, разноцветными новогодними шарами, конфетами и мандаринами, на вершине мы устанавливаем красивую большую звезду, а на ветках маленькие разноцветные лампочки.

Всю квартиру мы украшаем блестящей мишурой, а на дверь вешаем венок, который сами делаем. Мы прячем подарки под елку, мы любим класть подарки в коробки или упаковывать их в бумагу — таким образом никто не видит, что внутри. Я с мамой всегда готовлю очень изысканный ужин, который состоит из сложных блюд и торта. Наши родственники приходят к нам в гости, и тоже кладут свои подарки под елку.

Прямо перед полночью, в 23.55, наш президент обращается к народу с новогодним посланием. Он размышляет над уходящим годом, и желает всем счастья в новом году. Затем мы поднимаем бокалы под бой Кремлевских курантов, отсчитывающих последние секунды старого года. После этого мой дедушка одевает костюм Деда Мороза, играет с нами в веселые игры, мы танцуем и поем новогодние песни. Поздно ночью мы приступаем к распаковыванию подарков. Волшебное время! Я всегда получаю много хороших и полезных вещей от своей семьи и родственников!

Я люблю встречать Новый год в кругу семьи!

Полезные выражения:

To decorate — украшать

to buy presents — покупать подарки

artificial tree — искусственное дерево

multicolored new year baubles — разноцветные новогодние шары

How do Russians celebrate the New Year and Christmas?

In Russia, the main holiday is the New Year, and the tradition of celebrating Christmas [Рождество, Rozh-dest-vO] has suffered significantly in the atheistic Soviet Union. However, the last twenty eight years Russians also celebrate Christmas. For Russian people holiday and fun does not happen much!

The label on the card:

DOWN WITH the bourgeois CHRISTMAS TREE!

Do not waste your time

Skates and skis

Are much closer to us.

Great feast of the 1st of January

Rich New Year’s table

New Year tree

Another thing about New Year and Christmas in Russia. If you are Russian and live in America you can take advantage of Americans not really celebrating the New Year. Some people who are originally from Russia but live in United States, they don’t buy every Christmas tree because they just wait till Christmas is over then they go out in the street and they pick up free Christmas tree wich they take home and turn out the New Year tree. Now tree is supposed to stay all the way to the Old New Year so you have to stretch it for two weeks from January 1 all the way to January 14. That’s why in Russia for the New Year tree people prefer the pine because pine tends to hold their needles way longer than them for so pine is perfect ball tree. It’s not as pretty but it stays longer without dropping the needles.

Patties with wishes

Snowflakes on the windows

Snowflakes on the windows can not be found outside of Russia and other countries of the former Soviet Union. Our snowflakes are special. We ourselves cut them out of paper, we paste them on the windows, so that the atmosphere in the house becomes even more festive.

Message from the President

New Year’s message from Putin to US residents

Russian New Year Movies

In Russia people have there is one actually a famous movie which everybody is watching before the New Year. It’s a famous comedy «The Irony of Fate, or I Hope You’ve Enjoyed Your Bath» (Ирония судьбы или с лёгким паром), it has a lot of famous catch phrases that every Russian repeats and it’s pretty good show. That’s also a lot of people watching it’s like a part of the New Year tradition to watch this movie on a New Year night.

«The Irony of Fate, or I Hope You’ve Enjoyed Your Bath» with Russian and English subtitles

Ded Moroz and Snegurochka

‘Grandfather Frost’ (known in Russian as ‘Ded Moroz’ or Дед Мороз) is the main character of the New Year, a kind fair old man with a white beard in a red, white or blue fur coat and felt boots. The Ded Moroz is riding on a troika of horses, and the grandson of the Snow Maiden helps him.

There are several legends and tale stories about Snegurochka. In one of the stories she is a daughter of an old man and a woman who never had any children, so they made a girl out of snow and called her Snegurochka. The spring came and she became very sad. And then one day she was playing with the girls in the woods, and they were playfully jumping over the fire, so she jumped too and she melted immediately and became a cloud… Snegurochka become famous in the 19th century when Александр Островский wrote famous play “Снегурочка”. In the story she is the daughter of Frost and Spring and she wants to fall in love more than anything else. But as soon as she does, she melts and turns into a cloud. Modern Snegurochka appeared at the beginning of the 20th century as a granddaughter of Ded Moroz who brings presents for New Years Eve.

Old New Year

And one more feature inherent only in Russia and the ex-USSR countries is the Old New Year. This funny oxymoron and an amazing tradition came about because of the differences in the Julian and Gregorian calendar. The church continues to use the Julian calendar, and the new year comes «according to the old style», so it falls on Christmas.

Christmas Traditions

Christmas Vigil Service

Christmas table

Now caroling is rare, especially in big cities, but before that it was a fun and beloved period, coming right after Christmas and lasting until Baptism. He is called Christmas-tree. At that time they used to dress up in different costumes, play funny games on the streets, sing, dance dances and congratulate everyone on the fact that the winter has finally come to a halt and it’s coming to spring.
Christmas carols were fun, festivities. People skated from the slides and arranged abundant feasts. However, nothing prevents us from returning the tradition and having fun from the heart in the last days of the New Year holidays.

Special Christmas decorations

Christmas Russian Movies

The night before Christmas, Ночь перед Рождеством [noch PE-red rozh-dest-VOM] (with Russian and English subtitles)

Christmas post

The Christmas party lasts from November 28 to January 6. During this period, one should refrain from abundant food, exclude from the diet meat, dairy products and eggs. However, in view of the fact that the post is just on New Year’s Eve, it’s difficult to resist.
But if you still want to touch this sacrament, keep in mind: fasting is not just abstinence from certain foods. John Chrysostomos (Zlatoust) said that «the true fast is the removal from evil, the curbing of the language, the deposition of anger, the taming of lusts, the cessation of slander, lies and perjury.»

And remember Russian New Year’s axiom:

What New Year’s and Christmas traditions do you have in your country?

40 Ways to Celebrate New Year Traditions Around the World

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[Updated 12/15/2020] Did you know that more people celebrate New Years around the world than any other holiday? But, of course, that doesn’t mean that we all celebrate it in the same way.

Each country seems to have its own unique New Years celebrations, with different customs for ensuring health, wealth, happiness, and luck in the coming year.

As we learn more about the various New Years celebrations around the world, we may discover strange cultural twists that seem foreign to us. But these unique variations in the way people celebrate the New Year are part of what makes exploring the world so great.

So let’s take a look at some of the more interesting New Year traditions around the world, and see how people will be ringing in the next year. Who knows? Maybe we can find something fun along the way to adopt into our own New Year celebrations.

I know many of us can’t wait to bid 2020 good riddance. So get ready, because New Years Day is coming soon!

Ways to Celebrate New Year Traditions

How to Celebrate the New Year at Home

The home plays an important role in many countries’ New Year’s traditions, which can involve everything from intense cleaning sessions to inviting special guests. Regardless of how it’s done, home is where many people celebrate New Year’s Eve and Day.

England: For good fortune in the newly arrived year, Brits believe the first guest to enter through the front door should be a young, dark-headed male bearing gifts such as bread (to be full), salt (to be wealthy) and coal (to stay warm).

Japan: Oshogatsu is celebrated with family, which both cleans and decorates the entire house together. Then natural decorations such as pine branches, plum blossoms, and bamboo play a special role in preparing for the New Year celebration.

Denmark: As a sign of friendship, people save their old dishes in order to break them on each other’s front doors. Residents will allow these broken dishes to pile up in order to show who has the most friends.

China: To symbolize happiness and good luck in the New Year, Chinese celebrants paint their front doors red. In general, red colors New Years Eve in China, with red packets of money for children, red rackets for married couples, and red lanterns.

Puerto Rico: In addition to cleaning their homes as the Japanese do, Puerto Ricans clean everything— the car, the garden, and even the streets. They also have a practice of throwing buckets of water out the window in order to do away with the bad juju of last year.

South Africa: Some South Africans—particularly those in the neighborhood of Hillbrow in Johannesburg— take cleaning house for the new year to an entirely new level. Throwing old furniture and appliances (think fridges!) from the windows of tall buildings somehow helps to make the new year bright. It’s actually a very serious health hazard there!

Black-eyed Peas and Cabbage by Pen Waggener via CC

Celebrate with New Year’s Eve Food Traditions

Food is used to celebrate the New Year around the world. In many countries, eating the right thing has a strong influence on the next year’s outlook. Many of these New Year’s food traditions are delicious, but they don’t necessarily make a lot of logical sense…

Louisiana: The New Year’s food tradition I grew up with is eating Cajun-style black-eyed peas and cabbage, with the promise that it will deliver health and wealth over the next 12 months. Even after 12 years of living and working abroad, I’ve never stopped celebrating the New Year with the dish!

Brazil: Lentils are the alimentos do dia for Brazilian New Year’s celebrations. The legume can come in different forms, such as soup, to help with finances in the New Year. Then, before midnight, they believe people should also eat seven raisins (because why not?!).

Austria: The New Year’s food traditions in Austria come two-fold. First, there’s finding a lucky charm that has been hidden inside a suckling pig. Then it’s onto a dessert of peppermint ice cream, which somehow represents economic windfalls in the coming year.

Spain: A challenge in speed-eating, Spain’s New Year’s food tradition requires that people eat 12 grapes at midnight on New Year’s Eve– one for each time the clock chimes. Otherwise, the new year’s superstition suggests that you’ll miss out on extra good luck for the coming year!

Switzerland: In a strange cultural twist, the Swiss don’t actually eat their New Year’s treat. Instead, they simply drop whipped cream on the floor and leave it there. Obviously, that means richness in the coming year, right?

Estonia : How Estonians make it to midnight on New Year’s Eve awake is a mystery. They should be in a food coma! Tradition dictates that the holiday should be celebrated with a lucky number of meals, with either seven, nine, or twelve trips to the table. However many meals you choose, you’re said to have the strength of that many men (or women).

Khmer (Cambodian New Year) by Sam Sith via Flickr CC by 2.0

Which Country Celebrates New Year’s First?

Despite the Gregorian calendar being globally recognized, many countries follow different timetables. So some cultures observe New Year’s on a different day! As weird as it may sound, there’s some debate as to which is the first country to celebrate the New Year.

India: While January first is certainly celebrated there, the New Year celebration in India actually has many different dates. Rongali Bihu is the most popular: It’s celebrated in mid-April, on the first day of the Hindu solar calendar. But the specific day of celebration changes from region to region.

Egypt: In Egypt, the New Year’s Day celebration changes according to the moon. But, unlike other countries that go the lunar route, here the festivities do not begin until a crescent moon is sighted!

Israel: The Jewish holiday of Rosh Hashana brings in the New Year in early autumn, as does the Islamic New Year (usually in late September). Many Orthodox Christians in Israel celebrate New Year’s on the first of September.

Bali: Many east Asian cultures use the lunar calendar to determine New Year’s Day. But some parts of Indonesia use a special Saka Calendar, which puts the holiday on a different date than China’s lunar system. It’s typically more of a somber affair, used primarily as a day of rest rather than celebration.

Samoa: There are 39 time zones in the world. Based on the International Date Line, the islands of Samoa and Kiribati are the first places on Earth to reach the Gregorian calendar’s new year on January 1st.

Traditional New Years Clothing – Vietnamese ao dai via pixabay

Traditional New Year’s Clothing

When celebrating the New Year, many cultures take the opportunity to get dressed up in whimsical or dapper fashions. Most of these New Year’s clothing choices are wrought with meaning, and occasionally they’re good for a laugh or two as well.

Philippines: For New Year’s in the Philippines, round is all the rage. People eat round foods, carry coins in their pockets, and wear clothing with nlots of polka dots. The round shape symbolizes money, and is believed to boost your finances for the new year.

Vietnam: The Vietnamese wear brand new clothes to bring in the New Year with a fresh start. These clothes are not the modern Western styles that most people wear in their daily life, but rather a traditional outfit called ao dai, featuring a long gown worn with trousers.

Russia: In a throwback to the Soviet era, most of Russia (except for Russian Orthodox Christians) celebrates something similar to Christmas at New Year’s. Grandfather Frost visits at midnight to leave presents while the kids aren’t looking. Christmas was actually banned in Russia during Soviet times, so New Year’s took its place!

Italy: Like the Vietnamese, Italians wear new clothes to ring in the New Year. As with the Russians, it’s a time for presents, with each gift (things like honey, gold, money, and lamps) symbolizing something specific for the receiver. The gifts are serious business!

Torchlight Procession Hogmanay. Photo by This is Edinburgh (edinburgh.org) via CC 2.0

New Year’s Festivals Around the World

Some of the world’s New Year’s traditions have an air of seriousness about them. They’re tied up in ancient religious rituals. They’ve been created by lawful decrees. Or maybe they just involve impressively huge fires in public spaces. Regardless, it’s important to recognize why we celebrate the New Year the way we do.

Scotland: Celebrating Hogmanay, which denotes the last day of the year, is a big deal in Scotland. So much so that it often overshadows Christmas. Christmas was outlawed by the Church of Scotland for nearly four centuries, until 1958. Though the holiday has regained its popularity, the New Year Festival of Hogmanay still holds a sacred place in Scottish hearts.

Australia : Sydney Harbour hosts one of the biggest New Year’s Eve celebrations in the world. It’s mid-summer in the southern hemisphere, and thousands of people gather around the Opera House in anticipation. An aerial show and water display kick off the celebration at 6pm. A family-friendly fireworks show starts at 9pm, while the main attraction– the Harbour Light Parade– is at midnight.

Belarus: In Belarus, New Year’s is included as a part of a 13-day festival known as Kaliady. Kaliady originates from the old pagan recognition of the winter solstice. It was only later that the Orthodox Christians added the celebration of Christmas (on January 7). Kaliady has customary foods in three ritual dinners, trick-or-treating, caroling, and more.

United States: Each year, hundreds of thousands of people flock to New York City to see the Big Apple drop at midnight. This New Year’s Eve tradition actually began as a replacement for fireworks, which had been banned in New York. In addition to watching balls drop, in other US cities you can watch peaches, giant walleye, and other locally relevant symbols lowered as the clock strikes midnight.

New Year’s Eve Ball by Nicole Beauchamp courtesy Flickr via CC 2.0

New Year Traditions for Good Luck

One of my favorite things about New Year’s good luck rituals is that not all of them seem completely sane. Many of the traditions we’ve already learned about on this list probably seem a bit off-the-wall. Here are a few that seemingly come out of nowhere, but remain integral pieces of some countries’ annual New Year customs.

Colombia : One of Colombians’ favorite ways to celebrate the New Year is to carry an empty suitcase around the block. The tradition is meant to bring celebrants a year of travel (which hopefully will involve a little more packing).

Denmark: Many of the world’s New Year’s traditions revolve around the stroke of midnight: fireworks blasting off, the ball dropping, kissing a loved one, toasting with champagne, etc. In Denmark, people jump off of their chairs in unison at midnight. This symbolizes jumping forward into the new year and leaving bad things behind.

Belgium: In Belgium, Walloon and Flemish farmers rise early on New Year’s Day and promptly head out the stables to wish the cows (and other domesticated animals) a happy New Year. Though the origins of this tradition are unknown, the same thing is also practiced in Romania.

Finland: Going to a fortune-teller can either be a fun or harrowing experience. But one Nordic New Year tradition involves reading the future for yourself. Finnish people melt tin horseshoes, pour the molten metal into cold water, and use the resulting solid to gain insight into the coming year. Its shape and shadow supposedly tell all, and a broken piece of tin is considered a sure sign of bad luck.

Japan: In Japan, Joya no Kane is a Buddhist ritual that takes place at midnight on New Year’s Eve. It involves ringing a bell exactly 108 times. Buddhists believe that we humans are entrapped by 108 different desires that keep us suffering. The chimes symbolize purification from the accumulation of these passions over the previous year.

Chile: In the small town of Tulca, Chile, it is tradition to spend the last night of the year at a sleepover at the cemetery. Locals believe that the souls of dearly departed friends and family come to hang around on the night of New Year’s Eve. So they make fires, bring food and drink, and decorate their loved ones’ graves for some ghostly quality time.

Ecuador : In Ecuador, los años viejos (the old years) is a beloved part of how to celebrate the New Year. People construct large scarecrows of those they don’t like and set them alight at midnight in order to burn away the ills of last year. Building the scarecrow is a family activity. While it’s mostly done for fun and laughs, controlling the bevy of fires is sometimes a serious undertaking.

Panama: Panama has a similar “viejo” tradition to the one in Ecuador. Only here the effigies are called muñecos. Rather than simply setting them on fire, the dolls are typically stuffed with fireworks in order to really get the festivities cranking.

Shared New Year’s Eve Traditions Around the World

And then there are the New Year’s traditions that are celebrated by people all around the world. These shared customs are part of what makes the New Year one of the planet’s most popular holidays. Here’s a look at some of the many traditions that transcend time zones, borders, and cultures…

Singing the New Year Song, “Auld Lang Syne”

Singing “Auld Lang Syne” at midnight is done throughout the English-speaking world and beyond.

The traditional Scottish folk song was transcribed (not written) by beloved poet Robert Burns in 1783. The literal Auld Land Syne translation is “old long since,” which really means, “days gone by.”

The tradition of singing it at midnight on New Year’s Eve was popularized by a Canadian band, Guy Lombardo and the Royal Canadians. The band, which came from a part of Ontario settled by Scots, often covered the song, partially to promote one of the sponsors of their radio show, Robert Burns Cigars.

In 1928 the band got a chance to do a New Year’s Eve show and closed their set with “Auld Lang Syne.” It became the show’s closing number for nearly 50 years, the remainder of Lombardo’s life.

New Year’s Resolutions

People have been making New Year’s resolutions for literally thousands of years, dating back to the ancient times of the Mesopotamians.

The tradition began as part of a 12-day New Year Festival (which was celebrated in March) called Akitu, during which citizens of Babylonia would swear an oath to the sitting king or allegiance to a new one. The Romans did a similar thing, also in March, devoting themselves to the Emperor.

In the mid-1700s, the Methodist Church used the New Year to encourage its members to renew their commitments to God.

Nowadays, most resolutions are neither oaths to kingdoms or religious tradition. Instead, they’re generally commitments to make some effort towards self-improvement. Unfortunately, studies show that– while nearly half the US population annually makes resolutions– less than 10% of them are kept.

Here are some of the top New Year’s Resolutions:

New Year’s Fireworks

Invented in ancient China, fireworks were originally made from dried bamboo stalks. When thrown in a roaring fire, they would emit loud bangs.

These were later filled with gunpowder (which was also a Chinese invention) to enhance the explosive effect. Finally, the bamboo was replaced by paper (another Chinese invention).

Around the 12th century, gunpowder and fireworks gradually worked their way over to Europe. Some historical accounts credit the Mongols, while others believe they were invented independently.

Since the beginning, fireworks have been used to scare away evil spirits and enemies. Because the holiday is often associated with starting anew, fireworks have long been a part of New Year celebrations, setting up partygoers for a positive year to come.

Today, the tradition of setting off fireworks as part of New Year celebrations in pretty much a staple all around the world.

New Year’s Champagne

Champagne, some people claim, was originally an English invention as opposed to a French one. The Brits developed the technology to bottle carbonated drinks in the late 1500s.

Using techniques translated from making cider, they began to make sparkling wines (of which Champagne is one variety). This invention also required creating stronger glass bottles that could withstand the pressure built up inside by the fermented drink.

Later, Champagne became the popular drink of choice for celebrations by the royal courts of Europe.

It eventually became a worldwide phenomenon in the late 1800s, when the price began to drop and producers started marketing the drink to common folks. While commoners couldn’t afford it for their daily table wine, it was affordable enough for special occasions.

It became especially popular for New Year’s celebrations because opening the bottle produced a firework-like POP, and the beverage flowed out in a display of abundance.

New Year’s Kiss

The tradition of sharing a New Year’s Eve kiss at the stroke of midnight has been featured in countless classic movies, from The Godfather II to When Harry Met Sally. The custom is now a part of most modern New Year’s celebrations.

Amazingly, the practice has been around for millennia, beginning with the Roman festival of Saturnalia. Lots of meaning has been attributed to the kiss over the years. In Roman times, it was more an act of basic debauchery.

German and English folklore cited that the first person you encountered in the New Year (and how that encounter went) would set the tone for the rest of the year. Attendees of masked balls in Europe used it as an act of purification after removing their masks.

These days, it’s widely believed that failing to share a midnight kiss on New Year’s Eve foretells a year of romantic loneliness.

However (and wherever) you may celebrate the New Year, most people around the world embrace and honor the passage of time with mixtures of reverence and revelry. It’s yet another thing that shows just how similar, yet unique, our planet’s diverse array of cultures are.

We value analogous things and celebrate in our own ways. But we all love to share these moments we hold sacred. We should all remember and relish the customs and traditions that unite us this New Year’s. At a moment when division and dissidence seems inevitable, we still have each other.

Happy 2021, everyone! –Jonathon Engels

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Тема «New Year Celebration in Russia»

Вы можете использовать данные тексты при написании сочинения на английском языке о праздновании Нового года в нашей стране, а так же, рассказать вашим иностранным друзьям о русских традициях в новогоднюю ночь. Топик подойдет школьникам и всем, кто изучает английский язык.

Новый год в России — на английском с переводом

The main essential elements of the Russian New Year are: a Christmas tree, a rich festive table, giving and reciving gifts, Ded Moroz and Snegurochka, watching TV-programms, clock chimes and the President’s speech.

New Year’s Day is a national holiday in Russia, in which most businesses and public offices are closed.

Russian children believe in the Grandfather Frost who wears a long red fur coat, a hat and felt boots and carries gifts in a large sack on his back. Grandfather Frost often comes with his granddaughter, Snegurochka or the Snow Girl.

Every major city has New Year festivals, concerts, fairs and other celebratory events. Main squares are decorated with trees, lights and decorations, everywhere there are music and fireworks.

Перевод

Основными элементами русского Нового года являются: рождественская елка, богатый праздничный стол, дарение и получение подарков, Дед Мороз и Снегурочка, просмотр телевизионных программ, бой курантов и речь президента.

Новый год в России является национальным праздником, где большинство офисов и государственных учреждений закрыты.

Русские дети верят в Деда Мороза, который носит длинную красную шубу, шапку и валенки, который разносит подарки в большом мешке на спине. Дед Мороз часто приходит со своей внучкой Снегурочкой.

В каждом крупном городе есть новогодние праздники, концерты, ярмарки и другие праздничные мероприятия. Главные площади украшены деревьями, огнями и игрушками, везде музыка и салюты.

Сочинение про Новый год на английском

Many people stay at home with their parents, getting together watching TV shows. Some people gather with friends. The others go to the warm countries, and some will spend the New Year’s day at work.

We say goodbye to the Old year and welcome the New year. Everyone gathers at the table before midnight, usually around 10 pm. Traditional meals include Russian salad «Herring under fur coat» and champagne.

Watching special holiday programs and our beloved Soviet films on TV is an indispensable part of the New Year’s celebration.

Every year at 23:55 pm, the President addresses the nation with a short speech and thanks the people for their support. The Russian national anthem begins at midnight, people congratulate each other and exchange presents.

When the clock starts striking midnight at the Kremlin’s Spasskaya Tower, we are toasting with champagne and make wishes. To the wish comes true, we write the wish down on a scrap of paper, burn it, throw the ashes into the champagne glass and drink it before the clock strikes 12. We have the first toast «To the New Year, to the new Happiness!»

New Year’s Day is a public holiday. It is a day off for the general population, and schools and most businesses are closed.

The New Year is the most beloved holiday among Russians.
The way you meet the new year is the way you will spend it.

Перевод

Многие остаются дома со своими родителями, собираются вместе и смотрят телепередачи. Некоторые собираются с друзьями. Другие отправляются в теплые страны, а некоторые проведут новогодний день на работе.

Мы прощаемся со Старым годом и встречаем Новый. Все собираются за столом до полуночи, обычно около 10 вечера. Традиционные блюда включают русский салат «Селедка под шубой» и шампанское.

Просмотр специальных праздничных программ и наших любимых советских фильмов по телевизору является неотъемлемой частью празднования Нового года.

Каждый год в 23:55 Президент обращается к народу с короткой речью и благодарит людей за их поддержку. Гимн России начинается в полночь, люди поздравляют друг друга и обмениваются подарками.

Когда в Кремлевской Спасской башне начинают бить часы, мы пьем шампанское и загадываем желания. Чтобы желание сбылось, мы пишем желание на кусочке бумаги, сжигаем его, бросаем пепел в бокал с шампанским и пьем его до того, как часы пробьют 12. У нас есть первый тост «С Новым годом, с новым счастьем!»

Новый год — государственный праздник. Это выходной день для большинства населения, а школы и многие предприятия закрыты.

Новый год — самый любимый праздник среди россиян.
Как Новый год встретишь, так его и проведешь.

How Russians celebrate real Russian New Year

New Year is definitely one of the most significant festivals for millions of Russians all around the world. If you happen to be in Russian on December 31, you can face some specific traditions that make the celebration of the New Year in Russia different from the same festival in other countries. Read out article if you would like to find out what you can expect to happen during this festival.

if you would like to find out what you can expect to happen during this festival.

How Russians celebrate New Year

For Russians the New Year is both a family festival and a party with their friends. As a rule, the first part of the festival starts at about 9pm and lasts until midnight. The whole family comes together for the New Year dinner. Tangerines, champagne and meat salad are the must-have dishes at the New Year dinner table.

Until about midnight the guests usually have dinner, speak to each other, discuss the achievements of the last year and make plans for the coming year.

At about 5 minutes to midnight Russians switch on the TV and watch the President of Russia addressing the people of Russia. This tradition started in 1976 and it has been followed since then. After that everybody celebrates the New Year while the Kremlin clock chimes midnight. People pour champagne in their glasses and say ”Happy New Year” to each other (we have talked about the ways of saying “Happy New Year” in one of our previous articles).

At about 1am there is usually a firework at the city’s main square. The New Year firework is an essential part of the festival, and it is usually organized in a big way. For example, the Moscow municipality spends about few million rubles on the New Year firework every year. A lot of people go out to watch the firework – you won’t see so many people out on any other day of the year.

The real festival begins after the firework! At this moment the family festival turns into the party with friends. Lots of people go to their friends’ where there is a huge table full with food and drinks awaiting for them; others go to night clubs and bars that traditionally hold New Year parties. Anyway, the celebration goes on until the morning.

Father Frost and presents

We cannot imagine the Russian New Year without father Frost and presents. In our article “How to say Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year in Russian” we mentioned that in Russia we give presents not for Christmas but for the New Year. If in the USA Santa Claus brings present, in Russia it is Father Frost with his granddaughter Snegurochka. Unlike Santa, Farther Frost wears a long blue coat, carries a long staff and travels in a carriage pulled by three horses.

Presents are usually put under the New Year tree where children later find them. Adults don’t need to follow this tradition – you can give presents personally when you come at people’s place.

New Year in Daugavpils

New Year is one of the most popular festivals in our city. A few days before the New Year there are a lot of cultural and sports events, children’s festivals organized in the city. On December 31 this year you can see the New Year firework as well as the New year concert. And there will definitely be a lot of people in the streets and the festival will last until the early hours.

Interesting facts

We hope you’ll find the article useful and now you know some interesting facts about the Russian New Year. But if you would like really understand what New year means to Russians, you should come and celebrate it together with Russians!

If you have any questions about the New Year festival, you are welcome to ask them in the comments.