The decision will create legal grounds for providing special protection to natural complexes and objects included into the borders of the national park.

The “Minvody EXPO” multifunctional exhibition centre that opened near the Mineralnye Vody Airport has become the largest centre of this kind in the south of Russia.

The central streets of Moscow will be for the first time blocked for transport during the New Year holidays in connection with the “Journey to Christmas” festival.

A collector and a restorer, Aleksei Stavitsky has opened the first piano museum in Russia in Rybinsk (Yaroslavl Oblast).

Two snowboard parks will open on Tversky Boulevard and on New Arbat Avenue as part of the Travel to Christmas Festival.

In recent years, the popularity of winter recreation has grown more than five times. It is expected that they will be visited by at least 50 million people during the season of 2019-2020.

Father Frost from Yakutia has handed over the symbol of the New Year’s capital - a snowflake - to the city of Ryazan.

It is probable that a bridge to Sakhalin through the Nevelskoy Strait will be built in 2030-2035.

The results of the first international open competition on creation of the best concept of the art object for Shrovetide 2020 have been summed up in the “Nikola-Lenivets” art park in Kaluga Oblast.

Several thousand snowmen will be installed on the embankment of the Tura River in Maslovskiy district of Tyumen in December.