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More than half a million people became guests of the events held in Ryazan, the New Year’s capital of Russia in 2020, TASS reports. According to the head of the city administration Elena Sorokina, from December 7, 2019 to January 7, 2020, about seven hundred events were organized in the city. This list includes interactive performances, sports, animation programs, festivals and shows. The program brought together more than a hundred sites throughout the city.
Thanks to the title of the New Year's capital of Russia, Ryazan gave residents and guests of the city a bright interesting holiday.
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One of the central events of the holiday was the Father Frost parade - about two thousand bearded wizards lined up in a column. Father Frost from Veliky Ustyug and the New Year wizard from Yakutia became the special guests of the parade. They walked more than two kilometers in the city center, accompanied by fairy-tale characters and an orchestra of drummers. The program also included Winter Day of the Airborne Forces and the Glinfest gastronomic festival.
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reported that the New Year's Capital of Russia is a project of the Ministry of Culture aimed at the development of tourism. Each year the festive capital is selected as a result of the competition. Earlier, the status of the New Year’s capital was awarded to Kazan, Vologda, Vladimir, Sortavala, Tambov, Khanty-Mansiysk, Tula. On January 7, the relay race of the New Year’s capital of the country passed from Ryazan to Kaluga. And in a year it will be handed over to Nizhny Novgorod.
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