SUP_Novosibirsk stand up paddle boarding club founder Yevgeny Popov in a Santa Claus costume SUP surfs on a confluent of the Ob River in Novosibirsk, Russia on December 27, 2020. (Photo by Kirill Kukhmar/TASS)





Russian emergency rescue workers dressed as Ded Morozes (Santa Claus, or Father Frost) reflect in a window of a children hospital after scaling the wall to greet children to mark the upcoming New Year celebrations, in Moscow, Russia, Friday, December 25, 2020. Russia, which has so far registered more than 2.9 million confirmed cases of the virus and over 52,000 deaths in the pandemic, has been swept by a rapid resurgence of the outbreak this fall, with numbers of infections and deaths significantly exceeding those reported in the spring. Usually, performers come into children's rooms, but this year because of the virus-related restrictions, the artists had to perform outside of the hospital at a significant distance. (Photo by Pavel Golovkin/AP Photo)





Families play in the snow in the popular Gorky Park in Kazan, Tatarstan’s capital city on December 26, 2020. (Photo by Yegor Aleyev/TASS)





Police and investigators work at the scene after two men attacked road police in the center of the provincial capital, Grozny, Russia, Monday, December 28, 2020. Two brothers attacked police with knives Monday in Chechnya, killing an officer and injuring another before being shot dead, the Russian republic's leader said. (Photo by Musa Sadulayev/AP Photo)





A man passes a sculpture “Make Way for Ducklings” dressed in Christmas costumes in Moscow's Novodevichy Park, Russia, Friday, December 25, 2020. The copy of sculpture by Nancy Schon installed in the Boston Public Garden, U.S., became dressed in Santa Claus' hat every Catholic Christmas for several years like a tradition. Orthodox Christians celebrate Christmas on Jan. 7, in accordance with the Julian calendar. (Photo by Pavel Golovkin/AP Photo)





A man wearing a hat with USSR (Soviet Union) logo gets out of the ice cold water during a frosty day in Siberian city of Omsk, Russia, Saturday, December 26, 2020. The temperature in Omsk dropped down to –32 degree Celsius (–25,6 degree Fahrenheit). (Photo by Evgeniy Sofiychuk/AP Photo)





Artists dressed as snowmen perform as they congratulate young patients of the Morozov Children's Hospital with the forthcoming New Year and Christmas in Moscow, Russia on December 25, 2020. (Photo by Stanislav Krasilnikov/TASS)





Members of a cold training club after cold water dousing in Lenina Square in Novosibirsk, Russia on December 27, 2020. (Photo by Kirill Kukhmar/TASS)





A woman wearing a face mask walks on snow-covered Red Square in downtown Moscow during a heavy snowfall on December 25, 2020, amid the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. Russia confirmed 29,018 new Covid-19 cases on December 25. (Photo by Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP Photo)





People skate during the opening of a skating rink at VDNKh (The Exhibition of Achievements of National Economy), in Moscow, Russia, Friday, November 27, 2020. The area of artificial ice cover is more than 20,000 sq. meters. (Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP Photo)





A man feeds seagulls on a beach in the Black Sea port of Yevpatoriya, Crimea on December 25, 2020. (Photo by Alexey Pavlishak/Reuters)





Members of rescue services dressed as Father Frost rappel down the facade of the hospital to congratulate child patients on the upcoming New year, in Moscow, Russia on December 25, 2020. (Photo by Evgenia Novozhenina/Reuters)





Cars drive along a road on a winter day in Omsk, Russia on December 25, 2020. (Photo by Alexey Malgavko/Reuters)





Trialist Pavel Prikhodko attempts to pull an An-2 plane as a cat walks nearby during a charity event near the village of Tatarka in Stavropol Region, Russia on December 27, 2020. (Photo by Eduard Korniyenko/Reuters)





Entertainers dressed in period clothing walk along the Spit of Vasilievsky Island during snowfall in central Saint Petersburg, Russia on December 23, 2020. (Photo by Anton Vaganov/Reuters)





Newlyweds kiss during their wedding ceremony in an ice cave at Zaryadye Park in downtown Moscow, Russia, 25 December 2020. The ice cave has a temperature inside of –10 Celsius degrees. The ice was made in stages, with 70 tonnes of water frozen on the cave's walls. Seven thousand couples have registered their marriage under the Moscow government's marriage registration program in 30 unusual places in the city during 2020. Zaryadye Park is a large-scale project to create a 78,000 square meters public rest space within the Boulevard Ring near the Kremlin. (Photo by Sergei Ilnitsky/EPA/EFE)





A man walks next to a Christmas decoration in front of a five-star Radisson Collection Hotel (L) on the bank of the Moskva River, formerly known as Hotel Ukraine, one of the city's seven 1950's Stalin skyscrapers, in central Moscow on December 24, 2020, amid the Covid-19 pandemic crisis caused by the novel coronavirus. Russia hits two new records confirming 29,935 new Covid-19 daily cases including 8,203 in Moscow. (Photo by Alexander Nemenov/AFP Photo)





Trucks drive along the main route of the TsKAD Central Ring Road during its launch in Moscow, Russia, on December 28, 2020. (Photo by Mikhail Metzel/TASS)





Girls dressed in Christmas costumes of a Snow Maiden and a tiger sculpt a snow hare on a tree in St. Petersburg, Russia, Saturday, December 19, 2020. (Photo by Dmitri Lovetsky/AP Photo)





A man walks past a snow-covered installation depicting a bicyclist in Stavropol, Russia on December 23, 2020. (Photo by Eduard Korniyenko/Reuters)