“March 19, 2012 was the first rehearsal for the Victory Day Parade at the training ground in Alabino (near Moscow, Moscow Military District). Since the end of February troops and vehicles from various units and formations of the Armed Forces began arriving to Alabino training ground. The first rehearsal included only military vehicles. During the ride the average speed of vehicles is 12 km/h, the distance depending on the type of vehicle from 12 to 15 meters”. – Vitaly Kuzmin

Revellers gather for the start of the Annual SantaCon Bar Crawl at Father Duffy Square, a section of Times Square, on December 14, 2019, in New York City. SantCon is an event where people make donations to charitable causes and dress up as a Christmas character and visit bars around the city. (Photo by Steven Ferdman/Getty Images)

A diver dressed in a Santa Claus costume swims at the Lotte World Aquarium in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, December 23, 2024. (Photo by Ahn Young-joon/AP Photo)

A girl dives under a wave at Bondi Beach as temperatures reached 29 degrees celsius on December 17, 2020 in Sydney, Australia. The Bureau of Meteorology predicted the arrival of thunderstorms and showers later today with a southerly change bringing possible severe storms around the Sydney region. (Photo by Mark Evans/Getty Images)

English-French actress and singer-songwriter Charlotte Gainsbourg attends the red carpet of the movie “Sundown” during the 78th Venice International Film Festival on September 05, 2021 in Venice, Italy. (Photo by Ernesto Ruscio/Getty Images)

NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman and European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst (not shown) works outside the space station's Quest airlock in the first of three spacewalks for the Expedition 41 crew aboard the International Space Station in this NASA image released October 8, 2014. (Photo by Reuters/NASA)

A model on the runway during the Georges Hobeika haute couture autumn/winter 23/24 show at Palais de Chaillot, as part of Paris fashion week in Paris, France on July 4, 2023. (Photo by Abd Rabbo Ammar/Abaca Press/Rex Features/Shutterstock)

A reveller is seen smoking at the annual gay pride parade in Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic July 03, 2016. (Photo by Ricardo Rojas/Reuters)