How to celebrate New Year in 1950

• How to Celebrate New Year in the 1950

New year for the Soviet people was very different holiday: to prepare for it well in advance, literally bit by bit collecting treats and Christmas paraphernalia. Many still remember with nostalgia the hard work.

Let's see how dressed up Christmas tree, Santa Claus and greeted every way happy New Year in the distant 50s

Tree. Author Nicholas Rakhmanov, 1950

A Christmas tree in the Hall of Columns, 1950

Santa Claus leaves the rink Gorky Park, 1952

The Soviet circus can do the miracles. Acrobats on a chain bike ride around the main tree of the country, 1952

Christmas tree in St. George Hall of the Kremlin, 1953

The famous photographer Emmanuel Evzerihin depicted his family at the Christmas tree, 1954

Vocational school students came to the Kremlin New Year's holiday in national costumes. Even the ladder tightly packed, 1955

Masha, the daughter of A. Shaikhet, among his friends in a modest Moscow apartment. Beads - optional. 1956

Grandpa came in 1957

The Bear has always been a hero of the official New Year 1958

In the kindergarten, of course, not poured champagne, but the tree is the most that neither is Exemplary, 1959

The singer Paul Robeson in the Central House of Art Workers with pilot Kozhedub, 1959

Christmas tree in GUM. Author Evzerihin Emmanuel, 1950