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On January 7, 2025, the EKR Museum-Reserve together with the House of Friendship-the Center of Public Consent held a festive concert dedicated to Christmas. The celebration included Christmas songs, dances, carols, and showed the traditions of Christmas and Svyatki. Guests took part in dances and round dances. In the foyer of the House of Friendship, a traveling exhibition «Traditions of Christmas» from the funds of the museum-reserve was organized, where one could see: icons, photographs of Christmas traditions, Christmas masks, mummers' costumes, inventory for Christmas fortune-telling, Christmas cards. Also on the territory of St. Andrew's Cathedral and near the House of Friendship, there were exhibitions-fairs of handicrafts, which presented wooden souvenirs, fur jewelry, dolls and soft toys, natural teas and modern decorative items.