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The New Year was marked in Ukraine in accordance with the Julian calendar, until the Gregorian one was officially implemented in 1918 – more than 300 years after others adopted it. While the holiday time has changed, the tradition remains.

These days a lot of Ukrainian cities are hosting festivals for any taste and budget. The Malanka Ethnographic Festival will take place in a small town of Vashkivtsi in Chernivetska Oblast on Jan. 13-14. It is traditionally held on the Old New Year’s Eve. The holiday got its name after the Roman Saint Malania whose day is celebrated on Jan. 13. Dressed up male residents of the town will perform in a colorful theatrical show featuring the main characters Malania and Vasyl (Ukrainians mark the Day of Saint Vasyl on Jan. 14) as well as pirates, police officers, firefighters and even some politicians.

They will sing carols, greet the guests and residents of the town and put on comic performances. The celebrations will start at 8 p.m. and run through the night. Early morning the participants of the festival will go to the local river to send the scarecrow to the bottom that symbolizes the old year gone.

The ancient Ukrainian traditions with modern flavor are what Rock-Kolyada (carol) Music Festival has been featuring every year on Jan. 13 in Lviv since 2009. This year, Ukrainian ethnic rock bands DrymbaDaDzyga and Astarta from Kyiv,KoraLLi from Ivano-Frankivsk and YoryiKlots from Lviv are expected to perform Ukrainian carols in their own modern ethnic rock-style interpretation.

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