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Ride straight into the holiday spirit in this festive minibus

Ride straight into the holiday spirit in this festive minibus

20 December 2016

If you happen to be passing through Novorossiysk, a town on the Black Sea coast of Russia, prepare yourself for a serious holiday mood injection.

One of the town’s marshrutkas, a regular commercial minibus service, is decorated for the New Year and Christmas holidays with a tree, a holiday food and drinks spread, and the driver is dressed as Father Frost, the post-Soviet version of Santa Claus. The champagne served is non-alcoholic and there is festive music playing.

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The festive decorations are said to be the driver’s initiative – this is the second year in a row that he has spruced up the marshrutka for the holidays.

The bus serves the city’s route 21.

Source: TJournal [in Russian]