Mass Media Overview

http://na.severstal.com/

January 17, 2013

Severstal North America, one of the largest U.S. steel producers, specializing in the full range of the high quality, flat-rolled carbon steel products, welcomes the 2013 North American International Auto Show to Detroit with an expanding line of advanced high strength steel products.

http://rbth.ru/ Russia Beyond the Headlines

December 30, 2012 Ricardo Marquina

Veliky Ustyug is a town in the northeast of Vologda Oblast. In the past it was one of the major cities of Russian North. Since the 1999, Veliky Ustyug was declared as the residence of Ded Moroz, a Russian analogue of Santa Claus. The residence, which is a resort promoted as the Votchina (Estate), of Ded Moroz, is a major tourist attraction.

http://www.russian-survey.com/

March 2012

Every year, on the night from January 13 to January 14, Russians celebrate the so-called Old New Year – a feast that seems to be totally incomprehensible for many foreigners.

http://www.severstal.com/

18.12.2012

Monrovia, December 18, 2012 – OAO Severstal (“Severstal” or “the Company”) is pleased to announce that the transaction between its indirect subsidiary Lybica Holding B.V. and Mano River Iron Ore Holdings Limited (“Mano”), a wholly owned subsidiary of Afferro Mining Inc. (“Afferro”), on purchasing a 38.5% minority interest in Severstal Liberia Iron Ore has been closed. Lybica has paid the remaining US$50 million to Mano in accordance with the amended agreement, which was announced on December 14. Thus, the company now holds a 100% interest in the Putu Iron Ore project in Liberia and has no further obligations under the agreement towards Afferro.

Voice of Russia http://english.ruvr.ru/

Dec 23, 2012

Russian and Finnish magicians - Grandfather Frost and Joulupukki (the Finnish version of Santa Claus) - met on the Russian-Finnish border on Sunday for a traditional exchange of Christmas gifts.

http://www.russia-channel.com/

The small town of Veliky Ust’ug, also spelled Veliky Ustyug, is located on the River Yug and the Sukhona River. It was founded in the year 1147 and currently has approximately thirty-three thousands residents. Veliky Ust’ug is a destination in Russia that is filled with magic, festivity and wonder, it is a town that is entrusted with the dreams of children and an atmosphere of possibilities.

http://www.richarddavies.co.uk/

Matilda Moreton, Richard Davies

London August 2007

In the summer of 1902 Ivan Yakovlevich Bilibin (1876 - 1942) the well known artist, stage designer and illustrator of Russian Folk Tales travelled to the Vologda Province in the North of Russia.

http://www.travel-to-russia.net/

About the City

If you were to get your map out and look to the east of Vologda region, you'd probably just think it was some far off nook, cut off from civilization. But remote areas still have some tricks up their sleeves to surprise even worldly-wise travelers. Veliky Ustyug is just one such place.

http://www.travel-to-russia.net/

About the City

Vologda is a city and the administrative, cultural, and scientific center of the Vologda region and is located on the Vologda River. The city is a major transport hub of the Northwest of Russia and has a rich history.

http://russiapedia.rt.com/

Image from www.snegurochka-dedmoroz.ru

Grandfather Frost

Ded Moroz or Father Frost, the Slavic version of Santa Claus, long ago became the symbol of Russian winter, New Year's and presents. He is usually accompanied by his granddaughter Snegurochka riding with an evergreen tree in a traditional Russian troika, a sleigh drawn by three horses abreast.