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People take part in celebrating the traditional Malanka holiday by wearing traditional costumes and singing ethnic songs at the Mamaeva Sloboda open-air folk museum on Jan. 14.
Photo by Volodymyr Petrov

Dozens came to Mamaeva Sloboda open-air folk museum on Jan. 14 to a celebrate a traditional Ukrainian holiday, Malanka.

A group of people wearing traditional costumes performed a range of traditional folk rituals that are thought to date from pre-Christian times.

Find out more about Malanka here