![Celebrating Shiroka Maslenitsa in Veliky Novgorod](https://img.sputnikimages.com/images/vol1%2Fmedia%2Foriginal%2Fold%2F105%2F01%2F1050185_hires_0%3A0%3A0%3A0_1400x1000_80_10_1_S29uc3RhbnRpbiBDaGFsYWJvdiAjMTA1MDE4NQ%3D%3D_116%3A95_sputnik-1050185-preview_ce2d8338a8d20dbb3b3e032fda1ecfd2.jpg)
![Celebrating Shiroka Maslenitsa in Veliky Novgorod](https://img.sputnikimages.com/images/vol1%2Fmedia%2Foriginal%2Fold%2F105%2F01%2F1050185_hires_0%3A0%3A0%3A0_1400x1000_80_10_1_S29uc3RhbnRpbiBDaGFsYWJvdiAjMTA1MDE4NQ%3D%3D_116%3A95_sputnik-1050185-preview_ce2d8338a8d20dbb3b3e032fda1ecfd2.jpg)
Novgorod residents get smeared with soot from the fire "for luck" after the burning of effigies at the folk festival for Shiroka Maslenitsa in Veliky Novgorod.
- Categories: Lifestyle & Leisure, Human Interest
- Location: Veliky Novgorod, Russia
- Event date: 26.02.2012
- Date published: 26.02.2012
- Author: Konstantin Chalabov
- Credit: Sputnik
- Source: Sputnik
- Original: Digital
- Media: JPEG, 3834x2868px, 3.7Mb