A young man climbs up a wooden pole to get a prize during the celebration of the Maslenitsa, in Kirzhach, Vladimir Region, Russia. Maslenitsa, also known as Butter Week, Crepe week, Pancake Week or Cheesefare Week, is an Eastern Slavic religious and folk holiday, which has retained a number of elements of Slavic mythology in its ritual, celebrated during the last week before Great Lent, that is, the eighth week before Orthodox Easter.