A Christmas tree to be installed on the Moscow Kremlin's central Sobornaya Square has been delivered to the capital, the Rossiya 24 TV channel reported.
The tree, which is about 100 years old and more than 30 meters high, has been chopped in the town of Klin near Moscow. Over the weekend, the Christmas tree will be installed on the square and decorated, the TV channel said.
This year, the Christmas tree was consecrated by a Russian Orthodox priest for the first time.
A pre-revolutionary tradition to install the tree in the Kremlin when the tsar family was celebrating New Year's Eve in Moscow was revived in 1996 by then-Russian President Boris Yeltsin.
MOSCOW, December 18 (RIA Novosti)
