Malanka Festival

Grygory Pleshka, 28, left, and Georgii Istratii, 26, wearing women's costumes, celebrate the Malanka Festival on Thursday, January 14, 2016 in Krasnoilsk, Ukraine. The annual celebrations, which consist of costumed villagers going in a group from house to house singing, playing music, and performing skits, began the previous sundown, went all night, and will last until evening. According to tradition, married men may only participate in Malanka while wearing a mask.

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Grygory Pleshka, 28, left, and Georgii Istratii, 26, wearing women's costumes, celebrate the Malanka Festival on Thursday, January 14, 2016 in Krasnoilsk, Ukraine. The annual celebrations, which consist of costumed villagers going in a group from house to house singing, playing music, and performing skits, began the previous sundown, went all night, and will last until evening. According to tradition, married men may only participate in Malanka while wearing a mask.