During this festive season, Sheremetyevo International Airport would like to celebrate the joyous event with our passengers and business partners.

We are glad to invite you to take part in our holiday event. Please bring a gift which is symbolic to your country, your national symbol of Christmas and New Year to our airport! It could be any fairy character such as elves, Santa Claus and his friends, or any other native traditional symbols of Christmas holiday in your country.

All these gifts will be placed at the central Christmas tree at the departure level of Terminal 2 of Sheremetyevo airport. Each character or gift will be labelled with its country and airline, on which it arrived in Moscow.

Besides the Christmas tree, there will also be a life-size Russian Santa Claus with his Snow maiden lady, or Ded Moroz and Snegyrochka, as we call them in Russian. These two cheerful characters will conduct some games, quizzes and lucky draw near the Christmas tree, and there will be photo opportunities with passengers.

We will conduct a voting by all passengers for their favourite national Christmas character. There will be two rounds of voting – all passengers who are departing on the 22nd of December and the 29th of December will participate in this vote. The winner will be announced on the 29th of December in the presence of passengers and Russian mass media.

We appreciate if you could contact our Press Centre office (tel:+7 495 578 85 85; +7 495 578 20 73) to indicate your interest in participation before 30th of November 2007. The Christmas characters may be submitted before 15th of December 2007.

Thank you in advance for making this holiday for our passengers!