Happy Old New Year - 2025: Soviet postcards, beautiful pictures, funny greetings

On the night of January 14, the country will celebrate the Old New Year. This day allows you to relive the magic of the holiday and pay attention to your loved ones. Especially for the celebration "Izvestia" has made a selection of greetings with Old New Year and old postcards that will remind you of childhood. You can share them with your relatives in messengers and social networks.

Soviet postcards with Old New Year in retro style

Old New Year closes the pleiad of New Year vacations and winter vacations. In Russia, as in other post-Soviet countries, the holiday is celebrated with the same pleasure as the New Year itself. Houses set tables, light garlands and give each other gifts.

The simplest way to congratulate the celebration is traditionally a postcard. In the old days, New Year cards were approached with all responsibility, as a separate and very important genre of fine art. The best artists worked on the pictures, creating memorable images.

The true heyday of the Soviet postcard came in the 1960s and 1980s. In addition to fir trees, snowmen, ruby stars of the Kremlin and other traditional New Year's subjects, they depicted very unusual phenomena, such as Santa Claus on a rocket. This image was inspired by Yuri Gagarin's first space flight.

Santa Claus was also depicted on a car, train, airplane. With the development of television, images of the winter wizard against the background of a TV set or looking at the viewer from the blue screen became popular.

Postcards with cartoon characters, funny animals and birds were in great demand. Since figure skating was honored in the USSR, and Soviet athletes reigned supreme on the world stage, not only Ded Moroz, but also forest dwellers got up on skates.

Closer to the 1990s, photo postcards became fashionable. On them you can often see winter landscapes, streamers and confetti, burning candles and sparkling glasses of champagne.

New Year's cards were collected and stored. And today many people have them in their family albums or private collections. By these post cards you can feel the mood of the period, as well as trace the history of a bygone era.

Beautiful pictures with Old New Year - 2025

Modern pictures are noticeably different from the old ones. Artificial intelligence came to the aid of artists, which allows you to create the most incredible images. However, the subjects themselves have not changed so much. These are the same fir trees, happy children, Father Frost and Snow Maiden, fairy-tale characters and gifts under the tree.

But given that the holiday is celebrated two weeks after New Year's Eve, the post-New Year's atmosphere is reflected in postcards. Thus, in the Web you can find images of a well-worn Santa Claus, a snowman with a broken carrot or a Snow Maiden returning from another corporate party.

At the same time, the main symbol of the Old New Year for many years is a calendar sheet with the date of the holiday. Many postcards depict the date of January 14, but it is not uncommon to see January 13, as celebrations begin late in the evening and end the next morning.

Funny greetings with Old New Year 2025

When sending a card to family and friends, it can be accompanied by a short greeting. Here are some examples of how to congratulate with Old New Year in prose with your own words:

"Here is the New Year again! Let them call it old, but we call it proven. This is a holiday of resilient and strong-spirited people. Only those who have survived the New Year holidays can proudly greet the Old New Year. I wish you everything that I already wished you on New Year's Eve, only double. Have a merry holiday!"

"A week ago it seemed that everything was over! And whoever survived was the lucky one! But no, there's still Old New Year's Eve! Now it will be clear who is a real hero and will be able to once again endure a bowl of olivier and several bottles of champagne. I wish that this test will be successfully passed and the Old New Year will not become a control blow to the liver and kidneys. Happy Holidays!"

"Happy Old New Year! I wish you to celebrate the holiday cheerfully and wake up with a clear head, and under the Christmas tree to have another mountain of gifts and candies waiting for you. Success and happiness in the new year!"

"Congratulations on the Old New Year! I want to wish to quit all the old things that pull back and start conquering new heights. Let all worries and sorrows be buried in the snowdrifts, and Santa Claus will fulfill all the wishes that he did not have time to fulfill on January 1. Happy Holidays!"

"I wish you endless optimism, unfading youth, financial prosperity, peace of mind and immense love for everything around you. Happy New Year! Good mood, strength and health!"

Short poems with humor Happy Old New Year

"The Olivier is finished,
"The tangerine's out of my mouth,
And a new holiday is at the door,
It's Old New Year's Eve!"

"It's time to get back into the swing of things
It's time for us to dive in
"It's our favorite New Year's Eve
Good old New Year's Eve!"

"Let's go round and round again
We're celebrating Old New Year's Eve!
"We wish you happy New Year's Eve
And we wish you a good night's sleep

"Only the liver has rested
"The fireworks are gone
"Happiness has come to us again.
Old New Year's Eve is here!
I wish you the strength
To celebrate this holiday,
I wish you all have enough health.
"I wish you a great time!"

"I wish you on Old New Year's Eve
I wish you to spread caviar on your sandwich
Not once a year, but twice a day,
overcoming sleep and laziness,
"Let's gather all our strength in our fists
And we'll go caroling again!
There's not much left to do afterwards
Only to dive into the ice-hole!"

Earlier "Izvestia" told how much the New Year celebration cost Russians.