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In Photos: Love Is in the Air on Russian Valentine's Day

At the Moskvarium center for marine biology and oceanography, some couples traded paper valentines...
Kirill Zykov / Moskva News Agency
...While others felt the full mermaid fantasy with an underwater date.
Kirill Zykov / Moskva News Agency
One couple even held their wedding ceremony at the VDNKh ice rink.
Denis Grishkin / Moskva News Agency
Some celebrated with a costumed ski run at Fili Park...
Sergei Vedyashkin / Moskva News Agency
...and took in the carnival atmosphere at Luzhniki Stadium's ice rink.
Kirill Zykov / Moskva News Agency
New couples could break the ice by going skating on the first date.
Kirill Zykov / Moskva News Agency
The virtual registry office is a Covid-safe way to legalize love.
Sophia Sandurskaya / Moskva News Agency
Even the Lyublino metro station in Moscow became Vlyublino, which resembles the Russian word for "in love."
Denis Voronin / Moskva News Agency

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