I've been rooting around the library recently and discovered something very interesting: An official liturgical book published by the Patriarchate of Moscow in 2000 that is called The Order of the Baptismal Liturgy (sorry, don't know how to do Cyrillic letters on here).
Basically, it excises all of the rites that were originally performed on other days (e.g. the entrance to the catechumenate, exorcisms, allegiance to Christ, recitation of Creed, tonsuring, etc.), and places the actual Baptism and Chrismation right after the "Blessed is the Kingdom". Once the Chrismation is finished, the priest reads the prayer for the thrice-holy hymn at the font. Then the choir sings "All you who have been baptized..." while the priest processes around the font three times with the newly baptized and sponsors. After that, the priest and deacon go to the Beautiful Gates, the priest reads the entrance prayer, the deacon proclaims "Wisdom", the clergy enters into the sanctuary, the choir sings a final "All you who have been baptized..." and then there is the Epistle reading. The Liturgy continues on from there.
Pretty amazing. My question: Does anyone know how widely adopted, if at all, this rite is in Russia?