| Name | Date | Russian Name | Comments | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|
March 8, 2023 | Международный женский день, (Восьмое марта Vosmoe marta) | An official holiday marking women's liberation movement
, popularly celebrated as a cross between American Mother's Day and Valentine's Day. | March 8 | |
April 12, 2023 | День космонавтики ("Day of Cosmonautics") | The day Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space in 1961. | April 12 | |
April 22, 2023 | April 22, 1870 | |||
May 1, 2023 | Первое Мая - День международной солидарности трудящихся ("International Day of Worker's Solidarity") | Celebrated on May 1. Now called Праздник весны и труда ("Celebration of Spring and Labor"). | May 1 | |
May 4, 2023 | ||||
May 5, 2023 | ||||
May 9, 2023 | День Победы | End of Great Patriotic War, marked by capitulation of Nazi Germany, 1945 | May 9 | |
May 19, 2023 | May 19, 1922 | |||
June 14, 2023 | June 14, 1928 | |||
July 18, 2023 | July 18 | |||
October 7, 2023 | День Конституции СССР | 1977 Constitution of the USSR accepted - from 1936 to 1977 celebrated on December 5, after the 1936 Soviet Constitution | October 7 | |
October 9, 2023 | October 9, 1967 | |||
October 29, 2023 | ||||
November 7, 2023 | Годовщина Великой Октябрьской социалистической революции or Седьмое ноября | Celebrating October Revolution of 1917. It has now been replaced with День примирения и согласия ("Day of Reconciliation and Agreement"), celebrated on a Nov. 7 (at least officially) before amendments in Labour Codex (adopted in December 2004, new holiday, which celebrates at November 4 is the People Unity Day ("День народного единства)" in Russia. | November 7 | |
December 30, 2023 | December 30 | |||
December 31, 2023 | Новый год | Arguably the largest celebration of the year. Most of the traditions that were originally associated with Christmas in Russia
(Father Frost
, a decorated fir-tree) were moved to New Year's Eve after the Revolution and are associated
with New Year's Eve to this day. | ||
January 21, 2024 | On 23 January, the coffin with Lenin's body was transported by train from Gorki to Moscow
and displayed at the Hall of Columns in the House of the Unions
, and it stayed there for three days.
On 27 January, the body of Lenin was delivered to Red Square
, accompanied by martial music. | |||
January 23, 2024 | ||||
January 28, 2024 | ||||
February 23, 2024 | День Советской Армии и Военно-морского флота ("Day of the Soviet Army and Navy") | Formation of the Red Army in February 1918. It wasn't an official holiday, unlike the others. It is currently called День защитника отечества ("Day of the Defender of the Fatherland") in Russia. | ||
February 26, 2024 | ||||
March 2, 2024 | ||||
March 2, 2024 | 2 MARCH 1919 - THE THIRD INTERNATIONAL IS BORNThe Communist International (in abbreviated to Comintern) was the international organization of communist parties active from 2 March 1919 to 15 May 1943, also known as the Third International. Lenin recalls it thus:"The I International laid the foundations for the international proletarian struggle for socialism.The Second International was the epoch of preparing the ground for a large mass diffusion of the movement in a good number of countries.The Third International has reaped the fruits of the activity of the Second International, swept away the bourgeois and petty-bourgeois opportunist, social-chauvinist filth and has begun to implement the dictatorship of the proletariat.The international union of the parties leading the most revolutionary movement in the world, the movement of the proletariat for the overthrow of the yoke of capital, today has a solid foundation like no other ever: a certain number of Soviet republics which personify, on an international scale , the dictatorship of the proletariat, its victory over capitalism.The world historic importance of the Third International, of the Communist International, lies in having begun to put into practice Marx's greatest slogan, the slogan which sums up the centuries-old development of socialism and the workers' movement, the slogan that is expressed in the concept of the dictatorship of the proletariat.This ingenious prediction, this ingenious theory comes true. Today these Latin words are translated into all the national languages of modern Europe, indeed, into all the languages of the world. A new epoch of world history has begun."(Vladimir Lenin, "The III International and its place in history") | |||
