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| | | January 7 | Christmas | | January 19 | Vodokhreshche, or Baptism of Jesus Christ | | March 9 | Myasnytsi, or Mardi gras, Ukrainian style | | March 10 | Taras Shevchenko Memorial Day | | April 20 | Verbna nedilya, or Palm Sunday | | April 26 | Chornobyl Disaster Memorial Day | | April 28 | Velykden, or Easter | | May 17 | Young Creative Talents Day | | May 24-24 | Ukrainian Village Welcomes Green Tourism Fairs | | May 24-25 | Youth festivals | | June 7-8 | Days of Embroiderers and Weavers | | June 15 | Triytsya, or Holy Trinity | | June 21-22 | Days of Potters | | June 28 | Hay-Making Day | | July 6 | Ivana Kupala Day, or Feasts of St John the Baptist | | July 19-20 | Day of Wood Carvers and Wickerwork | | August 2-3 | Days of Blacksmiths | | August 9 | Day of Florists | | August 19 | Day of Apiarists | | August 24 | Independence Day | | September 11 | Famine Victims Memorial Day | | September 21 | Day of Weddings | | October 14 | Pokrova, or Feast of Patronage of the Most Holy Mother of God Virgin Mary | | December 19 | St Mykolay, of St Nicholas | |
UKRAINE'S OFFICIAL HOLIDAYS New Year's Day - Jan 01 (this holiday is very widely celebrated in Ukraine, similar to Christmas in Western European countries and America)
Orthodox Christmas - Jan 07 (Ukrainian Christmas. Unlike the New Year with fun, fireworks and big celebration, it is a religious holiday)
Old Orthodox Church New Year - Jan 14 (the New Year according to the Old Church Calendar - mostly a religious holiday, but fun and celebration is also proper)
St Valentine's Day - Feb 14 (the Day of all lovers, celebrated exactly the way it is celebrated in other western countries. People send valentines to their loved special ones, etc. This holiday appeared in Ukraine only several years ago after the USSR had collapsed)
Women's Day - Mar 08 (the greatest women's holiday in Ukraine, Russia, Belarus, Moldova and all other former CIS countries. It is very widely celebrated. It is something between Mother's Day and St Valentine's Day. It is the day of mothers, grandmothers, sisters, sweethearts - of all the women. While St Valentine's is celebrated mostly by younger people, March 08 is universal)
Orthodox Easter (its date is not fixed - this holiday is celebrated two weeks after Catholic Easter)
May Day - May 01 (International Workers' Day. The day of working people around the world and their solidarity. Even though the holiday appeared at the end of the 18th century in Chicago, USA, it is mostly marked only in the FSU countries. It is still marked in many countries of Eastern Europe, in the former Soviet block)
Victory Day - May 09 (the Victory Day over the fascist Germany in 1945, on which veterans of war, of whom there are fewer and fewer with every year, are congratulated, honored and given flowers. Military parades and fireworks are typical of this holiday)
Trinity - May 30 (a religious holiday, a day off in Ukraine)
Constitution Day - June 28 (the Day of Ukraine's Constitution)
Independence Day - Aug 24 (the Day of Independence of Ukraine. It marks the date when Ukraine separeted from the former USSR and became independent)
Day of Freedom - November 22 (the holiday in honor of the Orange Revolution which began on November 22, 2004)
Army Day - Dec 06 (the Day of Ukraine Military Forces. It is a holiday of all men)
Catholic Christmas - Dec 25 (Christmas celebrated by Catholics and Protestants of whom there are many in Ukraine) UKRAINIAN PROFESSIONAL HOLIDAYS | January 29 | Day of fire-fighter | | February 23 | Day of motherland defender (former USSR army day) | | March 13 | of land worker | | March 21 | of people employed in consumer services | | March 23 | All Ukraine's Day of people dealing with amateurish art and culture | | March 25 | Day of SBU (security service of Ukraine) | | March 26 | of internal troops of Ukraine's ministry of internal affairs | | April 04 | of geologist | | April 12 | of people working for rockets and cosmic industry | | April 17 | of environment protection | | April 18 | of historic and cultural monuments protection | | April 26 | of Chernobyl disaster | | May 15 | Day of science | | May 24 | of Slavonic (Slavic) writing and culture | | May 29 | of people employed in books publishing industry | | May 30 | of chemist | | June 01 | Day of children protection | | June 06 | of journalist | | June 16 | of people employed in light industry | | June 20 | of medical people | | June 23 | of government employees | | June 25 | of customs officers | | June 27 | Day of young people, the youth | | July 01 | of architect | | July 02 | Day of Ukraine's Navy | | July 03 | Day of peacemaker | | July 04 | Day of Ukraine's air forces | | July 04 | of people employed in sea and river shipping industry | | July 11 | of fisherman | | July 18 | of metallurgist | | July 25 | of people employed in trade and commerce | | August 02 | Day of aero-mobile troops | | August 08 | Day of communications troops | | August 08 | Day of veterinarian | | August 08 | of builder, constructor | | August 18 | of bee-keeper | | August 28 | of aviation | | August 29 | of coal miner | | September 01 | Day of knowledge | | September 05 | Day of entrepreneur | | September 11 | Day of Ukrainian cinema | | September 11 | of physical culture and sport | | September 12 | of people employed in oil and gas industry | | September 12 | of tankman | | September 18 | of inventor | | September 18 | of pharmacist | | September 19 | of forest ranger | | September 21 | Day of Peace | | September 26 | Day of machine builder | | September 27 | of tourist, traveller | | September 30 | of librarian | | October 03 | Day of education, of teacher | | October 08 | Day of lawyer | | October 10 | of standardization and metrology | | October 10 | of artist | | October 17 | of food industry | | October 30 | of tax inspector | | October 30 | of life-saver | | October 31 | Day of the President of Ukraine | | October 31 | Day of driver | | November 03 | of engineering troops | | November 03 | of missile troops and artillery | | November 04 | of railway worker | | November 04 | Day of frontier troops | | November 07 | of people employed in the social sphere | | November 09 | Day of Ukrainian written literacy and language | | November 16 | of radio and television | | November 17 | of student | | November 19 | of meteorologist | | November 19 | of glass producer | | November 21 | of people employed in agriculture | | December 01 | of prosecutor | | December 03 | Day of disabled people (international) | | December 05 | of statistics | | December 06 | of Ukraine's military forces | | December 15 | of people employed in the court system | | December 19 | of attorney | | December 20 | of police | | December 22 | of Ukraine's diplomacy | | December 22 | of power engineering specialist | | December 24 | of people employed in archive maintenance, of registrar |
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