Calendar of significant and memorable dates. What are the holidays in December? What is celebrated in December

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December is full of holidays (in the full meaning of the word), as well as historically significant events that are widely celebrated both in our country and the entire world community. There are more than a hundred of them, these holidays and events in calendars, including foreign ones.

December 3 is marked as the International Day of Persons with Disabilities. They make up a significant part of the world's population. And most of the time, through no fault of their own. Of course, life is difficult for them - someone is weak or does not see at all, the other moves only in a wheelchair, the third is generally bedridden. And we are called to help them so that they do not feel superfluous in the world. On this day, people with disabilities are especially often visited, they are interested in their problems, they give gifts in the form of modern gadgets, or even help them get an education right at home, and then work, make their living environment comfortable - special ribbed paths on the sidewalks for the visually impaired, ramps and lifts in multi-storey buildings for wheelchair users. Disabled people are happy to participate in the Paralympic Games, which, as a rule, immediately follow the Olympic Games, whether they are Summer or Winter.
But the fifth of December is one of the most important historical events for Russians. Soviet army stopped the Nazi hordes near Moscow, which had previously marched victoriously across Europe. And not only stopped. Thanks to the twenty-eight guardsmen of General Panfilov and thousands of other brave red soldiers, led by such talented tacticians and strategists, military leaders as Zhukov, Rokossovsky, Vatutin and others, a turning point began in the course of the Great Patriotic War and the enemy was finally defeated in his very lair - Berlin signing an act of unconditional surrender in Potsdam.
On December 9, we celebrate the Day of Heroes of the Fatherland. Its beginning is far away. In 1769, Catherine the Great established the Order of St. George the Victorious. Potemkin, Nakhimov and other military leaders were awarded with it. Knights of St. George are also involved in the holiday. Since 2000, the order has become the highest military award in Russia.
There are, it turns out, romantic holidays in the world! For example, December 15 is International Tea Day. There are many brands of it - Chinese, Ceylon, Indian - you can't count them all, there is also a domestic one - Krasnodar. We like to drink tea in the morning, after dinner - black, green, with all sorts of fruit flavors. And it's great for health!
No less romantic is the Day of Civil Registry Office Workers (civil status records). It is not celebrated unless convinced bachelors!? And so, the majority of Russians with enthusiasm and happy smiles on their faces went through the marriage procedure (remember our young past!). The holiday falls on December 18th.
And after him (December 19) is the Day of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker. He is revered today by all the good Christians of the world. During his lifetime, he pacified those involved in strife, saved from death, resolutely defended the innocently convicted. According to these and other amazing and good qualities, he was numbered among the Saints!
December 25 - a great feast for Catholics around the world - Christmas! We celebrate it later - from January 7th. Solemn services in majestic cathedrals and small churches, gilding, silver, rich robes of clergy and enlightened parishioners. Meals follow. Both old and young glorify Christ the Savior!
Well, what can we say about New Year on the night of December 31st. A truly national holiday - with the Kremlin chimes and the indispensable congratulations of the President of the country with a fragrant Christmas tree, shining with elegant toys and colorful lights of garlands, round dances and fervent drinking songs, incendiary dances, with the obligatory "Champagne" on the table and obligatory chocolate. Fireworks and fireworks. People have fun until the morning. By the way, we celebrate the New Year twice - according to the new and old style. Everyone in the world is surprised by this. But these are our centuries-old traditions and customs!

December 1 - Day of military glory of Russia. Victory day of the Russian squadron under the command of Pavel Stepanovich Nakhimov over the Turkish squadron at Cape Sinop (1853). (Set federal law dated March 13, 1995 No. 32-FZ “On the days of military glory and anniversaries ah Russia").
December 1 - World AIDS Day. (Noted since 1988).
December 1 - 120 years since the birth of the Russian military leader Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov (1896-1974).
December 1 - 300 years since the birth of the French sculptor Etienne Maurice Falconet (1716-1791).
December 3 - International Day of Persons with Disabilities. (Noted since 1922).
December 4 - Informatics Day in Russia. (December 4, 1948 - the birthday of Russian informatics).
December 5 - Day of military glory of Russia. The day of the beginning of the counter-offensive of the Soviet troops against the Nazi troops in the Battle of Moscow (1941). (Established by the Federal Law of March 13, 1995 No. 32-FZ "On the days of military glory and memorable dates in Russia").
December 5 - International Day of Volunteers for the sake of economic and social development. World Volunteer Day. (Established by the UN General Assembly in 1985).
December 5 - 155 years since the birth of the Russian artist Konstantin Alekseevich Korovin (1861-1939).
December 5 - 115 years since the birth of the American director-animator Walt Disney (1901-1966).
December 7 - International Civil Aviation Day.
December 9 - Commemorative date of Russia. Day of Heroes of the Fatherland. (Established by the Federal Law of February 28, 2007 No. 22-FZ “On the days of military glory and memorable dates in Russia”).
December 9 - 120 years since the birth of Marshal of the Great Patriotic War Konstantin Konstantinovich Rokossovsky (1896-1968).
December 9 - 105 years since the birth of the Russian writer Nikolai Vladimirovich Toman (1911-1974).
December 10 - International Human Rights Day. (On this day in 1948, the UN General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which proclaimed the right of everyone to life, liberty and security).
December 10 - World Football Day. (Noted by UN decision).
December 10 - 195 years since the birth of the Russian poet, prose writer, critic, publisher Nikolai Alekseevich Nekrasov (1821-1878).
December 11 - World Children's Television and Radio Day. (Celebrated on the second Sunday of December at the initiative of UNICEF (United Nations Children's Fund) since 1992).
December 11 - International Mountain Day.
December 12 - Commemorative date of Russia. Constitution day Russian Federation. (Established by the Federal Law of July 21, 2005 No. 98-FZ “On the days of military glory and memorable dates in Russia”).
December 12 - 250 years since the birth of the Russian writer, critic, historian, journalist Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin (1766-1826).
December 12 - 195 years since the birth of the French writer Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880).
December 13 - 170 years since the birth of the Russian artist Nikolai Alexandrovich Yaroshenko (1846-1898).
December 14 is the Day of Naum the Literate (“Prophet Naum will guide you.” There was a custom on the first day of December, according to the old style, to give the youths to learn from deacons, retired soldiers and other rural literate, the so-called literacy masters).
December 16 - 115 years since the birth of the Russian military leader Nikolai Fedorovich Vatutin (1901-1944).
December 16 - 150 years since the birth of the Russian artist Vasily Vasilyevich Kandinsky (1866-1944).
December 19 - 110 years since the birth of the Russian poet, screenwriter Nikolai Evgenievich Virta (1906-1976).
December 19 - 130 years since the birth of the Russian writer Elena Nikolaevna Vereiskaya (1886-1966).
December 20 - Day of the worker of the security agencies of the Russian Federation. (Established by Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of December 20, 1995).
December 20 - International Day of Human Solidarity.
December 23 - Day of Long-Range Aviation of the Russian Air Force. (The holiday was established in 1999 by order of the Commander-in-Chief of the Air Force).
December 23 - 80 years since the birth of the Russian poet Yuli Chersanovich Kim (b. 1936).
December 24 - Day of military glory of Russia. The day of the capture of the Turkish fortress Izmail by Russian troops under the command of Alexander Vasilyevich Suvorov (1790). (Established by the Federal Law of March 13, 1995 No. 32-FZ "On the days of military glory and memorable dates in Russia").
December 24 - 115 years since the birth of the Russian writer, critic, publicist Alexander Alexandrovich Fadeev (1901-1956).
December 24 - 70 years since the birth of the Russian poet, actor, screenwriter Leonid Alekseevich Filatov (1946-2003).
December 24 - 130 years since the birth of the Russian writer Alexander Sergeevich Neverov (n. f. Skobelev) (1886-1923).
December 24 - 75 years since the birth of the Brazilian writer Anna Maria Machado (b. 1941).
December 25 - Catholic Christmas.
December 27 - Day of the rescuer of the Russian Federation. (Noted since 1995).
December 28 - International Cinema Day.
December 31 - 105 years since the birth of the Russian writer, historian, geographer, local historian Georgy Ivanovich Kublitsky (1911-1989).

265 years ago, the Moscow Cadet Corps was established in St. Petersburg (1752);
205 years since the end of the Patriotic War of 1812;
175 years ago, the first production of the comedy by N.V. Gogol's "Marriage" (1842);
145 years ago, the Polytechnic Museum opened in Moscow (1872);
115 years ago, the premiere of M. Gorky's play "At the Bottom" (1902) took place at the Moscow Art Theater;

December 1, 2017 - 225 years since the birth of N.I. Lobachevsky (1792-1856), Russian mathematician;

December 1, 2017 - 95 years since the birth of V.M. Bobrov (1922-1979), Soviet sportsman;

December 5, 2017 - 145 years since the birth of Al. Altaeva (M.V. Yamshchikov, 1872-1959), Russian children's writer, publicist;

December 5, 2017 - 205 years since the birth of Ambrose of Optinsky (A.M. Grenkov, 1812-1891), Russian religious figure;

December 6, 2017 - 205 years since the birth of N.S. Pimenov (1812-1864), Russian sculptor;

December 6, 2017 - 90 years since the birth of V.N. Naumov (1927), Russian film director, screenwriter, actor;

December 8, 2017 - 215 years since the birth of A.I. Odoevsky (1802-1839), Russian poet, Decembrist;

December 9, 2017 - 175 years since the birth of P.A. Kropotkin (1842-1921), Russian anarchist revolutionary, scientist;

December 10, 2017 - International Human Rights Day. The date was chosen in honor of the adoption and proclamation by the UN General Assembly in 1948 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

December 13, 2017 - 220 years since the birth of Heinrich Heine (1797-1856), German poet, prose writer and critic;

December 13, 2017 - 115 years since the birth of E.P. Petrov (E.P. Kataeva, 1902-1942), Russian writer, journalist;

December 14, 2017 - 95 years since the birth of N.G. Basov (1922-2001), Russian physicist, inventor of the laser;

December 15, 2017 - Day of Remembrance for journalists who died in the line of duty.

December 15, 2017 - 185 years since the birth of A.G. Eiffel (1832-1923), French engineer;

December 16, 2017 - 145 years since the birth of A.I. Denikin (1872-1947), Russian military and political figure;

December 16, 2017 - 85 years since the birth of R.K. Shchedrin (1932), Russian composer and pianist;

December 18, 2017 - 70th birthday of Steven Spielberg (1947), American director, screenwriter and producer;

December 20, 2017 - 115 years since the birth of T.A. Mavrina (1902-1996), Russian illustrator, graphic artist;

December 21, 2017 - 100 years since the birth of Heinrich Böll (1917-1985), German short story writer, prose writer and translator;

December 22, 2017 - 80 years since the birth of Eduard Uspensky (1937), Russian writer, screenwriter, author of children's books;

December 23, 2017 - 240 years since the birth of Alexander I (1777-1825), Russian emperor;

December 25, 2017 - 90 years since the birth of A.E. Rekemchuk (1927), Russian prose writer, screenwriter, publicist;

December 26, 2017 - 155 years since the birth of A.V. Amfiteatrov (1862-1938), Russian writer, playwright and feuilletonist;

December 27, 2017 - 195th birthday of Louis Pasteur (1822-1895), French microbiologist and chemist;

December 27, 2017 - 185 years since the birth of P.M. Tretyakov (1832-1898), Russian merchant and philanthropist;

December 28, 2017 - International Cinema Day. December 28, 1895 in Paris in the "Grand Cafe" on the Boulevard des Capucines, the first session of the Lumiere brothers' cinematograph was held.

December 28, 2017 - 120 years since the birth of I.S. Konev (1897-1973), Russian military commander, Marshal of the Soviet Union;

December 30, 2017 - 95 years since the formation of the USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) (1922);

We bring to your attention a calendar of significant and commemorative December 2017 dates which contains not only historical, cultural, patriotic and international holidays but also anniversary dates, Andsignificant developments.

265 years ago, the Moscow Cadet Corps was established in St. Petersburg (1752);
205 years since the end of the Patriotic War of 1812;
175 years ago, the first production of the comedy by N.V. Gogol's "Marriage" (1842);
145 years ago, the Polytechnic Museum opened in Moscow (1872);
115 years ago, the premiere of M. Gorky's play "At the Bottom" (1902) took place at the Moscow Art Theater;