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  2. Public holidays in Russia - Wikipedia

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    In addition to New Year's Day (Новый год, Novy god) on 1 January, 2–5 January are public holidays as well, [1] [2] called New Year holiday (новогодние каникулы, novogodniye kanikuly). The holiday includes 6 and 8 January, with Christmas being 7 January, declared as non-working days by law. Until 2005, only 1 and 2 ...

  3. Date and time notation in Russia - Wikipedia

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    Single-digit numbers for day or month may have a preceding zero (for example "28.08.2017") is more usual. When saying the date, it is usually pronounced using the ordinal number of the day first (in neutral grammatical gender), then the month in genitive case (for example "Двадцать восьмое августа ").

  4. Knowledge Day - Wikipedia

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    Logo from a stamped envelope issued for Knowledge Day in the USSR in 1986. Knowledge Day (Russian: День знаний, romanized: Den' znaniy), often simply called 1 September, is the day when the school year traditionally starts in Russia and many other former Soviet republics as well as other countries in the former Eastern Bloc (excluding Romania, where it falls on September 11; the ...

  5. Peter and Fevronia Day - Wikipedia

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    The Day of Saints Peter and Fevronia since the days of Kievan Rus and until 1917, was broadly celebrated in Russia because it is believed that the Saints Peter and Fevronia are the patrons of marriage and family, as well as the symbols of love and fidelity. On this day it was common to go to church, where the people asked for love and family grace.

  6. Wikipedia : Language learning centre/Russian word list

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    a (а) - a; administrativnyy tsentr (административный центр) - administrative centre; aeroport (аэропорт) - airport; agent (агент ...

  7. Most common words in Spanish - Wikipedia

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    CREA includes samples from all Spanish-speaking countries. [1] The list of "2000 most frequent word forms" comes from an analysis of CREA version 3.2. [2] Plurals, verb conjugations, and other inflections are ranked separately. Homonyms, however, are not distinguished from one another. CREA 3.2 was published in June 2008. [1]

  8. Feast of All Saints of Russia - Wikipedia

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    Modern icon of All Saints of Russia. The Feast of All Saints of Russia, [1] also known as The Feast Day of All Russian Saints [2] Resplendent in the Russian land (Church Slavonic: Собо́ръ всѣ́хъ ст҃ы́хъ, въ землѝ рѡссі́йстѣй просїѧ́вшихъ; Russian: Собор всех святых, в земле Русской просиявших), is a day of ...

  9. Rumi - Wikipedia

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    Rumi was born to Persian parents, [35] [12] [13] [36] in Balkh, [37] modern-day Afghanistan or Wakhsh, [4] a village on the East bank of the Wakhsh River known as Sangtuda in present-day Tajikistan. [4] The area, culturally adjacent to Balkh, is where Mawlânâ's father, Bahâ' uddîn Walad, was a preacher and jurist. [4]