Memorable dates in October. Calendar of significant dates

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Calendar of significant and memorable dates for 2016

1. UN International Decades

2. 2016 UNESCO

3. 2016 in Russia

4. Dates by month

5. Days of military glory of Russia

6. Memorable dates in Russia

From the compiler

The calendar of significant and memorable dates “Leafing through the colorful pages of life” provides information about the events of Russian and world history, anniversaries of prominent representatives of science, culture, art, statesmen and public figures, and writers. The content is grouped by month. Several blocks are allocated: Days of military glory; Memorable dates in Russia; Anniversaries, the exact dates of which have not been established.

All dates are given in the new style.

UN International Decades:

2014-2024 - A decade of sustainable energy for all

2013-2022 - International Decade for the Rapprochement of Cultures

2011-2020 - Third International Decade for the Eradication of Colonialism

2011-2020 - United Nations Decade on Biodiversity

2011-2020 – Decade of Action for Road Safety

2010-2020 - United Nations Decade for Deserts and the Fight against Desertification

2008-2017 - Second United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty

2006-2016 - Decade of rehabilitation and sustainable development of the affected regions (the third decade after Chernobyl)

The UN declared 2016:

International Year of Pulses

international year of camelids

UNESCO announced:

2016 World Book Capital status awarded to the city of Wroclaw in Poland. The city was awarded this honorary title for successful projects to promote the culture of reading, support libraries and develop publishing activities.

Wroclaw became the 16th World Book Capital. Its predecessors are Madrid (Spain, 2001), Alexandria (Egypt, 2002), New Delhi (India, 2003), Antwerp (Belgium, 2004), Montreal (Canada, 2005), Turin (Italy, 2006), Bogotá (Colombia, 2007), Amsterdam (Netherlands, 2008), Beirut (Lebanon, 2009), Ljubljana (Slovenia, 2010), Buenos Aires (Argentina) , 2011), Yerevan (Armenia, 2012), Bangkok (Thailand 2013), Port Harcourt (Nigeria, 2014) and Incheon (Korea, 2015).

2016 in Russia:

According to Kommersant, citing its own sources, 2016 will be announced Year of Russian cinema. The Decree of the President of the Russian Federation has been prepared, but has not yet been signed.

Minister of Natural Resources and Ecology of the Russian Federation Sergey Donskoy proposed to declare 2016 - Year of Specially Protected Natural Territories. Recall that in 1916, the first in Russia Barguzinsky Reserve (Republic of Buryatia) was created on Baikal.

2016 officially announced cross year of Greece and Russia. The order was signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin. The Greek-Russian year was originally supposed to take place in 2014, but at the request of the Greek side, due to the economic crisis and the Greek presidency of the EU in the first half of 2014, it was postponed to 2016.

The cross-year program includes joint events in the fields of education, language, science, cultural heritage, art, sports and youth exchanges.

2016 in the CIS countries:

Russian President Vladimir Putin expects that at the CIS summit in Minsk, the leaders of the Commonwealth countries will support the Russian initiative to declare 2016 Year of Education in the CIS.

Anniversaries of 2016 by month

January

world peace day(December 8, 1967, Pope Paul IV established a new holiday, World Peace Day. For Catholics, this holiday is called the Day of World Prayers for Peace)

Day of the epic hero Ilya Muromets

70 years old since the opening of the first session UN General Assembly (1946)

– 85 years old actor's birthday Anatoly Vladimirovich Romashin (1931-2000)

– 80 years old Nikolai Mikhailovich Rubtsov(1936-1971)

Week of science and technology for children and youth

275 years back (1741) by decree of Empress Elizabeth Petrovna Buddhism was officially recognized in Russia

– 95 years old birthday of the Swiss writer Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921-1990)

– 105 years old from the birthday of the Soviet film actor Nikolai Afanasyevich Kryuchkov (1911-1994)

– 105 years old actress birthday Maria Vladimirovna Mironova (1911-1997)

Children's Film Day(since 1998)

calendar day

205 years birthday of translator, publisher, librarian Evgeny Fedorovich Korsh (1811-1897)

– 120 years Efim Nikolaevich Permitin(1896-1971)

– 70 years old since the birth of a Russian writer, translator Mikhail Davidovich Yasnov(1946)

– 215 years from the birthday of the Polish and Russian historian Osip (Yuzef) Mikhailovich Kovalevsky (1801-1878)

– 135 years old Giovanni Papini (1881-1956)

Day of reserves and national parks. It has been celebrated since 1997 at the initiative of the Wildlife Conservation Center and the World Wildlife Fund in honor of the first Russian reserve - Barguzinsky, which opened in 1916

World Thank You Day

– 140 years Jack London(1876-1916)

– 270 years old since the birth of the Swiss teacher Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi (1746-1827)

– 80 years old since the birth of the Latvian composer Raymond (Raymondas) Voldemar Pauls (1936)

Russian Press Day. Celebrated since 1992 according to the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the Russian Federation

– 85 years old since the birth of the Russian writer Arkady Alexandrovich Vainer (1931-2005)

– 105 years old since the birth of the Russian writer Anatoly Naumovich Rybakov(1911-1998)

– 80 years old since the birth of a linguist, psychologist, psycholinguist Alexey Alekseevich Leontiev (1936-2004)

– 125 years since the birth of the Russian poet Osip Emilievich Mandelstam (1891-1938)

– 110 years writer's birthday Nathan Mikhailovich Lurie(Note Lurie) (1906-1987)

World Religion Day. Celebrated annually on the third Sunday of January since 1950 at the initiative of the UN

Children's Invention Day. This day was chosen in honor of the birthday of the American statesman, diplomat, scientist, inventor and journalist Benjamin Franklin. He made his first invention at the age of 12.

– 310 years birthday of an American statesman Benjamin (Benjamin) Franklin(1706-1790)

– 105 years old from the birthday of the poet Anatoly Vladimirovich Sofronov (1911-1990)

– 110 years from the birthday of a ballet dancer, choreographer Igor Alexandrovich Moiseev (1906-2007)

– 95 years old from the birthday of the screenwriter Valentin Ivanovich Yezhov (1921-2004)

– 75 years old birthday of the spanish singer Placido Domingo(Jose Placido Domingo Embil) (1941)

– 455 years birthday of the English philosopher Francis Bacon (1561-1626)

– 95 years old from the birthday of the Armenian composer Arno Harutyunovich Babajanyan (1921-1983)

– 240 years birthday of the German writer Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann(1776-1822)

– 185 years Konstantin Nikolaevich Leontiev (1831-1891)

– 70 years old from the birthday of the composer and singer Vyacheslav Grigorievich Dobrynin (1946)

Day of military glory of Russia. Lifting the blockade of the city of Leningrad(1944)

– 190 years since the birth of the Russian satirist writer Mikhail Evgrafovich Saltykov-Shchedrin(1826-1889)

– 125 years since the birth of the Russian writer, poet Ilya Grigorievich Ehrenburg(1891-1967)

– 175 years since the birth of the Russian historian Vasily Osipovich Klyuchevsky (1841-1911)

– 150 years since the birth of the French prose writer, playwright Romain Rolland(1866-1944)

February

– 85 years old since the birth of the Russian statesman, the first President of the Russian Federation Boris Nikolaevich Yeltsin (1931-2007)

Day of military glory of Russia. The defeat of the Nazi troops by the Soviet troops in Battle of Stalingrad(1943)

Anti-Profanity Day

– 125 years since the birth of the Soviet geologist, geographer, traveler, writer Sergei Vladimirovich Obruchev (1891-1965)

– 135 years old, statesman Kliment Efremovich Voroshilov(1881-1969)

– 180 years since the birth of the Russian critic, publicist Nikolai Alexandrovich Dobrolyubov(1836-1861)

– 165 years since the birth of the largest Russian publisher, bookseller, educator Ivan Dmitrievich Sytin (1851-1934)

– 155 years birthday of a chemist Nikolai Dmitrievich Zelinsky (1861-1953)

Day of Russian Science. Installed in honor of the 275th anniversary of the founding (1724) of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of 07.06.99 N 717

Day of memory of the young anti-fascist hero. Celebrated since 1964 in honor of the fallen young participants in anti-fascist demonstrations

– 825 years since the birth of the Grand Duke of Vladimir Yaroslav Vsevolodovich (1191-1246)

– 575 years since the birth of the Uzbek poet Nizamaddin Mir Alisher Navoi(1441-1501)

– Memorial Day of Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin. 179th anniversary of the poet's death (1837), see Pushkin's almanac. Issue. 12

– 135 years old since the birth of the Russian writer Boris Konstantinovich Zaitsev(1881-1972)

– 105 years old since the birth of mathematics, mechanics Mstislav Vsevolodovich Keldysh (1911-1978)

– 75 years old since the birth of the Russian poet Yuri Polikarpovich Kuznetsov (1941-2003)

– 135 years old Anna Pavlovna(Matveevna) Pavlova (1881-1931)

– 135 years old since the birth of the English children's writer, the first laureate of the International Literary Prize. H.K. Andersen Elinor Farjeon(1881-1965)

Valentine's Day. St. Valentine's Day(see Happy Valentine's Day greetings)

– 80 years old from the birthday of the Polish singer Anna German (1936-1982)

Day of Remembrance of Soldiers-Internationalists in Russia. Celebrated on the day of the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan (1989)

– 110 years from the birthday of the Tatar poet Musa Jalil(1906-1944)

– 185 years since the birth of the Russian writer Nikolai Semenovich Leskov(1831-1895)

World Kindness Day (Greetings)

– 110 years since the birth of the Russian children's poet Agnia Lvovna Barto(1906-1981)

– 160 years Joseph Roni(senior) (1856-1940)

– 105 years old writer's birthday Galina Evgenievna Nikolaeva(Volyanskaya) (1911-1963)

– 95 years old from the date of the first issue newspaper "Trud" (1921)

– 85 years old actress birthday Alla Dmitrievna Larionova (1931-2000)

– 195 years old since the birth of the Russian writer Alexei Mikhailovich Zhemchuzhnikov(1821-1908)

Defender of the Fatherland Day. Day of military glory of Russia. Day of the victory of the Red Army over the Kaiser troops (1918)

– 230 years since the birth of the German writer, philologist Wilhelm Grimm(1786-1859)

– 145 years old since the birth of the Ukrainian writer Lesya Ukrainka (Larysa Petrovna Kosach)(1871-1913)

– 105 years old Agnia Alexandrovna Kuznetsova (Markova)(1911-1996)

– 175 years Pierre Auguste Renoir (1841-1919)

– 185 years Nikolai Nikolaevich Ge (1831-1894)

– 150 years since the birth of the Russian symbolist poet Vyacheslav Ivanovich Ivanov (1866-1949)

March

Day of Remembrance of the paratroopers of the 6th Airborne Company of the 104th Regiment of the Pskov Airborne Division, who heroically died in the Argun Gorge on March 1, 2000 (since 01/31/2013)

world cat day

– 170 years since the birth of a naturalist, geologist, soil scientist Vasily Vasilyevich Dokuchaev (1846-1903)

– 85 years old since the birth of the Soviet and Russian statesman and public figure Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev (1931)

– 80 years old actress birthday Ia Sergeevna Savvina (1936-2011)

155 years ago Alexander II signed the Manifesto on the abolition of serfdom. The beginning of the Peasant reform in Russia (1861)

– 305 years(1711) from the day establishment of the Senate by Peter I as the highest state body for legislation and public administration

– 320 years birthday of the Italian artist Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696-1770)

– 130 years since the birth of the singer Nadezhda Andreevna Obukhova (1886-1961)

– 115 years old since the birth of the film director, screenwriter Mark Semenovich Donskoy (1901-1981)

1695 years(321) from the day of the announcement Sunday non-working day(The most ancient decree of Emperor Constantine the Great)

– 110 years director's birthday Alexander Arturovich Rowe (1906-1973)

– 85 years old since the birth of a Russian teacher Shalva Alexandrovich Amonashvili (1931)

– 75 years old from the birthday of the Soviet actor Andrey Alexandrovich Mironov (1941-1987)

– 90 years old composer's birthday Alexander Sergeevich Zatsepin (1826-1995)

65 years ago Supreme Soviet of the USSR adopted a law on the protection of peace (1951)

– 80 years old since the birth of the American writer, laureate of the International Prize. H.K. Andersen (1992) Virginia Hamilton(Hamilton, Hamilton) (1936-2002)

– 65 years old actress birthday Irina Ivanovna Alferova (1951)

Orthodox Book Day

– 130 years from the birthday of the Soviet artist, graphics Vladimir Andreevich Favorsky (1886-1964)

world consumer rights day

– 160 years since the birth of the Russian artist Mikhail Alexandrovich Vrubel (1856-1910)

– 105 years old since the birth of the Russian writer Alexey Ivanovich Musatov(1911-1976)

– 145 years old from the birthday of the Soviet artist, art critic Igor Emmanuilovich Grabar (1871-1960)

International Theater Day. Established in Vienna at the 9th Congress of the International Theater Institute under UNESCO in 1961. It has been celebrated annually since 1962.

– 135 years old since the birth of the Russian writer Arkady Timofeevich Averchenko(1881-1925)

– 145 years old since the birth of a German writer, public figure Heinrich Mann(1871-1950)

– 235 years since the birth of the philosopher-Slavist Alexander Khristoforovich Vostokov (1781-1864)

– 130 years from the birthday of the Soviet politician Sergei Mironovich Kirov(Kostrikov) (1886-1934)

– 85 years old since the birth of the Russian film director Stanislav Sergeevich Govorukhin (1936)

– 270 years since the birth of the Spanish artist Francisco Goya (1746-1828)

– 240 years since the birth of the Russian artist Vasily Andreevich Tropinin (1776-1857)

– 190 years since the birth of the bibliographer, bibliophile Grigory Nikolaevich Gennadi (1826-1880)

– 420 years since the birth of the French scientist Rene Descartes (1596-1650)

April

April Fool's Day

international bird day. In 1906, the International Convention for the Protection of Birds was signed

– 585 years François Villon(1431 or 1432-after 1463)

– 110 years from the birthday of an aircraft designer Alexander Sergeevich Yakovlev (1906-1989)

Day of unity of peoples

International Children's Book Day. Established by the decision of UNESCO in 1967 on the birthday of H.K. Andersen

Geologist's Day

– 100 years from the birthday of the Russian musician Oleg Leonidovich Lundstrem (1916-2005)

– 210 years since the birth of a philosopher, writer Ivan Vasilyevich Kireevsky (1806-1856)

– 120 years since the beginning of the first modern Olympic Games in Athens (1896)

– 180 years since the birth of a scientist, surgeon Nikolai Vasilyevich Sklifosovsky(1836-1904)

– 175 years from the artist's birthday Ivan Zakharovich Surikov (1841-1880)

world health day

– 195 years old birthday of the French poet Charles Pierre Baudelaire (1821-1867)

– 80 years old since the birth of the Chuvash writer Mikhail Nikolaevich Yukhma(Ilyina) (1936)

World Day of Aviation and Cosmonautics 55 years from the day first manned flight into space(1961) (noted by UNESCO)

– 85 years old Vitaly Titovich Korzhikov(1931-2007)

– 85 years old from the birthday of the poet Leonid Petrovich Derbenev (1931-1995)

– 110 years birthday of Irish writer, Nobel laureate Samuel Beckett (Beckett)(1906-1989)

– 95 years old writer's birthday Leonid Izrailevich Likhodeev(Lides) (1921-1994)

world culture day

– 130 years since the birth of the Russian poet Nikolai Stepanovich Gumilyov (1886-1921)

– 90 years old from the birthday of the Russian poetess Emma Efraimovna Moshkovskaya(1926-1981)

– 135 years old from the birthday of a military leader Sergei Sergeevich Kamenev (1881-1936)

– 115 years old birthday of the director, artist Nikolai Pavlovich Akimov (1901-1968)

– 95 years old birthday of an English actor, director, writer Peter Ustinov (1921-2004)

– 75 years old actor's birthday Sergei Petrovich Nikonenko (1941)

– 105 years old birthday of the French writer Herve Bazin(Jean Pierre Marie Herve-Basin) (1911-1996)

– 105 years old from the birthday of the Soviet writer Georgy Mokeevich Markov (1911-1991)

– 135 years old composer's birthday Nikolai Yakovlevich Myaskovsky (1881-1950)

Local Government Day

– 200 years since the birth of the English writer Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855)

– 90 years old birthday of the English queen Elizabeth II Windsor (1926)

Earth Day(held since 1990)

– 250 years Anne Louise Germaine de Stael (1766-1817)

– 225 years birthday of American inventor, artist Samuel Finley Breeze Morse (1791-1872)

– 80 years old since the birth of the Russian poet, prose writer Viktor Alexandrovich Sosnora(1936)

– 125 years birthday of the architect Boris Mikhailovich Iofan (1891-1976)

international dance day. Celebrated since 1982 on the birthday of J. Nover, French choreographer, reformer and theorist of choreographic art

– 330 years since the birth of a historian, statesman Vasily Nikitich Tatishchev (1686-1750)

– 90 years old writer's birthday Yuri Dmitrievich Dmitriev(Edelman) (1926-1989)

– 80 years old since the birth of the Russian writer Viktor Ivanovich Likhonosov(1936)

labor holiday(Labor Day)

– 160 years since the birth of the Russian writer, philosopher Vasily Vasilyevich Rozanov(1856-1919)

– 105 years old since the birth of the Tajik poet Mirzo Tursun-Zade(1911-1977)

– 90 years old from the birthday of the poet Egor (George) Alexandrovich Isaev (1926-2013)

Sun Day

World Press Freedom Day. Approved by the General Conference of UNESCO in 1991.

– 65 years old Tatyana Nikitichna Tolstoy (1951)

– 135 years old since the birth of a politician, statesman Alexander Fyodorovich Kerensky (1881-1970)

– 85 years old conductor's birthday Gennady Nikolaevich Rozhdestvensky (1931)

– 170 years from the birthday of the Polish writer, Nobel Prize winner in literature Heinrich (Genrik) Iosifovich Senkevich(1846-1916)

cartoon day

– 160 years from the birth of the Austrian psychiatrist Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)

Radio day

– 155 years birthday of indian writer Rabindranath Tagore (Thakur Robindronath)(1861-1941)

– 305 years since the birth of the English philosopher, psychologist, economist David Hume (1711-1776)

World Red Cross and Red Crescent Day

– 160 years birthday of american children's writer Lyman Frank Baum(1856-1919)

– 105 years old birthday of the Swiss writer and playwright Max Frisch(1911-1991)

– 60 years birthday ballerina Nadezhda Vasilievna Pavlova (1956)

world telecommunications day

– 145 years old from the artist's birthday Anna Petrovna Ostroumova-Lebedeva (1871-1955)

International Museum Day(celebrated since 1978)

– 130 years writer's birthday Georgy Borisovich Adamov(Gibs) (1886-1945)

Day of the All-Union Pioneer Organization named after V.I. Lenin (Pioneer Day)

– 105 years old since the birth of the Dutch writer, poet, laureate of the International H.C. Andersen Prize (1988) Annie(Anna Maria Gertrude) Schmidt (1911-1995)

– 125 years writer's birthday Lev Veniaminovich Nikulin(Lev Vladimirovich Olkonitsky) (1891-1967)

– 60 years since the birth of the Russian writer Grigory Shalvovich Chkhartishvili- Boris Akunin (1956)

– 545 years birthday of the German artist Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528)

– 95 years old since the birth of the Russian physicist and public figure Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov(1921-1989)

– 170 years actress birthday Glikeria Nikolaevna Fedotova (1846-1925)

– 100 years since the birth of the Russian writer Susanna Mikhailovna Georgievskaya(1916-1974)

– 125 years since the birth of the Swedish writer, Nobel Prize winner (1951) Pera Fabian Lagerqvist (1891-1974)

– 95 years old since the birth of the film director Grigory Naumovich Chukhrai (1921-2001)

– 65 years old since the birth of a chess player Anatoly Evgenievich Karpov (1951)

– 170 years from the birthday of the Russian jeweler Karl Gustavovich Faberge (1846-1920)

– 90 years old since the birth of the German writer, laureate of the International Prize. H. K. Andersen James Jacob Heinrich Crews(1926-1997)

June

Russian Language Day (Celebrated by the UN)

– 410 years birthday of the French playwright Pierre Corneille (1606-1684)

Social Worker's Day

– 90 years old since the birth of the head of the underground youth anti-fascist organization "Young Guard" Oleg Vasilyevich Koshevoy (1926-1943)

international friends day

– 355 years since the birth of the Russian tsar Fedor Alekseevich Romanov (1661-1682)

– 205 years since the birth of the Russian critic Vissarion Grigorievich Belinsky(1811-1848)

– 240 years birthday of the English artist John Constable (1776-1837)

– 205 years birthday of American writer Harriet Beecher Stowe(1811-1896)

– 80 years old actor's birthday Mikhail Mikhailovich Derzhavin (1936)

– 85 years old from the birthday of the poet Yuri Evgenievich Ryashentsev (1931)

– 105 years old since the birth of the Russian writer Viktor Platonovich Nekrasov(1911-1987)

– 160 years from the artist's birthday Franz Alekseevich Roubaud (1856-1928)

– 335 years since the birth of a scientist, writer, church figure Feofan Prokopovich (1681-1736)

International Father's Day(third Sunday in June)

– 230 years from the birthday of the poet, writer, Decembrist Fyodor Nikolaevich Glinka (1786-1880)

– 95 years old since the birth of the Russian children's writer Anatoly Markovich Markushi (Arnold Markovich Lurie)(1921-2005)

– 75 years old actor's birthday Valery Sergeevich Zolotukhin (1941-2013)

– 135 years old from the artist's birthday Natalia Sergeevna Goncharova (1881-1962)

– 115 years old since the birth of a Russian theatrical figure, actor, director Sergei Vladimirovich Obraztsov (1901-1992)

– 220 years from the birthday of the Russian emperor Nicholas I(Nikolai Pavlovich Romanov) (1796-1855)

– 85 years old composer's birthday Alexander Georgievich Flyarkovsky (1931-2014)

– 70 years old since the birth of the American film actor, director Sylvester Stallone (1946)

– 80 years old since the birth of the Russian poet Igor (Garik) Mironovich Huberman (1936)

– 275 years birthday of the French navigator Jean Francois de Galo La Perouse (1741-1788?)

Day of military glory of Russia. The defeat of the Nazi troops by the Soviet troops in the Battle of Kursk(1943)

– 180 years birthday of the American writer Francis Bret Garth (1836-1902)

Day of Russian Cinema(installed in 1979)

– 180 years writer's birthday Petr Dmitrievich Boborykin (1836-1921)

– 160 years since the birth of the Ukrainian writer Ivan Yakovlevich Franko (1856-1916)

– 145 years old birthday of the American writer Theodora (Hermann Theodor) Dreiser(1871-1945)

– 120 years actress birthday Faina Georgievna Ranevskaya (1896-1984)

– 115 years old birthday of an actor, director Mikhail Alexandrovich Chekhov (1891-1955)

– 145 years old birthday of the English physicist Ernst Rutherford (1871-1937)

– 205 years birthday of the French writer Theophile Gauthier(1811-1872)

– 195 years old from the birthday of the German physicist, naturalist Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz (1821-1894)

September

– 120 years illustrator's birthday Dmitry Nikolaevich Kardovsky (1886-1943)

– 105 years old from the birthday of the poet Sergei Grigorievich Ostrovoy (1911-2005)

– 75 years old since the birth of the Russian writer Vladimir Nikolaevich Krupin (1941)

International Literacy Day. Celebrated by UNESCO since 1967.

International Day of Solidarity of Journalists. It is held by the decision of the IV Congress of the International Organization of Journalists (May 1958) in memory of the Czech journalist J. Fucik, who was executed by the Nazis on September 8, 1943.

Day of military glory of Russia. battle of Borodino Russian army under the command of M.I. Kutuzov with the French army(1812)

– 175 years since the birth of the Czech composer Antonina Dvorak (1841-1904)

world beauty day

Day of military glory of Russia. The victory of the Russian squadron under the command of F.F. Ushakov over the Turkish squadron at Cape Tendra (1790)

International Day of Remembrance for Victims of Fascism(second Sunday in September)

– 110 years since the birth of the Russian writer Sergei Nikolaevich Markov (1906-1979)

– 95 years old from the birthday of the Polish science fiction writer Stanislav Lem (1921)

– 80 years old since the birth of the Russian poet Alexander Semenovich Kushner (1936)

– 110 years from the artist's birthday Dmitry Arkadyevich Nalbandyan (1906-1993)

– 85 years old actress birthday Rufina Dmitrievna Nifontova (1931-1994)

– 175 years birthday Fyodor Mikhailovich Reshetnikov (1841-1871)

– 110 years from the birthday of the poet Seeds of Isaakovich Kirsanov(1906-1972) (according to other sources - 1907)

– 105 years old since the birth of the Russian poet Seeds of Izrailevich Lipkin(Lipkind) (1911-2003)

– 85 years old writer's birthday Stanislav Timofeevich Romanovsky (1931-1996)

– 105 years old birthday of the English writer William Gerald Golding (1911-1993)

International Day of Peace(since 2002)

Day of military glory. The victory of the Russian regiments led by Grand Duke Dmitry Donskoy over the Mongol-Tatar troops in Battle of Kulikovo (1380)

– 150 years birthday of the English science fiction writer H. G. Wells (1866-1946)

– 105 years old from the birthday of the Soviet singer and film actor Mark Naumovich Bernes(Neyman) (1911-1969)

– 100 years actor's birthday Zinovy Efimovich Gerdt(Zalman Afraimovich Khrapinovich) (1916-1996)

World Car Free Day

– 125 years since the birth of the Russian writer Ruvim Isaevich Fraerman (1891-1972)

– 225 years from the birthday of the great English physicist Michael Faraday (1791-1867)

– 80 years old since the birth of the Russian writer, playwright Edward Stanislavovich Radzinsky (1936)

World Maritime Day

– 95 years old since the birth of the Russian writer Lydia Borisovna Lebedinskaya (1921-2006)

– 120 years birthday of the American writer Francis Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)

– 120 years birthday of the French writer Elsa Triolet(Ella Yurievna Kagan) (1896-1970)

– 245 years from the birthday of a military leader Nikolai Nikolaevich Raevsky (1771-1829)

– 110 years since the birth of the Russian composer, teacher, pianist, classic of world musical culture of the 20th century Dmitry Dmitrievich Shostakovich (1906-1975)

world tourism day

Preschool Worker's Day

– 110 years from the birthday of the Russian playwright Alexander Petrovich Stein (1906-1993)

– 110 years birthday of a Russian ballerina Olga Vasilievna Lepeshinskaya (1916-2008)

– 80 years old actress birthday Alla Sergeevna Demidova (1936)

World Internet Day

– 110 years since the birth of the Russian writer Lyubov Fedorovna Voronkova (1906-1976)

– 125 years since the birth of a polar explorer, mathematician, geophysics Otto Yulievich Schmidt (1891-1956)

October

International Music Day. Held by decision of the UNESCO International Music Council

– 225 years since the birth of the Russian writer Sergei Timofeevich Aksakov (1791-1859)

– 120 years writer's birthday Fyodor Ivanovich Panferov (1896-1960)

International Housing Day(first Monday in October)

world animal day

– 85 years old writer's birthday Gleb Yakovlevich Gorbovsky (1931)

– 145 years old publisher's birthday Mikhail Vasilyevich Sabashnikov (1871-1943)

– 205 years birthday of the Hungarian composer Franz (Franz) Liszt (1811-1886)

– 90 years old actor's birthday Spartak Vasilyevich Mishulin (1926-2005)

United Nations International Day

– 105 years old from the birthday of the Soviet artist Arkady Isaakovich Raikin (1911-1987)

– 85 years old composer's birthday Sofia Asgatovna Gubaidullina (1931)

– 135 years old birthday of the French artist Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

– 90 years old since the birth of the Russian singer Galina Pavlovna Vishnevskaya (1926-2012)

– 360 years birthday of the English astronomer Edmund Halley (1656-1742)

Day of Remembrance for Victims of Political Repressions. Established by the Decree of the Supreme Council of the RSFSR dated 10/18/91 N 1763 / 1-I

– 265 years birthday of the English playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816)

– 145 years old birthday of the French poet Paul Valery (1871-1945)

205 years from the date of foundation Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum (1811)

halloween

November

– 105 years old actor's birthday Sergei Dmitrievich Stolyarov (1911-1969)

– 110 years since the birth of the writer, philosopher Daniil Leonidovich Andreev (1906-1959)

– 215 years Vincenzo Bellini (1801-1835)

70 years old from the date of establishment United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization - UNESCO (1945)

– 60 years since the birth of the singer, composer Igor Vladimirovich Talkov (1956-1991)

– 80 years old composer's birthday Emil Vladimirovich Lotyanu (1936-2003)

99th anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution(1917)

The day of the military parade on Red Square in the city of Moscow to commemorate the twenty-fourth anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution (1941)

– 130 years since the birth of the Russian writer Mark Alexandrovich Aldanov (1886-1957)

– 125 years since the birth of the Russian writer Dmitry Andreevich Furmanov (1891-1926)

– 95 years old since the birth of the Russian writer Andrey Dmitrievich Zharikov (1921)

– 205 years since the birth of the Czech poet, folklorist Karel Jaromir Erbena (1811-1870)

– 115 years old actress birthday Rina(Catherine) Vasilievna Zelenaya(1901-1991) (according to other sources 1902)

Day of the journalist

– 80 years old from the birthday of the Soviet chess player Mikhail Nekhemievich Tal (1936-1992)

International Science and Peace Week. Held at the call of the Special Political Committee of the 43rd session of the UN General Assembly during the week of 11 November

– 195 years old since the birth of the Russian writer Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821-1881)

– 115 years old since the birth of the Russian writer, illustrator Evgeny Ivanovich Charushin(1901-1965)

International Day of the Blind

– 195 years old birthday of a revolutionary Mikhail Vasilyevich Petrashevsky(Butashevich-Petrashevsky) (1821-1866)

– 100 years since the birth of the Russian children's writer Viktor Ivanovich Banykin (1916-1986)

All-Russian conscript day

international student day

– 120 years psychologist's birthday Lev Semenovich Vygotsky (1896-1934)

– 70 years old since the birth of the Russian writer Vyacheslav Alexandrovich Pietsukh (1946)

– 230 years birthday of the German composer Carl Maria Weber(1786-1826) (or November 19)

– 305 years since the birth of the Russian poet, scientist Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov (1711-1765)

– 95 years old since the birth of the Russian writer, screenwriter Emil Veniaminovich Braginsky (1921-1998)

World Children's Day

– 100 years since the birth of the Russian poet Mikhail Alexandrovich Dudin (1916-1993)

world television day. Proclaimed by the UN General Assembly in honor of the world forum held at the UN Headquarters in 1996.

– 215 years since the birth of the Russian philosopher, lexicographer, ethnographer Vladimir Ivanovich Dahl(1801-1872)

– 190 years birthday of the Italian writer Carlo Collodi(Lorenzini) (1826-1890)

– 90 years old birthday of American science fiction writer Paul William Anderson (1926-2001)

– 160 years composer's birthday Sergei Ivanovich Taneev (1856-1915)

world information day

Mother's Day Russia(celebrated on the last Sunday of November)

– 315 years birthday of Swedish astronomer, physicist Anders Celsius (1701-1744)

– 215 years composer's birthday Alexander Egorovich Varlamov (1801-1848)

– 135 years old from the birth of the Austrian writer Stefan Zweig (1881-1942)

– 110 years since the birth of a Russian outstanding public figure, philosopher Dmitry Sergeevich Likhachev (1906-1999)

– 110 years since the birth of the film director, operator Roman Lazarevich Karmen (1906-1978)

December

Day of military glory.

Victory Day of the Russian squadron under the command of P.S. Nakhimov over the Turkish squadron at Cape Sinop (1853)

World AIDS Day(celebrated since 1988)

– 300 years birthday of the French sculptor Etienne Maurice Falcone (1716-1791)

– 120 years Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov(1896-1974)

International Day of the Disabled (celebrated since 1922)

Day of the unknown soldier. Celebrated since 2014. The date for the holiday was chosen due to the fact that on this day in 1966, in commemoration of the 25th anniversary of the defeat of German troops near Moscow, the ashes of the unknown soldier were solemnly buried near the walls of the Moscow Kremlin in the Alexander Garden.

– 105 years old birthday of the Italian composer Nino Rota (1911-1979)

– 120 years writer's birthday Nikolai Semenovich Tikhonov (1896-1979)

– 150 years since the birth of the Russian painter, one of the founders of abstract art Wassily Vasilyevich Kandinsky (1866-1944)

– 95 years old birthday of american actress Deanna Durbin(Edna May) (1921-2013)

The day of the beginning of the counter-offensive of the Soviet troops against the Nazi troops in the battle of Moscow(1941)

– 155 years since the birth of the Russian artist Konstantin Alekseevich Korovin (1861-1939)

– 115 years old birthday of American film director, artist Walt Disney(Disney) (Walter Elias) (1901-1966)

– 105 years old since the birth of the Russian writer Nikolai Vladimirovich Toman (1911-1974)

Human Rights Day (on this day in 1948 the UN General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights)

– 195 years old since the birth of the Russian poet Nikolai Alekseevich Nekrasov (1821-1877)

– 165 years birthday of American librarian Melvila Dewey (1851-1931)

Memorial Day for journalists who died in the line of duty

– 160 years since the birth of the Russian philosopher, publicist Georgy Valentinovich Plekhanov (1856-1918)

– 85 years since the birth of the writer, playwright, poet, philosopher Yuri Vitalievich Mamleev (1931)

Day of the Constitution of the Russian Federation (by decree of the President of September 19, 1994)

– 250 years since the birth of the Russian writer, historian Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin (1766-1826)

– 195 years old birthday of the French writer Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880)

– 75 years old actor's birthday Vitaly Methodievich Solomin (1941-2002)

– 170 years from the artist's birthday Nikolai Alexandrovich Yaroshenko (1846-1898)

– 110 years from the birthday of the composer, pianist, conductor Alexander Naumovich Tsfasman (1906-1971)

– 80 years old birthday of an actress, director Svetlana Sergeevna Druzhinina (1936)

– 95 years old from the birthday of the artist Yuri Vladimirovich Nikulin (1921-1997)

– 130 years writer's birthday Elena Nikolaevna Vereiskaya (1886-1966)

– 110 years writer's birthday Nikolai Evgenievich Virta(Karelian) (1906-1976)

– 110 years from the birthday of a politician Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev(1906-1982) (according to other sources, January 1, 1907)

– 125 years since the birth of the poetess, public and religious activist Elizaveta Yurievna Kuzmina-Karavaeva (Mother Teresa) (1891-1945)

25 years ago(1990) the first issue was published "Independent newspaper"

– 120 years from the birthday of a military leader Konstantin Konstantinovich Rokossovsky (1896-1968)

– 80 years old from the birthday of the poet, playwright Julia Chersanovich Kim(Yu. Mikhailov) (1936)

– 85 years old actor's birthday Lev Konstantinovich Durov (1931-2015)

Day of military glory. The day of the capture of the Turkish fortress Izmail by Russian troops under the command of A.V. Suvorov(1790)

– 115 years old since the birth of the Russian writer Alexander Alexandrovich Fadeev(1901-1956)

– 70 years old birthday of an actor, writer Leonid Alekseevich Filatov (1946-2003)

– 135 years old from the birth of the Spanish poet Juan Ramon Jimenez (1881-1958)

Catholic Christmas

– 75 years old since the birth of the Russian writer Ruslan Timofeevich Kireev (1941)

– 295 years from the birthday of the English poet William Collins (1721-1759)

190 years ago(December 15, according to the old style of 1825) on Senate Square in St. Petersburg, a speech by noble revolutionaries against autocracy and serfdom (the Decembrist uprising) took place

– 445 years birthday of the German astronomer Johannes Kepler (1571-1630)

– 255 years from the birthday of a military leader Mikhail Bogdanovich Barclay de Tolly(1761-1818) (according to other sources, he was born in 1757)

– 115 years old birthday of German, American actress Marlene Dietrich(1901-1992) (according to other sources 1904, Dietrich herself called the year of birth 1900)

– 70 years old birthday skater Lyudmila Alekseevna Pakhomova (1946-1986)

The exact date of birth has not been established

695 years birthday Sergius of Radonezh(Bartolomew Kirillovich) (1321-1391)

565 years Amerigo Vespucci(between 1451 and 1454-1512)

565 years birthday of the spanish navigator Christopher Columbus (1451-1506)

335 years from the birthday of the Russian navigator Vitus Jonassen Bering(Ivan Ivanovich) (1681-1741)

265 years from the birthday of the Russian composer Dmitry Stepanovich Bortnyansky (1751-1825)

"On the days of military glory and memorable dates in Russia"

April 1, June 27, 2012, July 10, 2012, December 30, 2012, November 2, 2013 November 4, 2014, December 1, 2014)

The following days of Russian military glory are established in the Russian Federation:

Days of military glory of Russia

April 18 - Victory Day of the Russian soldiers of Prince Alexander Nevsky over the German knights on Lake Peipus (Battle on the Ice, 1242);

September 21 - Victory Day of the Russian regiments led by Grand Duke Dmitry Donskoy over the Mongol-Tatar troops in the Battle of Kulikovo (1380);

November 7 - Day of the military parade on Red Square in the city of Moscow to commemorate the twenty-fourth anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution (1941);

July 10 - Victory Day of the Russian army under the command of Peter the Great over the Swedes in the Battle of Poltava (1709);

August 9 - Day of the first naval victory in Russian history of the Russian fleet under the command of Peter the Great over the Swedes at Cape Gangut (1714);

December 24 - Day of the capture of the Turkish fortress Izmail by Russian troops under the command of A.V. Suvorov (1790);

September 11 - Victory Day of the Russian squadron under the command of F.F. Ushakov over the Turkish squadron at Cape Tendra (1790);

September 8 - Day of the Borodino battle of the Russian army under the command of M.I. Kutuzov with the French army (1812);

December 1 - Victory Day of the Russian squadron under the command of P.S. Nakhimov over the Turkish squadron at Cape Sinop (1853);

December 5 - Day of the beginning of the counter-offensive of the Soviet troops against the Nazi troops in the battle of Moscow (1941);

February 2 - Day of the defeat of the Nazi troops by the Soviet troops in the Battle of Stalingrad (1943);

August 23 - Day of the defeat of the Nazi troops by the Soviet troops in the Battle of Kursk (1943);

May 9 - Victory Day of the Soviet people in the Great Patriotic War of 1941 - 1945 (1945);

The following memorable dates for Russia are established in the Russian Federation:

Memorable dates in Russia

April 26 - Day of participants in the liquidation of the consequences of radiation accidents and disasters and the memory of the victims of these accidents and disasters;

(the paragraph was introduced by Federal Law No. 24-FZ of April 1, 2012)

(the paragraph was introduced by Federal Law No. 95-FZ of June 27, 2012)

August 1 - Day of Remembrance of Russian soldiers who died in the First World War of 1914 - 1918

December 3 - Day of the Unknown Soldier (the paragraph was introduced by Federal Law of November 4, 2014 N 340-FZ);

FEDERAL LAW "On the days of military glory and memorable dates in Russia"
(as amended on December 1, 2014)

Anniversaries of newspapers and magazines

155 years (1861) magazine "Around the world"

95 years (1921) newspaper "Work"

90 years (1926) magazine "Knowledge is power"

85 years (1931) magazine "Banner"

80 years (1936) magazine "Literary Review"

70 years (1946) magazine "Bulletin of Moscow State University"

60 years (1956) magazine "Our Contemporary"

45 years (1971) magazine "Person and law"

Anniversary books 2016

15 years (2001) - Daria Dontsova "Constellation of Greedy Dogs", "Hobby of the Ugly Duckling", "Viper in Syrup".

20 years (1996) - Polina Dashkova "The Blood of the Unborn".

35 years old (1981) - Vladimir Vysotsky "Nerv".

40 years (1976) - Valentin Rasputin "Farewell to Matera".

40 years old (1976) - Viktor Astafiev "Tsar-fish".

40 years (1976) - Yuri Trifonov "House on the embankment."

45 years (1971) - Nikolai Rubtsov "Green Flowers".

45 years (1971) - Vasily Shukshin "I came to give you freedom."

45 years old (1971) - Yuri Nagibin "The lanes of my childhood."

45 years old (1971) - Gavriil Troepolsky "White Bim Black Ear".

45 years old (1971) - The Strugatsky Brothers "Inhabited Island".

50 years (1966) - Mikhail Bulgakov "The Master and Margarita".

50 years (1966) - Isaac Asimov "Neutrino", "Universe".

50 years (1966) - Ivan Shamyakin "Anxious happiness".

50 years (1966) - Eduard Uspensky "Crocodile Gena and his friends."

55 years (1961) - Fedor Abramov "Fatherless".

55 years old (1961) - Evgeny Nosov "Thirty grains".

60 years (1956) - The Bible and the New Testament - were published in the USSR for the first time after 1917.

60 years (1956) - Evgeny Schwartz "An Ordinary Miracle".

60 years (1956) - Astrid Lindgren "Rasmus the tramp".

65 years (1951) - Stanislav Lem "Astronauts"

65 years (1951) - Gianni Rodari "The Adventures of Cipollino".

70 years (1946) - Mikhail Zoshchenko "Let the loser cry."

70 years (1946) - Tove Jansson "Moomintroll in pursuit of a comet."

75 years (1941) - Samad Vurgun "Farhad and Shirin".

80 years (1936) - Arkady Gaidar "Blue Cup".

80 years (1936) - Margaret Mitchell "Gone with the Wind".

80 years (1936) - William Faulkner "Absalom, Absalom!".

80 years (1936) - Alexander Belyaev "Star of the KEC".

80 years (1936) - Valentin Kataev "The lonely sail turns white."

85 years (1931) - Antoine de Saint-Exupery "Night Flight".

90 years old (1926) - Reuben Fraerman "Wild Dog Dingo, or The Tale of First Love."

95 years old (1921) - Anna Akhmatova "Plantain".

95 years (1921) - Nikolai Gumilyov "Tent".

105 years (1911) - Ivan Bunin "Dryland".

105 years (1911) - Alexander Kuprin "Garnet Bracelet".

105 years (1911) - Romain Rolland "The Life of Tolstoy".

105 years (1911) - Konstantin Balmont "The Liturgy of Beauty".

105 years (1911) - Theodor Dreiser "Jenny Gerhardt".

110 years (1906) - Jack London "White Fang".

115 years (1901) - Maxim Gorky "Petty bourgeois".

115 years (1901) - HG Wells "The first people on the moon."

115 years (1901) - Anton Chekhov "Three Sisters".

115 years (1901) - Lesya Ukrainka "Obsessed".

120 years (1896) - Anton Chekhov "The Seagull".

120 years (1896) - HG Wells "The Island of Dr. Moreau".

120 years (1896) - Alexander Kuprin "Moloch".

125 years (1891) - Arthur Conan Doyle "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes".

125 years (1891) - Oscar Wilde "The Picture of Dorian Gray".

135 years (1881) - Nikolai Leskov "The Tale of the Tula Oblique Lefty and the Steel Flea."

140 years (1876) - Mark Twain "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer".

140 years (1876) - Nikolai Nekrasov "Who should live well in Russia."

140 years (1876) - Sergei Stepnyak-Kravchinsky "From the fire to the frying pan! .."

145 years (1871) - Lewis Carroll "Alice in Wonderland", "Through the Looking Glass".

150 years (1866) - Gleb Uspensky "Morals of Rasteryaeva Street".

150 years (1866) - Alexei Tolstoy "Death of Ivan the Terrible".

150 years (1866) - Ivan Sechenov "Reflexes of the brain."

150 years (1866) - Fyodor Dostoevsky "Crime and Punishment".

150 years (1866) - Thomas Mine Reid "The Headless Horseman".

155 years (1861) - Fyodor Dostoevsky "Humiliated and Insulted".

155 years (1861) - Nikolai Nekrasov "Peasant Children", "Pedlars".

160 years (1856) - Pyotr Ershov "The Little Humpbacked Horse".

160 years (1856) - Heinrich Heine "Romancero".

165 years (1851) - Herman Melville "Moby Dick".

170 years (1846) - Alexandre Dumas father "Madam Monsoreau".

170 years (1846) - Fyodor Dostoevsky "Poor people", "Double".

175 years (1841) - Fenimore Cooper "St. John's wort".

180 years (1836) - Alexander Pushkin "The Captain's Daughter".

180 years (1836) - Alfred de Musset "Confession of the son of the age."

185 years (1831) - Nikolai Gogol "Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka".

185 years (1831) - Stendhal "Red and Black".

185 years (1831) - Victor Hugo "Notre Dame Cathedral".

185 years (1831) - Honore de Balzac "Shagreen leather".

180 years (1826) - Fenimore Cooper "The Last of the Mohicans".

185 years (1821) - Alexander Pushkin "Prisoner of the Caucasus".

195 years (1821) - George Gordon Byron "Cain".

235 years (1781) - Denis Fonvizin "Undergrowth".

235 years (1781) - Immanuel Kant "Critique of Pure Reason".

240 years (1776) - Adam Smith "An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations".

250 years (1766) - Gotthold Ephraim Lessing "Laocoon".

260 years (1756) - Stepan Krasheninnikov "Description of the land of Kamchatka".

255 years (1761) - Jean-Jacques Rousseau "Julia, or New Eloise".

285 years (1731) - Antoine François Prevost d'Exil "The story of the Chevalier de Grieux and Manon Lescaut."

290 years (1726) - Jonathan Swift "Gulliver's Travels".

415 years (1601) - William Shakespeare "Hamlet".

420 years (1596) - William Shakespeare "A Midsummer Night's Dream".

500 years (1516) - Ludovico Ariosto "Furious Roland".

500 years (1516) - Thomas More "Utopia".

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Without the past, there would be no present, which is why it is so important to remember and honor holidays and memorable dates. Culture, politics, sports, science, people and mentality - all this changed over time, traditions and customs were added, holidays were introduced, we won wars and battles, our scientists invented and discovered something new and unusual. And today all this is already history that needs to be remembered. However, there are so many significant events that it is very difficult to keep everything in your head, and even more so in the modern world, when there is not enough time for anything. Therefore, the editors of our site tried to collect in one article all significant and memorable dates of the Russian Federation for 2016 so that our readers do not miss any significant event.

Memorable and significant dates in Russia in 2016

2016 in Russia

2016 - Year of Russian cinema.
2016 - 160 years of the State Tretyakov Gallery.
2016 is the cross Year of Greece in Russia and the Year of Russia in Greece
2016 - Russia and Turkey plan to hold a cross Year of Tourism
2016 ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) and Russia celebrate 20 years of partnership. At the 13th conference in Jakarta, it was decided to declare this year the Year of Russian Culture for the ASEAN countries and the Year of Culture of the ASEAN countries in Russia.

Under the auspices of the UN

2006-2016 - Decade of rehabilitation and sustainable development of the affected regions (the third decade after Chernobyl)
2008-2017 - Second United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty
2010-2020 - United Nations Decade for Deserts and the Fight against Desertification
2011-2020 Decade of Action for Road Safety
2011-2020 - Third International Decade for the Eradication of Colonialism
2011-2020 - United Nations Decade on Biodiversity
2013-2022 - International Decade for the Rapprochement of Cultures
2014-2024 Decade of Sustainable Energy for All
2015-2024 - International Decade for People of African Descent
2016 - International Year of Pulses
2016 - International Year of Camelids
2016 - 70 years of UNICEF - United Nations Children's Fund
2016 - 60 years of the Hans Christian Andersen International Prize.

Under the auspices of UNESCO

2016 - 70 years of UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.
2016 - Wroclaw (Poland) is declared World Book Capital 2016. The city was awarded this honorary title for successful projects in promoting the culture of reading, supporting libraries and developing publishing activities.

Under the auspices of the EU

2016 is the Year of Combating Violence Against Women
2016 - Ljubljana (Slovenia) is named the "Green Capital of Europe 2016". The capital of Slovenia is awarded this title thanks to positive changes in the field of sustainable transport, as well as a number of solutions in the fight against environmental pollution. It is noted that 70% of purchases financed from the city budget of Ljubljana are related to "green" technologies. In addition, the city has made significant strides in developing cycling infrastructure and advocating for a reduction in the number of private cars. Bicycle and electric car rental services are available in the city.
2016 - San Sebastian (Spain) and Wroclaw (Poland) will become European Capitals of Culture.
2016 - the city of Ganja (Azerbaijan) was chosen as the Youth Capital of Europe.

In the Commonwealth of Independent States

2016 is the Year of Education in the CIS countries in order to develop humanitarian ties between countries, as well as to converge interstate education standards (Decision of the Council of CIS Heads of State on October 10, 2014, Minsk)

Anniversaries of famous people of Russia and the world, memorable dates of historical events, world, international, national days in 2016

1000th anniversary Russian monasticism on Mount Athos. This significant event will unite all Orthodox believers.
850 le tons since the founding of the city of Velikiye Luki (1166).
700th anniversary ruble. For the first time, the word "ruble" was found in the treaty charter of Novgorod and Tver Prince Mikhail Yaroslavin (1316). And for 700 years, the ruble has remained the main coin and symbol of the Russian state. According to some sources, the ruble is even older than the end of the 12th century.
565 years since the birth of Amerigo Vespucci (between 1451 and 1454-1512), Spanish navigator.
565 years since the birth of Christopher Columbus (1451-1506), Spanish navigator.
450 years since the founding of the city of Orel (1566).
350 years since the founding of Ulan-Ude (1666).
335 years since the birth of Vitus Ionasesn Bering (Ivan Ivanovich, 1681-1741), Russian navigator.
300 years since the founding of the city of Omsk (1716).
275 years Back in 1741, Buddhism was officially recognized in Russia by decree of Empress Elizabeth Petrovna.
175 years since the birth of the Russian artist Arkhip Ivanovich Kuindzhi (January 1841-1910).
150 years the first domestic telegraph agency (1866 Russian Telegraph Agency).
105 years old ago, the first organized gathering of the Russian Olympic Committee took place (1911).
100th anniversary since the foundation of the Barguzinsky Reserve (1916).
100 year old The anniversary will be marked by the first botanical community in Russia. In December 1916, the first meeting of the society took place in Moscow. The first president of the society was a prominent Russian botanist I. P. Borodin.
50th anniversary the first round-the-world voyage of Soviet submarines (without a single surfacing along the route) (1966).

Days of military glory and memorable dates of Russia in 2016

The list is given in accordance with Federal Law No. 32-FZ of March 13, 1995, with subsequent amendments. Dates of battles that took place before the introduction of the Gregorian calendar are obtained in the Law by adding 13 days to the "old calendar" date. However, the difference between the old and the new style of 13 days accumulated only by the 20th century. And, for example, in the XVII century the difference was 10 days. Therefore, other dates are accepted in historical science than in this law.

The following days of Russian military glory are established in the Russian Federation:

January 27, 2016- Day of the complete liberation by the Soviet troops of the city of Leningrad from the blockade of its Nazi troops (1944);
February 2, 2016- Day of the defeat of the Nazi troops by the Soviet troops in the Battle of Stalingrad (1943);
February 23, 2016- Defender of the Fatherland Day;
April 18, 2016 - Victory Day of the Russian soldiers of Prince Alexander Nevsky over the German knights on Lake Peipus (Battle on the Ice, 1242, actually happened on April 12 according to the new style or April 5 according to the old one);
May 9, 2016- 71st anniversary of the Victory of the Soviet people in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 (1945);
July 7, 2016- Day of the victory of the Russian fleet over the Turkish fleet in the Battle of Chesma (1770);
July 10, 2016- Victory Day of the Russian army under the command of Peter the Great over the Swedes in the Battle of Poltava (1709, actually happened on July 8 according to the new style or June 27 according to the old style);
August 9, 2016- The day of the first naval victory in Russian history of the Russian fleet under the command of Peter the Great over the Swedes at Cape Gangut (1714, actually happened on August 7);
August 23, 2016 - Day of the defeat of the Nazi troops by the Soviet troops in the Battle of Kursk (1943);
September 8, 2016- Day of the Borodino battle of the Russian army under the command of M.I. Kutuzov with the French army (1812, actually happened on September 7 according to the new style or August 26 but the old style);
September 11, 2016- Victory Day of the Russian squadron under the command of F.F. Ushakov over the Turkish squadron at Cape Tendra (in fact, it happened on September 8-9 according to the new style or August 28-29 according to the old style);
September 21, 2016- Victory Day of the Russian regiments led by Grand Duke Dmitry Donskoy over the Mongol-Tatar troops in the Battle of Kulikovo (1380, actually happened on September 16 according to the new style or September 8 but the old style);
November 4, 2016- National Unity Day.
November 7, 2016- The day of the military parade on Red Square in the city of Moscow to commemorate the twenty-fourth anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution (1941);
December 1, 2016- Victory Day of the Russian squadron under the command of P.S. Nakhimov over the Turkish squadron at Cape Sinop (1853, actually happened on November 30 according to the new style or November 18 but the old style);
December 5, 2016- Day of the beginning of the counter-offensive of the Soviet troops against the Nazi troops in the battle of Moscow (1941);
December 24, 2016- The day of the capture of the Turkish fortress Izmail by Russian troops under the command of A.V. Suvorov (1790, actually happened on December 22 according to the new style or December 11 according to the old style).

In the Russian Federation, the following memorable dates for Russia are set for 2016:

January 25 - Day of Russian students;
February 15 - Day of Remembrance for Russians who performed their official duty outside the Fatherland;
April 12 - Cosmonautics Day;
April 26 - Day of participants in the liquidation of the consequences of radiation accidents and disasters and the memory of the victims of these accidents and disasters;
April 27 - Day of Russian parliamentarism;
June 22 - Day of Memory and Sorrow - the day the Great Patriotic War began (1941);
June 29 Day of partisans and underground fighters:
July 28 - Day of the Baptism of Russia;
August 1 - Day of Remembrance of Russian soldiers who died in the First World War of 1914-1918;
September 2 - Day of the end of World War II (1945);
September 3 - Day of Solidarity in the fight against terrorism;
November 7 - Day of the October Revolution of 1917;
December 9 - Day of Heroes of the Fatherland;
December 12 - Constitution Day of the Russian Federation.

Memorable and significant dates in January 2016

January 3, 2016 - Cocktail straw birthday. On January 3, 1888, Marvin Stone patented his invention, the straw. He received documents from the Washington Patent Office for the invention of a paper straw for drinking cocktails and other liquids.

January 4-10, 2016 - Museum and Children Week. Week of science and technology for children and youth.

January 6, 2016 - 105 years since the birth of Nikolai Afanasyevich Kryuchkov (1911-1993), Soviet film actor.

January 7, 2016 - 105 years since the birth of Maria Vladimirovna Mironova, actress (1911-1997).

January 8, 2016 - Children's Film Day. Established by the Government of Moscow on the initiative of the Moscow Children's Fund in 1998 in connection with the centenary of the first screening of a film program for children in Moscow.

January 9, 2016 - 215 years since the birth of Osip (Jozef) Mikhailovich Kovalevsky (1801-1878), Polish and Russian historian.

January 11, 2016 - World Thank You Day. It is believed that the Russian word "thank you" was born in the 16th century from the often pronounced phrase "God save." Interestingly, the roots of the English counterpart - Thank you - also go much deeper than simple gratitude. This suggests that both the Russian “thank you” and “thank you”, pronounced in almost all languages of the world, have been and are extremely important for the culture of any people.

January 11, 2016 - Day of Reserves and National Parks. It has been celebrated since 1997 at the initiative of the Wildlife Conservation Center and the World Wildlife Fund in honor of the first Russian reserve - Barguzinsky, which opened in 1916

January 12, 2016 - 80th birthday of Raimonds (Raimondas) Voldemar Pauls (1936), Latvian composer.

January 13, 2016 - Russian Press Day. It has been celebrated since 1991 in honor of the publication of the first issue of the Russian printed newspaper Vedomosti by decree of Peter the Great in 1703.

January 15, 2016 - Wikipedia's birthday. 15 years since the launch of the world encyclopedia in 2001.

January 17, 2016 - World Religion Day. It has been celebrated annually on the third Sunday of January since 1950 at the initiative of the UN.

January 17, 2016 - Children's Invention Day. This day was chosen in honor of the birthday of the American statesman, diplomat, scientist, inventor and journalist Benjamin Franklin. He made his first invention at the age of 12.

January 17, 2016 - 310 years since the birth of Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), American statesman.

January 21, 2016 - 75th birthday of Placido Damingo (Jose Placido Damingo Embil, 1941), Spanish opera singer.

January 22, 2016 - 455 years since the birth of Francis Bacon (1561-1626), English historian, philosopher, politician, founder of English materialism.

January 23, 2016 - Handwriting Day (Handwriting Day). The initiator of this holiday was the Association of manufacturers of writing instruments, choosing this date in honor of the birthday of the American statesman - John Hancock (1737), who was the first to sign the Declaration of Independence.

January 24, 2016 - world snow day(at the initiative of the International Ski Federation). It is celebrated annually on the penultimate Sunday of January.

January 25, 2016 - Day of Russian students (Tatiana's Day). (Decree of the President of the Russian Federation "On the Day of Russian Students" dated January 25, 2016 - 2005, No. 76). On January 12 (Old Style) 1755, on the day of memory of the “Holy Martyr Tatiana the Virgin”, Empress Elizaveta Petrovna signed a decree “On the Establishment of Moscow University”.

January 27, 2016 - International Holocaust Remembrance Day (since 2005 by decision of the UN General Assembly)

January 28, 2016 - 175 years since the birth of the Russian historian Vasily Osipovich Klyuchevsky (1841-1911).

January 30, 2016 - Day of Santa Claus and the Snow Maiden. This is an ancient pagan holiday. These days, fairy tales and legends about Santa Claus and the Snow Maiden are usually told.

Memorable and significant dates in February 2016

February 1, 2016 - 85 years since the birth of Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin (1931-2007), Russian statesman, first president of the Russian Federation.

February 3, 2016 - World Safer Internet Day (celebrated since 2004 on the first Tuesday of February).

February 3, 2016 - 125 years since the birth of Sergei Vladimirovich Obruchev (1891-1965), Soviet geologist.

February 4, 2016 - 135 years since the birth of Kliment Efremovich Voroshilov (1881-1969), statesman, military leader.

February 8, 2016 - Day of Remembrance of the young anti-fascist hero. Celebrated in the world since 1964, it was approved by the next UN Assembly, in honor of the dead participants in anti-fascist demonstrations - the French schoolboy Daniel Feri (1962) and the Iraqi boy Fadil Jamal (1963).

February 8, 2016 - Russian Science Day. On this day in 1724, Peter the Great signed a decree establishing the Academy of Sciences in Russia.

February 10, 2016 - 105 years since the birth of Mstislav Vsevolodovich Keldysh (1911-1978), Russian mathematician, mechanic.

February 12, 2016 - 135 years since the birth of Anna Pavlovna (Matveevna) Pavlova (1881-1931), one of the greatest ballerinas of the 20th century.

February 14, 2016 - 80 years since the birth of the Polish singer Anna German (1936-1982), a Soviet pop star.

February 15, 2016 - Internationalist Warriors Memorial Day (02/15/1989 - the last column of Soviet troops left the territory of Afghanistan).

February 15, 2016 - International Day of Children with Cancer.

February 17, 2016 - Spontaneous Acts of Kindness Day - one of the recent initiatives of international charities. This holiday is of global importance and is celebrated regardless of citizenship, nationality and religious beliefs. In Russia, this holiday is still little known. On this day, as the organizers urge, one should try to be kind to everyone. And not just kind, but kind infinitely and disinterestedly.

February 20, 2016 - world day of social justice(since 2009 by decision of the UN General Assembly).

February 21, 2016 - International Mother Language Day(proclaimed by the UNESCO General Conference on 17 November 1999, celebrated every year since February 2000 to promote linguistic and cultural diversity).

February 23, 2016 - Defender of the Fatherland Day. Day of military glory of Russia. Victory Day of the Red Army over the Kaiser troops in 1918.

February 25, 2016 - 175 years since the birth of Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919), French painter, graphic artist, sculptor, one of the main representatives of impressionism.

February 27, 2016 - 185 years since the birth of Nikolai Nikolaevich Ge (1831-1891), Russian artist, master of portraits, historical and religious paintings.

Memorable and significant dates in March 2016

March 1, 2016 - World Cat Day. The professional holiday of felinologists (felinology is the science of cats) was approved in 2004 at the initiative of the Cat and Dog magazine and the Moscow Museum of Cats.

March 1, 2016 - Day of Remembrance of the paratroopers of the 6th paratrooper company of the 104th regiment of the Pskov Airborne Division, who heroically died in the Argun Gorge on March 1, 2000 (celebrated from 01/31/2013).

March 1, 2016 - 155 years (1861) since the abolition of serfdom in Russia by Emperor Alexander II.

March 1, 2016 - 170 years since the birth of Vasily Vasilyevich Dokuchaev (1846-1903), Russian geologist and soil scientist, founder of the national school of soil science and soil geography.

March 2, 2016 - 85 years since the birth of Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev (1931), Soviet and Russian statesman and public figure, the first and only president of the USSR.

March 5, 2016 - 305 years since the establishment of the Senate by Peter the Great as the highest state body for legislation and public administration.

March 6, 2016 - International Children's Television and Radio Day. It is celebrated annually on the first Sunday of March. Established at the initiative of the United Nations Children's Fund in Cannes in April 1994.

March 7, 2016 - 1695 years since the announcement of Sunday as a non-working day (decree of Emperor Constantine the Great) (321).

March 7, 2016 - 75 years since the birth of Andrei Aleksandrovich Mironov (1941-1987), Soviet actor.

March 8, 2016 - International Women's Day. In 1910, at the International Conference of Socialists in Copenhagen, K. Zetkin proposed to annually hold the Day of Solidarity of working women around the world. It has been celebrated in Russia since 1913.

March 8, 2016 - 85 years since the birth of Shalva Alexandrovich Amonashvili (1931), Russian teacher, psychologist. One of the innovative educators who proclaimed the pedagogy of cooperation.

March 9, 2016 - Barbie doll's birthday. Barbie (her full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts) first appeared at the American International Toy Fair on March 9, 1959. Today this day is celebrated as her birthday. She became a unique phenomenon: there was a time when three Barbie dolls were sold every second in the world. The "mother" of the famous doll is American Ruth Handler.

March 10, 2016 - 90 years since the birth of Alexander Sergeevich Zatsepin, Soviet and Russian composer (1926), author of music for many popular films.

March 12, 2016 - Day of workers of the Penitentiary system of the Ministry of Justice of Russia.

March 17, 2016 - 160 years since the birth of Mikhail Alexandrovich Vrubel (1856-1910), Russian artist, one of the major representatives of symbolism and modernity.

March 18, 2016 - World Sleep Day (since 2008). It is held annually, on Friday of the second full week of March, within the framework of the World Health Organization (WHO) project on sleep and health problems.

March 19, 2016 - Day of the sailor-submariner(creation of submarine forces of the Russian fleet).

March 20, 2016 - Day of Trade, Consumer Services and Housing and Communal Services Workers (third Sunday in March).

March 24, 2016 - 125 years since the birth of Sergei Ivanovich Vavilov (1891-1951), Soviet physicist, public figure and popularizer of science, founder of the scientific school of physical optics in the USSR.

March 24, 2016 - 110 years since the birth of Claudia Ivanovna Shulzhenko (1906-1984), Soviet pop singer, actress

March 25, 2016 - Day of the cultural worker of the Russian Federation. Established by decree of the President of the Russian Federation on August 27, 2007

March 25, 2016 - 145 years since the birth of Igor Emmanuilovich Grabar (1871-1960), Soviet artist, art critic.

March 28, 2016 - International campaign "Earth Hour"(celebrated since 2007 at the initiative of the World Wildlife Fund on the last Saturday of March).

March 29, 2016 - 85 years since the birth of Stanislav Sergeevich Govorukhin (1936), Russian film director, screenwriter, actor.

March 30, 2016 - 270 years since the birth of Francisco Goya (1746-1828), Spanish painter. One of the most prominent figures of the era of Spanish romanticism.

March 30, 2016 - 270 years since the birth of Vasily Andreevich Tropinin (1776-1857), Russian artist, master of realistic and romantic portraits.

March 30, 2016 - 115 years since the birth of Galina Andreevna Bannikova (1901-1972), graphic artist, type artist.

March 31, 2016 - 420 years since the birth of René Descartes (1596-1650), French scientist and philosopher.

Memorable and significant dates in April 2016

April 1, 2016 - Brownie Awakening Day. The ancient Slavs believed that the brownie hibernated for the winter and woke up when spring had already fully come into its own. Over time, everyone forgot about the meeting of spring and the cajoling of the brownie, but the tradition of joking, playing and deceiving on this day remained.

April 2, 2016 - 100 years since the birth of Oleg Leonidovich Lungstrem (1916-2005), Soviet and Russian musician, jazzman.

April 6, 2016 - World Cartoon Day. Established in 2002 by the International Animated Film Association and celebrated all over the world. Animators from all over the world exchange film programs and arrange screenings for an appreciative audience.

April 7, 2016 - World Health Day. It has been celebrated since 1948 by decision of the UN World Health Assembly.

April 11, 2016 - 240 years since the birth of John Constable (1776-1837), English Romantic painter.

April 12, 2016 - World Aviation and Cosmonautics Day. 55 years have passed since the day when a citizen of the Soviet Union, Senior Lieutenant Yuri Alekseevich Gagarin, on the Vostok spacecraft, made the world's first orbital flight around the Earth. He made one revolution around the globe, lasting 108 minutes.

April 15, 2016 - June 5, 2016 - All-Russian days of protection from environmental hazards.

April 15, 2016 - World Day of Culture (since 1935 on the day of signing the International Treaty - the Peace Pact, or the Roerich Pact).

April 16, 2016 - 115 years since the birth of Nikolai Pavlovich Akimov (1901-1968), theater director, artist, teacher.

April 18, 2016 - International Day of Monuments and Historic Sites. It has been celebrated since 1984 by the decision of UNESCO.

April 18, 2016 - 180 years since the birth of Nikolai Vasilyevich Sklifosovsky (1836-1904), an outstanding Russian surgeon and scientist.

April 21, 2016 - 90 years since the birth of Elizabeth II Windsor, Queen of England (1926).

April 22, 2016 - International Earth Day. It has been celebrated since 1990 by decision of UNESCO in order to unite people in the cause of protecting the environment.

April 23, 2016 - 125 years since the birth of the Russian composer, pianist, conductor, teacher Sergei Sergeevich Prokofiev (1891-1953).

April 23, 2016 - 115 years since the birth of Leonid Vladimirovich Zankov (1901-1977), Soviet teacher. Developed problems of psychology of memory, thinking and speech of children.

April 26, 2016 - Day of Remembrance for those killed in radiation accidents and catastrophes (in memory of the events of April 26, 1986 at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant)

April 27, 2016 - 225 years since the birth of Samuel Morse (1791-1872), American inventor, artist. The most famous inventions are the electromagnetic writing telegraph and the Morse code.

April 29, 2016 - International Dance Day. It has been celebrated since 1982 by decision of UNESCO on the birthday of the French choreographer, reformer and theorist of choreographic art, Jean-Georges Nover, who went down in history as the "father of modern ballet".

April 29, 2016 - 330 years since the birth of Vasily Nikitich Tatishchev (1686-1750), historian, statesman.

April 30, 2016 - International Jazz Day (since 2011 by decision of the UNESCO General Conference).

Memorable and significant dates in May 2016

May 1, 2016 - Spring and Labor Day . The first of May, the day of international solidarity of workers, has been celebrated in the Russian Empire since 1890. In the Russian Federation, it is celebrated as the Holiday of Spring and Labor.

May 4, 2016 - 135 years since the birth of Alexander Fedorovich Kerensky (1881-1970), politician, statesman, head of the Provisional Government (1917).

May 6, 2016 - 160 years since the birth of Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), an Austrian psychiatrist, the founder of psychoanalysis.

May 7, 2016 - 305 years since the birth of David Hume (1711-1776), English philosopher, psychologist, economist. Representative of empiricism, formulated the principles of skepticism.

May 9, 2016 - Victory Day of the Soviet Union over Nazi Germany in the Great Patriotic War (1941-1945).

May 15, 2016 - International Day of the Family, established by the UN General Assembly in 1993.

May 15, 2016 - 125 years since the birth of Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov, Russian writer and playwright.

May 17, 2016 - 145 years since the birth of Anna Petrovna Ostroumova-Lebedeva (1871-1955), artist, engraver, landscape master.

May 21, 2016 - 545 years since the birth of Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528), German painter, engraver, art theorist. The greatest painter of the German Renaissance.

May 21, 2016 - 95 years since the birth of Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov (1921-1989), Russian physicist and public figure. One of the creators of the hydrogen bomb. One of the leaders of the human rights movement in the USSR.

May 21, 2016 - Day of the Polar Explorer (Decree of the President of the Russian Federation V. Putin No. 502 dated May 21, 2013 "On the Day of the Polar Explorer" in recognition of the merits of people in this profession).

May 22, 2016 - 160 years of the State Tretyakov Gallery, the National Museum of Russian Fine Arts (1856).

May 22, 2016 - 95 years since the birth of Nikolai Nikolaevich Yanenko (1921-1984), an outstanding Soviet mathematician and mechanic.

May 23, 2016 - 95 years since the birth of Grigory Naumovich Chukhrai (1921-2001), film director, screenwriter.

May 23, 2016 - 65 years since the birth of Anatoly Evgenievich Karpov (1951), Soviet and Russian chess player.

May 24, 2016 - 110 years since the birth of Alexander Alexandrovich Vishnevsky (1906-1975), chief surgeon of the USSR Ministry of Defense.

May 24, 2016 - 330 years since the birth of Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit (1686-1736), German physicist. Known as the inventor of the mercury thermometer and the temperature scale named after him.

May 26, 2016 - 195 years since the birth of Pafnuty Lvovich Chebyshev (1821-1894), Russian mathematician, mechanic.

May 27, 2016 - European Neighborhood Day. The holiday was founded in 2000 in Paris, which is celebrated annually on the last Friday of May.

May 27, 2016 - All-Russian day of libraries. Established in 1995 by Decree of the President of the Russian Federation.

May 30, 2016 - 170 years since the birth of Karl Gustavovich Faberge (1846-1920), a famous Russian jeweler. He became famous for his Faberge Eggs series.

May 31, 2016 - World Blonde Day. Blondes celebrated this date for the first time in 2006, namely, they decided to give themselves what they deserved and become laureates of an exclusive award - "Diamond Hairpin" (this is the first special award for blondes).

Memorable and significant dates in June 2016

June 1, 2016 - World Milk Day. It has been celebrated since 2001 at the suggestion of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

June 2, 2016 - Healthy Eating Day

June 3, 2016 - 135 years since the birth of Mikhail Fedorovich Larionov (1881-1964), Russian artist, one of the founders of the Russian avant-garde.

June 3, 2016 - 140 years since the birth of Nikolai Nikolaevich Burdenko (1876-1946), a Soviet surgeon, one of the founders of neurosurgery.

June 8, 2016 - 90 years since the birth of Oleg Koshevoy (1926-1943), one of the organizers of the underground Komsomol anti-fascist organization "Young Guard" (Krasnodon), Hero of the Soviet Union (posthumously).

June 11, 2016 is World Public Knitting Day. Celebrated every second Saturday in June 2016 - since 2005. First time in Paris. The knitting lover Danielle Landss came up with this fun, which has become a tradition. It takes place in an unusual way: everyone who loves to knit or crochet gather in some public place - in a park, in a square, in a cafe - and indulge in their favorite pastime.

June 12, 2016 - Day of Textile and Light Industry Workers (second Sunday in June).

June 13, 2016 - 185 years since the birth of James Maxwell (1831-1879), English physicist, mathematician, mechanics.

June 15, 2016 - Day of the creation of the youth movement. On June 15, 1918, the first out-of-school institution for young nature lovers was opened in Moscow.

June 18, 2016 - 335 years since the birth of Feofan Prokopovich (1691-1736), scientist, writer, church leader, associate of Peter the Great.

June 19, 2016 - 230 years since the birth of Fyodor Nikolaevich Glinka (1786-1880), poet, writer, Decembrist.

June 22, 2016 - Day of memory and sorrow. Established by decree of the President of the Russian Federation on June 8, 1996 in honor of the memory of the defenders of the Fatherland and the beginning of the Great Patriotic War.

June 23, 2016 - International Olympic Day. It has been celebrated at the initiative of the International Olympic Committee since 1948.

June 23, 2016 - Balalaika Day - the international holiday of populist musicians. The first Balalaika Day was celebrated in 2008.

June 24, 2016 - 135 years since the birth of Grigory Ivanovich Kotovsky (1881-1925), a participant in the Civil War in Russia, a Soviet military and political figure.

June 26, 2016 - International Day Against Drug Addiction and Illicit Drug Trafficking.

June 29, 2016 - 110 years since the birth of Ivan Danilovich Chernyakhovsky (1906-1945), Soviet military leader

Memorable and significant dates in July 2016

July 2, 2016 - International Sports Journalist Day (since 1995, by decision of the International Sports Press Association).

July 5, 2016 - 115 years since the birth of Sergei Vladimirovich Obraztsov (1901-1992), Russian theatrical figure, actor, director of the puppet theater.

July 6, 2016 - World Kissing Day, which was first invented in the UK, and then it was approved by the United Nations.

July 6, 2016 - 70th birthday of Sylvester Stallone (1946), American film actor, director, screenwriter and producer.

July 8, 2016 - All-Russian day of family, love and fidelity. It has been noted on the initiative of the deputies of the State Duma since 2008.

July 15, 2016 - 410 years since the birth of Rembrandt Harmes van Rijn (1606-1669), the great Dutch painter and engraver.

July 17, 2016 - 170 years since the birth of Nikolai Nikolayevich Miklukho-Maclay (1846-1888), Russian traveler, anthropologist, ethnographer.

July 20, 2016 - International Chess Day. It has been celebrated by decision of the World Chess Federation since 1966.

July 24, 2016 - Day of the trade worker (established by Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of May 7, 2013 N 459 "On the Day of the trade worker").

July 27, 2016 - 105 years since the birth of Nikolai Ivanovich Kuznetsov (partisan pseudonym Grachev) (1911-1944), Soviet military intelligence officer, Hero of the Soviet Union (posthumously).

July 27, 2016 - 80 years since the birth of Maris-Rudolf Eduardovich Liepa (1936-1989), Soviet ballet dancer, ballet teacher, film actor.

July 28, 2016 - Day of the Baptism of Russia. On this day, the Russian Orthodox Church celebrates the day of Equal-to-the-Apostles Grand Duke Vladimir, the Baptist of Russia.

July 28, 2016 - 210 years since the birth of Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov (1806-1858), Russian painter, creator of works on biblical and ancient mythological subjects, representative of academicism, author of the grandiose canvas "The Appearance of Christ to the People".

Memorable and significant dates in August 2016

August 1, 2016 - All-Russian day of the collector. On this day in 1939, the collection service was established at the State Bank of the USSR.

August 5, 2016 - International Traffic Light Day. It is celebrated in honor of an event that took place in 1914. On this day, the first forerunner of modern devices appeared in the American city of Cleveland. It had red and green lights, and when the light switched, it emitted a sound signal.

August 6, 2016 - International Day "Physicians of the World for Peace". It is celebrated on the anniversary of the terrible tragedy - the day of the bombing of the Japanese city of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945.

August 6th is the 135th birthday of Alexander Fleming (1881-1955), English microbiologist. In 1945 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (together with X.Flory and E.Chain) for the discovery of the antibiotic penicillin.

August 6, 160 years since the birth of Appolinary Mikhailovich Vasnetsov (1856-1933), Russian painter and graphic artist, master of landscape and historical painting.

August 9, 2016 - 120 years since the birth of Jean Piaget (1896-1980), Swiss psychologist and philosopher.

August 12, 2016 - International Youth Day. Established by the UN General Assembly on December 17, 1999 at the suggestion of the World Conference of Ministers for Youth Affairs, held in Lisbon on August 8-12, 1998. The first time International Youth Day was celebrated on August 12, 2000.

August 12, 2016 - Air Force Day (established by Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of May 31, 2006 No. 549).

August 13, 2016 - International Left-Handed Day. International Left-Handed Day was first celebrated on August 13, 1992, at the initiative of the British Left-Handed Club, established in 1990. On this day, left-handers around the world seek to draw the attention of manufacturers of goods to the need to take into account their convenience, arrange a variety of events and competitions.

August 15, 2016 - 85 years since the birth of Mikael Leonovich Tariverdiev (1931-1996), Soviet and Russian composer.

August 17, 2016 - 105 years since the birth of Mikhail Moiseevich Botvinnik (1911-1995), Soviet chess player.

August 19, 2016 - Photo Day. The date of the holiday was not chosen by chance: on August 9, 1839, the French artist, chemist and inventor Louis Daguerre presented to the French Academy of Sciences the process of obtaining a daguerreotype - an image on a photosensitive metal plate, and on August 19, the French government proclaimed his invention "a gift to the world."

August 19, 2016 - 255 years since the birth of Andreian (Andrian) Dmitrievich Zakharov (1761-1811), Russian architect, representative of the Empire style.

August 22, 2016 - 275 years since the birth of Jean Francois de Galo Laperouse (1741-1788), French navigator.

August 27, 2016 - 120 years since the birth of Faina Ranevskaya (1896-1984), Soviet theater and film actress.

August 29, 2016 - International Day against Nuclear Tests (since 2010 by decision of the UN General Assembly).

August 30, 2016 - 145 years since the birth of Ernst Rutherford (1871-1937), English physicist. One of the creators of the doctrine of radioactivity and the structure of the atom.

August 31, 2016 - Blog Day. The idea to celebrate Blog Day on August 31 came about in 2005.

Memorable and significant dates in September 2016

September 2, 2016 - 90 years since the birth of Evgeny Pavlovich Leonov (1926-1994), a famous Soviet theater and film actor.

September 3, 2016 - Day of Solidarity in the fight against terrorism. This is a new memorable date for Russia, established by the Federal Law "On the Days of Military Glory of Russia" dated July 6, 2005. Associated with the tragic events in Beslan.

September 4, 2016 - Day of the nuclear security specialist (Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of May 31, 2006 No. 549)

September 4, 2016 - Day of Oil, Gas and Fuel Industry Workers (first Sunday in September).

September 8, 2016 - International Literacy Day. It has been celebrated since 1967 by the decision of UNESCO.

September 9, 2016 - World Beauty Day. The initiative of the holding belongs to the International Committee of Aesthetics and Cosmetology.

September 11, 2016 - Lake Baikal Day. Established in 1999 and since then it has been celebrated annually on the fourth Sunday of August, but since 2008, by the decision of the Legislative Assembly of the Irkutsk Region, Baikal Day has been moved to the second Sunday of September.

September 15, 2016 - Birthday of the international environmental organization Greenpeace (September 15, 1971 - the day of the first organized action of environmentalists against nuclear testing).

September 16, 2016 - Juliet's birthday. On this day, the Italian city of Verona celebrates the birthday of Juliet, the famous Shakespearean heroine.

September 19, 2016 - Smiley's birthday. On September 19, 1982, Carnegie Mellon University professor Scott Fahlman first proposed the use of three consecutive characters - a colon, a hyphen, and a closing bracket - to indicate a "smiling face" in text that is typed on a computer.

September 21, 2016 - International Day of Peace as a day of universal ceasefire and non-violence.

September 21, 2016 - 105 years since the birth of Mark Naumovich Bernes (1911-1969), Soviet singer and film actor.

September 22, 2016 - 225 years since the birth of Michael Faraday (1791-1867), the great English physicist.

September 24, 2016 - World Maritime Day. It was established at the 10th session of the Assembly by the International Maritime Organization, has been noted since 1978. Included in the system of world and international days of the UN. Until 1980, it was celebrated on March 17, but then it began to be celebrated on one of the days of the last week of September. September 24th is celebrated in Russia.

September 25, 2016 - 110 years since the birth of Dmitry Dmitrievich Shostakovich (1906-1975), Russian composer, teacher, pianist, classic of world musical culture of the 20th century.

September 30, 2016 - 125 years since the birth of Otto Yulievich Schmidt (1891-1956), Soviet scientist, geographer, explorer of the Arctic.

Memorable and significant dates in October 2016

October 1, 2016 - International Music Day. Established in 1975 by decision of UNESCO. One of the initiators of the establishment of the International Day of Music is the composer Dmitry Shostakovich.

October 1, 2016 - International Day of Older Persons. It was proclaimed at the 45th session of the UN General Assembly on December 14, 1990, celebrated since October 1, 1991.

October 2, 2016 - International Day of Non-Violence. Established by a resolution of the UN General Assembly on June 15, 2007. The date was not chosen by chance: on October 2, 1869, Mahatma Gandhi, the leader of the Indian independence movement and the founder of the philosophy of non-violence, was born. In accordance with the UN resolution, the International Day serves as an additional occasion to "promote non-violence, including through educational and public outreach work."

October 3, 2016 - World Architecture Day (first Monday in October). This holiday was established by the International Union of Architects.

October 3-9, 2016 - International Writing Week. Held annually during the week of World Post Day.

October 4, 2016 - Day of the beginning of the space age of mankind (since 1967, by decision of the International Federation of Astronautics).

October 8, 2016 - 145 years since the birth of Ivan Maksimovich Poddubny (1871-1949), athlete, wrestler, circus performer.

October 10, 2016 - 155 years since the birth of Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930), Norwegian polar explorer.

October 9, 2016 - Day of the Worker of Agriculture and Processing Industry (second Sunday of October, Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of May 31, 1999 No. 679).

October 14, 2016 - World Egg Day. In 1996, at a conference in Vienna, the International Egg Commission announced that the World Egg Day would be celebrated on the second Friday of October.

October 15, 2016 is World Handwashing Day. It is noted but the initiative of the United Nations Children's Fund.

October 15, 2016 - 175 years since the birth of Savva Ivanovich Mamontov (1841-1918), a famous industrialist, Russian philanthropist.

October 19, 2016 - Day of the Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum. All-Russian Lyceum Day. This holiday owes its appearance to an educational institution - on October 19, 1811, the Imperial Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum was opened, in which Alexander Pushkin and many other people who glorified Russia were brought up.

October 21, 2016 - Apple Day (or the weekend closest to this date). In the UK, this event was first organized in 1990, at the initiative of one of the charitable organizations. Although the holiday is called “Apple Day”, it is dedicated not only to apples, but also to all orchards, as well as local island attractions.

October 22, 2016 - White Cranes Festival. A holiday of poetry and memory of the fallen on the battlefields in all wars. Appeared at the initiative of the poet Rasul Gamzatov.

October 22, 2016 - 205 years since the birth of Ferenc (Franz) Liszt (1811-1886), Hungarian composer, virtuoso pianist, conductor.

October 24, 2016 - 105 years since the birth of Arkady Isaakovich Raikin (1911-1987), Soviet theater, stage, film, comedian.

October 24, 2016 - International Day of School Libraries (4th Monday in October).

October 25, 2016 - 90 years since the birth of Galina Pavlovna Vishnevskaya (1926-2012), Russian opera singer.

October 25, 2016 - 135th birthday of Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), French painter.

October 25, 2016 - International Day of Women's Struggle for Peace (since 1980, by decision of the Women's International Democratic Federation).

October 28, 2016 - International Animation Day. Established at the initiative of the French branch of the International Animated Film Association in 2002 in honor of the 110th anniversary of the public presentation of the first animation technology.

Memorable and significant dates in November 2016

November 3, 2016 - 215 years since the birth of Vincenzo Bellini (1801-1835), Italian composer.

November 4, 2016 - National Unity Day. This holiday is established in honor of an important event in the history of Russia - the liberation of Moscow from the Polish invaders in 1612.

November 7, 2016 - Day of consent and reconciliation. Day of the October Revolution. The day of the military parade on Red Square in Moscow to commemorate the twenty-fourth anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution (1941).

November 8, 2016 - International KVN Day (since 2001). The idea of the holiday was proposed by the president of the international club KVN Alexander Maslyakov. The date of the celebration was chosen in honor of the anniversary of the first game of the Club of the Merry and Resourceful, which aired on November 8, 1961.

November 9, 2016 - 80 years since the birth of Mikhail Nekhemievich Tal (1936-1992), Soviet chess player.

November 11, 2016 - 305 years since the birth of Stepan Petrovich Krasheninnikov (1711-1755), Russian scientist and traveler, explorer of Siberia and Kamchatka.

November 13, 2016 - International Day of the Blind. On November 13, 1745, Valentin Gayuy was born in France - a famous teacher who founded several schools and enterprises for the blind in Paris and St. Petersburg. By decision of the World Health Organization, this date became the basis for the International Day of the Blind.

November 20, 2016 - No Smoking Day (celebrated on the third Thursday of November). It was established by the American Cancer Society in 1977.

November 19, 2016 - 305 years since the birth of Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov (1711-1765), the great Russian scientist.

November 21, 2016 - World Hello Day (since 1973). This holiday was invented by two brothers - Michael and Brion McCormack from the US state of Nebraska in 1973. In this holiday-game, the rules are very simple: it is enough to say hello to ten strangers on this day.

November 22, 2016 - 215 years since the birth of Vladimir Ivanovich Dahl (1801-1872), Russian writer, linguist, ethnographer.

November 26, 2016 - World Information Day. It has been celebrated annually since 1994 at the initiative of the International Informatization Academy and the World Informationological Parliament. On this day in 1992, the first International Informatization Forum took place.

November 27, 2016 - 315 years since the birth of Anders Celsius (1701-1744), Swedish astronomer, physicist, meteorologist.

November 29, 2016 - World Conservation Society Foundation Day. On this day, in 1948, the World Conservation Union was founded, which is the largest international non-profit environmental organization. The Union brings together 82 states into a unique global partnership (including the Russian Federation represented by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Ecology).

Memorable and significant dates in December 2016

December 1, 2016 - 300th anniversary of the birth of Etienne Maurice Falcone (1716-1791), French sculptor: The Bronze Horseman monument.

December 1, 2016 - 120 years since the birth of Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov (1896-1974), Soviet military leader, statesman. Marshal of the Soviet Union.

December 5, 2016 - 155 years since the birth of Konstantin Alekseevich Korovin (1861-1939), Russian painter, theater artist, teacher.

December 5, 2016 - 115 years since the birth of Walt Disney (1901-1966), American animator, film director, actor, screenwriter and producer, founder of Walt Disney Productions.

December 10, 2016 - 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 12, 2016 - 65 years since the birth of Fyodor Filippovich Konyukhov (1951), Russian professional traveler.

December 15, 2016 - Day of Remembrance for journalists who died in the line of duty.

December 16, 2016 - 150 years since the birth of the painter, the founder of abstract art, Wassily Vasilyevich Kandinsky (1866-1944).

December 18, 2016 - 95 years since the birth of Yuri Vladimirovich Nikulin (1921-1997), circus and film artist.

December 19, 2016 - 110 years since the birth of Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev (1906-1982), Soviet state and party leader.

December 23, 2016 - 85 years since the birth of Lev Konstantinovich Durov (1931-2015), actor, director.

December 27, 2016 - 445 years since the birth of Johannes Kepler (1571-1630). eminent German astronomer.

December 28, 2016 - 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.

2006-2016 - Decade of Rehabilitation and Development of the Affected Regions

(third decade after Chernobyl)

2010-2020 - Decade to Combat Desertification

2011-2020 - Decade of Biodiversity

Decade of Action for Road Safety

2012-2017 - Decree of the President of the Russian Federation "On the National Strategy for Action in the Interests of Children for 2012-2017"

2013-2022 - International Decade for the Rapprochement of Cultures

JANUARY

January 3 - 80 years old Nikolai Mikhailovich Rubtsov (1936-1971)

January 6 - 120 years Efim Nikolaevich Permitin (1896-1971)

January 8 - 70 years old since the birth of a Russian writer, translator Mikhail Davidovich Yasnova (1946)

13th of January - 85 years old since the birth of the Russian writer Arkady Alexandrovich Vainer (1931-2005)

January 14 - 105 years old since the birth of the Russian writer Anatoly Naumovich Rybakov (1911-1999)

January 15 - 125 years since the birth of the Russian poet Osip Emilievich Mandelstam (1891-1938)

January 24 - 240 years birthday of the German writer Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann (1776-1822)

January 27 - 190 years since the birth of the Russian satirist writer Mikhail Evgrafovich Saltykov-Shchedrin (1826-1889)

January 27 - 125 years since the birth of the Russian writer, poet Ilya Grigorievich Ehrenburg (1891-1967)

January 29 - 150 years since the birth of the French prose writer, playwright Romain Rolland (1866-1944)

FEBRUARY

February 5th - 180 years since the birth of the Russian critic, publicist Nikolai Alexandrovich Dobrolyubov (1836-1861)

February 9th - 575 years since the birth of the Uzbek poet Nizamaddin Mir Alisher Navoi (1441-1501)

February 10 - 135 years old since the birth of the Russian writer Boris Konstantinovich Zaitsev (1881-1972)

February 13 - 135 years old since the birth of the English children's writer, the first laureate of the International Literary Prize. H. K. Andersen Elinor Farjeon (1881-1965)

February, 15 - 110 years from the birthday of the Tatar poet Musa Jalil (1906-1944)

February 16 - 185 years since the birth of the Russian writer Nikolai Semenovich Leskov (1831-1895)

February 17 - 110 years since the birth of the Russian children's poet Agnia Lvovna Barto (1906-1971)

February 17 - 160 years Joseph Roni(senior) (1856-1940)

February 22 - 195 years old since the birth of the Russian writer Alexei Mikhailovich Zhemchuzhnikov (1821-1905)

24 February - 230 years since the birth of the German writer, philologist Wilhelm Grimm (1786-1859)

24 February - 85 years old since the birth of the Israeli writer, laureate of the International Prize. H. K. Andersen (1996) Uri Orleva (1931)

25 February - 145 years old since the birth of the Ukrainian writer Lesya Ukrainka (1871-1913)

25 February - 105 years old Agnia Alexandrovna Kuznetsova (1911-1996)

28th of February - 150 years since the birth of the Russian symbolist poet Vyacheslav Ivanovich Ivanov (1866-1949)

MARCH

March 4 - 110 years, winner of the International Prize. H. K. Andersen Meindert De Jong (1906-1991)

5th of March - 110 years since the birth of the Russian writer Nikolai Vladimirovich Bogdanov (1906-1989)

March 12 - 80 years old since the birth of the American writer, laureate of the International Prize. H. C. Andersen (1992) Virginia Hamilton (1936-2002)

March, 25 - 105 years old since the birth of the Russian writer Alexey Ivanovich Musatov (1911-1976)

March 27 - 135 years old since the birth of the Russian writer Arkady Timofeevich Averchenko (1881-1925)

March 27 - 145 years old since the birth of a German writer, public figure Heinrich Mann (1871-1950)

APRIL

12th of April - 85 years old Vitaly Titovich Korzhikov (1931-2007)

April 12 - World Day of Aviation and Cosmonautics. 55 years from the day first manned flight into space(1961) (noted by UNESCO)

April 13 - 110 years birthday of Irish writer, Nobel laureate Samuel Beckett (1906-1989)

April 15 - 130 years since the birth of the Russian poet Nikolai Stepanovich Gumilyov (1886-1921)

April 15 - 90 years old from the birthday of the Russian poetess Emma Efraimovna Moshkovskaya (1926-1981)

April 18th - 115 years old birthday of the Hungarian writer Laszlo Nemetha (1901-1975)

April 24 - 225 years Nikolai Alexandrovich Bestuzhev (1791-1855)

April 28 - 105 years old since the birth of the Russian writer Georgy Makeevich Markov (1911-1991)

April 28 - 80 years old since the birth of the Russian poet, prose writer Viktor Alexandrovich Sosnory (1936)

April 30 - 80 years old since the birth of the Russian writer Viktor Ivanovich Likhonosov (1936)

MAY

May 2 - 160 years since the birth of the Russian writer, philosopher Vasily Vasilyevich Rozanova (1856-1919)

May 2 - 105 years old since the birth of the Tajik poet Mirzo Tursun-Zade (1911-1977)

5 May - 170 years from the birthday of the Polish writer, Nobel Prize winner in literature Henryk Sienkiewicz (1846-1916)

May 7 - 155 years birthday of indian writer Rabindranath Tagore (Thakur) (1861-1941)

May 11 - 110 years since the birth of the Russian writer Vera Kazimirovna Ketlinskaya (1906-1976)

May 15 - 160 years birthday of american children's writer Lyman Frank Bauma (1856-1919)

May 15 - 125 years since the birth of the Russian writer Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov (1891-1940)

May 20 - 105 years since the birth of the Dutch writer, poet, laureate of the International Prize H. K. Andersen (1988) Anna Schmidt (1911-1995)

May, 23rd - 100 years since the birth of the Russian writer Susanna Mikhailovna Georgievskaya (1916-1974)

May 28 - 130 years since the birth of the Russian poet Vladislav Felitsianovich Khodasevich (1886-1939)

May 29 - 60 years since the birth of the Russian writer Grigory Shalvovich Chkhartishvili - Boris Akunin (1956)

May 31 - 90 years old since the birth of the German writer, laureate of the International Prize. H. K. Andersen James Crews (1926-1997)

JUNE

2 June - 140 years since the birth of the Russian writer Konstantin Andreevich Trenev (1876-1945)

June 4 - 195 years old since the birth of the Russian poet Apollon Nikolaevich Maikov (1821-1897)

June 11th - 205 years since the birth of the Russian critic Vissarion Grigorievich Belinsky (1811-1878)

June 14 - 125 years since the birth of the Russian children's writer Alexander Melentievich Volkov (1891-1977)

June 14 - 205 years birthday of American writer Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896)

June 17 - 105 years old since the birth of the Russian writer Viktor Platonovich Nekrasov (1911-1987)

June 20 - 95 years old since the birth of the Russian children's writer Anatoly Markovich Markushi (1921-2005)

21st of June - 200 years Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855)

June 22 - Day of memory and sorrow, 75 years old since the beginning of the Great Patriotic War and defense of the Brest Fortress (1941)

June, 22 - 160 years Henry Rider Haggard (1856-1925)

30 June - 105 years old from the birthday of the Polish writer Cheslava Milos (1911-2004)

JULY

3 July - 90 years old since the birth of the Russian writer Vladimir Osipovich Bogomolov (1926-2004)

July 17th - 125 years since the birth of the Russian writer Boris Andreevich Lavrenev (1891-1959)

July 17th - 75 years old since the birth of the Russian children's writer Sergei Anatolievich Ivanov (1941)

July 18 - 205 years birthday of the English writer William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863)

July 22 - 90 years old since the birth of the Russian prose writer, poet Sergei Alexandrovich Baruzdin (1926-1991)

26 July - 160 years birthday of the English playwright, writer George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

A B G U S T

August 7 - 100 years since the birth of the Russian writer Vitaly Grigorievich Melentiev (1916-1984)

August 9 - 110 years birthday of the English writer Pamela Lyndon Travers (1906-1996)

August 14 - 150 years since the birth of the Russian writer Dmitry Sergeevich Merezhkovsky (1866-1941)

August 20 - 110 years since the birth of the Russian writer Georgy Georgievich Belykh (1906-1938)

August 21 - 145 years old since the birth of the Russian writer Leonid Nikolaevich Andreev (1871-1919)

August 22 - 110 years since the birth of the Russian writer Leonid Panteleev (Alexey Ivanovich Eremeev) (1906-1987)

August 22 - 100 years since the birth of the Russian writer Anatoly Veniaminovich Kalinin (1916-2008)

August 27 - 145 years old birthday of the American writer Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945)

SEPTEMBER

September 1 - 160 years since the birth of the Russian poet Innokenty Fedorovich Annensky (1856-1909)

September 2 - 110 years since the birth of the Russian science fiction writer Alexander Petrovich Kazantsev (1906-2002)

September 3 - 75 years old since the birth of the Russian writer Sergei Donatovich Dovlatov (1941-1990)

September 7 - 75 years old since the birth of the Russian writer Vladimir Nikolaevich Krupin (1941)

12-th of September - 95 years old from the birthday of the Polish science fiction writer Stanislav Lem (1921)

12-th of September - 110 years since the birth of the Russian writer Sergei Nikolaevich Markov (1906-1979)

September 14 - 80 years old since the birth of the Russian poet Alexander Semenovich Kushner (1936)

September 15th - 125 years birthday of the English writer Agatha (Clarissa) Christie (Miller) (1891-1976)

September 19 - 105 years old since the birth of the Russian poet Seeds of Izrailevich Lipkin (1911-2003)

September 21 - 150 years birthday of the English science fiction writer H. G. Wells (1866-1946)

September 22nd - 125 years since the birth of the Russian writer Ruvim Isaevich Fraerman (1891-1972)

23 September - 80 years old Edward Stanislavovich Radzinsky (1936)

September 24 - 120 years birthday of the American writer Francis Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)

September 28 - 110 years from the birthday of the Russian playwright Alexander Petrovich Stein (1906-1993)

September 30th - 110 years since the birth of the Russian writer Lyubov Fedorovna Voronkova (1906-1976)

OCTOBER

October 1 - 225 years since the birth of the Russian writer Sergei Timofeevich Aksakov (1791-1859)

October 6 - 85 years old since the birth of the Russian poet, prose writer, playwright Roman Sefa (1931-2009)

October 8 - 85 years old since the birth of the Russian writer Julian Semenovich Semenov (1931-1993)

October 13 - 80 years old since the birth of the Austrian children's writer, laureate of the International Prize. H. K. Andersen, laureate of the Astrid Lindgren International Memorial Prize Christine Nestling (1936)

17 October - 85 years old since the birth of the Russian writer Anatoly Ignatievich Pristavkin (1931-2008)

October 21 - 120 years since the birth of the Russian writer, playwright Evgeny Lvovich Schwartz (1896-1958)

NOVEMBER

November 4 - 65 years old since the establishment of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization - UNESCO (1945)

November 7 - 130 years since the birth of the Russian writer Mark Alexandrovich Aldanov (1886-1957)

November 7 - 125 years since the birth of the Russian writer Dmitry Andreevich Furmanov (1891-1926)

November 7 - 95 years old since the birth of the Russian writer Andrey Dmitrievich Zharikov (1921)

11th of November - 195 years old since the birth of the Russian writer Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821-1881)

11th of November - 115 years old since the birth of the Russian writer, illustrator Evgeny Ivanovich Charushin (1901-1965)

November 18th - 70 years old since the birth of the Russian writer Vyacheslav Alexandrovich Pietsukh (1946)

November 19 - 305 years since the birth of the Russian poet, scientist Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov (1711-1765)

20 November - 100 years since the birth of the Russian poet Mikhail Alexandrovich Dudin (1916-1994)

November 22 - 215 years since the birth of the Russian philosopher, lexicographer, ethnographer Vladimir Ivanovich Dahl (1801-1872)

November 28 - 135 years old from the birth of the Austrian writer Stefan Zweig
(1881-1942)

November 28 - 110 years since the birth of a Russian outstanding public figure, philosopher Dmitry Sergeevich Likhachev (1906-1999)

DECEMBER

5th of December - 115 years old birthday of American film director, artist Walt Disney(Disney, 1901-1966)

9th December - 105 years old since the birth of the Russian children's writer Nikolai Vladimirovich Toman (1911-1974)

December 10 - 195 years old since the birth of the Russian poet Nikolai Alekseevich Nekrasov (1821-1877)

December 11th - 160 years since the birth of the Russian philosopher, publicist Georgy Valentinovich Plekhanov (1856-1918)

12 December - 195 years old birthday of the French writer Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880)

12 December - 250 years since the birth of the Russian writer, historian Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin (1766-1826)

December 14 - 100 years since the birth of the Russian children's writer Viktor Ivanovich Banykin (1916-1986)

December 24 - 115 years old since the birth of the Russian writer Alexander Alexandrovich Fadeev (1901-1956)

December 25 - 75 years old since the birth of the Russian writer Ruslan Timofeevich Kireev (1941)

Anniversary books 2016

695 years (1321)

A. Dante "The Divine Comedy"

290 years (1726)

J. Swift "Gulliver's Travels"

235 years(1781)

D. I. Fonvizin "Undergrowth"

225 years (1791)

R. E. Raspe "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen"

200 years (1816)

E. T. Hoffman "Nutcracker"

195 years old (1821)

A. S. Pushkin "Prisoner of the Caucasus"

190 years (1826)

V. Gauf "Collection of fairy tales for 1826»

Brothers Grimm "Fairy tales"(first Russian translation)

J. Cooper "Last of the Mohicans"

185 years (1831)

N. V. Gogol "Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka"

A. S. Griboyedov "Woe from Wit"

V. Hugo "Notre Dame Cathedral"

A. S. Pushkin “The Tale of the Priest and His Worker Balda”, “The Tale of Tsar Saltan, His Son, the Glorious and Mighty Bogatyr Prince Gvidon Saltanovich, and the Beautiful Princess Swan”

Stendhal "Red and black"

O. de Balzac "Shagreen leather"

180 years(1836)

Ch. Dickens The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club

A. S. Pushkin "Captain's daughter"

175 years (1841)

J. Cooper "St. John's Wort, or the First Path of War"

170 years (1846)

A. Dumas "The Count of Monte Cristo"

E. Lear "Book of Nonsense"

165 years (1851)

G. Melville "Moby Dick, or the White Whale"

160 years (1856)

S. T. Aksakov "Family Chronicles"

Ch. Dickens "Little Dorrit"

155 years (1861)

F. M. Dostoevsky "Humiliated and Insulted"

N. A. Nekrasov "Peasant Children"

150 years (1866)

F. M. Dostoevsky "Crime and Punishment"

T. Mine Reid "Headless horseman"

145 years old (1871)

L. Carroll "Alice in the Wonderland"

140 years (1876)

N. A. Nekrasov "Who in Russia to live well"

M. Twain "Adventures of Tom Sawyer"

135 years old (1881)

C. Collodi "The Story of Pinocchio"

N. S. Leskov "The Tale of the Tula Oblique Lefty and the Steel Flea"

130 years (1886)

M. E. Saltykov-Shchedrin "Fairy tales"

125 years (1891)

A. Conan Doyle "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes"

120 years (1896)

F. E. Burnett "Little Lord Fauntleroy"

115 years old (1901)

A. Conan Doyle "The Hound of the Baskervilles"

90 years old (1926)

A. S. Green "Running on the waves"

A. Milne "Winnie the Pooh"

V. A. Obruchev "Sannikov Land"

K. I. Chukovsky "Fedorino grief", "Wonder Tree", "Confusion", "Phone"

M. A. Sholokhov "Don stories"

85 years old (1931)

I. Ilf and E. Petrov "Golden calf"

80 years old (1936)

V. P. Belyaev "Old Fortress"

V. P. Kataev "The lonely sail turns white"

S. V. Mikhalkov "Uncle Stepa"

A. N. Tolstoy « The Golden Key, or the Adventures of Pinocchio"

K. Capek "War with the Salamanders"

75 years old (1941)

A. P. Gaidar "Timur and his team", "Timur's Oath"

L. Panteleev "Honestly"

70 years old (1946)

N. M. Verzilin "In the footsteps of Robinson"

E. Ilyina "The Fourth Height"

A. Lindgren "The famous detective Kale Blomkvist"

65 years old (1951)

N. N. Nosov "Vitya Maleev at school and at home"

J. Rodari "The Adventures of Cipollino"

D. Salinger "The Catcher in the Rye"

60 years (1956)

Ya. L. Akim "Clumsy"

J. Durrell "My family and other animals"

A. Rybakov "Bronze Bird"

55 years (1961)

V. Yu. Dragunsky "He's alive and glowing"

N. N. Nosov "The Adventures of Tolya Klyukvin"

50 years (1966)

S. S. Vangeli "The Adventures of Gugutse"

B. V. Zakhoder "Comrade children"

O. Preusler "Little Baba Yaga", "Little Waterman", "Little Ghost"

N. I. Sladkov "Underwater Newspaper"

45 years (1971)

N. N. Nosov The Dunno Trilogy

O. Preusler "Krabat. Legends of the old mill»

G. N. Troepolsky "White Bim Black Ear"

40 years (1976)

A. G. Aleksin "Mad Evdokia"

V. G. Rasputin "Farewell to Matera"

35 years (1981)

A. Lindgren "Roni, the Robber's Daughter"

Anniversaries of newspapers and magazines

155 years (1861) magazine "Around the world"

80 years (1936) magazine "Literary Review"

admin 1.01.2015

Our age will pass

The archives will open

And all that has been hidden so far

All secret stories twist

Show the world glory and shame.

The faces of other gods will then fade,

And every trouble will be exposed,

But what was truly great

It will remain great forever.

N.S. Tikhonov

The calendar of significant and memorable dates for 2016 includes the dates of life and death of writers, poets, book publishers, cultural and art figures, political leaders, dates of historical events and other socially significant facts of international, Russian and regional significance, anniversaries of which are celebrated in 2016.

The calendar includes only dates whose digits are divisible by five, the calendar is compiled in chronological order - from January to December, and in each month - from the 1st to the 31st. This means that after five years, the calendar for 2016 can be used again.

The calendar is an indispensable assistant in providing information, organizing leisure activities, and holding various events.

UN International Decades

2014 - 2024

A decade of sustainable energy for all

2011-2020

International Decade for the Eradication of Colonialism

United Nations Decade on Biodiversity

Decade of Action for Road Safety

2010 - 2020

United Nations Decade for Deserts and Desertification Control

2008 - 2017

Second United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty

2006 - 2016

Decade of Rehabilitation and Sustainable Development of the Affected Regions

2016 in Russia

Year of Russian cinema.

Year of Greece in the Russian Federation and Year of Russia in Greece

Book Capital 2016 - Polish city of Wroclaw

Some anniversaries in 2016:

1105 years from the date of the conclusion of the First Treaty of Russia with Byzantium (911)

565 years since the birth of Christopher Columbus (1451-1506), Spanish navigator

430 years since the manufacture of the "Tsar Cannon" by A. Chokhov (1586). Installed in the Moscow Kremlin

425 years since the completion of the construction of the Donskoy Monastery in Moscow (1591)

305 years since the invention of the piano by B. Cristofori (1711)

285 years since the creation of the Russian Pacific Fleet (1731)

185 years since the creation of the Rumyantsev Museum (1831)

150 years since the founding of the Russian Telegraph Agency (1866)

140 years since the invention of the first telephone by A.G. Bell (1876)

105 years since the invention of the first backpack parachute by G.E. Kotelnikov (1911)

90 years since the creation of the All-Russian Society of the Deaf (1926)

80 years since the creation of the sports society "Lokomotiv" (1936)

75 years since the advent of the field rocket artillery system - "Katyusha" (1941)

55 years since the completion of the construction of the State Kremlin Palace (1961)

Also in 2016 it will be performed:

70 years of UNICEF (United Nations Children's Fund) (1946)
160 years of the State Tretyakov Gallery (1856)
50 years of the newspaper "Book Review" (1966)
60 years of the children's humor magazine "Funny Pictures" (1956)
60th Anniversary of the Founding of the H.C. Andersen Literary Prize of the International Council on Books for Children and Youth (1956)

January

290 years since the opening of the Russian Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg (1726)

January 3- 80 years since the birth of Nikolai Mikhailovich Rubtsov (1936-1971), Soviet poet

5 January- 95th birthday of Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921-1990), Swiss writer

5 January- 275 years ago (1741) Buddhism was officially recognized in Russia by decree of Empress Elizabeth Petrovna

January 6- 105 years since the birth of Nikolai Afanasyevich Kryuchkov (1911-1993), Soviet film actor

January 8- 125 years since the birth of Solomon Yakovlevich Lurie (1891-1964), philologist, historian

January 9- 215 years since the birth of Osip (Józef) Mikhailovich Kovalevsky (1801-1878), Polish and Russian historian

January 9- 135 years since the birth of Giovanni Papini (1881-1956), Italian writer

January 12- 140 years since the birth of Jack London (John Griffith, 1876-1916), American writer

January 12- 80 years since the birth of Raimonds (Raimondas) Voldemars Pauls (1936), Latvian composer

13th of January- 85 years since the birth of Arkady Alexandrovich Vainer (1931-2005), Russian writer

January 14- 105 years since the birth of Anatoly Naumovich Rybakov (1911-1998), Russian writer

January 15- 125 years since the birth of Osip Emilievich Mandelstam (1891-1938), Soviet poet

January 19- 105 years since the birth of Anatoly Vladimirovich Sofronov (1911-1990), poet

January 21- 75 years since the birth of Placido Domingo (Jose Placido Domingo Embil, 1941), Spanish singer

January 22- 455 years since the birth of Francis Bacon (1561-1626), English philosopher

January 24- 240 years since the birth of Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann (1776-1822), German writer, composer, artist

January 26- 170 years since the birth of Vladimir Yegorovich Makovsky (1846-1920), artist-itinerant, graphics

January 27- 190 years since the birth of Mikhail Evgrafovich Saltykov-Shchedrin (Saltykov, 1826-1889), Russian writer

January 27- 125 years since the birth of Ilya Grigorievich Ehrenburg (1891-1967), writer

28 January- 175 years since the birth of Vasily Osipovich Klyuchevsky (1841-1911), Russian historian

January 29- 150 years since the birth of Romain Rolland (1866-1944), French writer

February

1st of February- 85 years since the birth of Boris Nikolaevich Yeltsin (1931-2007), Russian statesman

February 2- Day of the defeat of the Nazi troops by the Soviet troops in the Battle of Stalingrad (1943)

February 3rd- 50 years since the world's first landing of an automatic station on the moon (1966)

February 3rd- 125 years since the birth of Sergei Vladimirovich Obruchev (1891-1965), Soviet geologist

February 4- 135 years since the birth of Kliment Efremovich Voroshilov (1881-1969), statesman

February 5th- 180 years since the birth of Nikolai Alexandrovich Dobrolyubov (1836-1861), literary critic, publicist

February 5th- 165 years since the birth of Ivan Dmitrievich Sytin (1851-1934), the largest Russian publisher, bookseller

February 8- Day of Russian Science. (Established by Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of June 7, 1999 No. 717. On this day in 1724, Peter I signed the Decree on the founding of the Academy of Sciences in Russia).

February 8- 825 years since the birth of Yaroslav Vsevolodovich (1191-1246), Grand Duke of Vladimir

February 9th- 575 years since the birth of Alishar Navoi (real name Nizamaddin Mir Alisher) (1441-1501), Central Asian poet, statesman

February 10- 105 years since the birth of Mstislav Vsevolodovich Keldysh (1911-1978), mathematics, mechanics

February 13- 135 years since the birth of Elinor Farjeon (1881-1965), English writer, laureate of the International H.K. Andersen (1956)

February 16- 185 years since the birth of Nikolai Semyonovich Leskov (1831-1895), Russian writer

February 17- 110 years since the birth of Agnia Lvovna Barto (1906-1981), poetess, writer

February 17- 160 years since the birth of Roni the Elder (Joseph Henri Becks, 1856-1940), French writer

February 19- 60 years since the birth of Oleg Grigorievich Mityaev (1956), Russian songwriter and performer

February 21- International Mother Language Day. (Celebrated since 2000 at the initiative of UNESCO in order to preserve the cultural traditions of all peoples).

February 22- 195 years since the birth of Alexei Mikhailovich Zhemchuzhnikov (1821-1908), poet

24 February- 230 years since the birth of Wilhelm Grimm (1786-1859), German philologist, writer

25 February- 175 years since the birth of Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919), French painter

February 27- 185 years since the birth of Nikolai Nikolaevich Ge (1831-1894), Russian artist

28th of February- 150 years since the birth of Vyacheslav Ivanovich Ivanov (1866-1949), poet, philosopher

March

March 1- Day of Remembrance of the paratroopers of the 6th paratrooper company of the 104th regiment of the Pskov Airborne Division, who died heroically in the Argun Gorge on March 1, 2000. (since 31.01.2013)

March 1- 155 years (1861) from the date of the abolition of serfdom in Russia by Emperor Alexander II

2nd of March- 85 years since the birth of Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev (1931), Soviet and Russian statesman and public figure

5th of March- 305 years (1711) from the date of the establishment by Peter I of the Senate as the highest state body for legislation and public administration

March 7- 1695 years from the day Sunday was declared a non-working day (The most ancient decree of Emperor Constantine the Great) (321)

March 7- 75 years since the birth of Andrei Alexandrovich Mironov (1941-1987), Soviet actor

March 8- 85 years since the birth of Shalva Alexandrovich Amonashvili (1931), Russian teacher

10th of March- 90 years since the birth of Alexander Sergeevich Zatsepin (1826-1995), composer

March 12- 80 years since the birth of Virginia Hamilton (1936-2002), American writer, laureate of the International H.K. Andersen (1992)

March 14th- 130 years since the birth of Vladimir Andreevich Favorsky (1886-1964), Soviet graphic artist, artist

March 14th- All-Russian day of the Orthodox book. (It has been celebrated since 2009 at the initiative of Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia and the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church, timed to coincide with the date of the release of Ivan Fedorov's first printed book, The Apostle, published in March 1564).

March 17- 160 years since the birth of Mikhail Aleksandrovich Vrubel (1856-1910), Russian artist

March 23- 195 years since the birth of Alexei Feofilaktovich Pisemsky (1821-1881), Russian writer

March 24- 125 years since the birth of Sergei Ivanovich Vavilov (1891-1951), Soviet physicist, statesman and public figure

March 24-30- Week of music for children and youth.
March 24-30- Week of Children's and Youth Books. (It has been held annually since 1944. The first "Book name days" were held on the initiative of L. Kassil in 1943 in Moscow).

March, 25- 145 years since the birth of Igor Emmanuilovich Grabar (1871-1960), Soviet artist, art critic

26 March- 105 years since the birth of Tennessee Williams (1911-1983), American playwright, novelist

March 27- 235 years since the birth of Alexander Khristoforovich Vostokov (Osteniuk, 1781-1864), Slavic philologist

March 27- 135 years since the birth of Arkady Timofeevich Averchenko (1881-1925), writer

March 29- 80 years since the birth of Stanislav Sergeevich Govorukhin (1936), Russian film director

30th of March- 270 years since the birth of Francisco Goya (1746-1828), Spanish painter and filmmaker

30th of March- 240 years since the birth of Vasily Andreyevich Tropinin (1776-1857), Russian artist

March 31- 90th birthday of John Roberts Fowles (1926-2005), British writer

April

April 1- 585 years since the birth of François Villon (April 1, 1431 or April 19, 1432-after 1464), French poet

April 2- 100 years since the birth of Oleg Leonidovich Lundstrem (1916-2005), Russian musician

April 6- 180 years since the birth of Nikolai Vasilyevich Sklifosovsky (1836-1904), scientist, surgeon

12th of April- World Day of Aviation and Cosmonautics. 55th anniversary of the first manned flight into space (1961), (commemorated by UNESCO)

April 15- 130 years since the birth of Nikolai Stepanovich Gumilyov (1886-1921), Russian poet

April 16- 115 years since the birth of Nikolai Pavlovich Akimov (1901-1968), director, artist

April 18th- Day of military glory of Russia. The day of the victory of Russian soldiers of Prince Alexander Nevsky over the German knights in the battle on Lake Peipsi (Battle on the Ice, 1242)

April 19- 105 years since the birth of Georgy Mokeevich Markov (1911-1991), Soviet writer

April 21- 200 years since the birth of Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855), English writer

April 22- 250 years since the birth of Anne Louise Germaine de Stael (1766-1817), French writer

April 23- 125 years since the birth of Sergei Sergeevich Prokofiev (1891-1953), Soviet composer

April 23- 115 years since the birth of Leonid Vladimirovich Zankov (1901-1977), Soviet teacher, psychologist

April 24- International Day of Youth Solidarity. (Celebrated since 1957 by decision of the World Federation of Democratic Youth).

26 April- Commemorative date of Russia. Day of participants in the liquidation of the consequences of radiation accidents and disasters and the memory of the victims of these accidents and disasters. (Established by the Federal Law of April 1, 2012 No. 24-FZ “On the days of military glory and memorable dates in Russia”).

April 27- 225 years since the birth of Samuel Morse (1791-1872), American inventor, artist

April 29- 330 years since the birth of Vasily Nikitich Tatishchev (1686-1750), historian, statesman

May

120 years since the first film show in Russia (Petersburg, 1896)

May 2- 160 years since the birth of Vasily Vasilyevich Rozanov (1856-1919), writer, philosopher

May 3- 65 years since the birth of Tatyana Nikitichna Tolstaya (1951), Russian writer

May 4th- 135 years since the birth of Alexander Fedorovich Kerensky (1881-1970), politician, statesman

May 7- 155th Birth Anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), Indian Writer (UNESCO Celebrated)

May 7- 305 years since the birth of David Hume (1711-1776), English philosopher, psychologist

12 May- 95th birthday of Farley McGill Mowat (1921-2014), Canadian writer

May 15- 125 years since the birth of Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov (1891-1940), Soviet writer

May 15- 105 years since the birth of Max Frisch (1911-1991), Swiss writer and playwright

May 17- 145 years since the birth of Anna Petrovna Ostroumova-Lebedeva (1871-1955), artist

May 20- 105 years since the birth of Anna Schmidt (1911-1995), Dutch writer, poet, laureate of the International H.K. Andersen (1988)

May 20- 60 years since the birth of Grigory Shalvovich Chkhartishvili - Boris Akunin (1956), Russian writer

May 21st- 95 years since the birth of Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov (1921-1989), Russian physicist and public figure

May 24- 330 years since the birth of Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit (1686-1736), German physicist

May 28- 130 years since the birth of Vladislav Felitsianovich Khodasevich (1886-1939), Russian poet, critic

May 28- 40 years since the birth of Alexei Yurievich Nemov (1976), Russian gymnast, 4-time Olympic champion

May 30- 170 years since the birth of Karl Gustavovich Faberge (1846-1920), Russian jeweler

June

105 years since the opening of the First All-Russian Congress on Library Science (1911)

100 years since the beginning of the offensive operation "Brusilovsky breakthrough" (1916)

June 6- Pushkin's Day in Russia. 217 years since the birth of the Russian poet and writer A.S. Pushkin (1799-1837)

Russian Language Day (Celebrated by the UN)

June 8- 90 years since the birth of Oleg Vasilyevich Koshevoy (1926-1943), head of an underground organization in the fascist rear

the 9th of June- 355 years since the birth of Fyodor Alekseevich Romanov (1661-1682), Russian Tsar

June 11th- 205 years since the birth of Vissarion Grigoryevich Belinsky (1811-1848), literary critic

June 14- 205th birthday of Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896), American writer

June 14- 125 years since the birth of Alexander Melentievich Volkov (1891-1977), Russian writer

June 17- 105 years since the birth of Viktor Platonovich Nekrasov (1911-1987), Soviet writer

June 18- 335 years since the birth of Feofan Prokopovich (1681-1736), scientist, writer, church leader

June 19- 230 years since the birth of Fyodor Nikolaevich Glinka (1786-1880), poet, writer, Decembrist

June 20- 95 years since the birth of Anatoly Markovich Markushi (1921-2005), Russian writer

June, 22- Day of Memory and Sorrow, 75 years since the start of the Great Patriotic War and the defense of the Brest Fortress (1941)

June, 22- 160 years since the birth of Henry Ryder Haggart (1856-1925), English writer

June 25- 125 years since the birth of Sergei Mikhailovich Bondi (1891-1983), philologist, literary critic

June 29- 110 years since the birth of Ivan Danilovich Chernyakhovsky (1906-1945), military leader

July

July 1- 115 years since the birth of Vladimir Alexandrovich Lugovsky (1901-1957), Soviet poet

July 1- 370 years since the birth of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716), German philosopher, lawyer, historian, linguist, mathematician, physicist

5'th of July- 115 years since the birth of Sergei Vladimirovich Obraztsov (1901-1992), Russian theatrical figure, actor, director

July 6- 220 years since the birth of Nicholas I (Nikolai Pavlovich Romanov, 1796-1855), Russian Emperor

July 6- 70 years since the birth of Sylvester Stallone (1946), American film actor, director

July 8- 395 years since the birth of Jean La Fontaine (1621-1695), French poet, fabulist

July 10- Day of military glory. The victory of the Russian army under the command of Peter I over the Swedes in the Battle of Poltava (1709)

July 15- 410 years since the birth of Rembrandt Harmes van Rijn (1606-1669), the great Dutch painter and graphic artist

July 17th- 170 years since the birth of Nikolai Nikolaevich Miklukho-Maclay (1846-1888), Russian traveler

July 18- 205th birthday of William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1864), English writer

July 18- 195 years since the birth of Pauline Viardot-Garcia (1821-1910), French singer, close friend of J.S. Turgenev

July 19- 120 years since the birth of Archibald Joseph Cronin (1896-1981), English writer

July 22- 90 years since the birth of Sergei Alekseevich Baruzdin (1926-1991), Soviet writer

July 23- 190 years since the birth of Alexander Nikolaevich Afanasiev (1826-1871), collector and researcher of Russian folklore, historian of Russian literature

26 July- 160 years since the birth of Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), English playwright, critic, publicist. Nobel Prize winner (1925)

July 27- 105 years since the birth of Nikolai Ivanovich Kuznetsov (Grachev) (1911-1944), Soviet military intelligence officer

July 27- 80 years since the birth of Maris-Rudolf Eduardovich Liepa (1936-1989), ballet dancer

July 28th- Commemorative date of Russia. Day of the Baptism of Russia. (Established by the Federal Law of July 28, 2010 No. 32-FZ “On the days of military glory and memorable dates in Russia”).

July 28th- 210 years since the birth of Alexander Andreevich Ivanov (1806-1858), Russian painter, author of the painting "The Appearance of Christ to the People"

July 28th- 145 years since the birth of Sergei Nikolaevich Bulgakov (1871-1944), philosopher, theologian

July 30- 505 years since the birth of Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574), Italian architect, artist, art historian

July 30- 105 years since the birth of Sergei Aleksandrovich Vasiliev (1911-1975), Soviet writer and poet

August

Railroad Day (first Sunday in August)

August 6- 160 years since the birth of Apollinary Mikhailovich Vasnetsov (1856-1933), artist

August 6-7- 55 years ago, a 25-hour space flight of the Vostok-2 spacecraft, piloted by cosmonaut G.S. Titov

8 August- International Literacy Day. (Celebrated since 1966 at the initiative of UNESCO)

8 August- 115 years since the birth of Nina Nikolaevna Berberova (1901-1993), Russian writer abroad

August 9- Day of military glory of Russia. The first victory in Russian history of the Russian fleet under the command of Peter I over the Swedes at Cape Gangut (1714)

12th of August- 335 years since the birth of Vitus Jonassen Bering (Ivan Ivanovich, 1681-1741), Russian navigator

12th of August- 185 years since the birth of Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (Gann, 1831-1891), Russian religious thinker

August 14- 150 years since the birth of Dmitry Sergeevich Merezhkovsky (1866-1941), poet, literary critic, influential representative of symbolism

August 15- 245 years since the birth of Walter Scott (1771-1832), English writer

August 15- 85 years since the birth of Mikael Leonovich Tariverdiev (1931-1996), composer

August 16- 140 years since the birth of Ivan Yakovlevich Bilibin (1876-1942), Russian graphic artist, illustrator of Russian fairy tales, theater artist

August 17- 105 years since the birth of Mikhail Moiseevich Botvinnik (1911-1995), Soviet chess player

August 19- 265 years since the birth of Matvey Ivanovich Platov (1751-1818), military leader

August 21- 145 years since the birth of Leonid Andreev (1871-1919), Russian prose writer, playwright, journalist

August 22- 275 years since the birth of Jean-Francois de Galo Lapérouse (1741-1788), French navigator

August 23- Day of military glory. The defeat of the Nazi troops by the Soviet troops in the Battle of Kursk (1943)

25-th of August- 180th Birth Anniversary of Francis Bret Hart (1836-1902), American writer

August 27- 145 years since the birth of Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945), American writer

August 30- 145 years since the birth of Ernst Rutherford (1871-1937), English physicist

August 31- 205 years since the birth of Theophile Gauthier (1811-1872), French writer

September

150 years since the founding of the Moscow Conservatory. P.I. Tchaikovsky (1866)

85 years since the opening of the Central Puppet Theatre. S.V. Obraztsova in Moscow (1931)

75 years since the beginning of the Moscow battle (1941)

September 3- Commemorative date of Russia. Day of solidarity in the fight against terrorism. (Established by the Federal Law of July 23, 2010 No. 170-FZ “On the Days of Military Glory and Memorable Dates of Russia.” It is associated with the tragic events in Beslan, when militants seized one of the city schools. As a result of the terrorist attack in school No. 1, more than three hundred people, including 150 children).

September 3- 75 years since the birth of Sergei Donatovich Dovlatov (1941-1990), writer

September 7- 75 years since the birth of Vladimir Nikolaevich Krupin (1941), Russian writer

8 September- Day of military glory of Russia. The battle of Borodino of the Russian army under the command of M.I. Kutuzov with the French army (1812)

11 September- Day of military glory of Russia. The victory of the Russian squadron under the command of F.F. Ushakov over the Turkish squadron at Cape Tendra (1790)

September 14- 80 years since the birth of Alexander Semyonovich Kushner (1936), Russian poet

September 17- 175 years since the birth of Fyodor Mikhailovich Reshetnikov (1841-1871), writer

September 21- Day of military glory. The victory of the Russian regiments led by Grand Duke Dmitry Donskoy over the Mongol-Tatar troops in the Battle of Kulikovo (1380)

September 21- 150 years since the birth of Herbert George Wells (1866-1946), English writer

September 22nd- 225 years since the birth of Michael Faraday (1791-1867), the great English physicist

23 September- 80 years since the birth of Edward Stanislavovich Radzinsky (1936), Russian writer

September 25- World Heart Day. (Celebrated since 1999 on the last Sunday of September at the initiative of the World Heart Federation with the support of the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNESCO).

September 25- 105 years since the birth of Mark Naumovich Bernes (1911-1969), Soviet singer and film actor

September 24- 95 years since the birth of Lidia Borisovna Lebedinskaya (1921-2006), Russian writer

September 25- 110 years since the birth of Dmitry Shostakovich (1906-1975), Russian composer, teacher, pianist, classic of world musical culture of the 20th century

September 25- 245 years since the birth of Nikolai Nikolaevich Raevsky (1771-1829), military leader

September 30th- 125 years since the birth of Otto Yulievich Schmidt (1891-1956), Soviet scientist, polar explorer

October

October 1- 225 years since the birth of Sergei Timofeevich Aksakov (1791-1859), Russian writer, poet of nature

October 1- International Music Day. (Held annually by decision of the International Council of UNESCO since 1975).

October 4 - 10- World Space Week. October 4 - Day of the military-space forces. (Noted since 1995).

October 8- 85 years since the birth of Yulian Semyonovich Semyonov (Landers, 1931-1993), Soviet writer

October 9- World Post Day. (Held by decision of the 14th Congress of the Universal Postal Union (1957) on the day of the creation in 1874 of the Universal Postal Union).

October 9- 85 years since the birth of Boris Nikolaevich Nikolsky (1931-2011), Russian writer

October 9- 90 years since the birth of Evgeny Alexandrovich Evstigneev (1926-1992), actor

October 10- 155 years since the birth of Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930), Norwegian polar explorer

October 15- 175 years since the birth of Savva Ivanovich Mamontov (1841-1918), a famous industrialist, Russian philanthropist

17 October- 85 years since the birth of Anatoly Ignatievich Pristavkin (1931-2008), Russian writer

October 19 - Day of the Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum. 205 years since the founding of the Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum (1811)

October 19- 85 years since the birth of John Le Carre (David John Moore Cornwell, 1931), English writer, author of detective stories

22 of October- 205 years since the birth of Ferenc (Franz) Liszt (1811-1886), Hungarian composer, pianist (noted by UNESCO)

October 24- 105 years since the birth of Arkady Isaakovich Raikin (1911-1987), Soviet artist

the 25th of October- 90 years since the birth of Galina Pavlovna Vishnevskaya (1926-2012), Russian singer

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local history

435 years since the start of Yermak's campaign in Siberia. (1581)

125 years since the construction of the Trans-Siberian Railway (1891)

80th birthdayBoris Pavlovich Vodopyanov (1936), writer

80th birthdayLira Sultanovna Abdullina (1936 - 1987), poetess

85th birthdayVladlen Nikolaevich Belkin (January 6, 1931), Krasnoyarsk poet

160th birthdayVladimir Mikhailovich Krutovsky (January 25, 1856 - 1937), Siberian public figure, educator, publicist, naturalist

90th birthdayZhoris Petrovich Troshev (May 1, 1926), Krasnoyarsk writer, essayist, local historian

235th birthdayAlexander Petrovich Stepanov (May 4, 1781 - 1837), the first Yenisei governor

110th birthdayIvan Mikhailovich Nazarov (June 21, 1906 - 1972), Krasnoyarsk writer

90th birthdayAndrey Gennadievich Pozdeev (September 27, 1926 - 1998), Krasnoyarsk artist

115 years since the founding of the Ermakov Central Regional Library (1901)

40 years since the opening of the Krasnoyarsk regional youth library (youth) (December 6, 1976)

January

1 - New Year's holiday

For the Orthodox - the day of memory of St. Ilya Muromets, Pechersky, the legendary defender of the borders of the Russian Fatherland.

175th birthdayArkhip Ivanovich Kuindzhi (1841 - 1910), Russian artist.

3 - 80th birthdayNikolai Mikhailovich Rubtsov (1936 - 1971), Russian poet.

6 - Christmas Eve.

7 - Orthodox holiday Christmas.

12 - 140 years from the date of birthJack London(1876-1916), American writer.

13 - 85 years from the date of birthArkady Alexandrovich Vainer (1931 - 2005), Russian writer.

14 - 105 years from the date of birthAnatoly Naumovich Rybakov (1911 - 1998), Russian writer.

15 - 125 years from the date of birthOsip Emilievich Mandelstam (1891 - 1938), Russian poet.

18 - Epiphany Christmas Eve.

19 - Orthodox feast of the Baptism of the Lord.

21 - 110th birthdayIgor Alexandrovich Moiseev (1906), Russian choreographer.

22 - 95 years from the date of birthArno Harutyunovich Babajanyan (1921 - 1983), Armenian composer, pianist.

24 - 240 years from the date of birthErnst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann (1776 - 1822), German writer, composer, artist.

115th birthdayMikhail Ilyich Romm (1901 - 1971), Soviet film director, screenwriter.

25 - Tatyana's day

Holiday of Russian students and all young students.

27 - Day of military glory of Russia. Day of lifting the blockade of the city of Leningrad.

260th birthdayWolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791), Austrian composer.

190 years since birthMikhail Evgrafovich Saltykov - Shchedrin (1826 - 1889), Russian writer.

120th birthdayArkady Grigorievich Mordvinov (1896 - 1964), Russian architect.

28 - 175 years from the date of birthVasily Osipovich Klyuchevsky (1841 - 1911), Russian historian.

February

1 - 85th birthdayBoris Nikolaevich Yeltsin (1931 - 2007), Soviet party and Russian politician and statesman, the first president of the Russian Federation.

2 - Day of military glory of Russia. Day of the defeat of the Nazi troops by the Soviet troops in the Battle of Stalingrad (1943).

5 - 180 years from the date of birthNikolai Alexandrovich Dobrolyubov (1836 - 1861), Russian critic.

7 - 170 years from the date of birthVladimir Egorovich Makovsky (1846 - 1920), Russian artist.

110th birthdayOleg Konstantinovich Antonov (1906 - 1984), Soviet aircraft designer.

8 - 150 years from the date of birthLev Samoilovich Bakst (1866 - 1924), Russian artist, painter, graphic artist.

13 - 225th birthdaySylvester Feodosievich Shchedrin (1791 - 1830), Russian artist.

14 - St. Valentine. St. Valentine's Day

80th birthdayAnna German(1936 - 1982), Polish singer.

15 - Day of Remembrance of Warriors - Internationalists in Russia.

110th birthdayMousses of Jalil(1906 - 1944), Tatar poet.

16 - 185 years from the date of birthNikolai Semyonovich Leskov (1831 - 1895), Russian writer.

17 - 110 years from the date of birthAgnia Lvovna Barto (1906 - 1981), children's writer, poetess.

22 - 195 years from the date of birthAlexei Mikhailovich Zhemchuzhnikov (1821 - 1908), Russian poet, publicist.

23 - Day of Defenders of the Fatherland.

24 - 230 years from the date of birthWilhelm Grim (1786 - 1859), German writer, storyteller, philologist.

27 - 185 years since birthNikolai Nikolaevich Ge (1831 - 1894), Russian artist.

28 - 150th birthdayVyacheslav Ivanovich Ivanov (1866 - 1949), Russian poet, philologist.

March

1 - 145th birthdaySergei Konstantinovich Bogoyavlensky (1871 - 1947), Russian historian, archaeologist.

155 years since the abolition of serfdom in Russia.

2 - 85th birthdayMikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev (1931), Russian statesman.

3 - 155 years since the beginningPeasant reform in Russia (abolition of serfdom) (1861).

8 - International Women's Day.

110th birthdayAlexander Arturovich Rowe (1906 - 1973), Soviet director.

75th birthdayAndrey Alexandrovich Mironov (1941 - 1987), Russian actor.

14 - 130 years from the date of birthVladimir Andreevich Favorsky (1886 - 1964), Russian artist.

15 - World Consumer Rights Day.

17 - 160 years from the date of birthMikhail Alexandrovich Vrubel (1856 - 1910), Russian painter.

21 - World Poetry Day.

- World Earth Day.

22 - World Water Day.

195th birthdayAlexei Feofilaktovich Pisemsky

25 - 145 years from the date of birthIgor Emmanuilovich Grabar (1871 - 1960), Russian artist, art historian.

- Cultural Workers Day .

27 - International Theater Day.

135th birthdayArkady Timofeevich Averchenko (1881 - 1925), Russian writer.

30 - 240 years from the date of birthVasily Andreevich Tropinin (1776 - 1857), Russian artist.

April

Week of pre-conscription and draft youth.

1 - Day of laughter.

International Bird Day.

2 - International Children's Book Day.

-Day of unity of peoples

100th birthdayOleg Lundstrem (1916 - 2005), musician.

6 - 180 years from the date of birthNikolai Vasilyevich Sklifosovsky (1836 - 1904), scientist, surgeon.

7 - World Health Day.

12 - World Day of Aviation and Cosmonautics.

85th birthdayVitaly Titovich Korzhikov (1931 - 2007), Russian children's writer.

15 - 130 years from the date of birthNikolai Stepanovich Gumilyov (1886 - 1921), Russian poet.

17 - 105 years from the date of birthHerve Bazin(1911 - 1996), French writer.

18 - Day of military glory of Russia. Victory Day of the Russian soldiers of Prince Alexander Nevsky over the German knights on Lake Peipsi (1242)

19 - 105 years from the date of birthGeorgy Mokeevich Markov (1911 - 1991), Russian writer.

20 - 135 years from the date of birthNikolai Yakovlevich Myasnikovsky (1881 - 1950), Russian composer.

22 - World Earth Day.

23 - 125th birthdaySergei Sergeevich Prokofiev (1891 - 1953), Soviet composer.

24 - 225 years from the date of birthNikolai Alexandrovich Bestuzhev (1791 - 1855), Russian writer, historian.

145th birthdayLyubov Borisovna Khavkina (1871 - 1949), librarian, bibliographer.

May

2 - 160 years from the date of birthVasily Vasilyevich Rozanov (1856 - 1919), Russian writer, philosopher.

90th birthdayEgor Alexandrovich Isaev (1926), Russian poet.

3 - 65 years from the date of birthTatyana Nikitichna Tolstoy (1951), Russian writer.

4 - 135th birthdayAlexander Fyodorovich Kerensky (1881 - 1970), Russian politician, statesman.

110th birthdayIrina Nikolaevna Knorring (1906 - 1943), Russian poetess.

5 - 170 years from the date of birthHeinrich Sienkiewicz (1846 - 1916), Polish writer.

6 - 160 years from the date of birthSigmund Freud(1856 - 1939), Austrian psychiatrist.

7 - 155th birthdayRabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), Indian writer.

9 - Day of military glory of Russia.Day of the Victory of the Soviet people in the Great Patriotic War.

10 - 110 years since the opening of the first State Duma (1906)

12 - 95 years from the date of birthFarley Mowat(1921), Canadian writer.

15 - 125 years from the date of birthMikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov (1891 - 1940), Russian writer.

18 - International Museum Day.

20 - 125 years from the date of birthLev Vladimirovich Nikulin (1891 - 1967), Soviet writer.

21 - 125th birthdayMikhail Alexandrovich Zenkevich (1891 - 1973), Soviet poet, translator.

95th birthdayAndrei Dmitrievich Sakharov (1921 - 1989), Russian scientist and public figure, Nobel Prize winner (1975).

24 - Day of Slavic Writing and Culture .

330th birthdayGabriel Daniel Fahrenheit (1686 - 1736), German physicist.

110th birthdayAlexander Alexandrovich Vishnevsky (1906 - 1975), Russian surgeon.

27 - All-Russian Day of Libraries

28 - 130th birthdayVladislav Felitsianovich Khodasevich (1886 - 1939), Russian poet.

30 - 170 years from the date of birthCarla Faberge(1846 - 1920), Russian artist - jeweler.

13 - World No Smoking Day

June

1 - International Children's Day.

2 - 140 years from the date of birthKonstantin Andreevich Trenev (1876 - 1945), Russian writer.

3 - 140 years from the date of birthNikolai Nilovich Burdenko (1876 - 1946), Russian surgeon.

135th birthdayMikhail Fedorovich Larionov (1881 - 1964), Russian painter, graphic artist.

4 - 195 years from the date of birthApollon Nikolaevich Maikov (1821 - 1897), Russian poet.

5 - World Environment Day.

6 - Pushkin Day of Russia.

410th birthdayPierre Corneille(1606-1684), French playwright.

11 - 240th birthdayJohn Constable(1776 - 1837), English painter.

205th birthdayVissarion Grigorievich Belinsky (1811 - 1848), Russian literary critic

12 - Russia Day.

14 - 205 years from the date of birthHarriet Beecher-Stowe (1811-1896), American writer.

125th birthdayAlexander Melentievich Volkov (1891 - 1977), Russian writer.

17 - 105 years from the date of birthViktor Platonovich Nekrasov (1911 - 1987), Russian writer.

21 - 200 years from the date of birthCharlotte Brontë(1816 - 1855), English writer.

22 - Day of memory and sorrow in Russia.

-75 years since the attack of Nazi Germany on the USSR.

-75 years since the beginning of the defense of the Brest Fortress.

160th birthdayHenry Rider Haggard (1856 - 1925), English writer.

24 - 200 years from the date of birthPyotr Mikhailovich Boklevsky (1816 - 1897), Russian graphic artist.

25 - 125 years from the date of birthSergei Mikhailovich Bondi (1891 - 1983), Russian philologist, literary critic.

26 - International Day against drug addiction.

27 - Youth Day in Russia.

July

1 - 120 years from the date of birthPavel Grigorievich Antokolsky (1896 - 1978), poet.

3 - 90th birthdayVladimir Osipovich Bogomolov (1926 - 2003), writer.

5 - 130 years from the date of birthVyacheslav Pavlovich Polonsky (1886 - 1932), historian, critic, journalist.

115th birthdaySergei Vladimirovich Obraztsov (1901 - 1992), Soviet actor, director, great puppeteer.

8 - Day of family, love and fidelity.

9 - 85th birthdayAndrei Petrovich Kapitsa (1931), Soviet polar explorer.

10 - Day of military glory of Russia. Victory Day of the Russian army under the command of Peter 1 over the Swedes in the Battle of Poltava (1709).

145th birthdayMarcel Proust(1871-1922), French writer.

14 - 75 years since the first combat use of a multiply charged launcher ("Katyusha") (1941)

17 - 170 years from the date of birthNikolai Nikolaevich Miklukho-Maclay (1846 - 1888), Russian traveler, ethnographer.

125th birthdayBoris Andreevich Lavrenyov (1891 - 1959), writer, playwright.

22 - 420th birthdayMikhail Fedorovich (1596 - 1645), Russian Tsar, the first of the Romanov dynasty.

90th birthdaySergei Alekseevich Baruzdin (1926 - 1991), poet, writer, editor-in-chief of the Friendship of Peoples magazine.

23 - 190 years from the date of birthAlexander Nikolaevich Afanasiev (1826 - 1871), Russian literary critic, publisher of the first fundamental collection of genuine Russian folk tales (almost 600 texts)

26 - 160 years from the date of birthGeorge Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), English playwright.

27 - 105th birthdayNikolai Ivanovich Kuznetsov (Grachev) (1911 - 1944), Soviet military intelligence officer.

28 - 210 years from the date of birthAlexander Andreevich Ivanov (1806 - 1858), Russian artist.

August

6 - 160 years from the date of birthApollinary Mikhailovich Vasnetsov (1856 - 1933), Russian artist.

135th birthdayAlexander Fleming (1881 - 1955), English microbiologist, creator of penicillin.

9 - Day of military glory of Russia. The day of the first naval victory in Russian history of the Russian fleet under the command of Peter the Great over the Swedes at Cape Gangut (1714)

14 - 150 years from the date of birthDmitry Sergeevich Merezhkovsky (1866 - 1941), writer, poet.

15 - 245 years from the date of birthWalter Scott(1771-1832), English novelist.

16 - 140 years from the date of birthIvan Yakovlevich Bilibin (1876 - 1942), Russian graphic artist and theater artist.

21 - 145 children from the date of birthLeonid Nikolaevich Andreev (1871 - 1919), writer, playwright.

23 - Day of military glory of Russia. Day of the defeat by the Soviet troops of the German - fascist troops in the Battle of Kursk (1943).

160th birthdayLeonty Nikolaevich Benois (1856 - 1928), Russian architect.

27 - Day of Russian cinema.

145th birthdayTheodore Dreiser (1871-1945), American writer.

31 - 205 years from the date of birthTheophile Gauthier(1811 - 1872), French poet, writer, critic.

September

1 - Knowledge Day.

160th birthdayInnokenty Fedorovich Annensky (1856 - 1909), poet.

2 - 110 years from the date of birthAlexander Petrovich Kazantsev (1906 - 2002), science fiction writer, inventor.

3 - Day of Solidarity in the Fight against Terrorism . (celebrated in Russia since 2005)

75th birthdaySergei Donatovich Dovlatov (1941 - 1990), writer.

8 - Day of military glory of Russia. Day of the Borodino battle of the Russian army under the command of M.I. Kutuzov with the French army (1812)

9 - World Beauty Day .

11 - Day of military glory of Russia. Victory Day of the Russian squadron under the command of F.F. Ushakov over the Turkish squadron at Cape Tendra (1789)

12 - 95 years from the date of birthStanislav Lem(1921), Polish science fiction writer.

15 - 125 years from the date of birthAgatha Christie(1891 - 1976), English writer.

21 - Day of military glory of Russia. The day of the victory of the Russian regiments led by the great Dmitry Donskoy over the Mongol - Tatar troops in the Battle of Kulikovo. (1380).

105th birthdayMark Naumovich Bernes (1911 - 1969), Soviet film actor, singer.

23 - 80th birthdayEdward Stanislavovich Radzinsky (1936). writer, historian.

24 - 120 years ago was bornFrancis Scott Fitzgerald (1896 - 1940), American writer,

25 - World Maritime Day.

110th birthdayDmitry Dmitrievich Shostakovich

(1906 - 1975), Soviet composer.

27 - World Tourism Day.

30 - World Internet Day.

125 years ago was bornOtto Yulievich Schmidt (1891 - 1956), Soviet scientist, polar explorer, mathematician, statesman.

75 years since the beginning of the Moscow battle (1941)

October

From October 1 to December 31, the autumn draft into the army takes place in the region. We recommend to spend in libraries during this periodWeek of pre-conscription and draft youth.

1 - International Day of Older Persons.

International Music Day.

225th birthdaySergei Timofeevich Aksakov (1791 - 1859), Russian writer.

5 - International Teacher's Day.

7 - Birthday of the President of the Russian Federation V.V. Putin.

8 - 85th birthdayJulian Semyonovich Semyonov (1931 - 1993), writer and screenwriter.

10 - World Mental Health Day.

17 - 85 years from the date of birthAnatoly Ignatievich Pristavkin (1931) writer.

21 - 120 years ago was bornEvgeny Lvovich Schwartz (1896 - 1958), writer, playwright.

22 - 205 years ago was bornFranz Liszt(1811 - 1886), Hungarian composer and pianist.

25 - 135 years from the date of birthPablo Picasso(1881 - 1973), Spanish artist.

30 - Day of Remembrance of Victims of Political Repressions.

November

4 - National Unity Day.

5 - Day of the military intelligence officer.

7 - Day of military glory of Russia. The day of the military parade on Red Square in Moscow (1941)

130th birthdayMark Alexandrovich Aldanov (1886 - 1957), writer.

125th birthdayDmitry Andreevich Furmanov (1891 - 1926), writer.

8 - World KVN Day.55 years ago, the first broadcast of KVN (1961) went on the air.

10 - World Youth Day.

11 - 305th birthdayStepan Petrovich Krasheninnikov (1771 - 1755), Russian scientist - traveler.

195th birthdayFyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881), Russian writer.

115th birthdayEvgeny Ivanovich Charushin (1901 - 1965), writer, artist.

15 - All-Russian Day of the conscript.

16 - International Day of Tolerance.

International No Smoking Day.

19 - 305th birthdayMikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov (1711 - 1765), Russian scientist - encyclopedist.

20 - Universal Children's Day.

100th birthdayMikhail Alexandrovich Dudin (1916 - 1993), poet.

21 - World Hello Day.

22 - 215 years ago was bornVladimir Ivanovich Dal (1801 - 1872), Russian lexicographer, ethnographer, writer.

110 years since the beginning of the Stolypin agrarian reform (1906)

24 - 190 years from the date of birthCarlo Collodi. (1826 - 1890), Italian writer.

26 - World Information Day.

Mother's Day in Russia.

28 - 135th birthdayStefan Zweig(1881 - 1942), Austrian writer.

110th birthdayDmitry Sergeevich Likhachev (1906 - 1999), Russian philosopher, public figure.

December

1 - World AIDS Day.

Day of military glory of Russia. Victory Day of the Russian squadron under the command of N.S. Nakhimov over the Turkish squadron at Cape Sinop. (1853).

300 years ago was bornEtienne Maurice Falcone (1716 - 1791), French sculptor.

120th birthdayGeorgy Konstantinovich Zhukov (1896 - 1974), Soviet military leader, statesman.

3 - International Day of Persons with Disabilities.

5 - Day of military glory of Russia. The day of the beginning of the counter-offensive of the Soviet troops against the Nazi invaders in the battle of Moscow (1941).

155th birthdayKonstantin Alekseevich Korovin (1861 - 1939), Russian artist.

- 115 years birthday Walt DisneyAmerican film director, artist(Disney, 1901-1966).

6 - 185 years from the date of birthPavel Nikolaevich Rybnikov (1831 - 1885), Russian folklorist, ethnographer.

10 - International Consumer Rights Day.

195th birthdayNikolai Alekseevich Nekrasov (1821 - 1878), Russian poet.

11 - 160 years from the date of birthGeorgy Valentinovich Plekhanov (1856 - 1918), Russian philosopher, politician.

12 - Day of the Constitution of the Russian Federation.

250th birthdayNikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin (1766 - 1826), Russian historian and writer.

195 years ago was bornGustave Flaubert(1821-1880), French writer.

16 - 150 years from the date of birthWassily Vasilyevich Kandinsky (1866 - 1944), Russian artist.

18 - 95 years from the date of birthYuri Vladimirovich Nikulin (1921 - 1997), Russian circus and film artist.

19 - 110 years from the date of birthLeonid Ilyich Brezhnev (1906 - 1982), Soviet statesman and politician.

21 - 120th birthdayKonstantin Konstantinovich Rokossovsky (1896 - 1968), Soviet military leader.

24 - Day of military glory of Russia. The day of the capture of the Turkish fortress Izmail by Russian troops under the command of A.V. Suvorov. (1790)

115th birthdayAlexander Alexandrovich Fadeev (1901 - 1956), Soviet writer.

28 - International Cinema Day.

Anniversary books 2016

695 years - Dante A. "The Divine Comedy" (1321)

665 years - Boccaccio "The Decameron" (1351, writing a book)

500 years - Mor T. Utopia (1516, writing a book)

435 years - Fedorov I. "Ostrog Bible" (1581, publication of the book)

415 years - Shakespeare W. "Hamlet" (1601, writing a tragedy)

410 years - Shakespeare W. "Macbeth" (1606, writing a play)

345 years - Moliere J.B. "The Tradesman in the Nobility" (1671, comedy publication)

290 years - J. Swift "Gulliver's Travels" (1726, satire publication)

250 years - Lessing G.F. "Laocoon, or On the Limits of Painting and Poetry" (1766, publication of a treatise)

245 years - Sumarokov A.P. "Dmitry the Pretender" (1771, publication of the tragedy)

235 years - Raspe R.E. "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen" (1781, first publication of stories)

215 years - Schiller F. "Mary Stuart" (1801, publication of the play)

200 years - Hoffman E.T.V.A. "The Nutcracker" (1816, publication of a fairy tale)

195 years - Pushkin A.S. "Prisoner of the Caucasus" (1821, writing)

190 years - The first Russian translation of the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm by Zhukovsky V.A. (1826)

190 years - Gauf W. "Collection of fairy tales for 1826" (1826)

190 years - Cooper J. "The Last of the Mohicans, or Narration of 1757" (1826, writing and

Publication)

185 years - Gogol N.V. "Evenings on a farm near Dikanka" (1831, publication)

185 years - Pushkin A.S. "The Tale of Tsar Saltan ..." (1831, writing)

185 years - Balzac O. de "Shagreen leather" (1831, writing)

185 years - Hugo V. "Notre Dame Cathedral" (1831, publication of the novel)

180 years - Gogol N.V. The Inspector General (1836, publication)

180 years - Pushkin A.S. "The Captain's Daughter" (1836, publication)

180 years - Dickens C. "Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club" (1836, first publication)

180 years - Alfred de Musset "Confession of the Son of the Century" (1836, writing a novel)

175 years - Odoevsky V.F. "Moroz Ivanovich" (1841, writing)

175 years - Cooper J. "St. John's wort, or the first warpath" (1841, publication)

170 years - Dostoevsky F.M. "Poor People" (1846, publication of the novel), "Double" (1846,

publication of the story)

170 years - Lear E. "The Book of Nonsense" (1846, edition of the book) 165 years - Melville G. "Moby Dick, or the White Whale" (1851, publication)

165 years - Miller F.B. “One, two, three, four, five, a bunny went out for a walk ...” (1851)

160 years - Aksakov S.T. "Family Chronicle" (1856)

160 years - Ershov P.P. "The Humpbacked Horse" (1856, publication of the complete edition of the tale)

155 years - Dostoevsky F.M. "Humiliated and Insulted" (1861, publication of the novel)

155 years - Nekrasov N.A. "Peasant Children", "Pedlars" (1861, writing poems)

150 years - Dostoevsky F.M. "Crime and Punishment", "Player" (1866, publications)

150 years - Greenwood J. "The true story of a little ruffian" (1866, publication)

150 years - Surikov I.Z. “Childhood” (“Here is my village, here is my home…”) (1866)

145 years - Lewis Carroll "Alice Through the Looking Glass" (1871, writing a fairy tale)

145 years - Potier E. "International" (1871, writing)

140 years - Nekrasov N.A. “Who in Russia should live well” (1866-1876, publication)

140 years - Twain M. "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" (1876, publication)

135 years old - Leskov N.S. "Lefty" (1881, publication)

130 years - Burnett F.E. "Little Lord Fauntleroy" (1886, novel published)

130 years old - Stevenson R.L. "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" (1886, ed.

Tale)

125 years - Oscar Wilde "The Picture of Dorian Gray" (1891, publication of the novel as a separate book)

120 years - Kuprin A.I. "Moloch" (1896, publication of the story)

120 years old - Stanyukovich K.M. "Maximka" (1896, writing a story)

120 years - Chekhov A.P. "The Seagull" (1896, writing and staging a play)

120 years - Wells G.D. "The Island of Dr. Moreau" (1896, edition of the novel)

115 years old - Gorky M. "Petty bourgeois" (1901, writing a play)

115 years old - Svirsky A.I. "Ryzhik" (1901, writing a story)

115 years - Doyle Arthur Conan "The Hound of the Baskervilles" (1901, publication of the story)

115 years - Wells G. "The first people on the moon" (1901, publication of the novel)

110 years - Blok A.A. "Stranger", "Balaganchik", "King in the Square" (1906, edition of plays)

110 years - London D. "White Fang" (1906, publication of the story)

105 years old - Kuprin A.I. "Garnet Bracelet" (1911, story published)

100 years - Joyce D. "Portrait of the artist in his youth" (1916, edition of the novel)

95 years old - Akhmatova A.A. "Plantain" (1921, edition of a collection of poems)

95 years old - Averchenko A.T. "A Dozen Knives in the Back of the Revolution" (1921, edition of a collection of short stories in

Paris)

95 years old - Gumilyov N. "Tent" (1921, publication of a collection of poems)

90 years old - Mayakovsky V.V. “Whatever the page, then an elephant, then a lioness ...” (1926, writing a poem) 90 years old - Obruchev V.A. "Sannikov Land, or the Last Onkilons" (1926, first publication

novel)

90 years old - Platonov A.P. "City of Gradov" (1926, publication of the story)

90 years old - Trenev K.A. "Love Yarovaya" (1926, edition of the play)

90 years old - Chukovsky K.I. "Fedorino Woe", "Confusion", "Telephone" (1926, writing poetry)

90 years old - Sholokhov M.A. "Don stories" (1926, publication of the collection)

90 years old - Milne A. "Winnie the Pooh" (1926, first separate edition of the book)

90 years - Hemingway E. "The Sun Also Rises" (1926)

85 years - Ilf I. and Petrov E. "The Golden Calf" (1931, publication of the novel)

85 years old - Pasternak B.L. "Safety" (1931, publication of an autobiographical story)

85 years - Antoine de Saint-Exupery "Night Flight" (1931, edition of the novel)

80 years old - Barto A.L. "Toys" (1936, publication of a collection of poems)

80 years old - Belyaev V.P. "The Old Fortress" (1936, edition of the first part of the trilogy)

80 years old - Gaidar A.P. "The Blue Cup" (1936, story published)

80 years old - Kataev V.P. “The lonely sail turns white” (1936, writing and publication of the story)

80 years old - Mikhalkov S.V. "Uncle Styopa" (1936, publication of the poem as a separate book)

80 years old - Tvardovsky A.T. "Country Ant" (1936, edition of the poem)

80 years old - Tolstoy A.N. "The Golden Key, or the Adventures of Pinocchio" (1936, writing and publishing

Tales-tales)

80 years - Mitchell M. "Gone with the Wind" (1936, publication of the novel)

80 years - Czapek K. "The War with the Salamanders" (1936, publication of a dystopian novel)

75 years old - Vasilenko I.D. "Magic Box" (1941, publication)

75 years old - Gaidar A.P. Timur's Oath (1941, literary script published)

75 years - Panteleev L. "Honest Word" (1941, writing and publication)

70 years old - Verzilin N.M. "In the footsteps of Robinson" (1946, book edition)

70 years old - Ilyina E. "The Fourth Height" (1946, publication of the story)

70 years old - Lindgren A. "The famous detective Kalle Blomkvist" (1946, publication of the story)

65 years old - Nosov N.N. "Vitya Maleev at school and at home" (1951, publication of the story)

65 years old - Lem S. "Astronauts" (1951, Raman edition)

65 years old - Rodari J. "The Adventures of Cipollino" (1951, publication of a fairy tale)

65 years old - Salinger D. "The Catcher in the Rye" (1951, publication of the novel)

60 years - the first post-revolutionary (October, 1917) publication in the USSR of the Bible and the New Testament (1956)

60 years old - Rybakov A.N. "Bronze Bird" (1956, edition of the story)

60 years old - Schwartz E.L. "An Ordinary Miracle" (1956, edition of a fairy tale play)

60 years old - Darrell J. "My family and other animals" (1956, publication of the story)

60 years old - Lindgren A. "Rasmus the Tramp" (1956, book edition)

60 years old - Preusler O. "Little Waterman" (1956, publication of a fairy tale)

55 years old - Abramov F.A. "Fatherless" (1961, publication of the story)

55 years old - Aksenov V.P. "Star Ticket" (1961, writing a novel)

55 years old - Verzilin N.M. "Across the Gardens and Parks of the World" (1961, book edition)

55 years old - Dragunsky V.Yu. "He is alive and glowing" (1961, edition of the author's 1st book)

55 years old - Nosov N.N. "The Adventures of Tolya Klyukvin" (1961, publication of the story)

50 years - Azimov A. "Neutrino", "Universe"

50 years old - Sladkov N.I. "Underwater newspaper" (1966)

50 years old - Uspensky E.N. Crocodile Gena and his friends (1966, publication of the story)

50 years old - Preusler O. "Little Ghost" (1966, first publication of a fairy tale)

45 years old - Nosov N.N. "The Dunno Trilogy" (1971, edition of the trilogy)

45 years old - Strugatsky A. and B. "Inhabited Island" (1971, edition of the story)

45 years old - Troepolsky G.N. "White Bim, Black Ear" (1971, edition of the story)

45 years old - Preusler O. “Krabat. Legends of the old mill "(1971, publication of a fairy tale)

40 years old - Aleksin A.G. "Mad Evdokia" (1976, edition of the story)

40 years old - Astafiev V.P. "Tsar-fish" (1976, publication of the story in the magazine "Our Contemporary", No. 4-6)

40 years old - Rasputin V.G. "Farewell to Matera" (1976, publication of the story in the magazine "Our

Sovremennik, No. 11)

40 years old - Trifonov Yu.V. "House on the Embankment" (1976, publication of the story)

35 years old - Balashov D.M. "The Burden of Power" (1981)

35 years old - Vysotsky V.S. "Nerv" (1981, publication of a collection of works)

35 years old - Lindgren A. "Roni, the robber's daughter" (1981, publication of a fairy tale)

20 years old - Pelevin V.O. "Chapaev and the Void" (1996, edition of the novel)

15 years old - Prokhanov A.A. "Mr. Hexogen" (2001, edition of the novel, award "National

Bestseller" - 2002)

15 years old - Ulitskaya L.E. "The Case of Kukotsky", (2001, edition of the novel, Russian Booker Prize - 2001)

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