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 annually celebrated 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 reason 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 actor, 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.

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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". Catholics call this holiday "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 from 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 since the birth 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 peace law (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)

Journalist's Day

– 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 the 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 Peipsi (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 "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 "Fatherlessness".

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".

CALENDAR OF SIGNIFICANT AND MEMORABLE DATES FOR 2016

UNESCO celebrates the following international decades,
declared by the UN General Assembly:

2014-2024 — A decade of sustainable energy for all.

2011-2020 — United Nations Decade on Biodiversity.

2011-2020 — Decade of action for road safety.

2010-2020 — United Nations Decade for Deserts
and combat 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).

2016 in the CIS declared the year of formation.

2016 declared the Year of Greece in Russia and Russia in Greece.

2016 - International Year of Pulses, International Year of Camelids

Anniversaries 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).

150 years since the founding of the Moscow Conservatory. P.I. Tchaikovsky (1866)

140 years since the invention of the first telephone A.G. Bell (1876).

105 years old since the invention of the first backpack parachute G.E. Kotelnikov (1911).

90 years old since the creation of the All-Russian Society of the Deaf (1926).

80 years old since the creation of the sports society "Locomotive" (1936).

75 years old 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).

50 years since the creation of the Russian Academy of Education (1966)

January

1st of January — 85th birthday Anatoly Vladimirovich Romashin (1931), actor.

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

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

January 6 - 105 years since the birth Maria Vladimirovna Mironova(1911-1997), actresses.

translator, publisher, librarian.

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

musician.

& Swiss educator.

1942), Russian poet and writer.

Weiner (1931-2005)

Rybakova (1911-1999)

Russian composer.

January 15 - 125 years since the birth of the Russian poet Osip Emilievich Mandelstam

Russian musician, virtuoso balalaika player, composer, organizer and

leader of the first orchestra of folk instruments.

poet, playwright, essayist.

writer, screenwriter, journalist, playwright.

(1941), Spanish singer.

January 21 - 110 years since the birth (1906-2007),
ballet dancer and choreographer. January 21 is International Hug Day.
(It originated in the USA in 1986 and quickly spread around the world).

January 21 - 110 years since the birth of the Russian Soviet ballet dancer, choreographer
Igor Alexandrovich Moiseev (1906-2007).

Armenian composer, pianist.

January 22 - 455 years since the birth Francis Bacon(1561-1626), English philosopher.

Montferan,(1786-1858), architect.

Hoffmann (1776-1822).

Austrian composer.

itinerant artist, graphics.

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).

children's writer.

historian, writer.

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

Belarusian writer and public figure.

world snow day(celebrated on the penultimate Sunday of January since 2012).

National holiday of the peoples of the North "Hello, sun!" (celebrated on the last Sunday of January since 1969).

February

& statesman, the first President of Russia.

February 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)

the largest Russian publisher, bookseller.

(1836-1861), literary critic, publicist.

Afghan poet.

mathematics, mechanics, statesman.

(1881-1931), ballerinas.

1906-1944), Tatar poet.

February 16 - 85th birthday Nikolai Semenovich Leskov(1831-1895), writer.

poetesses.

French writer.

(Volyanskaya) (1911-1963), writer.

February 19 - 85th birthday Alla Dmitrievna Larionova (1931-2000),
actresses.

philologist, writer.

(1871-1913), Ukrainian poetess.

French artist.

artist.

March

March 2 - 85th birthday Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev ( 1931),
statesman, public figure. President of the USSR in 1990-1991.

March 7 - 75th birthday Andrey Mironov(1941- 1987), People's Artist
RSFSR

March 8 - 110 years since the birth of the Russian director Alexander Arturovich Rowe
(1906-1973)

March 10 - 90 years since the birth of the Russian composer Alexander Sergeevich
Zatsepin (1926)

March 13 - 80 years since the birth of the children's writer Gennady Nikolaevich
Mashkin(1936-2005)

March 14 - 130 years since the birth of the Russian graphic artist, painter Vladimir Andreevich
Favorsky.

March 17 - 160 years since the birth Mikhail Alexandrovich Vrubel ( 1856-1910),
artist.

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

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

March 29 - 80th birthday Stanislav Sergeevich Govorukhin (1936),
film director.

March 30 - 240 years since the birth Vasily Andreevich Tropinin (1776-1857),
artist.

March 30 - 270 years since the birth Francisco José de Goya(Goya-and-Lusientes, 1746-
1828), Spanish painter.

April

April 1 - 70 years since the birth Ekaterina Yurievna Genieva(1946 -2015), director
All-Russian State Library for Foreign Literature

April 1 - 585 years since the birth François Villon(April 1, 1431 or April 19, 1432
after 1464), French poet.

April 2 - 100 years since the birth Oleg Leonidovich Lundstrem (1916-2005),
Russian musician.

April 3 - 210 years since the birth Ivan Vasilyevich Kireevsky (1806- 1856),
philosopher, writer.

April 6 - 175 years since the birth of the Russian poet Ivan Zakharovich Surikov
(1841-1880)

April 6 - 180 years since the birth Nikolai Vasilyevich Sklifosovsky (1836-1904),
scientist, surgeon

April 12th - 85 years old since the birth of the Russian children's writer Vitaly Titovich
Korzhikov (1931—2007)

April 12 is World Aviation and Cosmonautics Day. 55 years from the day first flight
man 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 21 - 200 years since the birth Charlotte Brontë(1816-1855), English
& writers

April 22 - 250 years since the birth Anne Louise Germaine de Stael (1766-1817),
& French writer

April 23 - 125th birthday Sergei Sergeevich Prokofiev (1891-1953),
Soviet composer

April 24 - 225 years since the birth of the Russian writer, historian Nicholas
& Aleksandrovich Bestuzhev (1791-1855)

April 27 - 225th birthday Samuel Morse(1791-1872), American
& inventor, artist

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

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

April 30 - 90 years since the birth of the Russian writer Yuri Dmitrievich Dmitriev
& (1926-1989)

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)

literature Henryk Sienkiewicz (1846—1916)

May 6 - 160 years since the birth Sigmund Freud(1856-1939), Austrian psychiatrist and

psychologist.

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

May 11 - 110 years since the birth of the Russian writer Vera Kazimirovna Ketlinskaya

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

1945), Russian science fiction writer)

H. K. Andersen International Prize (1988) Anna Schmidt (1911-1995)

public figure

Georgievskaya (1916—1974).

May 23 - 95th birthday Grigory Naumovich Chukhrai (1921-2001),
film director.

brothers Cyril and Methodius

May 28 - 130 years since the birth of the Russian poet Vladislav Felitsianovich Khodasevich

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

May 30 - 585 years since the death Joan of Arc(circa 1412–1431), folk heroine
France

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

June

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

4 June - 135th birthday Natalia Sergeevna Goncharova (1881-1962),
artists.

translator (1916-1992)

underground organization in the fascist rear

literary critic

writer

June 14 - 205 years from the day Harriet Beecher Stowe's birth, American writer
(1811-1896).

writer

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

June 20 - 95th birthday Anatoly Markovich Markushi (1921-2005)
Russian writer

June 22 - 160 years since the birth Henry Rider Haggart(1856-1925), English
writer

writers

July

July 1 - 115 years since the birth Vladimir Alexandrovich Lugovsky (1901-1957),
Soviet poet

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

July 6 - 220 years since the birth Nicholas I(Nikolai Pavlovich Romanov, 1796-1855),
Russian emperor

July 7 - 80th birthday Igor (Garik) Mironovich Huberman (1936),
Russian poet

July 8 - 395th birthday 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
Swedes in the battle of Poltava (1709)

July 15 - 410 years since the birth Rembrandt Harmes van Rijn (1606-1669),
great Dutch painter and graphic artist

July 17 - 170 years since the birth Nikolai Nikolaevich Miklukho-Maclay (1846-1888),
Russian traveler

July 18 - 205th birthday William Makepeace Thackeray(1811-1864), English
writer.

July 18 - 195 years since the birth Pauline Viardot-Garcia(1821-1910), French
singer, close friend of I.S. Turgenev

July 19 - 120 years since the birth Archibald by Joseph Cronin (1896-1981),
English writer

July 22 - 90th birthday Sergei Alekseevich Baruzdin (1926-1991),
Soviet writer.

July 23 - 190 years since the birth Alexander Nikolaevich Afanasiev (1826-1871),
collector and researcher of Russian folklore, historian of Russian literature.

July 26 - 160 years since the birth Bernard Shaw(1856-1950), English playwright,
criticism, publicist. Nobel Prize winner (1925).

July 27 - 105th birthday Nikolai Ivanovich Kuznetsov (Grachev) (1911-1944),
Soviet military spy

July 27 - 80th birthday Marisa-Rudolf Eduardovich Liepa (1936-1989),
ballet dancer

July 28 - 210 years since the birth Alexander Andreevich Ivanov (1806-1858),
Russian painter, author of the painting "The Appearance of Christ to the People"

July 28 - 145th birthday Sergei Nikolaevich Bulgakov (1871-1944),
philosopher, theologian

Soviet writer and poet

August

August 5 - 90th birthday Pera Vale(1926-1975), Swedish writer and author
& detectives

August 6 - 160 years since the birth Apollinary Mikhailovich Vasnetsov (1856-1933),
& artist

August 6-7 - 55 years ago, a 25-hour space flight of the Vostok-2 spacecraft was completed,
piloted by cosmonaut G.S. Titov

August 8 - 115 years since the birth Nina Nikolaevna Berberova (1901-1993),
& Russian writers abroad

August 9 - Day of military glory of Russia. The first Russian victory in Russian history
& fleet under the command of Peter I over the Swedes at Cape Gangut (1714)

August 12 - 335th birthday Vitus Jonassen Bering(Ivan Ivanovich, 1681
1741), Russian navigator

August 14 - 150 years since the birth Dmitry Sergeevich Merezhkovsky (1866-1941),
poet, literary critic, influential symbolist

August 15 - 245th birthday Walter Scott(1771-1832), English writer

August 15 - 85th birthday Mikael Leonovich Tariverdiev (1931-1996),
composer

August 16 - 140 years since the birth Ivan Yakovlevich Bilibin(1876-1942), Russian
graphics, illustrator of Russian fairy tales, theater artist

August 17 - 105th birthday Mikhail Moiseevich Botvinnik (1911-1995),
Soviet chess player

August 19 - 265 years since the birth Matvey Ivanovich Platov (1751-1818),
military leader.

August 21 - 145 years since the birth Leonida Andreeva(1871-1919), Russian prose writer,
playwright, journalist

August 22 - 275th birthday Jean Francois de Galo La Perouse (1741-1788),
French navigator.

August 23 - Day of military glory. The defeat of the Nazi troops by the Soviet troops
troops in the Battle of Kursk (1943).

August 25 - 180 years since the birth Francis Bret Garth(1836-1902), American
writer.

August 27 - 145th birthday Theodore Dreiser(1871-1945), American
writer.

August 30 - 145th birthday Ernst Rutherford(1871-1937), English physicist.

August 31 - 205 years since the birth Theophile Gauthier(1811-1872), French writer.

September

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

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

September 3 - 105 years since the birth Sergei Grigorievich Ostrovoy(1911-2005), poet

September 14 - 80th birthday Alexander Semenovich Kushner (1936),
poet, essayist.

September 14 - 110 years since the birth of the Russian writer Leonid Dmitrievich Platov
(1906-1979)

September 16 - 85 years since the founding of the central puppet theater under the leadership of
S.V. Obraztsova

September 17 - 175 years since the birth Fyodor Mikhailovich Reshetnikov (1841-1871),
writer

September 19 - 105 years since the birth of the English writer William Golding
(1911-1993)

September 19 - 80 years since the birth of the writer Stanislav Romanovsky(b. 1936)
September 21 - September Day of military glory of Russia - Victory Day of Russian regiments
in the Battle of Kulikovo (1380)

September 21 - 150 years since the birth of the English writer Herbert George Wells
(1866-1946)

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

September 23 - 80 years since the birth of the writer, playwright Edward Stanislavovich
Radzinsky(b.1936)

September 24 - 120th anniversary of the birth of the American writer
Francis Scott Fitzgerald(1896-1940)

September 25 - 105 years since the birth Mark Naumovich Bernes (1911-1969),
film actor, singer

September 25 - 110 years since the birth Dmitry Dmitrievich Shostakovich (1906-1975),
composer.

85 years since opening Central Puppet Theatre. S.V. Obraztsova in Moscow (1931)

75 years since the beginning Moscow battle (1941)

October

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

October 8 - 80th birthday Alexander Mikhailovich Ginevsky
& (b.1936), writer

& Writer

October 9 - 90th birthday Evgeny Alexandrovich Evstigneev
& (1926-1992), actor.

October 15 - 175 years since the birth Savva Ivanovich Mamontov (1841-1918),
entrepreneur, philanthropist.

October 22 - 205 years since the birth Franz Liszt (1811-1886),
Hungarian composer, pianist

October 24 - 105 years since the birth Arkady Isaakovich Raikin (1911-1987),
stage artist. People's Artist of the USSR.

October 25 - 135th birthday Pablo Picasso(Ruiz y Picasso, 1881-1973),
French painter of Spanish origin

October 28 - 80th anniversary of the birth of the Russian theater director Roman Viktyuk

November

November 2 - 110 years since the birth Daniil Leonidovich Andreev (1906-1959),
poet, writer.

November 2 - 110 years since the birth of the Italian director Luchino Visconti (1906-1976)

November 4 - 60 years since the birth of the Russian singer, poet, composer
Igor Talkov (1956-1991)
November 7 - Day of military glory of Russia - Day of the military parade on Krasnaya
square in 1941

November 17 - 115 years since the birth of the Russian film director Ivan Pyriev (1901-1968)
November 18 - Birthday Santa Claus

November 7 - 125th birthday Dmitry Andreevich Furmanov (1891-1926),
writer

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

November 11 - 115 years since the birth of the prose writer, children's writer Evgeny Ivanovich
Charushina (1901-1965)

& natural scientist, poet

November 20 - 115 years since the birth Irina Valerianovna Karnaukhova
(1901-1959), writers

November 20 - 100 years since the birth Mikhail Alexandrovich Dudin
(1916-1993), Russian poet

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

November 28 - 110 years since the birth Dmitry Sergeevich Likhachev
(1906-1999), writer, scientist

November 28 - 135th birthday Stefan Zweig(1881-1942), Austrian writer

December

December 1 - 120 years since the birth Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov (1896-1974),
military leader and statesman.

December 5 - Day of military glory of Russia - Day of the beginning of the counteroffensive of the Soviet troops
in battle near Moscow

December 5 - 115 years since the birth Walt Disney(1901-1966), American
& film director, artist and producer

December 5 - 155 years since the birth Konstantin Alekseevich Korovin (1861-1939),
artist.

Russian poet, writer

Russian historian, writer

writer

Russian artist

December 18 - 95th birthday Yuri Vladimirovich Nikulin (1921-1997),
circus and film performer.

1968), military leader.

director

December 24 - 70 years since the birth of the Russian actor, film director, writer Leonid
Filatov (1946-2003)

December 31 - 70 years since the birth Nikolai Timonovich Fedorov(b.1946), writer
Dec. 31 - New Year

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 - Molière 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 old - 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, edition of the story)

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 - 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 the elephant, then the lioness ...” (1926, writing a poem).

90 years old - Obruchev V.A. Sannikov Land, or the Last Onkilons (1926, first publication of the 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 - 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 a fairy tale story)

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. "Honestly" (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 - Zakhoder B.V. "To Comrades for Children" (1966, first edition of the collection)

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 Contemporary", 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)

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

15 years old - Prokhanov A.A. "Mr. Hexogen" (2001, edition of the novel, National Bestseller Award - 2002)

15 years old - Ulitskaya L.E. "The Case of Kukotsky", (2001, edition of the novel, Russian Booker Prize - 2001)

Calendar of significant dates for the 2016-2017 academic year

September

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

September 19 - 105 years since the birth of the English writer William Gerald Golding (1911-1993)

September 21 - 150 years since the birth of the English science fiction writer Herbert George Wells (1866-1946)

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

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

September 23 - 80 years since the birth of the writer, playwright, historian Edward Stanislavovich Radzinsky (b. 1936)

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

October

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

October 6 - 85 years since the birth of the poet, prose writer and playwright Roman Semyonovich Sef (1931-2009)

October 8 - 85 years since the birth of the Russian writer, screenwriter, publicist, playwright Yulian Semyonovich Semyonov (1931-1993)

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

October 13 - 80 years since the birth of the Austrian children's writer Christine Nöstlinger (b.1936) Laureate of the International Prize. H. K. Andersen (1984)

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

October 19 - Day of the Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum. 205 years ago, in 1811, the Imperial Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum was opened, in which Alexander Pushkin and many other people who glorified Russia were brought up

October 19 - 70 years since the birth of the English writer Philip Pullman (b. 1946) Laureate of the Memorial Prize. Astrid Lindgren (2005)

October 20 - 70 years since the birth of the illustrator Olga Konstantinovna Kondakova (b. 1946)

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

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

October 22 - 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

November

November 4 - 85 years since the birth of the illustrator Oleg Vladimirovich Vasiliev (1931-2013)

November 7 - 125 years since the birth of Russian prose writer, poet, publicist Dmitry Andreevich Furmanov (1891-1926) "Mutiny", "Chapaev"

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

November 11 - 115 years since the birth of the Russian writer and illustrator Evgeny Ivanov Charushin (1901-1965)

November 11 - 115 years since the birth of illustrator Evgeny Ivanovich Charushin (1901-1965)

November 13 - 120 years since the birth of the illustrator Ksenia Aleksandrovna Klementieva (1896-1984)

November 19 - 305 years since the birth of Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov (1711-1765), the first Russian natural scientist of world importance, chemist and physicist, astronomer, poet, founder of the modern Russian literary language.

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

November 23 - 75 years since the birth of the director-animator, illustrator and screenwriter Eduard Vasilyevich Nazarov (b. 1941)

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

November 28 - 110 years since the birth of the Russian philologist, cultural historian, public figure Dmitry Sergeevich Likhachev (1906-1999)

December

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

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

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

December 10 - 195 years since the birth of the Russian poet, prose writer, critic and publisher Nikolai Alekseevich Nekrasov (1821-1878)

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

December 19 - 130 years since the birth of the Russian writer Elena Nikolaevna Vereiskaya (1886-1966)

December 21 - 120 years since the birth of military leader Konstantin Konstantinovich Rokossovsky (1896-1968)

December 23 - 80 years since the birth of the Russian writer and poet, bard Yuli Chersanovich Kim (b. 1936)

December 24 - 115 years since the birth of the Russian writer, critic and publicist Alexander Alexandrovich Fadeev (1901-1956)

December 27 - 445 years since the birth of Johannes Kepler (1571-1630), an outstanding German astronomer

January

January 1 - New Year's holiday; World Peace Day; Day of the epic hero Ilya Muromets; 90 years since the birth of Lev Ivanovich Davydychev, children's writer (1927-1988)

January 2 - 180 years since the birth of Mily Alekseevich Balakirev, composer, pianist (1837-1910)

January 2 - 80 years since the birth of the Russian writer, literary critic and public figure Marietta Omarovna Chudakova (b. 1937) “The Cases and Horrors of Zhenya Osinkina”, “Not for Adults: Time to Read!”

January 3 - 125 years since the birth of the English writer John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892-1973)

January 3 - 90 years since the birth of the literary critic, critic Benedikt Mikhailovich Sarnov (1927-2014)

January 6 - 185 years since the birth of the French graphic artist Gustave Dore (1832-1884) Illustrations for books: "The Bible"; Rabelais F. "Gargantua and Pantagruel"; Raspe R. E. "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen"; Perro C. "Tales of Mother Goose"

January 6 - 145 years since the birth of Alexander Nikolaevich Scriabin, composer, pianist (1872-1915)

January 7 - 130 years since the birth of the Russian writer Pavel Andreevich Blyakhin (1886-1961) "Red Devils", "Moscow on Fire", "At Dawn"

January 12 - 245 years since the birth of Mikhail Mikhailovich Speransky, statesman (1772-1839)

January 14 - 80 years since the birth of illustrator Viktor Dmitrievich Pivovarov (b. 1937) Illustrations for books: Andersen H.K. "Tales"; Pivovarova I. P. “Once upon a time there was a dog”; Sakharnov S. V. "Leopard in the birdhouse"

January 14 - 190 years since the birth of Pyotr Petrovich Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky, geographer (1827-1914)

January 15 - 395 years since the birth of the French comedian, actor, stage art reformer Jean-Baptiste Molière (1622-1673)

January 16 - 150 years since the birth of Vikenty Vikentievich Veresaev, writer, translator, literary critic (1867-1945)

January 17 - 170 years since the birth of Nikolai Yegorovich Zhukovsky, mechanical scientist (1847-1921)

January 18 - 135 years since the birth of the English writer, poet, playwright Alan Milne (1882-1956)

January 22 - 135 years since the birth of Pavel Alexandrovich Florensky, philosopher, theologian (1882-1937)

January 25 - Tatyana's day; 185 years since the birth of Ivan Ivanovich Shishkin, artist (1832-1898)

January 24 - 285th birthday of the French playwright Pierre-Augustin Beaumarchais (1732-1799)

January 28 - 120 years since the birth of Russian writer Valentin Petrovich Kataev (1897-1986) “The lonely sail turns white”, “Son of the regiment”, “Flower-seven-flower”

February

February 1 - 160 years since the birth of Vladimir Mikhailovich Bekhterev, psychiatrist ( 1857-1927)

February 8 - Russian Science Day; 120 years since the birth of Alexander Leonidovich Chizhevsky, biophysics (1897-1964)

February 11 - 85 years since the birth of illustrator Boris Aleksandrovich Alimov (1932-2006) Illustrations for books: Lavrenev B. A. "Forty-First"; Chekhov A.P. "Kashtanka"; Sholokhov M. A. "The fate of man"

February 17 - 105 years since the birth of the illustrator Tatyana Alekseevna Eremina (1912-1995) Illustrations for books: Andersen H. K. "Thumbelina"; Barto A. L. "First graders"; Paustovsky K. G. "Steel Ring"

February 20 - 165 years since the birth of the Russian writer, publicist Nikolai Georgievich Garin-Mikhailovsky (1852-1906)

February 21 - 105 years since the birth of the illustrator Vladimir Nikolaevich Minaev (1912-1993)

February 24 - 125 years since the birth of the Russian writer Konstantin Alexandrovich Fedin (1892-1977)

February 26 - 95 years since the birth of the literary critic, cultural historian Yuri Mikhailovich Lotman (1922-1993)

February 28 - 225 years since the birth of Gioachino Antonio Rossini, Italian composer (1792-1868)

March

March 1 - World Civil Defense Day; International Day Against Drug Addiction and Drug Trafficking

March 4 - 115 years since the birth of illustrator Konstantin Pavlovich Rotov (1902-1959) Illustrations for books: Lagin L. I. "Old Man Hottabych"; Mikhalkov S. V. "Girls and boys"; Nekrasov A. S. "The Adventures of Captain Vrungel"

March 15 - 80 years since the birth of the Russian writer Valentin Grigoryevich Rasputin (1937-2015)

March 18 - 85 years since the birth of the American writer John Updike (John Hoyer Updike) (1932-2009) "Witches of Eastwick", "Centaur", "Almshouse Fair"

March 28 - 425 years since the birth of the Czech thinker, writer and teacher Jan Amos Komensky (Jan Amos Komenský) (1592-1670) "Labyrinth of light and paradise of the heart", "The world of sensual things in pictures", "Rules of conduct collected for youth in 1653"

March 31 - 195 years since the birth of the Russian writer, translator and art critic Dmitry Vasilievich Grigorovich (1822-1900) "Anton-Goremyk", "Village", "Gutta-Percha Boy"

March 31 - 135 years since the birth of the Russian poet, writer and translator Korney Ivanovich Chukovsky (1882-1969)

April

April 2 - 155 years since the birth of Pyotr Arkadyevich Stolypin, statesman (1862-1911)

April 6 - 205 years since the birth of the Russian writer, publicist Alexander Ivanovich Herzen (1812-1870)

April 15 - 565 years since the birth of Leonardo da Vinci, Italian artist, scientist, engineer (1452-1519)

April 18 - 90 years since the birth of the Russian writer Yuri Mikhailovich Druzhkov (Postnikov) (1927-1983) "The Magic School of Pencil and Samodelkin", "The Adventures of Pencil and Samodelkin"

April 19 - 115 years since the birth of Russian writer Veniamin Aleksandrovich Kaverin (1903-1989)

April 25 - 100 years since the birth of Vasily Pavlovich Solovyov-Sedoy. composer (1907-1979); 150 years since the birth of Ruggero Leoncavallo, Italian composer (1857-1919)

April 27 - 115 years since the birth of the Russian writer Valentina Alexandrovna Oseeva (1902-1969)

May 5 - 140 years since the birth of Georgy Yakovlevich Sedov, hydrographer, conqueror of the North (1877-1914)

May 10 - 85 years since the birth of the Russian writer Galina Nikolaevna Shcherbakova (1932-2010) "You never dreamed", "The door to someone else's life", "Uncle Chlor and Koryakin"

May 12 - 110 years since the birth of graphic artist Dementy Alekseevich Shmarinov (1907-1999)

May 13 - 80 years since the birth of American science fiction writer Roger Joseph Zelazny (Roger Joseph Zelazny) (1937-1995) "Prince of Light", "Isle of the Dead", "Dream Maker"

May 16 - 130 years since the birth of the Russian poet Igor Severyanin (Igor Vasilyevich Lotarev) (1887-1941)

May 17 - 105 years since the birth of the Russian writer, literary critic Evgenia Alexandrovna Taratuta (1912-2005)

May 18 - 85 years since the birth of illustrator Lev Petrovich Durasov (b. 1932) Illustrations for books: Verne J. "The Mysterious Island"; Koval Yu. "The Adventures of Vasya Kurolesov"; Olesha Y. "Three fat men"

May 21 - 145 years since the birth of the Russian writer Nadezhda Alexandrovna Teffi (n. f. Lokhvitskaya) (1872-1952) "House without fire", "Inanimate beast", "Naughty stories"

May 28 - 130 years since the birth of the Russian poet, artist, literary critic Maximilian Aleksandrovich Voloshin (1877-1932)

May 29 - 230 years since the birth of the Russian writer Konstantin Nikolayevich Batyushkov (1787-1855)

May 29 - 125 years since the birth of the Russian writer Nikolai Nikolaevich Plavilshchikov (1892-1962)

May 30 - 125 years since the birth of Russian writer Ivan Sergeevich Sokolov-Mikitov (1892-1975)

May 30 - 105 years since the birth of the Russian songwriter Lev Ivanovich Oshanin (1912-1996) "Roads", "Let there always be sun", "The Volga flows"

May 31 - 125 years since the birth of the Russian writer Konstantin Georgievich Paustovsky (1892-1968)

April 1 - April Fool's Day.
April 1 is International Bird Day. (In 1906, the International Convention for the Protection of Birds was signed).
April 2 - Day of Unity of Peoples. (Established by Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of 02.04.1996 No. 489).
April 2 is International Children's Book Day. (Celebrated since 1962 on the birthday of H.K. Andersen by decision of the International Council on Books for Children (IBBY)).
April 3 - 85 years since the birth of the Russian writer Tatyana Nikolaevna Polikarpova (b. 1931).
April 3 - 125 years since the birth of the Russian illustrator Konstantin Ivanovich Rudakov (1891-1949).
April 6 - 130 years since the birth of the Russian illustrator Konstantin Vasilyevich Kuznetsov (1886-1943).
April 6 - 175 years since the birth of the Russian poet Ivan Zakharovich Surikov (1841-1880). April 7 - Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin.
April 7 - World Health Day. (Celebrated since 1948 by decision of the UN World Health Assembly).
April 9 - 195 years since the birth of the French poet Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867).
April 10 - 80 years since the birth of the Chuvash writer Mikhail Nikolaevich Yukhma (n. f. Ilyin) (b. 1936).
April 10 - 75 years since the birth of the Irish writer Martin Waddell (Wandell) (b. 1941).
April 11 is the International Day for the Liberation of Prisoners of Nazi Camps.
April 11 - 240 years since the birth of the English artist John Constable (1776-1837).
April 12 - Commemorative date of Russia. Cosmonautics Day. (Established by Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR in 1962 to commemorate the first manned flight into space, Federal Law No. 32-FZ of March 13, 1995 “On the days of military glory and memorable dates in Russia”).
April 12 - 85 years since the birth of Russian writer Vitaly Titovich Korzhikov (1931-2007).
April 13 - 110 years since the birth of the Irish writer Samuel Beckett (1906-1989).
April 14 - 55 years since the birth of Russian illustrator Yulia Valentinovna Gukova (b. 1961).
April 15 - Culture Day. (It has been celebrated since 1935 on the day of the signing of the International Treaty - the Peace Pact or the Roerich Pact).
April 15 - 130 years since the birth of the Russian poet Nikolai Stepanovich Gumilyov (1886-1921).
April 15 - 90 years since the birth of the Russian poetess Emma Efraimovna Moshkovskaya (1926-1981).
April 16 - 95 years since the birth of Russian writer Yuri Ivanovich Ermolaev (1921-1996).
April 17 - 105 years since the birth of the French writer Herve Bazin (1911-1996).
April 18 - Day of military glory of Russia. The day of the victory of Prince Alexander Nevsky over the German knights on Lake Peipus (Battle on the Ice, 1242). (Established by the Federal Law of March 13, 1995 No. 32-FZ "On the days of military glory and memorable dates in Russia").
April 18 - International Day of Monuments and Historic Sites. (Established by decision of UNESCO. Celebrated since 1984).
April 18-24 - Spring Kindness Week (VND). (An annual volunteer action that has been held throughout our country since 1997).
April 19 - Snowdrop Day. (Noted since 1984).
April 19 - 80 years since the birth of the Russian poet, translator Yuri Naumovich Kushak (b. 1936).
April 19 - 85 years since the birth of the Russian artist and illustrator Alexander Georgievich Traugot (b. 1931).
April 20 - 135 years since the birth of the Russian composer Nikolai Yakovlevich Myaskovsky (1881-1950).
April 21 - 200 years since the birth of the English writer Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855).
April 22 - International Mother Earth Day. (Celebrated since 2010, established at the 63rd session of the UN General Assembly
April 22, 2009 resolution No. A / RES / 63/278, co-sponsored by more than 50 UN member states).
April 23 - World Book and Copyright Day. (Celebrated since 1969 by decision of UNESCO).
April 23 - 85 years since the birth of Russian illustrator Veniamin Nikolayevich Losin (1931-2012).
April 23 - 125 years since the birth of the Russian composer, pianist Sergei Sergeevich Prokofiev (1891-1953).
April 24 is World Twin Cities Day. (Celebrated since 1962 on the last Sunday of April by decision of the World Federation of Twin Cities).
April 24 - International Day of Youth Solidarity. (Celebrated since 1957 by decision of the World Federation of Democratic Youth).
April 26 - 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 26 - 30 years of the disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant (1986).
April 26 - 130 years since the birth of the Tatar poet Gabdulla Tukay (1886-1913).
April 29 - International Dance Day. (Celebrated by the decision of UNESCO on the birthday of J. J. Nover (1727-1810), French choreographer, reformer, theorist of choreographic art).
April 29 - 100 years since the birth of the Russian writer, literary critic Yevgeny Pavlovich Brandis (1916-1985).
April 29 - 330 years since the birth of the Russian historian, statesman Vasily Nikitich Tatishchev (1686 - 1750).
April 30 - 90 years since the birth of the Russian writer Yuri Dmitrievich Dmitriev (n. f. Edelman) (1926-1989).