Russian New Year Facts

14 the so called old new year.

Russian new year facts. Russians welcome a new year by saying s novim godom с новым годом. In 1492 ioann iii approved a decision to consider 1st september as the. Petersburg the kremlin clock chimes the kremlin clock is a historic clock on the spasskaya tower of the moscow kremlin.

In fact russians celebrate two new years. Almost a folk song nowadays it tells about a small fir tree that was born in the forest and now have come to children and brought lots of joy to them. The new new year s celebrations occur as most would expect on december 31st and january 1st.

Ded moroz or father frost the slavic version of santa claus long ago became the symbol of russian winter new year s and presents. But for example in 2015 people went back to work only on january. New year is coming and i have prepared a little gift to you all just a little story about new year in russia.

Before 1700 the beginning of the year was celebratedon the 1st of september but even much earlier it was celebrated on the 1st of march as the beginning of spring. Russia s old new year is celebrated on january 14th according to the julian or orthodox calendar. In russia after adoption of christianity people following traditions of forefathers who believed that new year began in spring when all nature was resuscitating celebrated new year in march or at eastertide.

Snegurochka is a unique attribute of the image of ded moroz none of his. 1 with the rest of the world and one on jan. He is usually accompanied by his granddaughter snegurochka riding with an evergreen tree in a traditional russian troika a sleigh drawn by three horses abreast.

Its lyrics were written by raisa kudsheva a teacher by profession and later set to music by the amateur composer leonid bekman. We hope you ll find the article useful and now you know some interesting facts about the russian new year. The latter is based on the orthodox calendar.