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According to opinion polling by Kyiv International Institute of Sociology, in 2010, almost 60% of Ukrainians considered Victory Day (the holiday that commemorated the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany in 1945) one of the biggest holidays. [4] In 2022, following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, only 13% of Ukrainians were ready to celebrate May 9 ...
Day of Remembrance and Victory over Nazism in World War II 1939 – 1945 Day of Resistance to Occupation of Crimea and Sevastopol Day of Ukrainian Literature and Language
During martial law a public holiday is not a non-working day. [10]Easter postcard (by Jacques Hnizdovsky). Before the Orthodox Church of Ukraine [11] [12] and the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church [13] switched to the Revised Julian calendar in September 2023 all religious holidays were observed according to the Julian calendar, since then Christmas is officially celebrated on 25 December. [5]
8 May – Day of Remembrance and Victory over Nazism in World War II 1939 – 1945; 8 June – Whitsun; 9 June – Whit Monday; 28 June – Constitution Day; 30 June – Constitution Day Holiday; 15 July – Statehood Day; 24 August – Independence Day; 25 August – Independence Day Holiday; 1 October – Defenders Day; 25 December ...
According to opinion polling by Kyiv International Institute of Sociology, in 2010 almost 60% of Ukrainians considered Victory Day one of the biggest holidays of Ukraine. [33] In 2015 Ukraine started to officially celebrate Victory Day over Nazism in World War II on 9 May, per a decree of parliament (the Verkhovna Rada).
While 9 May is the general commemoration of the termination of the Second World War and the allied victory in Europe and North Africa, in Ukraine it is in recent years a triple anniversary aside from Europe Day being marked on said date – 9 May being the date of the 1920 Kyiv Polish-Ukrainian victory parade during the Ukrainian War of Independence, the first ever military parade in modern ...
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As Victory Day is the principal military holiday of Russia and of almost all member the countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States, the celebrations in Moscow and other capital cities thus serve as national events to mark such an important holiday for millions of people around the world, marking the anniversary of the capitulation of Nazi Germany to the Allied Powers in 1945.