What a holiday is May 8. Day of Workers of the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation

On May 8 and 9, in honor of the 71st anniversary of the end of the Great Patriotic War, about 600 festive events will take place in Moscow. The large-scale program will cover 68 sites located in all capital districts.

The leitmotif of the program dedicated to Victory Day in 2016 was the preservation of traditions and the history of military music that inspired victory. Two more key topics are cinema and literature about the heroic deeds of the Soviet people. Spectators will enjoy numerous concerts, theatrical performances, literary readings, costume balls, and film screenings. Exhibitions of historical photography, special photo zones and photo booths will open in the center of Moscow. There will be recreation areas for veterans and field kitchens in the tradition of the war years.

For those who still have not decided what to do during the holidays in Moscow, we publish the full program of events.

The 9 May celebration program will start from Victory Parade on Red Square, from 10:00 it will be broadcasted on big screens on Poklonnaya Hill, Patriarch's Ponds, Teatralnaya, Triumfalnaya and Pushkin squares, and the parade can also be seen on TV on the main channels of the country.

From 13:00 - the beginning of the citywide holiday program.

At 18:55 Muscovites and guests of the city, together with the whole country, will honor the memory of those who fell in the battles against fascism with a minute of silence. The city-wide evening concert program will begin at 19:00.

IN22:00 festive fireworks will take place from 16 fireworks platforms and 20 points in Moscow parks of culture and recreation.
On May 9, the "Immortal Regiment" march will take place in Moscow and other cities of the country

Victory Park on Poklonnaya Hill

IN 16.20 On May 8, a joint team of the Cavalry Honor Escort of the Presidential Regiment and the Kremlin Riding School will hold the Cavalry Parade along the Peace Walk and show horsemen's demonstration performances at the entrance square.

FROM 18:00 before 21:00 a musical festive program will take place on a large stage on the Main Alley.

The holiday on May 9 on Poklonnaya Hill will begin in 10:00 from the live broadcast of the Victory Parade on Red Square.

From 13:00 to 15:00, the audience will see a concert by the Mariinsky Theater Symphony Orchestra, which will take place as part of the Easter Festival. Conductor and artistic director of the orchestra -.

19:00 - 22:00 - a large festive concert-filming of the TVC channel, in which the ensemble "Cossacks of Russia", the Russian folk choir named after Pyatnitsky, folklore theater "Russian Song" under the direction of Nadezhda Babkina, People's Artist of Russia Lyudmila Ryumina, popular performers Igor Sarukhanov, Renat Ibragimov, Joseph Kobzon, Stas Piekha, Diana Gurtskaya, Olga Kormukhina, Gleb Matveychuk, Elena Devyatyova, Elena Devyatyova other. The hosts of the concert are theater and film actors Dmitry Dyuzhev, Anastasia Makeeva, Yegor Beroev, Ksenia Alferova, Anatoly Bely, Ekaterina Guseva. 70 veterans of the Great Patriotic War received special invitations to this event.

The culmination of the gala will be action "Light of Memory": viewers will receive 12,000 interactive bracelets that will change color in sync with a 14-meter structure symbolizing a flower and eternal flame. The light show will be accompanied by poetry readings and letters from the front. Promotion starts in 20:55 .

theatre square

Teatralnaya Square will traditionally become the main meeting place for veterans of the Great Patriotic War; comfortable recreation areas will be equipped for them. IN 09:00 music will begin to sound over the square, and from 10:00 to 11:00 on the big screen you can see a live broadcast of the Victory Parade.

11:20 - 14:00 - performances of propaganda teams, an interactive dance program with the involvement of spectators, a musical performance "By the Roads of War" with the participation of the show-ballet "Likk" and the Classy Jazz group, performances of the dance ensembles "Katyusha" and "Brothers".

15:00 - 16:30 - a concert in which Honored Artist of Russia Irina Savitskaya, singer and composer Yuri Bogorodsky, soloists of the Moscow Musical Theater Vitaly Chirva and Yevgeny Waltz, participant of the Voice program Marie Carne, pop singer Artur Best, group Five from the soloists of the Sretensky Choir will take part monastery.

16:30 - 18:30 - festive concert program "Crystal Stars to the Great Victory!" Iosif Kobzon, an orchestra of cadets of the Military Institute of the Military University, as well as participants of the All-Russian festival-competition "Crystal Stars" for gifted children from families of law enforcement officers will perform before the audience. Young artists will come from Tver, Lipetsk, Bryansk, Kaluga, Sverdlovsk and Tula regions, as well as from Buryatia, North Ossetia and even from Chukotka. The hosts of the concert are Elza Yusupova (Republic of Tatarstan) and Ivan Dyatlov (Ivanovo Region).

18:30 - 19:00 - continuation of the festive concert with the participation of the VIVA show group, the soloist of the Mirage group Margarita Sukhankina and the singer Maxim Lidov.

19:05 - 20:20 - the performance of the Moscow theater "School of the modern play", then a film concert.

20.20 - 21.45 - concert program.

Triumfalnaya square

Within the framework of Victory Day, a large two-day musical and poetic festive marathon of Vlad Malenko's "City Theater of Poets" - "Victory Beacons" will take place on Triumfalnaya Square. Special guests include People's Artists Igor Bochkin, Sergei Nikonenko, actress Anna Snatkina and others.

At 15:30the State Academic Theater named after Mossovet will perform, at 16:00 the Moscow Academic Theater of Satire will take over the baton. At 17:00, the voice of Elena Frolova, an artist of the Theater of Music and Poetry led by Elena Kamburova, will sound on Triumfalnaya Square.

May 9 from 13:00 on Triumfalnaya Square, literary and musical numbers will be presented by the Moscow Drama Theater. A.S. Pushkin, children's center "Katyusha" under the leadership of Zemfira Tsakhilova, a poet, author-performer, winner of the art festival of contemporary poetry "NIGHT OF PERA", known as the White Horseman, will perform. The day will end with a military performance based on the works of Konstantin Simonov from the artists of "Mosconcert".

On the eve of the holiday, a large screen will be installed on Triumfalnaya Square to broadcast the Victory Day Parade and other key events of the May 9 celebration, as well as for a thematic film concert.

Pushkin Square

The festive program on Pushkinskaya Square with musical and poetry numbers, a film concert and screening of famous films about the war will run for two days.

May 8 the celebration on Pushkin Square will begin at 9:30, and it will open with a film concert of favorite songs, such as "In the forest at the front", "Darkie", "Moments", as well as famous musical masterpieces from domestic films about the war. Presenter: theater and film actor Mikhail Dorozhkin. The concert will be broadcasted in a specially created cinema, where a parterre for 300 seats is organized for the audience under a canopy that protects from the sun.

At 10:00 the concert will be interrupted to show footage of the 1945 Victory Parade. It was filmed in black and white and recently painted by graphic designers to convey the solemnity and grandeur of the event.

May 9 the screening of these historical footage will precede a live broadcast from Red Square from the 2016 Victory Day Parade, which will begin at 10:00.

At the end of the film concert, the cinema will start showing films, and there will also be a dance floor at the Pushkin monument. The brass band will perform famous works of past years, and veterans and younger participants of the festival will dance the victory dance. An animation and dance group dressed as soldiers and civilians of the 1940s will help them with this. There will also be an accordion soldier with whom you can sing songs from the times of the war.

At a music concert May 8 On the stage of Pushkin Square will appear artists of the "Gradsky Hall" theater Alexander Vorobyov and Valentina Biryukova, together with the head of the ensemble Alexander Gradsky. The program dedicated to the 71st anniversary of the Great Victory will be presented by the Moscow Musical Theater named after K. Stanislavsky and V. Nemirovich-Danchenko.

Throughout the day, interactive installations related to the Victory Day will take place on Pushkinskaya Square. Both children and adults will be interested in seeing military equipment located around the central fountain of Pushkin Square, or touching an armored vehicle that has gone from the beginning to the end of the war. It will be possible to take a memorable photo next to the gun that defended the cities of our country and participated in the offensives of the Soviet troops.

May 9 on the main stage of the square, several wartime films will be screened. At 12:40 guests will be able to see the painting "Belorussky Railway Station" at 14:30 the film "Heavenly Slow Mover" will start showing, and at 16:30 the film "Officers" will be screened with the participation of People's Artist of the USSR Vasily Lanovoy.

May 9, 18: 55-19: 01the all-Russian action Minute of Silence will be held, which will be broadcast live on all federal channels in Russia, as well as on large screens in the center of Moscow, including on Pushkinskaya Square.

At 19:01 a musical concert will begin in the cinema, and after its completion, viewers will be able to return to the film screening, which will last until 22:00. The evening festive concert will be attended by young vocalists, dancers and actors of the Igor Krutoy Academy of Popular Music: Ekaterina Maneshina, Mikhail Smirnov, Anna Chernotalova, Maria Mirova, Polina Chirikova, Vilena Hikmatullina, Shlabovich Marta, Alexander Savinov, Sofya Lapshakova, Sofia Assessova, Julia ...

Square in front of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior

May 8 from 14:30 to 22:00
May 9 from 18:55 to 22.00
May 8 from 15.00 to 17.00a festive concert will take place

In the evening May 8 from 20:30 to 22:00 against the backdrop of the majestic walls of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, a concert will take place with the participation of Russian pop artists Alexei Goman, Marina Devyatova, Evgeny Kungurov, Yulia Mikhalchik, the Bondarenko brothers, Rodion Gazmanov, Margarita Pozoyan, Mark Tishman, Soso Pavliashvili and others. A variety of musical material - from folk songs and opera to modern pop hits - will interest a wide audience. The concert will be accompanied by the "XXI Century Orchestra" conducted by the People's Artist of Russia Pavel Ovsyannikov.

May 9 the vocal group "Kvatro" will present the project "Grandchildren to Veterans" at the main church of Russia. Dozens of songs of the war and post-war years will sound from the stage. The artists will be accompanied by a symphony orchestra conducted by Honored Artist of Russia Felix Aranovsky.

Strastnoy Boulevard

The festive site on Strastnoy Boulevard is dedicated to the cinema of the war years. The attention of adults and children will be attracted by pavilions-cubes with an interactive exposition dedicated to the legendary Russian films about the war, such as "The Cranes Are Flying", "... And the Dawns Here Are Quiet", "They Fought for the Motherland", "17 Moments of Spring", " Only old men go into battle. " The program also includes a large two-day film concert, the numbers of which will be interspersed with creative meetings with actors and directors, evening film shows.

May 8 at 14:00 - 15:00 - a creative meeting with the theater and film actor, poet, musician, People's Artist of the RSFSR Mikhail Nozhkin. 16:00 - 17:00 17:00 - 21:00 - screening of feature films "They Fought for the Motherland" and "Ballad of a Soldier".

May 9 at 14:00 - 15:00 - creative meeting with theater and cinema actor, People's Artist of the RSFSR Sergei Shakurov.

16:00 - 17:00 - creative meeting with theater and film actress, People's Artist of the RSFSR Lyudmila Zaitseva.

18:00 - 19:00 - a creative meeting with the theater and film actor, People's Artist of the RSFSR and Ukraine, a participant in the Great Patriotic War Nikolai Dupak. 19:00 - 22:00 - screening of the feature film "The Cranes Are Flying".

During the day on May 9, the correspondents of "Road Radio" on Strastnoy Boulevard will provide the citizens and guests of the capital with the opportunity to record a radio congratulation, which will be broadcast live.

Boulevard ring

The boulevard ring will envelop the romantic spirit of the Moscow courtyards of the post-war era. This theme will be reflected in the scenery and repertoire of Gogolevsky, Nikitsky and Chistoprudny boulevards, literary readings of works about the war will take place there, historical photo exhibitions, art objects will appear, and dance floors will open.

The holiday will begin on Gogolevsky Boulevard at 12:00 with a musical hour, during which songs and compositions of the period of the Great Patriotic War will be performed. AT 13:00 a large-scale concert program "On the Roads of Victory" will begin, within which the Taganka Theater, the Moscow Academy of the Children's Musical, the Musical Heart Theater, the Pyotr Fomenko Workshop Theater will perform, Christina Krieger, People's Artist of Russia Irina Miroshnichenko and others will perform. A festive fireworks will be launched at 22:00.

The weekly "Argumenty i Fakty" will hold an action "Subscribe for a veteran" on Gogolevsky Boulevard: a subscription point will be opened where anyone can subscribe as a gift to a war veteran (lists of recipients who want to receive the newspaper are provided by the Council of Veterans).

The festive program "One Victory for All" will unfold on Nikitsky Boulevard.

AT 13:00The Moscow theater "At Nikitskiye Vorota" will present its musical program about the Great Patriotic War.

At 14:30 The Moscow theater "Luna" will present the musical and literary composition "Songs of War".

15:00 artists of the theatrical group "FIGARO" will perform the literary and musical composition "From the heroes of the past".

At 17:30 on the stage will take place a literary and musical performance based on the works of poets and writers of front-line soldiers "The Roads of Victory".

Chistoprudny Boulevard.

AT 14:00actors of the Moscow Historical and Ethnographic Theater will play the musical program "Oh, Roads!"

At 14:30 the Children's Musical Theater of the Young Actor will perform here, the songs of the war years will be performed by the children of the theater artists. Liza Andreeva, Katya Bogdanova, Ernest Boreko, Veronika Dvoretskaya, Pyotr Ivanochkin, Polina Kareva, Sasha Novikov, Yegor Fedorov will participate.

Moscow Jewish Theater "Shalom" with 19:00 to 20:00 will delight the audience with a concert called "Stuffed Fish with Side Dish".

The art project "Frontline Life of Heroes" on Chistoprudny Boulevard will not leave indifferent the audience. Muscovites and guests of the capital will see scenes from front-line life, conveying the atmosphere of those years, on the themes: "Hospital", "Course of a young soldier", "Before the battle", "Photo studio", "Dance floor of the 40s", "Station, meeting of heroes ".

On the square in front of the Chistye Prudy metro station, a stage will be installed where May 9 at 13:00songs of the war years will be performed by artists of the Moscow State Theater "Sovremennik" Sergei Girin and Dmitry Smolev.

The festive area at the Patriarch's Ponds invites guests by 10:00 - at this time, a live broadcast of the Victory Day Parade on Red Square will begin on a four-sided video construction in the center of the pond. At the end of the parade, screenshots from your favorite war films will appear on the screens. In addition, on May 9, at Patriarch's Ponds, an interactive project "Museum of the History of Victory" will be presented, where you can see weapons and equipment of the war years.

AT 13:00 In front of the monument to Ivan Krylov, a concert program "To the Glory of the Great Victory!" will take place, where you can not only hear the most famous songs of the war years, but also learn their history. The presenter of the concert is the theater and film actor Artur Martirosov.

At the festive marathon of Victory songs will perform:

13:20 - 14:00 - Variety artist, host of the TV project "Play Bayan", Honored Artist of Russia Valery Semin.
14:00 - 14:30 - young performer Yevgeny Illarionov, finalist of the musical television project "Main Stage" on the channel "Russia".
14:30 - 15:00 - Honored Artist of Russia Olesya Evstigneeva.
15:00 - 15:30 - jazz singer Alla Omelyuta, soloist of the "Theater of Song" People's Artist of Russia Alexander Serov.
15:30 - 16:00 - laureate of international competitions, singer and composer Evgeniy Gor.
16:00 - 16:30 - musician playing in the style of folk-rock, balalaika virtuoso, laureate of international competitions Dmitry Kalinin.
16:30 - 17:00 - Singer Evgeniya, participant of the television project "Highest Test".
17:00 - 17:30 - laureate of international competitions, author of romances and ballads, singer and composer Dmitry Shved.
17:30 - 18:00 - trio "Relikt", honored artists of Russia, vocalists Alexander Nikerov and Vyacheslav Moyunov, laureate of international competitions, guitarist Alexei Leonov.
18:00 - 18:30 - singer Sergei Volny
18:30 - 18:55 - performer Alexander Elovskikh, prize-winner of the "Slavianski Bazaar" festival in the city of Vitebsk (Republic of Belarus).
19:00 - 19:30 - female vocal duet "Manzherok".
19:30 - 20:00 - singer Niko Neman, participant of the "Voice" project on Channel One.
20.00 - 20.30 - vocal group "Kalina folk", finalist of the musical television project "New Star".
20.30 - 21.00 - Honored Artist of Russia, saxophonist Alex Novikov.
21.00 - 22.00 - the concert will be completed by Petr Nalich, who will perform songs of the legendary Leonid Utesov.

May 8free screening of films about the war will take place in 14 parks, at 21:00... The festive program on May 9 will cover 21 parks, there will be more than 200 events, they will begin at 13:00. Military and brass bands will perform in front of the audience, songs of the war years will sound, thematic photo exhibitions will work, various workshops for children will open, and dance lessons will be held. Venues for meetings of veterans will open in 14 parks, and at 22:00 fireworks will be launched into the sky in 20 parks.

Venues in the districts of Moscow

The large-scale musical and theatrical program "Front Brigades" will cover all districts of the capital on May 9. Venues for celebrations in the districts:

VAO, Preobrazhennskaya square 12,
.SuAO, Tsaritsyno Museum-Reserve
.YuVAO, st. Belorechenskaya, 2
.YUZAO, Vorontsovsky Park
.ZAO, st. Yartsevskaya, 21
.SZAO, Landscape Park "Mitino"
.SAO, Northern River Station
.SVAO, Alley of cosmonauts
.ZelAO, Central Square
.TiNAO, Moscow City, st. Raduzhnaya, 8
.TiNAO, Sirenevy Boulevard, 1.

LED screens will be installed at the venues for live broadcasting of the parade from Red Square and a thematic film concert. In each of the districts, concerts will be held, in which both invited artists and the best groups, and performers of various genres, subordinate to the Department of Culture of the city of Moscow, will take part.

Thus, several theaters will perform in the VAO at once: the Moscow theater "On Basmannaya", the drama theater "Modern" and the Moscow theater of illusion. At the festive site in CJSC with 13:00 to 22:00 there will be a concert non-stop, one of the bright numbers at 16:00 will become a variety and circus divertissement "Center of Glory Polunin", built by analogy with the performances of circus brigades for the soldiers of the Soviet army during the war.

In the SAO, the Moscow Center for Drama and Directing will present the musical and poetic composition Poets of Military Roads.

"Vedogon-theater" will perform in ZelAO with poems and songs of the war years, and in the evening May 9 the group "NA-NA" will perform on the Central Square.

Moscow theater center "Cherry Orchard" - in the TyNAO.

In total, more than 300 artists will take part in cultural and entertainment programs in the districts of Moscow.

SEC "European"

A festive concert organized by the RUSSIANMUSICBOX TV channel will take place in the Evropeyskiy shopping center! Participants: Avraam Russo, Mitya Fomin, Stas Kostyushkin, Nepara group, Vlad Topalov, Safronov brothers, Reflex group, Brothers Grim, Peter Dranga, Oscar Kuchera, Sogdiana, Alexander Panayotov, Dima Bikbaev, Alexander Shoua, Albina, Victoria Cherentsova , the Dune group, Arseny Borodin, Alisa Mon, Victor Dorin, Sharif, Grigory Yurchenko, participants of the Voice Project, Anton Elovskikh and others. The artists will perform not only with their hits, but will also perform their favorite military songs.

Holidays

Day of Holy Myrrh-Bearing Women

On this day, the holy myrrh-bearing women are remembered and honored. Who are they, holy myrrh-bearing women, and why does the Russian Orthodox Church honor their memory on the second Sunday after Easter?

Myrrh-bearers are the very women who, out of love for the Savior, received Him in their homes, and later followed Him to the place of the crucifixion on Calvary. They were witnesses of Christ's suffering on the cross. It was they who, in the dark, hastened to the Holy Sepulcher to anoint the body of Christ with peace, as was the custom of the Jews. It was they, the myrrh-bearing wives, who were the first to know that Christ was resurrected. For the first time after his death on the cross, the Savior appeared to a woman - Mary Magdalene.

This holiday has been especially honored in Russia since ancient times.... Noble ladies, rich merchants, poor peasant women led a strictly pious life and lived in faith. The main feature of Russian righteousness is a special, purely Russian type, the chastity of Christian marriage as a great sacrament. The only wife of the only husband is the life ideal of Orthodox Russia.

Another feature of Old Russian righteousness is the special "rank" of widowhood.Russian princesses did not marry a second time, although the Church did not forbid a second marriage. Many widows were tonsured and went to the monastery after the burial of their husband. The Russian wife has always been faithful, quiet, merciful, meekly patient, all-forgiving.

The Holy Church honors many Christian wives in the face of saints... We see their images on icons - the holy martyrs Faith, Hope, Love and their mother Sophia, the holy Reverend Mary of Egypt and many, many other holy martyrs and saints, righteous and blessed, equal to the apostles and confessors ...

Every woman on Earth is a myrrh-bearer in life - brings peace to the world, her family, home, she gives birth to children, is a support for her husband. Orthodoxy exalts a woman-mother, a woman of all classes and nationalities.

Week (Sunday) of Myrrh-Bearing Wives is a holiday of every Orthodox Christian woman, Orthodox Women's Day.

International Day of the Red Cross and Red Crescent

The Day of the Red Cross and Red Crescent was established in honor of the Swiss humanist Henri Dunant, who was born on this day in 1828. In the middle of the last century, on his initiative, for the first time, groups of volunteers began to be created who provided assistance to the wounded on the battlefields. In 1863, on his initiative, a conference was convened, which laid the foundation for the international Red Cross society.

The official name of the International Red Cross was approved in 1928 at the 13th international conference in The Hague, where the charter of the organization was adopted, which was subsequently changed in 1952 and 1965.

At the 25th International QC Conference, held in October 1986, the new name of the organization was approved - the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement (ICRC)

The task of the ICRC is to help the wounded, sick and prisoners of war during armed conflicts, to help victims of natural disasters. The basic principles of the movement are humanity, impartiality, voluntariness, unity, universality.

In Russia, the Red Cross Society was established in May 1867 under the name "The Society for the Care of the Wounded and Sick Warriors." In 1918 it was transformed into the Proletarian Red Cross, in 1925 the Union of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies of the USSR was formed. Since March 1992, the assignee of SOKK and KP is the Russian Red Cross.

Today the Red Cross operates in 176 countries around the world.

Days of Remembrance and Reconciliation in Remembrance of the Victims of World War II

On November 22, 2004, the General Assembly proclaimed 8 and 9 May as days of remembrance and reconciliation andRecognizing that Member States can have their own days of victory, liberation and celebration, invited all Member States, organizations of the United Nations system, non-governmental organizations and individuals to celebrate one or both of these days as a tribute to all victims of World War II.

An excerpt from the speech of A. I. Denisov, Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the UN:

“We are proud that the peoples of our countries have made a decisive contribution to the achievement of victory and the salvation of mankind from Nazi enslavement. We pay tribute to the huge role that all states of the anti-Hitler coalition played in the defeat of fascism. Many tens of millions of people gave their lives to achieve Victory.

Today we bow our heads to the memory of those who died on the battlefields and in death camps, in cities and villages. We are all deeply indebted to the fallen in the just struggle for human freedom and dignity. We pay tribute to the veterans of the Second World War ”.

Significant events

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(April 28, O.S.) Voivode Mikhail SHEIN was executed by the verdict of the Boyar Duma... Together with him, the roundabout Artemy Vasilyevich IZMAILOV and his son Vasily were executed, and the younger governors Prince S. V. PROZOROVSKY and Prince M. V. BELOSELSKY were sentenced to exile in Siberia, but then the first was sent to Nizhny Novgorod, and the second was left due to a serious illness under arrest in Moscow.

The daughter of Lieutenant General I. A. BIBIKOV, Ekaterina, married Lieutenant Colonel Mikhail Illarionovich GOLENISHCHEV-KUTUZOV.

(April 26, O.S.) Nicholas I's rescript was issued to the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs V.S.LANSKY about the need to take a subscription from all officials and employees of the nobility not to belong to secret societies with the following content: "I, the undersigned, declare that I do not belong to any lodges of Masonic or other secret societies within the Empire or outside of it that may exist and that I will not belong to them in the future."

1910

(April 25, O.S.) In the Nikolaev church of the village of Nikolskaya Slobodka, the wedding ceremony of Nikolai GUMILYOV with a hereditary noblewoman Anna Andreevna GORENKO, better known under the pseudonym AKHMATOV, took place. A week later, the couple went on a honeymoon trip to Paris, and in the fall Gumilyov set off on another trip to Africa.

1945

In the Berlin suburb of Karlshorst at 22 hours 43 minutes CET (the next day has already arrived in Moscow), the final Act of Germany's military surrender was signed. On behalf of the German High Command, the act was signed by the Chief of Staff of the Supreme High Command of the Wehrmacht general-Field Marshal V. KEITEL, Commander-in-Chief of the Naval Forces, Admiral VON FREDEBURG, Colonel-General of Aviation G. Yu. STUMPF.

The Soviet Union was represented by the Deputy Supreme Commander-in-Chief Marshal of the Soviet Union G. K. ZHUKOVAllies - Air Chief Marshal A. TEDDER... The Commander of the US Strategic Air Force, General C. SPAATS, and the Commander-in-Chief of the French Army, General JM DE LATRE DE TASSIGNY, were present as witnesses. Even before the signing of the act, JV STALIN signed a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR declaring May 9 Victory Day. On the morning of May 9, the decree was read by the announcer LEVITAN on the radio.

1961

In England, 38-year-old diplomat George BLAKE was sentenced to 42 years in prison for espionage for the Soviet Union. For nine and a half years, he handed over documents passing through his hands to the USSR. He began to cooperate with Soviet intelligence after he was captured by the communists in Seoul during the Korean War, where he served as British vice-consul. In the fall of 1966, Blake will make a jailbreak of stunning insolence and beauty and end up in the USSR.

The Presidium of the USSR Armed Forces issued decrees approving the Regulations on the honorary title "Hero City"; on the awarding of the honorary title "Hero City" to the cities of Moscow, Leningrad, Kiev, Volgograd, Sevastopol, Odessa with the award of the Order of Lenin and the Gold Star medal; on awarding the Brest Fortress the honorary title "Hero Fortress" with the Order of Lenin and the Gold Star medal.

The 20th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War was first celebrated in the USSR as the main national holiday. The main reward was the awarding of the title of "Hero City" to the above cities for the massive heroism and courage of their defenders. In 1973, the honorary title was awarded to the cities of Kerch and Novorossiysk, in 1974 - to Minsk, in 1976 - to Tula, and in 1985 - to Smolensk and Murmansk.

Liepaja could be in this row, whose defenders held back the enemy for a week and where for the first time during the war a militia was formed. But death interrupted work on the collection of material from the writer Sergei SMIRNOV, thanks to whom we know about the heroes of the Brest Fortress.

In the new Russia, the honorary title "City of Military Glory" was introduced, which today has been awarded to 27 cities: Belgorod, Kursk, Oryol, Vladikavkaz, Malgobek, Rzhev, Yelnya, Elets, Voronezh, Luga, Polyarny, Rostov-on-Don, Tuapse, Velikiye Luki, Veliky Novgorod, Dmitrov, Vyazma, Kronstadt, Naro-Fominsk, Pskov, Kozelsk, Arkhangelsk, Volokolamsk, Bryansk, Nalchik, Vyborg, Kalach-na-Donu, at the walls of which the enemy was stopped or defeated.

The grand opening of the "Tomb of the Unknown Soldier" monument took place at the Kremlin wall
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1969

A film by Viktor TREGUBOVICH "In war as in war" was released.

The outstanding military leader of our time, L. I. BREZHNEV, was awarded the title of Marshal of the Soviet Union. It won't take long for the secretary general to become a four-time Hero of the Soviet Union, and the Order of Victory will adorn his chest.

The National Olympic Committee of the USSR decided to boycott the Summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles.The decision was based on threats of violence against Soviet athletes, although in reality it was a purely political decision in response to the boycott of the 1980 Moscow Olympics.

On this day were born

Nikolay I. NOVIKOV
(1744 - 12.8.181,
writer, journalist, publisher.

The son of a state councilor, who had previously served in the navy, at the age of 14 was taken to Moscow and placed in a noble gymnasium, from where, after a three-year stay, "indolence and lack of class membership" was excluded. In January 1762 he entered the Izmailovsky regiment, was sent again to Moscow to study writing in the Commission to draw up a draft of a new code. Novikov became known to Empress Catherine II. After leaving the service in 1768 with the rank of lieutenant, he became the publisher of a number of satirical magazines ("Truten", "Painter", "Purse"), then was involved in the organization of printing houses, libraries, schools in Moscow, bookstores in 16 cities. Moral searches led him to Freemasonry.

The Morning Light magazine (1777) was devoted to questions of morality and self-knowledge, and with the proceeds from the magazine, he opened two schools in St. Petersburg for poor and orphaned children. Freethinking and criticism of the empress herself led to persecution of the publisher: the printing company was liquidated, the magazines were closed, and Novikov himself was arrested. By the decree of August 12, 1792, "the most grave and merciless execution", which he was subject to "by the force of laws", was replaced by imprisonment in the Shlisselburg fortress for 15 years. After the accession of PAUL I, Novikov was released from prison, but he was prohibited from engaging in journalism. He spent the rest of his days in his native village Avdotin, where he died.

Vasily L. PUSHKIN
(1766 - 1.9.1830),
poet, uncle of A.S. PUSHKIN, who made an invaluable contribution to Russian culture, for in childhood the great Russian poet often listened to his uncle's poems, “hardened some of them by heart and made his respectable relative happy with that,” and later admitted that his uncle had married “muses”.

KONSTANTIN PAVLOVICH
(1779 - 27.6.1831),
Grand Duke, second son of Emperor PAUL I, younger brother of ALEXANDER I, governor of the Kingdom of Poland.

Participant of the last campaigns A. V. SUVOROV,war of 1812, after a morganatic marriage to the Polish Countess Ioanna of GRUDZINSKAYA, he renounced his claims to the Russian throne. But after the death of his father and the proclamation of the younger brother of Nicholas I as emperor during the Decembrist uprising, the officers urged the soldiers to swear allegiance to the emperor CONSTANTINE and the constitution, the latter, however, was an unknown concept for ordinary soldiers, and some of them considered her the wife of the prince. Constantine died of cholera, not seeing how the uprising that broke out in Poland at the end of 1830 was suppressed.

Alexander Viktorovich POGGIO
(1798 - 18.6.1873),
Decembrist, retired lieutenant colonel of the Preobrazhensky Life Guards Regiment.

Inessa / Elizaveta Fedorovna / ARMAND / nee STEFFEN /
(1874 - 24.9.1920),
Bolshevik, close friend of Lenin. She died of cholera and was buried at the Kremlin wall.

Boris Nikolaevich LIVANOV
(1904 - 22.9.1972),
theater and film actor, People's Artist of the USSR (194, laureate of five Stalin and State Prizes.

Ivan Karpovich GOLUBETS
(1916, Taganrog - 25.3.1942, Sevastopol),
senior sailor, Hero of the Soviet Union.

He served in a detachment of border ships as a helmsman on a patrol boat SK-0183... When, during the enemy shelling, a fire broke out on a nearby boat, gas tanks exploded and there was a threat of an explosion of depth charges and the destruction of ships standing nearby in the bay, Golubets rolled the bombs overboard until an explosion was heard. At the cost of his life, he saved dozens of others, the title of Hero was awarded to him posthumously.

Grigory Ustinovich DOLNIKOV
(1923 - 23.3.1996),
fighter pilot, Honored Military Pilot of the USSR, Hero of the Soviet Union (197, Colonel General of Aviation, Candidate of Historical Sciences.

At the front since July 1943.In September, he shot down one enemy plane, another rammed, landed by parachute and was taken prisoner. I tried to run three times, but only the fourth attempt was successful. He fought in a partisan detachment, in April 1944 he returned to his regiment. In total, during the Great Patriotic War, he flew 160 combat missions, personally shot down 15 and in group 1 enemy aircraft. Mikhail SHOLOKHOV wrote "The Fate of a Man" based on the frontline biography of Dolnikov.

Ninel Konstantinovna MYSHKOVA
(1926 - 13.9.2003),
film actress. She became famous for her roles in fairy-tale films “Sadko”, “Ilya Muromets”, “Marya the Master”.

Vladimir Mefodievich MATROSOV
(1932, village Shipunovo, Altai Territory),
specialist in the field of control processes, director of the Center for Stability and Nonlinear Dynamics Research at the IMASH RAS, academician (1987).

Victor Petrovich DYOMIN
(1937 - 19.6.1993),
film critic and film critic. Thanks to his imposing appearance and, perhaps, because in the last years of his life he was one of the secretaries of the Union of Cinematographers and editor of the Ekran magazine, starred in episodes for famous filmmakers.

Vladimir Grigorievich DEINEKA
(1940),
Colonel General of Aviation, former Commander of Naval Aviation.

Yuri Mamin
(1946),
film director (Neptune's Feast, Fountain).

Boris Khabalovich SHUKHOV
(1947),
cyclist, 1972 Olympic champion in the 100 km team race, honored master of sports.

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Artemy Vasilievich IZMAILOV
(unknown - 1634),
statesman and military leader, diplomat, okolnichny. In the Russian-Polish war of 1632-34 he was the second commander of the Russian army and, together with his son Vasily, the same fate awaited him as the boyar Mikhail SHEIN.

Mikhail B. SHEIN
(unknown - 1634),
boyar, voivode.

In 1606-1607 he suppressed the uprising BOLOTNIKOV, for two years (1609-11) he led the defense of Smolensk during the Polish-Lithuanian intervention, was taken prisoner wounded. Upon his return, he became the closest associate of Patriarch FILARET, supervised a number of orders. In the new Russian-Polish war of 1632-34, he already besieged Smolensk himself, but was surrounded and capitulated. The Boyar Duma accused him of mistakes and treason and sentenced him to death with confiscation of property and exile of family members.

Ivan Semenovich DOROKHOV
(4.10.1762 - 1815),
hero of the Patriotic War of 1812, lieutenant general. He distinguished himself in particular in the Battle of Borodino, then commanded a partisan detachment that liberated Vereya, was the first to inform Kutuzov about the beginning of the withdrawal of Napoleon's troops. In the battle near Maloyaroslavets he was seriously wounded. (Other sources cite the date of death as May 7th.)

Elena Petrovna BLAVATSKAYA
(12.8.1831 - 1891),
occult writer, founder of the Theosophical Society.

Vera Ivanovna ZASULICH
(8.8.1849 - 1919),
revolutionary.

Alexander Dmitrievich TSYURUPA
(1.10.1870 - 192,
Bolshevik, since January 1918 People's Commissar of Food, since December 1921 Deputy Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars and the Council of Labor and Defense of the RSFSR (then the USSR). Buried at the Kremlin wall.

Mikhail Stepanovich OLMINSKY / ALEXANDROV /
(14.10.1863 - 1933),
revolutionary, publicist, historian. He was the organizer and first head of the Commission on the History of the October Revolution and the RCP (b), chairman of the Society of Old Bolsheviks.

Sergey Vladimirovich OBRAZTSOV
(5.7.1901 - 1992),
the head of the Central Puppet Theater, who was the first to raise the question in defense of animals: "Who needs him, this Vaska?"

Valentin I. EZHOV
(01.21.1921, Samara - 2004, Moscow),
screenwriter ("The Ballad of a Soldier", "Wings", "Thirty-Three", "White Sun of the Desert", "This Sweet Word is Freedom!", "Sibiriada", "Red Bells" - all in co-authorship).

Ninel (Ninella) Alexandrovna KURGAPKINA
(13.2.1929, Leningrad - 2009),
ballerina of the Theater. Kirov, teacher, People's Artist of the USSR (1974). She died in an accident. Judging by the facts, she became the victim of a hit.

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May 8, 2018 - Tuesday, 128th day of 2018 in the Gregorian calendar. May 8 corresponds to April 25 of the Julian calendar (old style). Holidays May 8, 2018.

Holidays May 8, 2018 in Russia

• Day of workers of the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation. Every year on May 8, the Day of Workers of the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation of Russia is celebrated. The professional holiday of the FSMTC workers is timed to the anniversary of the founding of the system of military-technical cooperation. On May 8, 1953, the Main Engineering Directorate was created under the USSR Ministry of Internal and Foreign Trade, whose task was to carry out the supply of weapons and military equipment abroad. This event marked the beginning of the development of a system of military-technical cooperation in the Soviet Union, and subsequently in the Russian Federation.
• Day of the operational worker of the penal system. Every year on May 8, employees of the operational units of the penal system (UIS) of Russia celebrate their professional holiday. The history of this structure in our country dates back to 1925, when the secret department of the United State Political Administration was entrusted with secret operational work in political isolation wards. However, May 8, 1935 is considered the official day of creation of the UIS operational units. Currently, the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia has an independent structural unit - operational management. It ensures the personal safety of inmates and correctional staff, as well as investigates and prevents crimes in places where sentences are served. Operative employees of the UIS are also engaged in the search for criminals who have escaped or evaded punishment.

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Holidays on May 8, 2018 in Ukraine

• Day of Remembrance and Reconciliation. 2015 in Ukraine on May 8, on the eve of Victory Day, the Day of Remembrance and Reconciliation is celebrated. This memorable date was officially established by the decree of the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko in March 2015. Due to the difference in time zones, the countries of the West and the former republics of the USSR celebrate the anniversary of the entry into force of the Act of unconditional surrender of Germany on different days: Victory Day in Europe is celebrated on May 8, and Victory Day in the Great Patriotic War is celebrated on May 9. In 2004, the UN declared both days the Days of Remembrance and Reconciliation, dedicated to the memory of the victims of the Second World War. Earlier in Ukraine, as in most other post-Soviet republics, only Victory Day was celebrated. However, in 2015, it was decided to hold celebrations to mark the 70th anniversary of the victory over Nazism in Europe for two days - May 8 and 9. At the same time, Victory Day remained a public holiday, and May 8, the Day of Remembrance and Reconciliation, was declared an annual memorable day, not an official day off.

World and International Holidays May 8, 2018

• Days of Remembrance and Reconciliation, dedicated to those killed in World War II. On November 24, 2004, the UN General Assembly, by its Resolution No. A / RES / 59/26, proclaimed May 8 and 9 as Time of remembrance and reconciliation. Recognizing that Member States can have their own Victory, Liberation and Celebration Days, the UN has invited all Member States, United Nations organizations, non-governmental organizations and individuals to celebrate one or both of these days as appropriate annually as a tribute to all victims of World War II.
• World Red Cross and Red Crescent Day. World Red Cross and Red Crescent Day is celebrated annually on May 8. The birthday of Jean-Henri Dunant was chosen as the date of celebration, thanks to whose efforts the International Committee of the Red Cross was founded. After witnessing the aftermath of the Battle of Solferino, when about nine thousand people were left to die on the battlefield, the Swiss public figure and entrepreneur Jean-Henri Dunant set out to create a Society for Aid the Wounded. So in 1863 the International Committee of the Red Cross was founded.

Orthodox holidays May 8, 2018

The following memorable dates have been established:

• Memorial Day of the Apostle and Evangelist Mark;
• Memorial Day of the Monk Sylvester Obnorsk;
• Memorial Day Saint Basil of Polyanomerul;
• Memorial Day Hieromartyr Sergiy Rokhletsov, Presbyter;
• Tsaregrad - the icon of the Mother of God.

Folk holidays 8 May 2018

• Mark Keymaster. The national holiday "Mark Klyuchnik" is celebrated on May 8 (according to the old style - April 25). In the Orthodox church calendar, this is the day of honoring the memory of the apostle from the 70, Mark of Alexandria, evangelist, bishop. Other names for the holiday: "Mark", "Markov Day", "Bird Fasting", "Babi Holiday", "Stanislav". The people called Saint Mark the key keeper because, according to legend, he owns the keys to the rain. It was believed that from that day a rainbow appears in the sky. Mark of Alexandria was born in Jerusalem. His uncle was the apostle Barnabas. From a young age, the boy was surrounded by Christians. Even in his youth, he became a disciple of the Apostle Peter. Mark built the first Church in Egypt and became Bishop of Alexandria. The pagans, who were against the Orthodox religion, decided to exterminate him. One morning they broke into the temple, grabbed Mark and threw him into prison. The next day he was taken to trial. The saint died on the way. In Russia, on this day, people prayed to Saint Mark and asked him not to allow drought, which could destroy the sunrises and send down rain, so necessary at this time. The peasants looked up into the sky and spoke the adage that three heavy rains in May would produce three years of harvest. They also prayed to Saint Mark for various ailments, for the love and peace of the spouses, for the patronage of the family hearth. There was another name for the holiday - "bird" or "bird starvation". These days, birds begin to actively return from warm countries to their homeland. Flying is exhausting. They return hungry and tired. Therefore, the peasants scattered hemp seeds in the fields and yards so that the hungry and tired birds that arrived from the warm regions would not look for food for a long time. The people believed that if birds fly to the hemp fields, the harvest of this plant will be good. The tradition of catching siskins on May 8 was also widespread, since they were believed to bring happiness. Mark's Day was associated with special signs of the weather and harvest. For example, a clear day promised a good harvest of spring crops. If there was a rainbow in the sky that day, the weather was predicted from it: a low and gentle rainbow promised inclement weather, and a steep and high one - good. Also, this day was associated with certain field crops. So, the people used to say: "A Tatar woman is sown on Saint Mark," that is, buckwheat. May 8 was considered a strong magical day. He was good for divination and good for witchcraft. Healers on this day were engaged in family and love magic. The day was also successful for travel, travel and business trips. It was good to start new businesses. It was also believed that in order for the money to flow like a river, it was necessary not to deny yourself anything on Mark, to buy any thing you liked without hesitation. “The more you spend, the more you will get,” the people used to say. On May 8, one should beware of interfering in other people's affairs and someone else's fate - otherwise, one's own could go awry. Lovers on this day were not recommended to make plans for the future.

Holidays on May 8, 2018 in the countries of the world

• Holiday in ArmeniaMay 8, 2018 - Day of Yerkrapah. Every year on May 8, Armenia celebrates the Day of "Yerkrapah" - the professional holiday of all members of the Union of RA Volunteers ("Yerkrapah"), created in 1993. It was officially approved in 2001. The date of celebration was chosen in connection with the liberation of the city of Shushi (Nagorno-Karabakh) on May 8, 1992 during the Karabakh war. By the spring of 1992, the city of Shusha (Shushi) remained the last large settlement on the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh, in which the Azerbaijani population predominated. From 8 to 9 May 1992, the Armenian armed formations took Shusha, the defense of which, in addition to the Azeri formations, was also carried out by the Chechen militant Shamil Basayev. Therefore, the unofficial name of the holiday is also the Day of Liberation of Shushi. The social-political organization Union of Volunteers "Yerkrapah" was founded in 1993, at the moment it includes more than ten thousand people, most of whom are veterans of the Karabakh war.
• Holiday in NorwayMay 8, 2018 - Women's night. Everybody knows about International Women's Day, which is celebrated on March 8. But the fact that the planet also celebrates the Night of Women, few people know. It falls on May 8 and is celebrated in Norway. The Night of Women (Kvinnehistorisk Natt), which played a significant role in history, was invented in 2006 by feminists from the Norwegian city of Bergen. It turns out that gender discrimination still persists in Norway. The main requirements put forward by the organizers of this Night are equal salaries for men and women (in modern Norway, women's salaries are often 80 percent lower than those of men in similar positions) and affordable kindergartens (there are not enough of them in Norway, families have to wait in line some years). Under the influence of these factors, gender discrimination only intensifies: women have to stay at home with their children, and it is not profitable to go to work and hire a nanny.
• Celebration in ChinaMay 8, 2018 - Celebration of the Heavenly Empress Mazu. Tien-hou Matsu (Heavenly Empress Matsu) is the goddess of the sea in late Chinese mythology. Her cult originated in the 10-11 centuries. Tien-hou is depicted sitting on the waves, on the clouds or on a throne. She has two assistants: one has a hand to the ear, the other is raised to the eyes. According to legend, the prototype of Mazu was a girl from a fishing village named Lin, who lived in 960, who knew how to swim on the sea on a mat and cross the islands on the clouds. She flew to rescue brothers in distress at sea. When at the age of 28 she ascended to heaven, all the movements of the waters became completely subject to her. If Mazu orders, floods and typhoons will subside. But if she pleases, the elements can rage again. In 1156, by order of the emperor, a temple was erected in her honor. The sovereigns awarded her magnificent titles. From the 13th century, they began to call her Tien-fei (Heavenly concubine), and from the end of the 17th century - Tien-hou.
• Holiday in MexicoMay 8, 2018 - Miguel Hidalgo's birthday. Every year on May 8, the people of Mexico celebrate an important memorable date - the birthday of Miguel Hidalgo, which marked the beginning of the war for Mexico's independence from Spain. This holiday is celebrated throughout the country, but it is not a day off. Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla was born on May 8, 1753. He was a Catholic priest and revolutionary leader who, with his famous appeal, launched the war for Mexico's independence from Spanish rule.

In 1945, on May 8, in Karshorst (a suburb of Berlin), at 22.43 CET, the final Act of the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany and its armed forces was signed. This act is called final not by chance, since it was not the first.

From the moment the Soviet troops closed the ring around Berlin, the historical question of preserving Germany as such arose before the German military leadership. For obvious reasons, the German generals wanted to capitulate to the Anglo-American troops, continuing the war with the USSR.

To sign the surrender to the allies, the German command sent a special group and on the night of May 7 in the city of Reims (France) a preliminary act of Germany's surrender was signed. This document stipulated the possibility of continuing the war against the Soviet army.

However, the unconditional condition of the Soviet Union remained the demand for the unconditional surrender of Germany as a fundamental condition for the complete cessation of hostilities. The Soviet leadership considered the signing of the act in Reims only an interim document, and was also convinced that the act of surrender of Germany should be signed in the capital of the aggressor country.

At the insistence of the Soviet leadership, the generals and Stalin personally, the representatives of the allies gathered again in Berlin and on May 8, 1945, they signed another act of surrender of Germany together with the main winner, the USSR. That is why the Act of Germany's unconditional surrender is called final.

The ceremony of solemn signing of the act was organized in the building of the Berlin military engineering school and was chaired by Marshal Zhukov. The final Act on the unconditional surrender of Germany and its armed forces is signed by Field Marshal V. Keitel, Commander-in-Chief of the German Navy, Admiral Von Friedeburg, and Colonel General of Aviation G. Stumpf. On the part of the allies, the Act was signed by G.K. Zhukov and British Marshal A. Tedder.

After the signing of the Act, the German government was dissolved, and the defeated German troops completely laid down. In the period from May 9 to 17, Soviet troops took prisoners about 1.5 million German soldiers and officers, as well as 101 generals. The Great Patriotic War ended with the complete victory of the Soviet army and its people.

In the USSR, the signing of the final Act of Germany's unconditional surrender was announced when it was already May 9, 1945 in Moscow. By the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, in commemoration of the victorious end of the Great Patriotic War of the Soviet people against the Nazi invaders, May 9 was declared Victory Day.

Today, 05/08/2019, the world celebrates holidays: World Red Cross and Red Crescent Day and Days of Remembrance and Reconciliation, dedicated to the memory of the victims of World War II. On this day, Russia celebrates the Day of Workers of the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation and the Day of the Operative of the Penitentiary System, and in Norway, the Night of Women.

World Red Cross and Red Crescent Day

On May 8, 1928, the official name of the holiday World Red Cross and Red Crescent Day was approved from the International Red Cross holiday, which was established earlier in honor of the birthday of Jean-Henri Dunant, a humanist, Swiss businessman and public figure. Since then, this holiday has been celebrated annually on May 8.
On the initiative of Dunant, in the middle of the 19th century, groups of volunteers were first created to help the wounded on the battlefields, and in 1863 he convened a conference that marked the beginning of the international committee of the Red Cross. The name of the International Red Cross was officially approved at the 13th International Conference in The Hague in 1928, where the charter of this organization was adopted.

Days of Remembrance and Reconciliation in Remembrance of the Victims of World War II

The Days of Remembrance and Reconciliation, commemorating the victims of World War II, which are celebrated today, on May 8, were proclaimed at the UN General Assembly on November 22, 2004. The United Nations invited all non-governmental organizations, organizations of the system, Member States and individuals, recognizing that Member States can have their own Victory Day, celebrate one of these days or both of these days as a tribute to all the victims of World War II.

Day of Workers of the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation

The FSMTC (Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation in Russia) is the executive federal body of the Russian government, which exercises functions with foreign states to control and oversee military-technical cooperation with the legislation of the Russian Federation. This service controls and coordinates the activities of the Ministry of Defense.
The employees of this Service celebrate their professional holiday on May 8, because it was on May 8, 1953, under the USSR Ministry of Internal and Foreign Trade, according to the order of the USSR Council of Ministers, the Main Engineering Directorate was created - the institute of state mediator in the field of military-technical cooperation (MTC) The Soviet Union with foreign countries.

Day of the operative worker of the penal system

In our country, the penitentiary system, as a secret department of the united state political administration, traces its history back to 1925. On May 8, workers of the operational units of this system celebrate their professional holiday - the official day of the creation of operational units of the penal system.

Women's Night in Norway

What a holiday in Norway today only Norwegian women know. Today, May 8, Norway celebrates women's night - an analogue of the international day of March 8. Few people know about the Women's Night holiday; it was invented by feminists from the Norwegian city of Bergen in 2006. Gender discrimination still persists in Norway. The main requirements that were put forward by the organizers of this Night are equal salaries for men and women and affordable kindergartens.

Unusual funny and cool holidays

Today, on May 8, an unusual funny holiday can be celebrated - the Day of Step Over the Step, the Holiday of Nail Sharpeners and the cool holiday of the Day of the Cuckold.

Day of stepping over a step

Have you ever tried jumping over stairs, as in childhood? Do you know that it’s better to climb one step at a time in order to burn more calories in this way. But jumping over a step will be faster, but you will burn fewer calories. So choose for yourself - speed or getting rid of extra grams.
Walking five flights of stairs five times a week without jumping over the stairs can burn 302 calories. And when you step over a step, you burn only 260 calories.

Nail Grinder Festival

Who are these nail sharpeners who celebrate this holiday is not known, probably those who sharpen nails. But here, by the way, I recall one episode from the film "Girls" when Tosya (actress N. Rumyantseva) dragged a whole box of nails up the stairs to the attic, which only two healthy men could lift, because he weighed at least 90 kg!

Cuckold day

This cool holiday has its roots in Spain, in the urban-type village of Corneia de Terri, where well-kept urban cottages and civilization with the smell of wildlife are perfectly combined.
Legend says that for a long time, if someone was going to play a wedding in Corneia de Terry, then it was necessary to take his bride to the baron. This custom lasted a long time - five hundred years or even a thousand. The bride and her relatives could not refuse this custom.
The master and even many clerks had fun with the bride, who then colorfully described the good or bad wife to the future husband. The cuckold unwillingly had to listen to everything in silence. A strange custom has long been canceled, but people left this reason for this cool holiday on May 8.

Church holiday according to the national calendar

Mark Klyuchnik

On this day, the Orthodox Church honors the memory of the Apostle from the seventy Mark - the faithful companion of Saints Barnabas and Paul.
Saint Mark was popularly called the Keymaker. There was a belief that it was he who kept the keys with which he could open the sky and release the rains.
On May 8, they prayed to Mark that there would be no drought, and to evoke the people there were spells: “Rain, rain! On babin's rye, on grandfather's wheat, on girl's flax - water it with a bucket! "
On this day, they were guessing for the future by the precipitation: if three good rains fall in May, then bread should be expected for a full three years. A clear day on Mark promised a good harvest of spring crops.
Mark the Keymaster's Day was also popularly called the bird's holiday. It was believed that at this time the birds returned in whole flocks to their native lands, and the peasants watched: if birds fly to the hemp field, then the hemp harvest will be good.
Birthday May 8 Vasily, Mark, Sergei

May 8 in history

1905 - In Russia, VA Gringmut founded the national-patriotic, Black-Hundred organization "Russian Monarchist Party".
1916 - João Havelange, Brazilian sports figure, longtime FIFA President (1974-1998) is born.
1923 - England presented to Soviet Russia a number of ultimatum demands ("Curzon's Ultimatum")
1929 - For the first time in the USSR, forests and fields were sprayed with pesticides.
1945 - In the Berlin suburb of Karlshorst, the act of unconditional surrender of Germany in World War II is signed.
1960 - Diplomatic relations between Cuba and the USSR are established.
1965 - March 8 is declared a non-working day.
1965 - A decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR was issued on the establishment of a regulation on the honorary title of Hero City of the USSR. The first hero cities are Moscow, Leningrad, Volgograd, Kiev, Odessa, Sevastopol, Brest Fortress.
1976 - LI Brezhnev was awarded the title of Marshal of the Soviet Union.
1984 - The National Olympic Committee of the USSR decided to boycott the Summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles.
2004 - 18-year-old creator of the Sasser computer virus is arrested by the German police
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