THE OLD NEW YEAR
January 21, 2018 at 2:18 pm,
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Our country is one of the few countries in the world, where people celebrate the Old New Year - the holiday, which confuses many foreigners when they first hear about it. It’s not an official day-off, but many people take the celebration of the Old New Year rather seriously! Russia was one of the few countries that refused to change to the Gregorian calendar in 1582 and continued to celebrate all its holidays as before. The Old New Year is celebrated on January 14. According to the old, Julian calendar, it’s December 31, which means that the Old New Year is the actual New Year - just old style.
Our people love holidays too much to give up a day of celebration! For most Russians, Ukrainians and Belarusians the Old New Year is just a great way to prolong the New Year’s celebrations and wish all the wishes they didn’t have time for on December 31!
“So Starym Novym Godom!”—Happy Old New Year, is the way to congratulate our friends and colleagues on this a bit strange, but still fun holiday!
