May 1 is an officially recognized public holiday in Russia - a non-working day off. In 2016, this date falls on a Sunday, and according to the law, if holidays coincide with non-working days, the day off is transferred to the next day - Monday, May 2, thereby extending the holiday weekend.

In addition, since the May mini-vacation, which, according to the already established tradition, usually coincides with the opening of the country and "barbecue-picnic" season, is very popular among the people, this year one of the days off that fell on New Year's Day was postponed to May 3 (Tuesday). holidays - Saturday, January 2.

Thus, for the "first May" most of the Russians will "open the season" for four days in a row - starting from Saturday April 30 and ending on Tuesday May 3.

However, for schoolchildren, students and employees of organizations working on a six-day week with working Saturdays, both April 30 and May 3 will not be considered days off. Official "holidays" will be only two days for them (unless, of course, the management of the organization decides on additional days off). And this must be borne in mind if you are planning a vacation for the May holidays with your children.

How to relax on Victory Day

The working week between the first and second May holidays will be very short in 2016: only three days, from Wednesday to Friday.

The celebration of the anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War will take place on Monday - it is on this day of the week that May 9 falls in 2016. It will be celebrated strictly according to the calendar: there are no transfers of weekends or holidays for this weekend.

Therefore, the rest will last three days - "normal" Saturday and Sunday, plus one day allotted for the celebration of Victory Day.

Weekend schedule for the May holidays by day

Thus, for the May holidays in 2016 in Russia they will rest as follows:

• April 30 - Saturday, a day off for those working on a five-day week;
• May 1 - Sunday, Spring and Labor Day is celebrated;
• May 2 - Monday, day off (compensation for Sunday May 1);
• May 3 - Tuesday, day off for employees on a five-day basis (compensation for Saturday, January 3);
• May 4-6 - working days;
• May 7 - Saturday, a day off for those working on a five-day week;
• May 8 - Sunday, day off;
• May 9 - Monday, Victory Day is celebrated.

All working days for the May holidays will have the usual duration - a shortened working day is announced only on the eve of the holiday itself. In 2016, the holidays in May will be preceded exclusively by weekends - therefore, a few working days in this ten-day period full of rest will have to be worked out completely, “from and to”.

Traditionally, it so happened that a large number of days off in our country falls not only at the beginning of the year and the first spring month, but also in May. Therefore, many of our fellow citizens are interested in the question of when we rest on the May holidays. Also, many people want to know how many days off there will be in May. Now the answer to these questions can be quite simple, since the deputies predetermine the schedule of days off. Making some of the days of May days off, they hope that our fellow citizens will use this free time to good use.

Interest in the number of days off in May among Russians is due to the fact that some politicians have recently made statements in which they talk about the need to take initiatives to gradually reduce the number of holidays. Such decisions, according to some politicians, will help to avoid the phenomena of unrestrained drunkenness, into which some fellow citizens rush. However, the majority of the population of the country does not yet support such initiatives. Therefore, the number of days not only does not decrease, but also increases.

This year the holiday of Spring and Labor, which is celebrated on May 1, falls on a Sunday. If we start from the norms in the legislation, then it should be postponed to the next day. This means that May 2 will be a holiday, and therefore a day off. At the same time, if we focus on the government decree, which determined that the day off of Saturday, January 2, was moved to Tuesday, May 3, it turns out that citizens who work five days a week at the beginning of the last month of spring will have four days off. Thus, on April 30, May 1, 2 and 3, they can enjoy their holidays and go about their business. With a six-day working week, three days are allocated for rest - May 1, 2 and 3.

Another holiday that falls in May is Victory Day, sacred for Russians, celebrated on May 9th. This year it falls on a Monday. On the eve of it, two days off fall for people who work on the "five days". Thus, they will have three days off. They will be free from work on May 7, 8 and 9. For those people who work on a "six-day" vacation will be limited to only two days - May 8 and 9.

Thus, we can state that those of our citizens who work according to the schedule five days a week will have more days off. Not only will they have more days off. In addition, the week between holidays will be shortened. Thus, at the beginning of the month they will receive four days off - from Saturday April 30 to May 3. Then you have to work for 3 days. Their last working day will be May 4th. Working weekdays will begin on Wednesday 4 May and end on Friday 6 May. After that, the weekend will begin - from Saturday, May 7 to Monday, May 9. Citizens who work five days a week will go to work on May 10. There are no other public holidays in May.

May is one of the most complete months in Russia in terms of days for rest.
May 2016 will not be an exception!

This month we only have 19 business days, all the rest will be either weekends or holidays. As for shortened working weeks, there will be none this year in May. This is due to the fact that the ninth of May falls on a Monday and will be considered a full-fledged day off, and the first - on Sunday, which by default is a non-working day, which means that any holiday that falls on it automatically makes the next business day a day off.

So, let's graphically represent all the working days of May 2016:

4 5 6 10 11 12 13 16 17 18 19 20 23 24 25 26 27 30 31

From this line it is perfectly clear that for the first time we go to work in May on the 4th. We also work on 5 and 6 and then a long weekend until May 10
Total this month we have 152 working hours
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Weekends and holidays in May 2016

This May we have 12 full days of rest.
Of these, 6 days off (including 3 Saturdays and 3 Sundays) and 6 holidays, which consist of two Sundays (May 1 and 8), two Mondays (May 2 and 9), Tuesday - 3 and Saturday - May 7.
To more clearly represent all weekends and holidays, we will depict them graphically:

1 2 3 7 8 9 14 15 21 22 28 29

19 working days and 12 days off- in total, in May 2016, the weekend loses to workers by exactly a week.
Recall that in 2015 there was a more attractive alignment: 18 workers versus 13 days off, and May 8 was then a pre-holiday, shortened working day, because it fell on Friday.

May 2016 calendar

In order to visually represent the holidays of May, its weekends and working days, we graphically depict the May calendar for 2016.
In order to make it more convenient to use the calendar, we offer. You can simply save the document to your computer, or print it on paper. Even if you have a black-and-white printer, the color shades of weekends and holidays cells are selected in such a way as to identify yourself as much as possible.

The May holidays

In addition to the famous Victory Day on May 9, there are many more interesting and useful holidays this month. Probably the most important of them is the Orthodox Easter, which in 2016 comes on May 1. Also in May, radio workers, Russian freelancers, metrologists and many others will celebrate their day.

Below is a detailed table with all May holidays:

Holidays May 2016	the date
Easter (Bright Sunday of Christ)	The 1 of May
Spring and Labour Day	The 1 of May
World Press Freedom Day (25)	May 3
Day of the cryptographer	5 May
Diver's Day (14)	5 May
international day of astronomy	May 7
Radio day	May 7
International Mother's Day	May 8
Victory Day (71)	9th May
world nurses day	12 May
Day of the Black Sea Fleet of Russia	may 13
Freelance Day in Russia	May 14
Subway Workers Day	May 15
international family day	May 15
Day of Remembrance for those who died of AIDS (33)	May 15
International Day Against Homophobia (13)	May 17
International Museum Day	May 18
Day of the Baltic Fleet	May 18
Pioneer organization birthday (94)	May 19
World Metrology Day (15)	May 20
Volga Day (8)	May 20
Military translator day (16)	May 21st
Day of the polar explorer (3)	May 21st
Day of the Russian Pacific Fleet	May 21st
Unemployment Protection Day (24)	May 21st
HR Day (11)	May 24
Day of Slavic Literature and Culture (25)	May 24
Philologist's Day	May 25
International Day of Missing Children	May 25
Russian Entrepreneurship Day (8)	26 of May
All-Russian Library Day (21)	May 27
Border Guard Day	May 28
Veterans Day of the Customs Service (16)	May 29
International Day of Peacekeepers (13)	May 29
Day of the military motorist (16)	May 29
Chemist's Day	May 29
World Blonde Day (10)	May 31
Lawyer Day (10)	May 31
No Tobacco Day (28)	May 31

Note: in parentheses indicate how many years this holiday has been celebrated.

May signs

There are quite a lot of signs in May, most of them, of course, are related to the weather. Our ancestors planted land this month and trusted every natural phenomenon to help them get a good harvest in the fall. Therefore, over the course of many years, they managed to identify a number of patterns in nature, which we most often call “signs”.
So, here are some of them:

• It is believed that if May is rainy, June will be sunny and not humid.
• Heavy hail in May - all summer there will be strong short-term rains, but without long cloudy days.
• If the number of Maybugs is high, expect excessively dry weather in the summer.
• Foggy May - to rich harvests in the fall.
• Traditionally, there are two cold periods in May - during the flowering of bird cherry and oak.
• Rainy May - dry September.
• The hot beginning of May is a damp end.

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The last month of spring - May - is traditionally considered an ideal period for long-awaited May Day meetings and the first barbecues in the fresh air. this month will please us twice. Since May 1 falls on a Sunday, May 2 will be an official holiday, and the holiday from January 3 was moved to May 3. The second weekend falls on the period from 7 to 9 May. The main holidays of the month are Labor Day, the celebration of the anniversary of the victory over the Nazi invaders and the bright holiday of Easter.

Weekend calendar in Russia for May 2016

Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat	Sun
						1
2	3	4	5	6	7	8
9	10	11	12	13	14	15
16	17	18	19	20	21	22
23	24	25	26	27	28	29
30	31

• Day off

You can download and print the calendar of holidays and weekends:

May 1 - Labor Day and Easter

On this day in 2016, two holidays fall at once - the proletarian holiday of Peace and Labor, and one of the main religious holidays - Easter. The emergence of International Workers' Day is associated with the events that took place on May 1, 1886, when six demonstrators were killed in the process of dispersing a demonstration of workers in Chicago. This caused a public outcry and a demand to stop police brutality.

The result of the outrage was the death of eight police officers due to a bomb explosion. Four representatives of the anarchist party were accused of preparing and carrying out the explosion. The defendants were sentenced to death. In memory of this event, at the Paris Congress of the International, it was announced that May 1 would be celebrated as Workers' Solidarity Day.

Every May Day, workers will go to rallies and demonstrations to put forward demands to the capitalists for better working conditions, the introduction of social protection standards and a reduction in the working day. Now the original meaning of the holiday has been forgotten, but it is still very nice to relax and gather with friends for the first picnic in nature on a sunny May day.

In 2016, and falls on May 1. This holiday belongs to the category of ancient Christian celebrations - it was celebrated back in the time of the apostles. Until Easter Sunday, believers adhere to strict fasting for seven weeks. On Sunday night, a divine service is held, then Easter cakes and painted eggs are blessed in the church, the whole family gathers at the table and celebrates the bright holiday of Christ's Resurrection.

The bloody Great Patriotic War continued for more than 1400 days. As a result of a successful offensive campaign dated May 8, 1945, Berlin, the capital of Nazi Germany, was taken. The Soviet troops, together with the allies, accepted the unconditional surrender of the Nazi army. Since then, May 9 has become a symbol of freedom and military glory. Mandatory attributes of the holiday are solemn parades, honoring veterans and expressing gratitude to them for a peaceful sky and victory.

Postcard to the Day of the Black Sea Fleet

The fleet, located in the Black Sea basin, was founded 233 years ago according to the highest order of Empress Catherine II. This event took place almost immediately after the annexation of Crimea to the territory of the Russian Empire. The first 11 ships of the Black Sea squadron were brought into the bay, where the city of Sevastopol was subsequently built.

In the further history of the state, this fleet played an important role, helping to support the interests of the empire in the maritime space and in the Balkans. On the day of glory, sailors praise the fleet and lay wreaths at the monuments to the heroic admirals of the times of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union.

The Day of Slavic Literature has been a public holiday since 1991

This is a holiday associated with enlightenment, the exaltation of literature, culture and writing. In Russia, the celebration has been introduced into the calendar since 1863. In 1991, according to a presidential decree, the Day of Slavic Culture and Literature was given the status of a public holiday.

In particular, large-scale festive events are held in Murmansk, where a solemn prayer service is served near the monument to the creators of the Old Slavonic alphabet Cyril and Methodius. There is also a festival with the participation of writers, poets and artists of various genres from all over Russia. Literary evenings and festive concerts are held in the historical part of the city.

The phrase " El Classico"calls the football confrontation between the two most successful clubs in Spain - Real Madrid and FC Barcelona.

The beginning of the confrontation originates in 1902. Since then, the teams have already played 242 matches, of which 95 were won by Real Madrid, 96 by Barcelona, ​​and 51 matches were played with a draw.

El Clasico football matches are invariably the most popular on the planet and attract the attention of fans not only in Europe, but all over the world. The number of viewers of each game is in the hundreds of millions. For example, the game, which took place in April 2017, was watched by more than 650 million viewers in total.

El Clasico December 18, 2019 - when will it be (start time, where to watch):

In the 2019-2020 season of the Spanish championship (LaLiga), the teams will meet twice.

First meeting(Barcelona - Real Madrid, La Liga round 10) will take place on Wednesday December 18, 2019.
The start time of the match local time is 20:00, which corresponds to 22:00 Moscow time.
Venue: Camp Nou stadium.
The meeting will be shown live TV channel "Match!".

As for when second meeting El Clasico (Real Barça) in the 2019-2020 season of the Spanish Championship, then it is scheduled for March 1, 2020 (26th round of La Liga).

Where will the ice hockey match between Russia and Finland take place on December 15, 2019:

At the Russian stage of the Euro Hockey Tour 2019, which is called the "Channel One Cup", the Russian national hockey team holds three meetings.

The first two games have already taken place in Moscow at the CSKA Arena, and the final match of the stage ( Russia - Finland) will be held on Sunday 15 December 2019 in St. Petersburg at the Gazprom Arena.

That is, the venue of the match Russia Finland on 12/15/2019:
* Russian Federation, St. Petersburg, Gazprom Arena.

Gazprom Arena was originally a football stadium, and for the first time it was converted to hockey in December 2018. Then the game Russia - Finland, held as part of the "Channel One Cup" in 2018, broke the attendance record for hockey matches between Russia and the USSR. The 2018 game was attended by 71,381 people.

Now the record attendance for hockey matches in Europe belongs to the Veltins Arena, where 77,803 spectators came to watch the 2010 Ice Hockey World Cup game between Germany and the USA.

During the organization of the hockey match, the football field of the Gazprom Arena was moved out into the street. But it will remain intact, as the lawn was covered and the heating turned on. Fans who come to the stadium will also be comfortable, because. the roof of the arena has been moved. The indoor temperature will be about 20 degrees Celsius higher than the outdoor temperature.

What time will the match Russia - Finland start on December 15, 2019, where to watch (TV channel):

Beginning of the hockey match between the Russian and Finnish teams on 15 Dec. 2019 scheduled for 16:00 Moscow time.

The game will be shown live two television channels: federal "First" and sports "Match! Arena". Live broadcast from St. Petersburg will begin at 15:55 Moscow time.

Replay (recorded match) is available on the website of the "First".

What time will the hockey match Russia - Sweden start, where to watch it live:

Start time of the match Russia - Sweden - 20:00 Moscow time.

live broadcast can be seen in online on the site of the "First" channel(section "Hockey Channel 1 Cup 2019"). Also on the site the game will be available for viewing in the recording.

Live will be available on the channel " Match! Country", included in some packages of channels of cable operators, starting from 19:55 Moscow time.

On the television broadcast of the "First" meeting Russia - Sweden will be shown in the recording at 00:00 (midnight), from December 12 to December 13, 2019. The time indicated is Moscow.

The shortest day awaits the Russians on Sunday December 22, 2019. Almost the same (with a difference of no more than 14 seconds) will be the duration of the previous and subsequent days (December 21 and 23, 2019) - 6 hours 59 minutes. Time is indicated "from sunrise to sunset" for Moscow.

That is:
December 22, 2019 is the shortest day in 2019.

Note that the duration of the shortest and longest day in 2019 differs by almost 3 times. So, if during the winter solstice the duration of the day (from sunrise to sunset) is 7 hours, then the longest day of the year lasts almost 18 hours.