New Year Holiday Russia

In addition to new year s day новый год novy god on 1 january 2 5 january are public holidays as well called new year holiday новогодние каникулы novogodniye kanikuly the holiday includes january 6 and 8 with christmas being january 7 declared as non working days by law until 2005 only 1 and 2 january were public.

New year holiday russia. The spring and labor holidays start on may 1 and end on may 5. History of new year s day. Dates for new year holiday russia 2020 2021 and other years.

Russians had a 10 day new year break starting december 30 that year and ending the day after the russian orthodox christmas day on january 8 the following year. The russian labor code declares january 1 5 as a non labor period. New year s day was originally observed on march 15th in the old roman calendar.

Countries who still use the julian calendar observe new year s day on january 14th. Additionally in order to compensate for holidays that fall during the weekend of the new year break the decree extended the spring and labor holiday by two days. New year s day is a national holiday in russia in which most businesses and public offices are closed.

If any of these days fall on a weekend they move to january 6 or january 8 january 7 is christmas day.