Old New Year

Happy holiday to you!The tradition of celebrating the Old New Year comes from the divergence of the Julian calendar (or otherwise the “old style” calendar) and the Gregorian calendar – the one that now lives almost the whole world. Calendar divergence is 13 days.

Old New Year is a rare historical phenomenon, an additional holiday, which turned out as a result of the change of chronology.

After the collapse of the USSR, in addition to Russia, the Old New Year is also celebrated in Kazakhstan, Ukraine and Belarus, as well as by the Slavs and residents of the former Soviet republics in other countries of the near and far abroad. Officially, it is not a day off, but still it is celebrated with pleasure in the country.