Мне нужна информация про новый год в Украине на английском(+перевод на русском)

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13 февр. 2014 г., 3:15:05 (10 лет назад)

New Year in Ukraine - one of the public holidays of the country. Celebrated on 1 January of each year, is celebrated on the night of December 31 to January 1 in the Gregorian calendar. Date of celebrating the New Year, as well as the traditions associated with them, have undergone significant changes over the past century.

Ukrainian lands that were part of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and later - the Commonwealth, with the beginning of 1362 New Year was established on January 1 and conducted chronology "of Christmas." This system is found in the chronicles of the time. In the Russian Empire on January 1 as the date of the celebration of the New Year was established by Peter the Great and spread to most of the Ukraine (modern Ukraine) in 1700 in the XVIII-XIX centuries New Year's Eve in Little Russian lands called "Christmas Eve." At this time, the children went from house to house, worn with a large straw doll Kalyada congratulated the hosts, as well as singing original song New Year - "schedrovki" or "carols". In response, the hosts were awarded a singing children and guests gifts - baked dough figurines of animals and birds. During this period, the history of Ukraine the most important holiday of the Orthodox Russian Empire was Orthodox Christmas. In the XIX century in the folklore of the Eastern Slavs, in addition to the traditional Santa Claus, there is also the image of the Snow Maiden (Snezhevinochki) associated with the celebration of the New Year.

In 1930-1947 New Year's in the Soviet Union, as well as in the USSR, was not included in the list of official holidays. However, the spread of secular views, pushed New Year Christmas as the main state holiday of people of all religious and non-religious worldviews in the USSR and the Ukrainian SSR. Most modern Christmas traditions of Ukraine approved during this period, and they are often identical to the tradition of celebrating the New Year in Russia. In Ukraine, as well as in the Baltic countries, there is a peculiarity of the New Year. It consists in the fact that the inhabitants of the central and eastern parts of the country still continue to celebrate his coming twice - the first time Moscow time at 22:00, and the second time, Kyiv 24:00. This is due to the fact that the USSR was a long time in the Moscow time zone and many are accustomed to celebrate the New Year is to fight in Moscow chimes.

According to recent polls New Year holiday was considered significant 65% of Ukrainian citizens. However, the importance of the traditions of New Year celebrations have a unique color and ethnolinguistic related to the geographic concentration of the two main ethnic and cultural communities in the country. So, in the predominantly Russian-speaking areas of the south-east of the country New Year is considered the most important holiday of the country 78% of respondents. At the same time, the Ukrainian-Western regions of the country the majority of respondents favored the Orthodox Christmas (72%). Conflict in the outlook of residents of different parts of the country sometimes lead to controversial actions. So, December 19, 2012, activists Solomianskyi branch of the organization "Brotherhood", which expresses the interests of Ukrainian Nationalists, put in Kiev hung stuffed Santa Claus, causing a public outcry.