Holidays
- Day of Russian Entrepreneurship
- Snow Bars Day in Altai
- Contain Day
- World Dracula's Day
- Walking day barefoot
- Day of paper aircraft
- Day of the blueberry cheesecake
Significant dates
1829. Russian sailors won the battle of Bosphorus.
1896. The medal “In memory of the coronation of Emperor Nicholas II” was established.
1913. The world's first multimedient aircraft “Russian Knight” struck the first flight.
1938. The foundation of the first Volkswagen plant was laid.
1948. The Provisional Government of Israel issued “Decree on the creation of the Defense Army.”
1972. In Munich, the Olympiastadion stadium is open.
Persons
On May 26, 1821, a Russian mathematician, Professor Paphnutius Chebyshev, was born.
On May 26, 1835, the Russian officer, the youngest son of the great poet A.S. Pushkin Grigory Pushkin.
On May 26, 1908, the Soviet playwright Alexei Arbuzov was born.
On May 26, 1936, the Soviet poetess, translator, human rights activist Natalya Gorbanevskaya was born.
People's calendar
Lukery Mosquito
The Russian Orthodox Church celebrates on this day the memory of the righteous Virgin Glykeria Novgorod. They began to read the virgin in the middle of the 16th century, when her imperishable body was acquired and miraculous healings began to occur near him.
Mosquitoes appear on Lukera (glykeria). The people believed that the warm wind brings these insects in the spring, and in the fall the cold wind takes them to the southern seas. There were special signs associated with mosquitoes. They said: “If there are a lot of mosquitoes on Lukery – prepare the berries of the boxes; if there are a lot of midges, cook the mushrooms of the bail room.” It was believed that if from this day to the summer solstice you kill a mosquito, they will add a dozen, and if you kill after this time, a mosquito tribe for a dozen will decrease.
In the southern regions of Lukery, they called a buckwheat because at that time the first sowing of buckwheat was produced. True, she rarely visited the grain, and was sowed “for color, to live bees, for God's bird.” Another saint's nickname is a bastard. At this time, men spent all days from morning to evening in the fields, where women brought them dinners in Lukoshka.
Name day on this day
Alexander, Vasily, George, Glykeria, Egor, Efim, Irina, Makar, Sergey, Taras, Yuri.
Source: Calend.ru.
