Holidays
- Private Security Day
- World Stroke Day
- International Psoriasis Day
- Longinus Sotnik
- Komsomol birthday
- Talker's Day
- World Ultrasound Doctors Day
- Oatmeal Day
- Day of long colorful scarves
- Hermit's Day
Significant dates
1611 The Poles organized a celebration in Warsaw to mark the “final” victory over Muscovy.
1918 Komsomol birthday.
1922 The Revolution Theater (today the Vl. Mayakovsky Theater) opened in Moscow.
1944 The Budapest offensive operation of the Soviet troops began.
Persons
On October 29, 1880, Soviet physicist and academician Abram Ioffe was born.
On October 29, 1929, the Soviet and Russian statesman and political figure, scientist Yevgeny Primakov was born.
Folk calendar
Longinus Sotnik
On this day, Orthodox Christians honor the martyr Longinus. According to legend, the Roman soldier Gaius Cassius Longinus, who held the rank of centurion, was one of the guards guarding the site of Christ's crucifixion.
Thanks to church tradition, Saint Longinus in Rus' was considered a healer of eye diseases. On this day, everyone who had any vision problems prayed to him.
Also on Longinus, winter clothes were taken out of chests to air them in the first frost and warm them up in the last sun. “The sunshine, although it doesn’t last long, is dear to us on this day,” people said. People believed in the special power of the combination of frost and sun, capable of driving away illnesses.
Name day on this day
Alexey, Georgy, Evgeny, Ivan, Kuzma, Leonty, Terenty
Source: Calend.ru.
