Holidays on this day
- Housing and Communal Services Workers Day
- World Consumer Rights Day
- International Squirrel Day
- Good Deeds Day
- Escalator birthday
- Dreaming of Rose Bushes Day
- World Contact Day
- Red Nose Day
- Memorial Day of the Icon of the Mother of God “Sovereign”
- Day of True Confession
- Peanut lovers day
Significant events in history
1917 Vladimir Lenin sent Inessa Armand a letter with news about the revolution in Russia.
1962 John F. Kennedy gave a speech, on whose anniversary the UN established “World Consumer Rights Day.”
1990 Mikhail Gorbachev was elected the only president in the history of the USSR.
2005 The new Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum has opened in Jerusalem.
Persons
On March 15, 1924, Soviet writer and public figure Yuri Bondarev was born.
On March 15, 1930, Soviet and Russian physicist, academician, Nobel laureate Zhores Alferov was born.
On March 15, 1935, Soviet circus artist and mime clown Leonid Engibarov was born.
On March 15, 1937, Soviet and Russian writer, publicist and public figure Valentin Rasputin was born.
Folk calendar
Fedot Vetronos
On this day, the memory of the holy martyr Theodotus, Bishop of Cyrene, who lived in the 4th century, is celebrated.
In Rus', Saint Theodotus (Fedot) was nicknamed Vetronos, since strong winds were often encountered on his holiday. People have a lot of sayings about this: “Fedot Vetronos sticks his nose in everywhere”; “Fedot is angry, but by noon he goes limp, apparently, and the sun is hot on him”; “Evdokia Fedot didn’t ask, she prepared the spring, but he either rips off the roof or destroys the woodpile, he worries about the peasants.”
There was also a belief that on this day all underground springs boil and pour out onto the ground – this becomes the cause of the last great thaw. But if, instead of the expected warming, frost suddenly struck, they said: “Fedot is not the same.”
The old people noticed: if Avdotya and Fedot were clear, then Yuri and Nikolai would also be clear. If the wind was warm that day, then the summer must have been warm. If it rained, it promised a wet summer.
Name day on this day
Arseny, Joseph, Nikolai, Fedot.
Source: Calend.ru.
