Holidays
- Feast of Spring and Labor, May First
- World password day
- Zhivin Day
- Day of global love
- Day of braided legs
- Birthday of the postage stamp
- The day of therapeutic massage
- Loyal Day
- Coaching day of leaders
- International Partisan Horticulture Day
- The day of salvation of rhinos
- Pokatushki day with wind
- Day of reason
Significant dates
1840. In England, the world's first postage stamps appeared.
1918. The first military parade (6+) of the Red Army was held on the Khodynsky field.
1944. The medal “For the Defense of Moscow” was established.
1960. The American aircraft violated the airspace of the USSR and was shot down.
1990. The opposition demonstration was first held in Moscow.
Persons of the day
On May 1, 1917, the Soviet and Russian multiplier, director, teacher, national artist of the USSR Fedor Khitruk was born.
On May 1, 1924, the Soviet and Russian writer Viktor Astafiev was born.
On May 1, 1929, a Soviet scientist-biologist, author of popular science books about the life of animals, Igor Akimushkin, was born.
People's calendar
Kuzma gardener
That day they honor the reverend Cosmo Chalcedonian. In Rus' it was Kukushkin's day: at that time she begins to cook in forests and groves. Several signs were connected with this bird: if the cuckoo used, it is time to sow flax; The cuckoo dolls on a dry tree – to freezing. It was also believed that if the cuckoo flies around the village, be a fire.
Carrots and beets were traditionally sowed to Kuzma (Cosmo). It is interesting that women were engaged in planting and weeding vegetables in Rus' – and not only because this work was easier than, for example, a plow. It was believed that everything, planted by a man, would go in color, but would not give the fetus. Digging the beds, sentenced: “Kuzma came – he looked into the cellar, took a shovel – digging the ground from the hut.”
Before sowing, the peasant women went to secret springs in the morning, which were called vowel students, and wetted the seeds in the water, and copper coins threw copper coins to the bottom of the source. According to another custom, the seeds were supposed to be soaked in river water for three morning visors. It was necessary to do this without fail, otherwise the crop would be thin – after all, an envious eye can do a lot of harm. People said: “An alien eye is envious, and the envy that rust – I eat the whole crop.” And if you eat at least one seed from prepared for planting – all the grown vegetables will eat the worm.
The upcoming weather was judged by various signs. The warm beginning of May was a faithful sign that the cold would begin at the end of the month, and vice versa. On this occasion they said: “To the kuzma in a shirt to plow – to sow in a fur coat.” If May was given cold, the year promised to be fertile. A good harvest was foreshadowed and plentiful rains. By the way, the first rain was moistened with the hair so that it grew densely, like the May grass.
A person born on Kuzma's Day was supposed to be a good gardener, take care of vegetables, bend his back above the beds. In this case, his fate will be successful.
Name day on this day
Vasily, Victor, Vissarion, Efim, Ivan, Kuzma, Mikhail, Tamara, Felix.
Source: Calend.ru
