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On September 9 and 10, 2017, Moscow celebrates City Day. The program of events on the 870th birthday of the “best city on Earth” for Muscovites and guests of the capital will be more than eventful.

Moscow City Day in 2017: what date is it celebrated?

By tradition, for many years now, Moscow City Day has been celebrated on the first Saturday-Sunday of September. However, this year this tradition had to be broken, since last weekend was a mournful date - the anniversary of the tragedy in Beslan. Therefore, in 2017, the 870th anniversary of Moscow is celebrated on September 9 and 10.

Moscow City Day 2017: events, program

A traditional ceremony will take place before the festivities. intkbbee opening of City Day on Red Square. It will start at 12:00 and will be broadcast live on all city platforms. The citywide celebration starts at 13:00 to the sounds of the Moscow anthem.

At the walls of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, two themes will unite during the City Day celebration: classics and art through the eyes of children.

On September 9, on Volkhonka, spectators will enjoy performances by symphony and chamber orchestras, as well as a concert by popular musicians who will perform classical works in modern arrangements.

On the afternoon of September 10, a festival of modern children's songs will take place, and in the evening children's groups will appear on stage along with popular artists.

On City Day, an inter-museum festival will unfold on Arbat, which will take place on the so-called Dog Playground near the Yevgeny Vakhtangov Theater. Visitors will learn the history of this unique place and the Arbat alleys, where Moscow aristocrats lived, as well as famous writers, philosophers and musicians. Guests can expect walking tours, lectures by historians and literary scholars, creative meetings with actors and writers, classical and jazz music concerts, a presentation of the book “What Composers Say About Scriabin Today” and much more.

In the evening, the Russian group Feelin’s will perform together with Italian vocalist Boris Savoldelli. The musicians prepared the best works from the international program “YeseninJazz”. Concerts will also be held at the Marina Tsvetaeva House-Museum and the A.N. Memorial Museum. Scriabin.

On September 10 at 21:00 Alisa Grebenshchikova and the Universal MusicBand will perform at the Marina Tsvetaeva House-Museum. They will present the program “The Poet is the Son of Harmony” based on the works of the great poets and prose writers of the Silver Age.

The largest Moscow charitable foundations and public organizations will present their activities at the exhibition-fair, where you can get acquainted with an interesting exhibition, take part in master classes or purchase goods made by the foundation's wards. These are soft toys, pottery, knitted items and much more.

The main events of the festival are a fair, sports competitions and a gala concert with the participation of popular artists, as well as meetings with famous people.

Everyone will be able to take part in the charity race. To do this, you will need to make a donation; all funds raised will go to help those in need.

Moscow City Day 2017: program of events at VDNH

VDNKh will be the main children's playground for City Day in Moscow 2017. The theme of the traditional "City of Children" holiday this year will be architecture, and little visitors to the country's Main Exhibition will turn into young engineers, designers and builders. This weekend VDNKh will host 17 interactive platforms where children will be able to take part in various master classes, lectures by young architects, and cartoon and film screenings.

The two-day program of "Cities of Children" includes: an architectural carnival-procession, an interactive fairy tale-performance, and musical concerts. The main art object of the holiday, “Color City,” will be located near the “Friendship of Peoples” fountain. Next to the improvised city, opposite pavilion No. 66 "Culture", there will be an interactive Museum of the History of Architecture.

The cinema hall from 12:00 to 20:00 will invite young visitors to watch thematic cartoons and films about construction and architecture, and an educational fair of creative studios will be located on Industry Square.

In the “Architectural Institute” zone opposite the Vostok rocket model, master classes will be held from 12:00 to 20:00. At the “Wicker City” site, architect Olga Rokal will demonstrate to everyone how to create urban objects from colored polyethylene cord.

In the "Construction" zone opposite pavilion No. 75 from 12:00 to 20:00 the work of city communications, landscaping and landscaping will be shown. From 12:00 to 20:00 in the “Landscape Park” area, young guests of VDNH will come up with their own landscape compositions from fresh flowers and plants and plant them in “honeycomb flowerbeds”.

Theatrical and musical performances, literary performances, poetry readings and much more were prepared here. Moscow as the birthplace of Alexander Pushkin, Mikhail Lermontov, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Bella Akhmadulina and Vladimir Vysotsky will appear on Triumphal Square in the brilliance of literary metaphors. The program includes animated heroes of your favorite books, urban myths and legends, and literary quests.

On September 9, a joint concert of the Feelin’s group and the famous Italian vocalist Boris Savoldelli will take place. Poems by Sergei Yesenin will be performed in Italian, English and Russian accompanied by jazz, blues and soul. The performance will be enriched by Savoldelli's acapella numbers. A guest from Italy skillfully improvises with electronic processors, creating an unusual polyphony.

In addition, an interactive event “Rhyme with Moscow” will take place on Triumfalnaya Square.

On September 9 and 10, Cosmonaut Alley will turn into a meeting place for space and science fiction lovers. Key events in Russian cosmonautics - the launch of the first artificial satellite, Yuri Gagarin's flight, man's spacewalk - will appear as staged elements of the show.

Visitors can expect modern choreography, circus acts and performances by popular DJs. On September 9, at 12:00, guests will see a live broadcast from Red Square, and in the evening there will be a light and sound laser show on Cosmonaut Alley. Free admission.

About 40 festive venues will open throughout Moscow, where concerts, performances, educational competitions, master classes and interactive games will take place.

The largest, brightest and most eventful part of the festival will take place on City Day - September 9 and 10. The main street of the holiday will be Tverskaya, which for two days will be open only for pedestrian walks from Pushkinskaya Square to Manezhnaya. Okhotny Ryad will also become car-free, from Mokhovaya Street to Teatralny Proezd.

Festival venues will be located throughout Tverskaya, and guests will be able to gradually move from one to another. About 200 art objects will be installed along the street. There will be a model of the Salyut-7 orbital space station, an interactive film set, a ten-meter climbing wall in the form of Moscow City towers, a Parkour Park sports ground and much more.

In total, six entertainment zones will be created on the main street of the holiday, dedicated to the main themes of City Day: “Moscow conquers”, “Moscow builds”, “Moscow invents”, “Moscow opens”, “Moscow creates” and “Moscow sets records”.

The street space from Kozitsky Lane to Maly Gnezdnikovsky will be filled with space decorations. Festival guests will be able to see models of the Vostok-1 spacecraft and the Salyut-7 orbital space station. Through special windows inside the station you will be able to see the instrument panel, living quarters and the astronaut in the orbital suit.

Part of Tverskaya from Maly Gnezdnikovsky to Voznesensky Lane will be turned into a street of attractions and architectural monuments. Art objects will be installed there in the form of all the Stalinist high-rise buildings in Moscow, the buildings of the Rizhsky and Yaroslavsky railway stations, a model of the Shukhov Tower, the Melnikov House and the sculpture “Worker and Collective Farm Woman”. An experimental construction site will open for children, where they will learn to operate a crane and excavator and feel like real city builders. Nearby, guests can see a model of the Crimean Bridge, 15 meters long and five meters high. A copy of it will be used as a real rope town, where you can test your dexterity. A real scientific cluster will open between Voznesensky and Stoleshnikov lanes. There you will be able to find out how time flows and the days and months of the year change - this will be shown by a two-meter mechanical model of a calendar with an open mechanism. Those who are interested not in man-made mechanisms, but in the precise systems that nature creates, will be curious to look at the transparent panels on which you can see the circulatory system and the human skeleton.

Between Stoleshnikov and Bryusov lanes there will be a site dedicated to scientists and researchers who lived and worked in Moscow.

For example, there festival guests will see a model of the deep-sea research vehicle "Mir", created in Moscow by scientist Igor Mikhaltsev, a papyrus boat "Ra-2", on which the famous Soviet television journalist Yuri Senkevich traveled, as well as a large globe with a small dot on it - Moscow.

A festival zone dedicated to art has been organized from Bryusov to Kamergersky Lane. There they will equip a real film set with a film camera, scenery and spotlights. And next to it there will be a dressing room with makeup artists, stylists and make-up artists who will help Muscovites transform into real movie heroes. Near Kamergersky Lane, the legendary transforming scenery for the play “The Magnanimous Cuckold,” staged by Vsevolod Meyerhold in 1922, will be recreated.

Selfie lovers will be able to take a spectacular photo while inside a three-dimensional model of Kandinsky’s painting “Improvisation No. 8”. You will also be able to take photos in the company of your favorite Soviet cartoon characters - Gena the Crocodile and Cheburashka. At the site, guests will also be able to practice animation - create their own frames with the characters from Yuri Norshtein’s cartoon “Hedgehog in the Fog.”

The space dedicated to sports achievements and records will be divided into three zones. The first will be located on the section from Kamergersky to Nikitsky Lane. For City Day, a ten-meter climbing wall in the form of the Moscow City towers will be built on this site. On site, instructors will provide visitors with the necessary equipment and conduct free master classes on rock climbing.

For lovers of strength training and outdoor activity, a huge “Parkour Park” with a total area of ​​about two thousand square meters will be built. An area for hand-to-hand combat and a boxing ring will be located nearby.

A second sports ground will appear in the area from Nikitsky Lane to the intersection of Tverskaya and Mokhovaya streets. There, festival guests will be able to work out on exercise machines to develop coordination, jump on trampolines and watch performances by extreme cyclists in the freestyle park.

And on Okhotny Ryad, from Mokhovaya Street to Teatralny Proezd, you can play volleyball and football on the sand, practice fencing and ride hoverboards. There will also be demonstration performances by teams of cheerleaders and acrobatic rock and roll and breakdance dancers. The street will be decorated with a three-meter Olympic torch and a “Sport” sculpture with figures of a weightlifter, gymnast, and biathlete. There will also be a large stage for concerts. For the 870th anniversary, Moscow will be decorated in a single corporate style. The concept was based on original textile patterns created by Soviet artists Lyubov Popova and Varvara Stepanova in 1923-1924. In their work on ornaments, they were guided by the works of world-famous Russian avant-garde artists and constructivists.

The parks also prepared a rich program for the City Day celebration. Visitors will see fashion shows by the capital's designers, enjoy performances by European and Russian opera singers, plunge into the atmosphere of the 1960s and 1970s, and watch their favorite films about the capital.

Fireworks for Moscow City Day 2017: what time, where to watch?

On September 9, Moscow will celebrate its 870th birthday. Residents of the capital will enjoy many festive events, which will be crowned with colorful fireworks. They are organized by the city Department of Culture. “Peonies”, “chrysanthemums”, “snakes”, “hearts”, flickering figures and other colorful designs will be launched into the sky. A total of 13,260 salvos will be fired over the city.

Fireworks will be launched from 13 sites. They will be:

• the water area of ​​the Moscow River between the Moskvoretskaya and Raushskaya embankments (CAO);
• the water area of ​​the Moscow River opposite the Luzhniki sports complex (TsAO);
• a vacant lot on Kadyrov Street (Yuzhnoye Butovo, South-Western Administrative District);
• Victory Park on Poklonnaya Hill (JSC);
• landscape park "Mitino" (North-Western Administrative Okrug);
• Friendship Park (Levoberezhny, Northern Administrative Okrug);
• Novgorodskaya street, house 38 (Lianozovo, NEAD);
• town named after Bauman (Izmailovo, Eastern Administrative District);
• Kuzminki Park (South Eastern Administrative District);
• embankment of Brateevsky Cascade Park (Southern Administrative Okrug);
• museum-estate "Tsaritsyno" (Southern Administrative Okrug);
• Ozernaya Alley, house 4, building 2 (ZelAO);
• sports center "Moskovsky" (Moskovsky city, TiNAO).

At three of the sites - Raushskaya Embankment, Poklonnaya Gora and Brateevsky Cascade Park - you will be able to see a composition with the number 870.

In addition, three-meter pyrotechnic panels with the number 870 will be installed on a barge in the waters of the Moscow River opposite the Luzhniki sports complex (TsAO) and 13 concert venues. They will light up simultaneously with the launch of fireworks. You can see the installations at the following sites:

• art park "Museon" (Central Administrative District, Krymsky Val street, property 2);
• Triumfalnaya Square (TsAO);
• Patriarch's Ponds (CAO);
• Catherine Park (Central Administrative District, Bolshaya Ekaterininskaya street, building 27);
• New Olympic Village Park (JSC, Lobachevskogo Street, 12);
• River Station Park (SAO);
• territory of the museum-estate “Tsaritsyno” (Southern Administrative Okrug, Dolskaya street, building 1);
• Alley of Cosmonauts (NEAD);
• recreation area "Troparevo" (South-Western Administrative District, Academician Vinogradova Street, building 12);
• Stroginskaya floodplain, natural-historical park "Moskvoretsky" (North-West Administrative District, Isakovskogo Street, opposite house 33, building 3);
• Moskva River embankment, Pechatniki Park (South-Eastern Administrative District, Kukhmisterova Street, 4, behind the Tula cinema);
• Central Square (ZelAO);
• Shcherbinka urban district (TiNAO).

50 free excursions have been prepared for Muscovites for City Day

For the 870th anniversary of the capital, 50 educational excursions along iconic routes have been prepared for Muscovites and guests of the city. They will take place daily from August 12 to September 10. Anyone can join the free walks lasting one and a half to two hours.

This year City Day is dedicated to the achievements of outstanding Muscovites, so the guides will pay special attention to the fates of famous people who lived in our city. They will talk about Alexander Pushkin and Mikhail Lermontov, Pavel Tretyakov and Marina Tsvetaeva, merchant Alexei Bakhrushin, the Mamontovs and Soldatenkovs, as well as the entrepreneurs Morozovs.

Heroes die not when death comes, but when they are forgotten. Every year the Great Patriotic War recedes further into the past. There are fewer participants in those events. It is all the more valuable that for millions of our compatriots Victory Day remains a real national holiday. It is a symbol of respect and gratitude of descendants to their great-grandfathers, the spiritual unity of a multinational country. We will tell you about the events for May 9, 2017 in Moscow.

In honor of the 72nd anniversary of the surrender of Germany, about 2,000 interactive platforms and interesting programs were organized for guests and residents of the capital. Public events - rallies, parades, folk festivals, concerts, honoring veterans, laying flowers at the monuments of the fallen - are the main events of this day.

Parade at the Kremlin walls

The most significant event of the holiday will traditionally begin at 15:00 on Red Square. Unlike last year's absolutely grandiose anniversary parade, this one will be a little more modest, but no less impressive. On May 9, 2017, 11 thousand military personnel, about 100 units of equipment and 71 aircraft will take part in the march along Red Square.

For the first time, viewers will see ultra-modern:

• self-propelled artillery mounts "Coalition-SV";
• missile systems (RC) “Bal” and “Bastion”;
• new modifications of Typhoon vehicles with increased protection.

The following will also pass on the paving stones:

• Yars missile systems;
• self-propelled howitzers "Msta-S";
• anti-aircraft complexes "Buk-M2" and "Pantsir-S1";
• tanks "Armata" and T-90A;
• S-400 anti-aircraft guns;
• armored personnel carriers "Kurganets-25" and BTR-82A;
• armored infantry vehicles "Boomerang".

They will circle in the sky:

• heavy transport aircraft AN-124-100, “Ruslan”,
• strategic bombers Tu-22M3, Tu-160,
• MiG-31 interceptors,
• Su-34 fighters,
• helicopters Mi-28, Ka-52, Mi-26.

Aerobatic teams will show their skills.

The legendary workers of the war - the SU-100 self-propelled gun and the T-34 tank - will again take their place in the ranks. Units from the Second World War will march across Red Square: Cossacks, pilots, infantry and sailors. Accurately recreated costumes and historical weapons will add a real spirit of Victory to the entire event.

Memory March "Immortal Regiment"

On May 9, Muscovites and concerned guests of the city are invited to take part in the “Immortal Regiment” procession.

• The action begins from the Dynamo metro station in Moscow at 15:00 and will continue at the walls of the Kremlin.
• The purpose of the event is to unite everyone who carefully preserves the memory of their grandfathers who won the Victory.
• In all capital centers providing public services, anyone who wants to join the movement can print out a photo of a front-line soldier for free.

• “In 2017, the Immortal Regiment will go from the Dynamo metro station to Red Square. The procession will begin at 15:00. We expect from 700 thousand to 1 million participants. If more Muscovites come than last year, the action will be extended by 1-1.5 hours,” the message quotes N. Zemtsov (co-chairman of the patriotic public movement “Immortal Regiment”) as saying.
• Also, march participants will be able to receive free water along the entire march route, but the field kitchen will not operate. This year the organizers intend to improve the musical accompaniment. Military music will be played along the entire route, and screens will be placed for participants to broadcast the Victory Parade.

Festive fireworks

On May 9, 2017, at exactly 22:00, the Moscow sky will light up with many lights. The Victory will be saluted using new installations equipped with a computer launch system to obtain a three-dimensional light panorama.

In 10 minutes, 30 artillery shots and 10 thousand volleys from special installations on the KamAZ platform will be fired. An additional interactive effect will be created by spotlight lighting.

The best place to enjoy the colorful volleys is on Poklonnaya Hill - the main fireworks platform of the capital, the observation deck of the Sparrow Hills and VDNKh.

“A brass band is playing in the city garden...”

Field kitchens, concerts, theatrical performances, military bands and songs of those years on May 9 - in all Moscow parks. Each district of the capital offers its own special events dedicated to Victory Day.

On Poklonnaya Hill

Equestrian performance “Traditions of Russia”

The event starts at 17:00. The wonders of dressage will be demonstrated by the Honor Guard Company, the Presidential Regiment, and equestrian schools from Moscow and other cities. The Presidential Orchestra will show its skills.

Virtuoso concert

On May 9, 2017, the unsurpassed symphony orchestra of the Mariinsky Theater will play on the stage of Victory Park on Poklonnaya Hill. The musicians, led by conductor Valery Gergiev, prepared a unique program especially for the holiday.

"Light of Memory"

On May 9, activists will distribute 30,000 glowing bracelets on Poklonnaya Hill. In the evening before the fireworks, their radiance will merge with a ten-meter symbol of memory - a composition of flowers and an eternal flame.

We walk through the parks of the capital

Perovsky

Amazing vocal abilities of the soloists of the television show “The Voice. Children" and the performance of the group "Forbidden Drummers" can be heard in Perovsky Park. The highlight of the holiday will be the “Wall of Peace” created by the hands of guests from hundreds of paper doves. The parade of cadets will add solemnity to the event.

Them. Bauman

On May 9, you will be able to attend a walking orchestra show in the Bauman Garden. The festival is being held in Moscow for the fourth time. In 2017, the most unusual brass bands are participating: “Mosbras”, Bubamara Brass Band, ½ Orchestra, Mishanyan’s orchestra and others.

You will be surprised, but it turns out that not only marches and jazz compositions can be performed in this form. The arsenal of walking orchestras includes club house, mixes from works of various genres, performed in an unusual manner on a trumpet or sousaphone.

Want to participate? Create your own costume in a cardboard studio, master the basics of playing the trumpet or trombone at master classes - and go ahead!

Tagansky

The youngest participants of the holiday, together with their parents, can create costumes and decorations for the children's Victory Parade and personally take part in it. The march will take place on May 9 at 14:30 in Tagansky Park.

Snow-white balloons, laid out in the shape of a dove of peace, will soar into the sky at 15:00. You can learn to dance a square dance and waltz to fashionable hits of the 30s and 40s at a special master class.

In the evening, at 18:00, the event will continue with a performance by Eurovision participant Petr Nalich.

Small venues

You can learn the basics of foxtrot, waltz and quadrille on Victory Day in the Lilac Garden, Goncharovsky Park.

The musical venue of “Northern Tushino” offers a diverse program - from performances by soloists of the Bolshoi Theater opera to a show prepared by radio “Dacha”.

Kuzminki Park

On May 9, 2017, the costume quest “Military Intelligence. Southeast" in Kuzminki Park.

The territory will be conditionally divided into divisions and, starting from the checkpoint, all participants will master the novice soldier course, providing medical care to the wounded and injured. At the rest stop you will be able to taste field cuisine and play games.

The aviation battalion will have models of wartime equipment. Fashion from the 1940s will be presented in a special fashion show, and vintage cars will be shown up close. Moscow artists will visit the combat unit with a patron concert, and the winners of the “Spring of ’45” competition will perform on stage. In the evening, hundreds of balloons with wishes and dreams will fly into the sky.

Sokolniki

Take advantage of the opportunity to truly experience history live. In Sokolniki Park in the center of Moscow, an exhibition of military equipment and vintage cars of the 40s will be held to the accompaniment of military bands.

The most beloved films about difficult years and wonderful people of the era and rich porridge cooked in a real field kitchen will create the right mood. The performance of the Bravo group will provide a pleasant, spiritual atmosphere of the post-war years.

On May 9, you can see retro cars and military equipment on Pushkinskaya Embankment, in the Hermitage Garden.

Events worth attending

• On Strastnoy Boulevard, as part of the Cinema Pavilion event, everything will be dedicated to the cinema of the war era, creative meetings will be held with famous directors, actors and other film creators.
• For boys and their dads! In the cultural center "Meridian", located on the street. Profsoyuznaya, 61, hosts an annual exhibition of stand models of military equipment. There is everything: planes, armored personnel carriers, tanks, ships, helicopters. And also dioramas of famous battles, robotic fighting vehicles from the world of fantasy, collectible historical miniatures and warriors of all eras: from Egyptian warriors to Saxon knights and special forces soldiers.
• An unusual event will be held in the Fashion Village on the square near the Central Department Store on May 9: you can plunge into the atmosphere of the 40s and watch a fashion show in the spirit of those years.
• On the veranda of the School of Modern Play theater at 15:00 the program “And I will call friends...” dedicated to the works of Bulat Okudzhava will begin. They are waiting for you at the address: Sredny Tishinsky Lane, 5/7, building 1. The format of the event is open. Theater actors, songwriters and poets will perform. The main theme will be poems and melodies about the war.
• On Victory Day on Old Arbat there will be a photo exhibition of culinary masterpieces of the 40s and 50s and master classes on their preparation as part of the event.
• On May 9, 2017, you can visit the Spring Flower Festival in Moscow, held in the “Apothecary Garden” (botanical garden) on Mira Avenue, 26, building 1. Amazing tulips, hyacinths, exotic sakura, magnolias and almond trees. Many rare and exotic plants bloom in the Botanical Garden during this period.
• On May 9, 2017, the International Billiards Tournament for the Moscow Mayor's Cup will begin at the Olimpiysky sports complex. The event is open to players of all levels.

Motofreestyle

Russian athletes prepared an unusual extreme event for Victory Day.

Holidays 2020
Holiday calendar
Weekends: holiday transfer scheme

On this page we provide a calendar of non-working holidays and weekends for 2020 and 2019, approved by the Government of the Russian Federation.

Calendar
Holidays and weekends in 2020

(Resolution of the Government of the Russian Federation “On the transfer of holidays in 2020” dated July 10, 2019 No. 875)

For reference:

In 2020, there are 248 working days in Russia (including 5 shortened working days) and 118 weekends (including 14 holidays).

- Jan. 7- Nativity, February 23- Defender of the Fatherland Day, March 8 9th May- Victory Day, 12 June- Russia Day and November 4- Day of National Unity.
If a non-working holiday coincides with a day off, the day off is transferred to the next working day after the holiday. The scheme for the transfer of holidays in 2020 submitted for approval is shown in the calendar - there are only two such transfers:
light purple arrow - from January 5 (Saturday) to May 5 (Monday);
light blue - from January 7 (Sunday) to May 2 (Wednesday)

- About shortened working days: directly

The government decree on the 2020 holiday was approved by the Chairman of the Government - 07/10/19. The scheme for transferring holidays in 2020 is very simple and fits into two lines:

RESOLUTION

Moscow

About postponing holidays in 2020

Move the following holidays to 2020:

Chairman of the Government
Russian Federation YES. Medvedev

Calendar
Holidays and weekends in 2019

(Resolution of the Government of the Russian Federation "On the transfer of days off in 2019" dated... 2018 No. ..., approved by the Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation D. Medvedev... 2018)

To enlarge the calendar image, click on it!

For reference:

In 2019, there are 247 working days in Russia (including 6 shortened working days) and 118 weekends (including 14 holidays).

- Rules for transferring days off: The Labor Code of the Russian Federation establishes 14 non-working holidays per year - these are January 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 8 - the general New Year holidays, Jan. 7- Nativity, February 23- Defender of the Fatherland Day, March 8- International Women's Day, May 1 - Spring and Labor Day, 9th May- Victory Day, 12 June- Russia Day and November 4- Day of National Unity.
If a non-working holiday coincides with a day off, the day off is transferred to the next working day after the holiday. The scheme for the transfer of weekends in 2019 submitted for approval is shown in the calendar - there are only three such transfers:
light blue arrow - from January 5 (Saturday) to May 2 (Thursday);
light purple - from January 6 (Sunday) to May 3 (Friday);
light pink - from February 23 (Saturday) to May 10 (Friday).

- About shortened working days: Working hours, directly preceding a non-working holiday, is reduced by 1 hour.

The Government Decree on the 2019 holidays was approved by the Chairman of the Government in September 2018:

GOVERNMENT OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION

RESOLUTION

dated 2018 No.

Moscow

About postponing holidays in 2019

For the purpose of rational use by employees of weekends and non-working holidays, the Government of the Russian Federation decides:
Move the following holidays to 2019:

From Saturday 5 January to Thursday 2 May;
from Sunday 6 January to Friday 3 May;
from Saturday 23 February to Friday 10 May.

Chairman of the Government
Russian Federation YES. Medvedev

Weekend transfer scheme.

Weekend transfer scheme.

Moscow will celebrate Great Victory Day with love and respect. The city will host many events of various sizes - from the Victory Parade on Red Square and concerts at train stations to screenings of classic Soviet films about the war. And in the evening more than 80 thousand volleys will thunder. High-altitude fireworks displays are organized at 16 sites. Fireworks in honor of Victory Day will be launched in 17 capital parks. The evening sky of Moscow will be decorated with golden peonies, multi-colored chrysanthemums, as well as red, blue, green and yellow balloons.

Events in Moscow for the May holidays in 2018. Victory parade

On May 9, 33 parade units will march to Red Square, which is 12,500 people (last year - 10,001 military personnel). More than 120 units of military equipment are expected (last year - 114) and 73 - aviation equipment (last year - 72). The equipment includes T-90A and T-14 Armata tanks, BMP-3 and Kurganets infantry fighting vehicles, BTR-82A and Boomerang armored personnel carriers, Yars strategic missile systems and other vehicles.

And in the sky above the Kremlin will fly the strategic missile carriers Tu-160, Tu-95 MS, long-range bombers Tu-22 M3, refueling aircraft Il-78, military transport An-124 and Il-76 MD, fighters Su-35S, Su- 30 SM, MiG-29, MiG-31, front-line bombers Su-34 and Su-24M, attack aircraft Su-25, helicopters Mi-26, Mi-8, Mi-28N, Ka-52, Mi-24P.

Events in Moscow for the May holidays in 2018. Promotion Immortal Regiment 2018

Participants in the annual Immortal Regiment procession will march from the Belorussky railway station along 1st Tverskaya-Yamskaya and Tverskaya streets to Red Square with portraits of relatives of front-line soldiers and home front workers.

Anyone can join the action and honor the memory of those who fought for victory in the Great Patriotic War. Last year, despite the cold weather, more than 850 thousand people took part in the procession. The column of the “Immortal Regiment” stretched for several kilometers. This year, organizers expect that the number of participants in the event may increase to one million people.

Events on May 9, 2018 in Moscow official website

An interesting and eventful program is expected in the Russian capital for the May holidays. As it became known during the next meeting of the Presidium of the Moscow Government, over three hundred public events will be held on city streets and squares. It is expected that this year no fewer residents and guests of the capital will take part in them than last year. Then about ten million people took part in the festive events.

Events on May 9, 2018 in Moscowat the Cathedral of Christ the Savior

At 10:00 the Victory Parade will be broadcast near the Cathedral of Christ the Savior. From 16:00 to 18:00 there will be a concert where guests will hear popular songs about the war in modern interpretation. Golden hits of the Soviet stage and original songs will also be performed.

At 19:00 there is a minute of silence. After it, the orchestra will perform under the direction of People's Artist of Russia Pavel Ovsyannikov.

At 20:30, popular Russian artists will take the stage to perform songs from the war and post-war years. Free admission.

Events on May 9, 2018on Pushkinskaya Square

At 09:00 a film concert will begin on Pushkinskaya Square, and after it guests will see a broadcast of the Victory Parade. Films about the war will also be shown here, starting at 11:15 and 13:05. Viewers will also be told about how such films were created - from films shot during the war years to modern ones.

At 18:00 the concert will begin, Diana Gurtskaya, Sogdiana, the group “Brilliant”, Anita Tsoi and others will perform.

At 19:00 there is a minute of silence in memory of the victims. Afterwards the festive concert will continue. At 21:00 the karaoke program of the musical group “Turetsky Choir” starts.

At 22:00 the fireworks display will be broadcast on the big screen.

Events on May 9, 2018in the capital: concerts, master classes and free museums

Military museums can be visited for free. The State Defense Museum of Moscow, the Zelenograd Museum, the Panorama Museum “Battle of Borodino”, the Museum of Heroes of the Soviet Union and Russia, the museum complex “History of the T-34 Tank” and others will not charge an entrance fee on May 8 and 9.

Each of them prepared a special program for Victory Day. For example, at 13:00 at the Central Museum of the Great Patriotic War there will be a presentation of a video for the song “Kite”, filmed by students of a creative film studio. In the Big Cinema and Concert Hall at 16:00, guests will see the play “I will return...”, which is based on front-line letters from Boris Vasiliev’s story “Exhibit No...”. At 17:30 they will show the documentary film “How I Became a Teacher” about the writer and veteran of the Great Patriotic and Soviet-Japanese Wars Pyotr Mikhin.

The Moscow State Defense Museum invites you to the theatrical interactive program “Front Behind the Front Line”. One of the central themes of this day is the partisan movement. Guests will be told not only about their exploits, but also about their everyday life. Starts at 12:00 and 15:00.

The photo exhibition “Eternal Flame” will be presented at the Zelenograd Museum. It will be dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the creation of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier memorial complex near the Kremlin wall. The exhibition will be open from 10:00 to 20:00.

Flowers will be laid at the memorial site of the Great Patriotic War at the Museum of Heroes of the Soviet Union and Russia. A festive concert will also be held here.

They will teach you how to paint military-historical miniatures at the Battle of Borodino panorama museum at the Steadfast Tin Soldier master class. Starts at 14:00. At the “History of the T-34 Tank” museum, guests will be invited to complete interactive creative tasks.

May 9 is the last day when you can see the exhibition “1942. At the Victory Headquarters" in New Manege. It is unique in that for the first time it shows documents from the highest authorities, whose decisions influenced the outcome of hostilities in 1942. The exhibition itself runs until June 25.

May 9: concerts, master classes and free museums

In Gorky Park, the celebration will begin at 10:00 and end at 22:00. An installation of letters from soldiers from the front will appear on the walls of the main entrance. Their texts will be heard from the speakers. A live broadcast of the Victory Parade will be shown on the balustrade, and a concert will take place on the main stage.

You can see military equipment and try field cuisine on Pushkinskaya Embankment. There will also be areas where park guests will dance to the music of the war years.

In the Muzeon art park they will tell you how many days the Battle of Stalingrad lasted, how many bombs were dropped on Moscow and how many cities turned into ruins during the war.

The festival area of ​​Sokolniki Park will be turned into a chessboard. Figures representing the armies of the USSR and Germany will fight there. Air fountains “Tongues of Flame”, tantamaresques in the form of guns of the Great Patriotic War and signs with poignant lines from the last letters of soldiers from the front - this and much more will also be seen by guests of the park. In addition, congratulations to veterans can be left on the installation in the form of a large triangular letter. A festive concert will also be held here. The events will take place from 13:00 to 22:00.

A documentary play “Katya + Sergey. Letters." The production was based on the correspondence between Major General Sergei Kolesnikov and his wife. The choir of the Mishanyan and Co. Orchestra and the Valery Bukreev Orchestra will perform on the park stage. Everyone will learn to dance in the style of the 1940s. The holiday will end with a children's parade - young Muscovites will march through the stadium and park alleys in homemade costumes. Event times are from 10:00 to 22:00.

The atmosphere of the 1940s will be recreated in the Hermitage Garden. Guests will see Soviet vintage cars and hear music performed by a military brass band and a male chamber choir. The Victory Ball “At six o’clock in the evening...” will begin at 18:00. Everyone will dance with the veterans to the songs of the war years, and at open lessons, guests will learn to dance the Krakowiak, tango and waltz. The celebration will end at 22:00.

The Walking Band Festival will take place in the Bauman Garden. The brass bands “Mosbras”, ½ Orchestra, “Polite People”, “Second Line” and Pakava It will perform here. Master classes on graffiti, beatboxing and freestyling will be held for young people. There will also be a retro zone with treats. Starts at 13:00. The events will take place until 22:00.

The “Gratitude of Generations” holiday will begin at the Biryulevsky Arboretum at 12:00. The program includes performances by creative groups, congratulations to veterans and master classes. Everyone can make paper flowers.

May 9 in the capital: concerts, master classes and free museums

In the living room pavilion on Tverskaya Square, visitors will be taught how to decorate photo albums and postcards for veterans. Classes will be held from 11:00 to 16:00. All guests are also invited to the concert “Poems and Songs about War.”

At the venue next door, on Stoleshnikov Lane, guests will be treated to a retro program “Songs and Music of the Soviet Period.”

Performances by young musicians, dance master classes and much more will take place on Novy Arbat. The concert will begin here at 12:30. The children's group "Inspiration", the children's and youth choir "Joy", the choir of school No. 1060 and the Popov Big Children's Choir will perform. At 19:00 the traditional jazz ensemble Moscow Trad Jazz Band will take the stage.

At 12:00, the “Field Hospital” will open on Revolution Square. The youngest guests will be taught first aid. There will also be a lesson on making bouquets of fresh flowers that can be given to veterans.

Greeting cards using the scrapbooking technique and military hats will be made in the park near the monument to Karl Marx. A front-line album and a brooch from the St. George ribbon will be made on Kuznetsky Most (near the Central Department Store).

You will learn how to bake bread from rye flour, cook jelly and prepare a dessert in the shape of a star at the culinary studio on Klimentovsky Lane. Master classes will be held from 12:00 to 18:45.