Public holidays in Ukraine

Public holidays in Ukraine
The following are public holidays in Ukraine.
Holidays established by law
Before the Orthodox Church of Ukraine and the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church switched to the Revised Julian calendar in September 2023 all religious holidays were observed according to the Julian calendar, since then Christmas is officially celebrated on 25 December. From 2017 to 2022 Christmas was celebrated in Ukraine on 2 different days, 7 January (the date of the holiday according to the Julian calendar) and 25 December (the date of the holiday according to the Gregorian and Revised Julian calendars). From 2023 Christmas is only officially celebrated in Ukraine on 25 December.
When a public holiday falls on a weekend (e.g. Saturday or Sunday), the following working day (e.g. Monday) turns into an official day off too.
If only one or only two working days are between a public holiday and another day off then the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine usually releases a recommendation to avoid this gap by moving these working days onto a certain Saturday (that is to have uninterrupted vacations, but to compensate this by work on another day which would be a day off). Usually such recommendations only concern those employees whose weekly days off are Saturday and Sunday.
Holidays celebrated by the uniformed organizations
26 March — National Guard Day
30 April — Border Guards Day
6 May — Day of the Mechanized Infantry
18 May — Reservists' Day
23 May — Marine Corps Birthday, Heroes of Ukraine Day
4 July — Police Day
8 July — Air and Air Defence Forces Day
First Sunday in July — Navy Day; From 1997 till 2011 this day was celebrated on August 1
29 July — Special Operations Forces Day
8 August — Signal Corps Day
7 September — Military Intelligence Forces Day
9 September — Armoured Forces Day
14 September — Mobilized Servicemen Day
First Sunday in October - Territorial Defence Forces Day
29 October — Finance Officers Day
3 November — Rocket Forces and Artillery Day
3 November — Corps of Engineers Day
21 November — Air Assault Forces Day
6 December — Armed Forces Day; festive fireworks and salutes take place in various cities in Ukraine The holiday was established in 1993 by the Verkhovna Rada (Ukraine's national parliament).
12 December — Ground Forces Day
23 December — Operational Servicemen Day
Other national holidays
Fixed date
5 January — Anniversary of the Autocephaly of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine
5 January — Epiphany Eve (Second Holy Evening)
6 January — Epiphany
7 January — Synaxis of the Holy Prophet, Forerunner and Baptist Saint John
20 January — Day of Remembrance of the Ukrainian Defenders of the Second Battle of Donetsk Airport (2014-2015)
22 January — Ukrainian Unity Day, marking both the 1918 Fourth Universal of the Ukrainian Central Council and the 1919 Unification Act
2 February — Candlemas
20 February — Day of Remembrance of the Fallen Martyrs of Euromaidan, the Heavenly Hundred Heroes
21 February — Anniversary of the 2014 victory of the Revolution of Dignity
24 February — Mourning Day of the Beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine (beginning 2023)
26 February — Day of Resistance to Occupation of Crimea and Sevastopol
25 March — Feast of the Annunciation and the Day of the Security Service of Ukraine
20 April - Earth Day
7 May — Beginning of the Time of Remembrance and Reconciliation for Those Who Lost Their Lives during the Second World War and Second World War Remembrance Day (Observance) (beginning 2023–24)
9 May — Europe Day and Anniversary of the 1920 Kyiv Polish-Ukrainian Victory Parade
15 May — Family Day
24 May — Saints Cyril and Methodius' Day (also Slavonic Literature and Culture Day)
1 June - Ukrainian Children's Day
22 June — Day of Remembrance and Sorrow (Anniversary of the Beginning of the Second World War in Ukraine and territories of the former Soviet Union)
23 June — Olympic Day and Day of the Ukrainian Civil Service
24 June — Kupala Night and the Nativity of John the Baptist
15 July — Day of Christianization of Kievan Rus' — Ukraine
16 July — Anniversary of the Declaration of State Sovereignty of Ukraine
1 August — Honey Feast of the Saviour
6 August — Feast of the Transfiguration / Apple Feast of the Saviour
12 August — International Youth Day
15 August — Feast of the Assumption and Dormition of the Mother of God
16 August — Nut Feast of the Saviour
23 August — National Flag Day
29 August — Day of Remembrance of the Defenders of Ukraine(remembrance day of the great Ukrainian casualties during the Battle of Ilovaisk on August 29, 2014) and Beheading of John the Baptist
31 August — Cincture of the Theotokos
1 September — Knowledge Day and Eastern Rite Ecclesiastical New Year
8 September — Feast of the Nativity of Mary
14 September — Feast of the Cross
17 September — Adoption Day
30 September — All-Ukrainian Day of Libraries
1 October — Intercession of the Theotokos, Day of Ukrainian Cossacks, Veterans' Day
14 October — Anniversary of the Formation of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army
27 October — Day of Ukrainian Literature and Language
28 October — Liberation from Fascism Day
31 October — Reformation Day (Most Protestant religious denominations in Ukraine)
9 November — Day of Ukrainian cultural workers and masters of folk and traditional arts
13 November — Reformation Day (Ukrainian Lutheran Church)
20 November — International Children's Day (Observance, most celebrations are held on 1 June)
21 November — Feast of the Presentation of the Most Holy Mother of God into the Temple and Dignity and Freedom Day (the anniversaries of both the first Euromaidan protest day in 2013 and the victory of the 2004 Orange Revolution)
6 December — Saint Nicholas Day
8 December — Feast of the Immaculate Conception
9 December — Feast of the Conception of the Virgin Mary
24 December — Christmas Eve (First Holy Evening), also marked as Day of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine
26 December — Boxing Day (Synaxis of Mary the Mother of God and Feast of St. Stephen)
31 December — New Year's Eve and Malanka (Bounteous Evening)
Commemorative and remembrance days in honor of Ukrainian victories won in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
Beginning 2023 the following days are earmarked as days of remembrance and honor in relation to Ukrainian victories during the current (2022) invasion:
13 March — Victory Day in the Battles of Voznesensk
26 March — Victory Day in the Battle of Okhtyrka
28 March — Victory Day in the Battle of Irpin
31 March — Victory Day in the Battle of Bucha and Relief of the Siege of Chernihiv
4 April — Victory Day in the Battles of Sumy and Hlukhiv
8 April — Victory Day in the Battle of Mykolaiv
13 May - Victory Day in the Battle of the Siverskyi Donets
14 May — Victory Day in the Battle of Kharkiv
4 June — Memorial Day of the Deceased Children and Young War Victims of the Invasion
16 September - Liberation of Kupiansk Day
2 October - Victory Day in the Second Battle of Lyman
11 November — Liberation of Kherson Day
Movable
Synaxis of the Venerable Fathers of the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra Caves - second Sunday of Orthodox Great Lent
Earth Hour - Last Saturday of March (observance)
Maundy Thursday — Marked three days before Western Christian and Orthodox Easter
Good Friday — Marked two days before Western Christian and Orthodox Easter
Holy Saturday — Marked on the Saturday before Western Christian and Orthodox Easter
Bright Monday — Monday after Orthodox Easter Sunday
Feast of the Ascension — Thursday eight days before Pentecost
Pentecost Sunday in the Gregorian Calendar — 7th Sunday after Easter/Pascha as marked by Catholics and most Protestants
Whit Monday — Monday after Pentecost
Trinity Sunday - First Sunday after Pentecost
Feast of Corpus Christi (Catholic Feast) - Thursday after Trinity Sunday
Holodomor Memorial Day — Final Saturday of November
See also
Christmas in Ukraine
References
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