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National Unity Day was celebrated in Russia on November 4, TASS reported. In honor of this holiday, hundreds of various events took place across the country. Festivals, concerts, performances, sports relay races and other events are traditionally aimed at uniting Russians and introducing them to the culture and traditions of the nations inhabiting the state.
The holiday started in Primorye, as about five thousand people gathered at a rally concert In Vladivostok. One of the main events in the Primorsky Territory was the opening of a cultural center in the village of Novonikolskoye, Ussuriysky District, after renovation.
The inhabitants of Chita were treated with a four-meter “loaf”, which consisted of many small loaves. A festival of national literatures of the peoples of Russia was organized in Novosibirsk.
An exhibition of national costumes and folk musical instruments opened in Krasnoyarsk. Everyone was invited to try the dishes of the indigenous peoples of the North. The main city clock played the epilogue from Glinka's opera Ivan Susanin.
Residents of Yekaterinburg took part in the festival of national poetry. An international karaoke battle, national games and workshops on folk dances and the manufacture of amulets were held in Izhevsk. In Samara, about two thousand people came to the start of the We are United by Running half-marathon.
The All-Russian Blacksmithing Festival was organized in Simferopol. The opening ceremony was timed to the opening of an art object called Crimean Time. Blacksmiths from all over the country worked on a stylized map of Russia.
A tree covered with handmade clay leaves was installed in Krasnodar. They were made by schoolchildren, students and senior citizens. The Arboretum of Friendship of peoples was planted on the territory of one of the schools in Karachay-Cherkessia. The On the Same Land! festival and tournament on historical fencing took place in Severodvinsk. Citizens were invited to plunge into the atmosphere of 9th – 12th centuries.
This holiday is one of the youngest, the country celebrates it for the fourteenth time. It is dedicated to the events of 1612, when Kuzma Minin and Dmitry Pozharsky gathered a people's militia and drove the Poles out of Moscow. Historically, the holiday is associated with the end of the Time of Troubles in Russia in the seventeenth century, it has become a symbol of the unity of the people and their ability to unite in difficult periods. Later, November 4 in the church calendar was the day of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God - the patroness of the militias.
Russkiy Mir
