What are the memorable dates in February? Calendar of significant and memorable dates Holidays and memorable dates in February

1st of February-165 years since the birth of Lev Aleksandrovich Tikhomirov (1852-1923), Russian politician, thinker, philosopher, founder of the People's Will party.

60 years since the birth of Vladimir Mikhailovich Bekhterev (1857-1927), Russian psychiatrist, neurologist, physiologist, psychologist, founder of reflexology and pathopsychological direction in Russia.

75 years since the birth of Lev Valeryanovich Leshchenko (Lev Valeryanovich Leshchev) (1942), Russian singer, People's Artist of the RSFSR (1983).

February 2-Day military glory Russia. The defeat of Nazi troops by Soviet troops in the Battle of Stalingrad (1943).

315 years since the founding of the Baltic Fleet (1702) by Peter I.

February 3rd- 85 years since the birth of Alexander Evgenievich Shaposhnikov (1932-2010), Russian librarian.

February 4 - 295 years since the approval of the “Table of Ranks” by Russian Emperor Peter I (1722).

145 years since the birth of Alexander Sergeevich Raevsky (1872-1924), Russian scientist, designer of steam locomotives.

February 5th-180 years since the birth of Konstantin Konstantinovich Arsenyev (1837-1919), Russian publicist, public and zemstvo figure, writer, lawyer, best encyclopedist.

February 7 - 205 years since the birth of Charles Dickens (1812-1870), English writer.

120 years since the birth of Alexander Leonidovich Chizhevsky (1897-1964), Soviet biophysicist, inventor, creator of the “Chizhevsky chandelier”, author of the theory of the influence of the Sun on biological and social processes on Earth.

February 9th - 130 years since the birth of Vasily Ivanovich Chapaev (Chepaev) (1887-1919), Soviet military leader, legendary division commander, hero civil war.

11 February - 170 years since the birth of Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931), American electrical inventor and entrepreneur. He improved the telegraph, telephone, and film equipment, developed one of the first commercially successful versions of the incandescent electric lamp, built the first electric locomotives, laid the foundation for electronics, and invented the phonograph. It was he who suggested using the word “hello” at the beginning of a telephone conversation.

130 years since the birth of Sigismund Dominikovich Krzhizhanovsky (1887-1950), Russian writer, literary critic, art critic, poet, prose writer, playwright, translator, critic, esthetician, theater critic, screenwriter, philosopher, historian and theater theorist.

130 years since the birth of Ivan Dmitrievich Shadr (Ivan Dmitrievich Ivanov) (1887-1941), Soviet sculptor. Laureate of the USSR State Prize (1952, posthumously).

115 years since the birth of Lyubov Petrovna Orlova (1902-1975), Soviet actress, first screen star. Winner of the USSR State Prize (1950), People's Artist of the USSR (1950).

100 years since the birth of Sidney Sheldon (1917-2007), American writer, screenwriter, Guinness Book of Records holder, Oscar winner (1947).

February 13 - 85 years since the birth of Igor Davydovich Shaferan (1932-1994), Soviet songwriter, writer.

The 14th of February - 190 years since the birth of Alexei Egorovich Viktorov (1827-1883), Russian archaeologist, archaeographer, bibliologist,

bibliographer.

125 years since the birth of Pyotr Dmitrievich Baranovsky (1892-1984), Soviet architect, restorer, restorer of ancient temples, researcher.

220 years since the birth of Henry (Heinrich) Steinwein (Steinway) (real family name Steinweg) (1797-1871), German piano maker.

February 17 - 150 years since the birth of Pyotr Petrovich Schmidt (1867-1906), Russian revolutionary figure, lieutenant Black Sea Fleet, one of the leaders of the Sevastopol uprising of 1905.

70 years since the birth of Vyacheslav Evgenievich (Efimovich) Malezhik (1947), Russian pop singer, poet, composer, Honored Artist of Russia (2004).

18th of Febuary - 210 years since the birth of St. Ignatius (Dmitry Alexandrovich Brianchaninov) (1807-1867), Russian theologian, spiritual writer, poet, translator. In 1988, the Russian Orthodox Church canonized him as a saint.

175 years since the birth of Alexander Ivanovich Chuprov (1842-1908), Russian economist, teacher, professor, one of the founders of Russian statistics.

95 years since the birth of Mikhail Andreevich Savitsky (1922-2010), Belarusian Soviet artist, laureate of the USSR State Prize (1973).

February 19 - 300 years since the birth of David (David) Garrick (1717-1779), English actor and stage reformer.

165 years since the birth of Nikolai Georgievich Garin-Mikhailovsky (1852-1906), Russian writer.

75 years since the birth of Vera Valentinovna Alentova (1942), Russian theater and film actress, Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1982), People's Artist of Russia (1992).

February 22- 160 years since the birth of Heinrich Rudolfovich Hertz (1857-1894), German physicist. The unit of frequency of a periodic electromagnetic process at which one cycle occurs per second is named after him.

120th anniversary of the birth of Leonid Aleksandrovich Govorov (1897-1955), Soviet military leader, defender of Leningrad. Marshal Soviet Union(1944), Hero of the Soviet Union (1945).

February 23-Defender of the Fatherland Day. Day of military glory of Russia. Day of the Red Army's victory over the Kaiser's troops (1918).

24 February-210 years since the birth of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882), American writer, poet, translator.

125 years since the birth of Konstantin Aleksandrovich Fedin (1892-1977), Russian Soviet writer, laureate of the USSR State Prize (1949), Hero of Socialist Labor (1967), holder of four Orders of Lenin.

85 years since the birth of Michel Jean Legrand (1932), French composer, pianist, arranger, conductor, singer.

85 years since the birth of Maya Vladimirovna Kristalinskaya (1932-1985), Soviet singer, Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1974).

70 years since the birth of Elena Yakovlevna Solovey (1947), Russian theater and film actress, Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1981), People's Artist of the RSFSR (1990).

25 February- 310 years since the birth of Carlo Galdoni (1707-1793), Italian playwright, one of the founders of national comedy.

250 years since the birth of Joachim Murat (1767-1815), French military leader, Napoleonic marshal, Grand Duke of Berg, King of the Kingdom of Naples (1808-1815).

215 years since the birth of Fyodor Ivanovich Inozemtsev (1802-1869), Russian physician, doctor of medicine, surgeon. Produced the first in history Russian Empire surgery using ether anesthesia.

105 years since the birth of Vsevolod Vasilyevich Sanaev (1912-1996), Russian theater and film actor, People's Artist of the USSR (1969).

February 26- 215 years since the birth of Victor Marie Hugo (1802-1885), French writer, poet, publicist, prose writer and playwright, head and theorist of French romanticism.

95 years since the birth of Nikolai Semenovich Evdokimov (1922-2010), Russian writer.

95 years since the birth of Yuri Mikhailovich Lotman (1922-1993), Soviet literary critic, culturologist, semiotician.

February 27- 130 years since the birth of Pyotr Nikolaevich Nesterov (1887-1914), Russian military pilot, founder

aerobatics.

85th anniversary of the birth of Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor (1932-2011), American actress, winner of the Oscar (1960).

28th of February - 285 years since the birth of George Washington (1732-1799), American statesman, first

US President.

225 years since the birth of Karl Maksimovich Baer (Karl-Ernst von Baer) (1792-1876), Russian librarian.

225 years since the birth of Gioachino Antonio Rossini (02.29.1792-1868), an outstanding Italian composer, author of 39 operas, sacred and chamber music.

170 years since the birth of Nikolai Stepanovich Avdakov (1847-1915), Russian entrepreneur, mining engineer, statesman.

85 years since the birth of Yuri Iosifovich Bogatikov (1932-2002), Soviet Ukrainian pop singer (baritone), People's Artist of the USSR (1985).

85 years since the reorganization of the Institute of Russian Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Pushkin House) (1932).

We bring to your attention a calendar of significant events and memorable dates that will take place in February. Don't miss the most important days in your life and the life of our country!

315 years since the founding of the Baltic Sea navy (1702);
180 years ago M.Yu. Lermontov wrote the final 16 lines of the poem "The Death of a Poet" (1837);
165 years ago the Hermitage Museum was opened in St. Petersburg (1852);
140 years ago the premiere of P.I.’s ballet took place. Tchaikovsky "Swan Lake" (1877);
100 years February Revolution in Russia (1917);

February 1, 2017— 160 years since the birth of Vladimir Mikhailovich Bekhterev, psychiatrist (1857-1927);

February 3, 2017— World Safer Internet Day (celebrated since 2004 on the first Tuesday of February);

February 7, 2017— 205 years since the birth of the English writer Charles Dickens (1812-1870);

February 8, 2017- Day Russian science; 120 years since the birth of Alexander Leonidovich Chizhevsky, biophysicist (1897-1964);

February 8, 2017— Day of Remembrance of the Young Anti-Fascist Hero. Celebrated around the world since 1964, it was approved by the next UN Assembly in honor of the fallen participants in anti-fascist demonstrations - French schoolboy Daniel Fery (1962) and Iraqi boy Fadil Jamal (1963);

February 8, 2017— Day of Russian Science. On this day in 1724, Peter the Great signed a decree establishing the Academy of Sciences in Russia;

February 9, 2017— 130 years since the birth of Vasily Ivanovich Chapaev, military leader (1887-1919);

February 13, 2017— 85 years since the birth of Igor Davidovich Shaferan, poet (1932-1994);

February 15, 2017- Day of Remembrance of Internationalist Soldiers (02/15/1989 - the last column of Soviet troops left the territory of Afghanistan).

February 17, 2017— Spontaneous Kindness Day is one of the recent initiatives of international charitable organizations. This holiday has global significance and is celebrated regardless of citizenship, nationality and religious beliefs. In Russia this holiday is still little known. On this day, as the organizers urge, you should try to be kind to everyone. And not just kind, but kind infinitely and selflessly.

February 20, 2017 — World Day of Social Justice(since 2009 by decision of the UN General Assembly).

February 20, 2017— 165 years since the birth of the Russian writer, publicist Nikolai Georgievich Garin-Mikhailovsky (1852-1906);

February 21, 2017 — International Mother Language Day(proclaimed by the General Conference of UNESCO on 17 November 1999, celebrated every year since February 2000 to promote linguistic and cultural diversity).

February 22, 2017— International Day of Support for Victims of Crime.

February 23, 2017 — Defender of the Fatherland Day. Day of military glory of Russia. Victory Day of the Red Army over the Kaiser's troops in 1918.

February 24, 2017— 125 years since the birth of the Russian writer Konstantin Aleksandrovich Fedin (1892-1977);

February 25, 2017— 310 years since the birth of Carlo Goldoni, Italian playwright (1707-1793);

February 26, 2017— 95 years since the birth of the literary critic and cultural historian Yuri Mikhailovich Lotman (1922-1993);

February 26, 2017— 215 years since the birth of the French writer Victor Hugo (1802-1885);

February 27, 2017— 210 years since the birth of Henry Longfellow, American poet (1807-1882);

February 27, 2017— 115 years since the birth of the American writer John Steinbeck (1902-1969);

February 29, 2017— 225 years since the birth of Gioachino Antonio Rossini, Italian composer (1792-1868);

Why do you need to remember the main events that once happened?Yes, probably for one and quite simple reason:Without knowing your past, the past of your country, you cannot dream about the future. This means that historical dates need to be remembered, at least only on the anniversaries of people who have not been with us for quite some time, but whose names we read on the covers of books, we see on the corner of a painting, we notice in the theater program. Each month has enough bright dates. And in this article we will remember significant dates for February 2019.

Anniversaries of writers and poets

February, namely the seventh, marks the 205th anniversary of the birth of Charles Dickens. London of the 19th century. Industry is developing rapidly in England, and the country is strengthening its position in the world market. Serious passions boiled over when, due to the ruin of some, others became richer. In order to feel the trends of this era, its colors and sounds, it is not enough to read some historical works or archival documents. The mid-19th century simply comes to life in the books of the writer Charles Dickens.
The poet Igor Shaferan did not live long, only 62 years old. but how many songs are based on his such soulful poems. Eighty-five years since his birth is a worthy date to remember the poet in February.
165 years since the birth of Nikolai Mikhailovsky, a writer and lesser-known publicist, the country will celebrate on February 20.
On this day also anniversary of the famous rock musician Kurt Cobain (50 years old).
Writer Konstantin Fedin was born on February 24, whose 125th anniversary will certainly be remembered by admirers of his talent.
On stages at home and abroad On February 25, performances by the famous Italian playwright C. Goldoni will appear dedicated to the anniversary. But 310 years have passed since his birth.
And, of course, the public cannot ignore Victor Hugo's anniversary February 26th. Thematic exhibitions will open in libraries, and memorial evenings will be held in connection with the 215th anniversary of his birth.
Admirers of the American poet G. Longfellow and the American writer John Steinbeck will celebrate their anniversaries (February 27 - 210 and 115 years since their birth).
On all famous world stages they stage operas by Gioachino Rossini. The great Italian was born on February 28, 225 years ago. Anniversary dates of February 2019end with this very event.

Important events of February

The battle for Stalingrad continued throughout the autumn and almost the whole winter. The Nazis could not be allowed to reach the Volga. And Soviet soldiers fought to the death, defending every street, every house. All that remains after continuous bombing. But Paulus’s army was morally and physically destroyed, and on February 2 the defenders of Stalingrad celebrated their victory over the fascist fanatics. On this day, let us not forget to remember all the soldiers and their officers who stood up to defend the glorious city. Both the dead and the very few survivors.
On February 8, Peter the Great signed his famous decree that the first Academy of Sciences would henceforth begin work in Russia. And even though 93 years is not an anniversary at all, students have a reason to celebrate an important event for young scientists.
There is a reason to congratulate your favorite dentist. Exactly On February 9 they celebrate their international professional holiday.

On February 11, it would be nice to visit some social institution, for example, a boarding school for the elderly, and congratulate your grandparents on the holiday. It may not be Happy Older People's Day, but they will be pleased. And also on the Internet you can find appeals to people about providing all possible assistance to a specific patient and send even a small amount to his address. There is a reason for mercy. Because it's celebrated Sick day.
It’s not even worth reminding us about the holiday on February 14th. Everyone knows about the trendy Valentine's Day. age groups population.
On February 15 we will honor the memory of Afghan soldiers, and on February 17 we will celebrate the holiday of selfless kindness. Maybe someday in the very near future it will become as popular as Valentine's Day.
The UN General Assembly proclaimed two holidays in February - Social Justice Day (20th) and Mother Language Day (21st).
And on the 20th - Maslenitsa. The holiday of spring and gluttony. Last days entry into Lent. You can still eat everything, go for pancakes with your beloved mother-in-law, walk and have fun before moral and physical abstinence for the next forty days.
A man can forget about all the February holidays, but not that The 23rd is Defender of the Fatherland Day. This is the best for them significant date for February 2019.
February 27 Forgiveness Sunday. You should go to the cemetery and visit deceased friends and relatives there. And then visit the church and light a yellow candle for their repose. And also ask for forgiveness from people you know, even they or you do not remember any offense.

Important dates for February 2019is not only in the calendar. They can be in any family. Some memorable event or birthday. It is important not to forget about this and try to make your days happy.

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Compiled by: E. V. Voronova

Rep. for the issue: E. V. Manshina

Calendar of significant and memorable dates for 2017: a guide to help the librarian / MBUK Central Library, Central City Library named after. M. I. Ladynsky; comp. E. V. Voronova. – Bolshoy Kamen, 2016. – 11 p.

The calendar of significant and memorable dates for 2017 contains anniversaries of domestic and foreign writers, poets, figures, international and professional holidays and other significant dates that will be celebrated in 2017. Dates are indicated according to the new style.

The publication is addressed to librarians, teachers, and readers.

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According to the UN decision:

2013-2022 - International Decade for the Rapprochement of Cultures

International decades

2015-2024 - International Decade for People of African Descent

2014-2024 - A decade of sustainable energy for all

2011-2020 - Third International Decade for the Eradication of Colonialism

2011-2020 - United Nations Decade on Biodiversity

2011-2020 - Decade of Action for Safety traffic

2010-2020 - United Nations Decade for Deserts and the Fight against Desertification

2008-2017 - Second decade of the United Nations for the eradication of poverty.

2017 in the Russian Federation will be announced Year of specially protected natural areas. Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on holding the Year of Specially Protected Natural Areas in 2017. The Year of Protected Natural Areas will be timed to coincide with the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Russian nature reserve system.

January
	90 years since the birth of the Russian children's writer, poet Lev Ivanovich Davydychev (1927-1988)
	125 years since the birth of the English writer, linguist, poet, philologist John Ronald Ruel TOLKIEN (Tolkien) (1882-1973)
	Nativity
	220 years since the birth of the Russian navigator Ferdinand Petrovich Wrangel (1797-1870)
	World Thank You Day
	Day of Nature Reserves and National Parks
	110 years since the birth of the Soviet scientist and designer Sergei Pavlovich Korolev
	395 years since the birth of the French playwright Jean Baptiste MOLIERE [present. Poquelin] (1622-1673)
	Vikenty Vikentyevich Veresaev (Smidovich) (1867-1945)
	135 years since the birth of the English writer, poet and playwright Alana Alexandra MILNE(1882-1956)
	Epiphany
	Spouses Day
	International Hug Day
	Grandfather's Day
	Students' Day (Tatiana's Day)
	185 years since the birth of the Russian artist Ivan Ivanovich Shishkin (1832-1898)
	Day of military glory of Russia. Lifting the blockade of the city of Leningrad (1944)
	International Holocaust Remembrance Day
	85th birthday Rimma Fedorovna Kazakova (1932-2008)
	185th anniversary of the birth of the English writer, mathematics Lewis CARROLL[present. Charles Latunge Dodgson] (1832-1898)
	110th birthday Valentin Petrovich Kataev (1897-1986)
February
	110 years since the birth of the poet Dmitry Borisovich Kedrin (1907-1945)
	World Cancer Day
	205 years since the birth of the English writer Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
	Russian Science Day
	130 years since the birth of the Soviet military leader Vasily Ivanovich Chapaev (1887-1919)
	100th anniversary of the birth of the American writer Sidney Sheldon (1917-2007)
	85 years since the birth of the Soviet songwriter Igor Davydovich Shaferan (1932-1994)
	Valentine's Day
	Candlemas of the Lord
	Whale Day
	Nikolai Georgievich Garin-Mikhailovsky (1852-1906)
	Defender of the Fatherland Day
	85 years since the birth of the Soviet singer Maya Vladimirovna Kristalinskaya (1932-1985)
	Victor Marie Hugo (1802-1885)
	210 years since the birth of the American poet, prose writer and translator Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
March
	World Cat Day
	95 years since the birth of the Russian front-line poet Semyon Petrovich Gudzenko (1922-1953)
	Grandmothers Day
	80th anniversary of the birth of the cosmonaut Valentina Vladimirovna Nikolaeva-Tereshkova (1937)
	International Women's Day

	Archives Day
	95 years since the birth of the poet David Nikitich Kugultinov (1922-2006)
	80 years since the birth of the Russian writer Vladimir Semenovich Makanin (1937)
	International Rivers Day
	80 years since the birth of the Soviet writer Valentin Grigorievich Rasputin (1937-2015)
	Earth Hour
	100 years since the birth of the Yakut children's writer Semyon Petrovich Danilov (1917-1978)
	International Day of Happiness
	World Poetry Day
	110 years since the birth of the Russian writer, film playwright Vladimir Pavlovich Belyaev (1907-1990)
	140 years since the birth of the Russian writer Alexey Silych Novikov-Priboy[present. Novikov] (1877-1944)
	Cultural Workers Day
	1, translator and art critic Dmitry Vasilyevich Grigorovich (1822-1900)
	135 years since the birth of the Russian writer, poet, translator Korney Ivanovich Chukovsky[present. Nikolai Vasilievich Korneychukov] (1882-1969)
April
	April Fool's Day
	international bird day
	95 years since the birth of the Russian writer Sergei Petrovich Alekseev (1922-2008)
	International Children's Book Day
	85th anniversary of the birth of the Polish writer Joanna Chmielewska (born Irena Barbara Joanna Kühn) (1932)
	775 years since the Battle of the Ice (1242)
	205 years since the birth of the Russian writer, philosopher Alexander Ivanovich Herzen[present. Iskander] (1812-1870)
	205th birthday
	RuNet's birthday
	world health day
	Annunciation
	80th anniversary of the birth of the poetess Bella Akhatovna Akhmadulina (1937-2010)
	200 years since the birth of the Russian writer, poet and historian Konstantin Sergeevich Aksakov (1817-1860)
	Vilya Vladimirovich Lipatov (1927-1979)
	World Aviation and Space Day
	155 years since the birth of the Russian statesman Pyotr Arkadyevich Stolypin (1862-1911)
	spring week of kindness
	90 years since the birth of the Russian writer Yuri Mikhailovich Druzhkov (1927-1983)
	International Day of Monuments and Historic Sites
	Veniamin Aleksandrovich Kaverin (1902-1989)
	International Earth Day
	110 years since the birth of the Russian science fiction writer Ivan Antonovich Efremov (1907-1972)
	110 years since the birth of the Russian writer Zoya Ivanovna Voskresenskaya (1907-1992)
	70 years since the birth of the poet Yuri Mikhailovich Kublanovsky (1947)

	Labour Day
	115th anniversary of the birth of the Australian writer Alan Marshall (1902-1984)
	Day of the Sun
	245 years since the birth of the founder of the encyclopedic publishing house Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus (1772-1823)
	Victory Day
	100 years since the founding of the Russian Book Chamber (1917)
	International Family Day
	Igor Severyanin[present Igor Vasilievich Lotarev] (1887-1941)
	International Museum Day
	85 years since the founding of the pioneer organization (1922-1990)
	Nadezhda Alexandrovna TEFFY[present. Lokhvitskaya] (1872-1952)
	Day of Slavic Literature and Culture
	All-Russian Library Day
	Border Guard Day
	140 years since the birth of the Russian poet Maximilian Aleksandrovich Voloshin[present. Kiriyenko] (1877-1932)
	230 years since the birth of the Russian poet Konstantin Nikolaevich Batyushkov (1787-1855)
	100th anniversary of the birth of an American statesman John Kennedy (1917-1963)
	125 years since the birth of the Russian nature writer Ivan Sergeevich Sokolov-Mikitov (1892-1975)
	100 years since the birth of the Russian songwriter Lev Ivanovich Oshanin (1912-1996)
	World No Tobacco Day
	125 years since the birth of the Russian writer Konstantin Georgievich Paustovsky (1892-1968)
June
	80th birthday of Australian writer Colin McCullough (1937-2015)
	80 years since the birth of the Russian poetess Yunna Petrovna Moritz (1937)
	65 years since the birth of the Russian children's writer Elena Vasilievna Gabova (1952)
	World Oceans Day
	180 years since the birth of the Russian artist Ivan Nikolaevich Kramskoy (1837-1887)
	Friend's Day
	345th birthday Russian Emperor PetraIGreat (1672-1725)
	150 years since the birth of the Russian poet Konstantin Dmitrievich Balmont (1867-1942)
	Medical Worker's Day
	Father's Day
	85 years since the birth of the Russian poet Robert Ivanovich Rozhdestvensky (1932-1994)
	80 years since the birth of the Soviet and Russian zoologist Nikolai Nikolaevich Drozdov (1937)
	90 years since the birth of the Soviet and Russian storyteller and animator Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Kotenochkin (1927-2000)
	Day of Remembrance and Sorrow
	110 years since the birth of the Russian children's writer Andrey Sergeevich Nekrasov (1907-1987)
	205 years since the beginning Patriotic War 1812
	95 years since the birth of the Russian children's writer Yuri Yakovlevich Yakovlev (1922-1996)
	Russian Youth Day
July
	155 years since the founding of the Russian state library (1862)
	Traffic Police Day
	Ivan Kupala Day
	Day of Family, Love and Fidelity
	Fisherman's Day
	World Chocolate Day
	75 years since the start Battle of Stalingrad(1942)
	on the birthday of the poetess, prose writer, screenwriter, publicist, public figure Maria Ivanovna Arbatova (surname at birth - Gavrilina) (b. 1957)
	85 years since the birth of the Russian Soviet poet Evgeniy Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko (1932, according to his passport - 1933)
	110 years since the birth of the Russian writer Varlam Tikhonovich Shalamov (1907-1982)
	225 years since the birth of the Russian poet Pyotr Andreevich Vyazemsky (1792-1878)
	215 years since the birth of the French writer Alexandra Dumas (Dumas the father) (1802-1870)
	75 years since the start of the battle for the Caucasus (1942-1943)
	195 years since the birth of the Russian poet Apollo Alexandrovich Grigoriev (1822-1864)
	Navy Day
	200 years since the birth of the Russian artist Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky (Gayvazovsky) (1817-1900)
August
	85 years since the birth of the Russian children's writer Vladimir Konstantinovich Arro (1932)
	90 years since the birth of the Russian writer Yuri Pavlovich Kazakov (1927-1982)
	Day of military glory of Russia. The first world victory of the Russian fleet over the Swedes at Cape Gangut (1714)
	120 years since the birth of the English writer Enid Mary Blyton (1897-1968)
	80 years since the birth of the Russian playwright, writer Alexander Valentinovich Vampilov (1937-1972)
	190 years since the birth of the Belgian writer Charles de Coster (1827-1879)
	95 years since the birth of the Russian writer Joseph Ivanovich Dick (1922-1984)
	Vasily Pavlovich Aksenov (1932-2009)
	Russian National Flag Day
	Day of military glory of Russia. Victory in Battle of Kursk (1943)
	85 years since the birth of the Brazilian writer, laureate of the International Prize named after. H.K. Andersen Lidji Bojungi Nunez (1932)
	155th anniversary of the birth of the Belgian playwright Maurice Maeterlinck (1862-1949)
	105 years since the birth of the Russian writer Vitaly Georgievich Gubarev (1912-1981)
	40th anniversary of the birth of a children's writer Tatyana Sergeevna Levanova (1977)
September
	Day of Knowledge
	90 years since the birth of the Belarusian writer Alexander (Ales) Mikhailovich Adamovich (1927-1994)
	200 years since the birth of the Russian poet, writer, playwright Alexei Konstantinovich Tolstoy (1817-1875)
	Day of military glory of Russia. battle of Borodino (1812)
	International Literacy Day. Nahum the grammer
	205 years since the Battle of Borodino (1812)
	Beauty Day
	145 years since the birth of the Russian travel writer, ethnographer Vladimir Klavdievich Arsenyev (1872-1930)
	90 years since the birth of the Uzbek writer Kamila Akmalevich Ikramova (1927-1989)
	155th anniversary of the birth of the American writer O'Henry[present] William Sidney Porter] (1862-1910)
	135 years since the birth of the founder of Soviet children's prose, writer Boris Stepanovich Zhitkov (1882-1938)
	105 years since the birth of the poet Maxima Tank (1912-1995)
	Smiley's birthday
	120th anniversary of the birth of the American writer William Faulkner (1897-1962)
October
	International Day of Older Persons
	170 years since the birth of the French writer Louis Henri Boussenard (1847-1910)
	Teacher's Day
	60 years since the ignition Eternal Flame (1957)
	World Smile Day
	65 years since the birth of the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (1952)
	125 years since the birth of the Russian poetess Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva (1892-1941)
	470 years since the birth of the Spanish writer Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616)
	world egg day
	120 years since the birth of the Soviet writer Ilya Ilf (Ilya Arnoldovich Fainzilberg) (1897-1937)
	85 years since the birth of the Russian writer Vasily Ivanovich Belov (1932-2012)
	Day of Remembrance for Victims of Political Repression
	115 years since the birth of the Russian writer Evgeniy Andreevich Permyak (1902-1982)
	85 years since the birth of the American writer, laureate of the International Prize named after. H. C. Andersen Katherine Paterson(1932)
November
	130 years since the birth of the Russian poet Samuil Yakovlevich Marshak (1887-1964)
	National Unity Day
	International men's day
	165 years since the birth of the Russian writer Dmitry Narkisovich Mamin-Sibiryak[present. Mamin] (1852-1912)
	90 years since the birth of the Russian writer Anatoly Nikolaevich Tomilin (1927-2015)
	100 years since the beginning of the October armed uprising in Petrograd (1917)
	Day of Remembrance for those killed in the First World War
	World Kindness Day
	110th anniversary of the birth of the Swedish writer Astrid Anna Emilia Lindgren (1907-2002)
	All-Russian Conscript Day
	80 years since the birth of the Russian writer Victoria Samoilovna Tokareva (1937)
	Mother's Day in Russia
	70 years since the birth of the Russian writer and poet Grigory Bentsionovich Oster (1947)
	215 years since the birth of the German writer Wilhelm Hauff (1802-1827)
	350 years since the birth of the English satirical writer Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
December
	Day of military glory of Russia. Victory Day of the Russian squadron under the command of Admiral P. S. Nakhimov over the Turkish squadron at Cape Sinop (1853)
	225 years since the birth of the Russian mathematician Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky (1792-1856)
	160 years since the birth of the English writer Joseph Conrad [present] Józef Theodor Konrad Korzeniowski] (1857-1924)
	110 years since the birth of the Russian poetess, translator Zinaida Nikolaevna Alexandrova (1907-1983)
	145 years since the birth of the Russian writer Al. Altaeva[present Margarita Vladimirovna Yamshchikova] (1872-1959)
	Day of military glory of Russia. Beginning of the Soviet counteroffensive near Moscow (1941)
	Human Rights Day
	Memorable date of Russia. Constitution Day of the Russian Federation
	220 years since the birth of the German poet Heinrich Heine (1797-1856)
	International Tea Day
	100 years since the birth of the English writer, science fiction writer Arthur Clarke (1917-2008)
	135 years since the birth of the Russian popular writer and publicist Yakov Isidorovich Perelman (1882-1942)
	Santa Claus's birthday
	World Greetings Day World Greetings Day
	100th anniversary of the birth of the German writer, laureate Nobel Prize (1972) Heinrich Böll (1917-1985)
	80 years since the birth of the Russian writer, adult children's humorist Eduard Nikolaevich Uspensky (1937)
	240 years since the birth of the Russian Emperor AlexandraI (1777-1825)
	Day of military glory of Russia. The day of the capture of the Turkish fortress Izmail by Russian troops under the command of A.V. Suvorov (1790)
	225 years since the birth of the Russian writer Ivan Ivanovich Lazhechnikov (1792-1869)
	Russian Rescuer Day
In 2017 we celebrated:
230 years	since the birth of the writer and creator of the Russian Gothic fairy tale Anthony Pogorelsky[present. Alexey Alekseevich Perovsky] (1787-1836)
2455 years	from the date of completion of construction Parthenon, Temple of the goddess Athena (447-438 BC)
150 years	since its founding Moscow confectionery factory "Red October" (1867)
125 years	since its existence Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow (1892)
300 years	since publication “The Youth of the Honest Mirror” (1717)
265 years	since the creation of the first Russian bicycle (1752)
ANNIVERSARY BOOKS
255 years	C. Gozzi "The Deer King", "Turandot" (1762)
240 years	R.B. Sheridan "The School of Scandal" (1777)
225 years	N. M. Karamzin "Poor Liza" (1792)
195 years	A. S. Pushkin "Song of prophetic Oleg"(1822)
185 years	N.V. Gogol “Evenings on a farm near Dikanka” (1832)
180 years	M. Yu. Lermontov "Borodino" (1837)
	M. Yu. Lermontov "Death of a Poet" (1837)
170 years	I.A. potters "An Ordinary Story" (1847)
155 years	A. S. Griboyedov "Woe from Wit" (1862)
	V. M. Hugo "Les Misérables" (1862)
	I. S. Turgenev "Fathers and Sons" (1862)
150 years	Charles De Coster "The Legend of Ulenspiegel and Lamm Gudzak, about their valiant, funny and glorious deeds in Flanders and other lands" (1867)
	V. V. Krestovsky "Petersburg Slums" (1867)
	F. M. Dostoevsky "Crime and Punishment" (1867)
	G. Ibsen "Peer Gynt" (1867)
145 years	I. S. Turgenev "Spring Waters" (1872)
	J. Verne "Around the World in 80 Days" (1872)
140 years	L. N. Tolstoy "Anna Karenina" (1877)
135 years	M. Twain "The Prince and the Pauper" (1882)
120 years	G. D. Wells "The Invisible Man" (1897)
115 years	A. K. Doyle "The Hound of the Baskervilles" (1902)
	E. L. Voynich "The Gadfly" (1902)
110 years	G. R. Haggart "Beautiful Margaret" (1907)
105 years	A. K. Doyle "The Lost World" (1912)
	L. N. Tolstoy "Father Sergius", "Hadji Murat" (1912)
90 years old	A. N. Tolstoy "Hyperboloid of engineer Garin"(1927)
	M. A. Bulgakov "White Guard" (1927)
	A. A. Fadeev "Devastation" (1927)
85 years old	N. A. Ostrovsky "How the Steel Was Tempered" (1932)
	M. A. Sholokhov "Virgin Soil Upturned" (1932)
	A. P. Gaidar "Far Lands" (1932)
80 years old	B. S. Zhitkov « Sea stories"(1937)
	J. R. R. Tolkien “The Hobbit, or There and Back Again”, A. Christie “Death on the Nile” (1937)
75 years old	P. P. Bazhov "Key Stone" (1942)
	L. A. Kassil "Your Defenders" (1942)
	V. M. Kozhevnikov "March-April" (1942)
	A. Saint-Exupery "Military Pilot" (1942)
70 years old	S. Ya. Marshak "Fairy Tale" (1947)
65 years old	E. M. Hemingway "The Old Man and the Sea" (1952)
60 years	I. A. Efremov "The Andromeda Nebula" (1957)
	M. V. Sholokhov "Man's Fate" (1957)
	N. N. Nosov "Dreamers" (1957)
	R. D. Bradbury "Dandelion Wine" (1957)
	E. I. Charushin "Tomka" (1957)
45 years	A. N. Strugatsky, B. N. Strugatsky "Roadside Picnic" (1972)
	V. S. Pikul "With a Pen and a Sword" (1972)
40 years	A. G. Aleksin "Third in the Fifth Row" (1977)
	V. S. Pikul "Battle of the Iron Chancellors" (1977)
35 years	A. A. Likhanov "Capital Measure" (1982)
30 years	A. N. Rybakov "Children of Arbat" (1987)
	Yu. M. Nagibin "Rise and Walk" (1987)
	Yu. S. Semenov "Expansion" (1987)