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Public Holidays and Bank Holidays for Russia

The list of Russia bank holidays, national holidays and public holidays for 2010, comes from the Q++ Worldwide Public Holidays Database, the professional source of international public holidays long trusted by the world's foremost diary publishers. The information on this page is provided for private, non-professional, use. Qualified professionals can license data for 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, and beyond. For details, please visit our licensing information page or

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24 Aug 2010 (ITAR-TASS-Moscow) The Russian Government has announced an RF Government Resolution, which specifies the official public holidays and bridge holidays in Russia for 2011. • 02 Jun 2010 (ITAR-TASS-Moscow) Russian President, Dmitry Medvedev, has signed into law a law establishing a new annual national holiday for the Baptism of Rus Day, on July 28. • 21 Apr 2010 (RIA Novosti-Moscow) Today, the Russian parliament's lower house is considering, in its first reading, the government-submitted draft law proposing the establishment of a new holiday for the Baptism of Rus Day, on July 28. • 23 Mar 2010 (The Moscow Times-Moscow) The Russian government has submitted a bill (About the Days of War Glory of Russia) to the State Duma (parliament) that would declare a new non-working public holiday on July 28, the date of the Baptism of Rus, when Russian Orthodox believers commemorate Prince Vladimir, who was christened Rus in 988. • 19 Feb 2010 (ITAR-TASS-Moscow) The Russian government has announced that it was planning to declare the anniversary of the Christianization of Russia, July 28, as an official non-working public holiday, starting next year. • 15 Feb 2010 (ITAR-TASS-Moscow) The Russia Duma (legislature) has recently passed in its second reading a bill establishing February 15 as a new red-letter date (non-working public holiday) in the Russian calendar. • 25 Dec 2009 (News.Az-Baku) The Russian Orthodox Church has proposed declaring January 7, the anniversary of Napoleon’s expulsion from Russia in 1812, as a national holiday. • 25 Nov 2009 (Tass News Agency-Moscow) For the first time, the 3 Russian republics of Kabardino-Balkaria, Adygea, and Karachay-Cherkessia, have announced a non-working public holiday on Friday, November 27, 2009, on the occasion of the upcoming Kurban Bairam holidays. • 10 Nov 2009 (Tass News Agency-Moscow) The prime minister of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, has signed the governmental order "About days off in 2010", which declares some additional Monday and Friday bridge public holidays to rationalize the non-working days near annual public holidays. • 03 Nov 2009 (Russland-Aktuell-Moskau) Russia's Vice-Chief of the Labor Authority, Ivan Schklowez, has announced that he was "90% certain" that the Russian government would soon issue a decree declaring the first 10 days of January 2010 as non-working public holidays, with the first working day of 2010 being Monday, January 11, 2010. • More News Updates For the full version of the summarized news items above, and older news items not displayed above, go to the Russia public holidays news and updates page, or worldwide public holidays news and updates page, or subscribe to one of our free email newsletters.

Governing Law: Official public holidays in Russia are partially governed (see below) by the 2006 Act No. 90-FZ of 30 June 2006 to amend the Labour Code of the Russian Federation (Text No. 2878, Sobranie Zakonodatel'stva, 2006-07-03, No. 27, pp. 7528-7627) which made wholesale changes to the public holidays in Russia, as set in Article 112 of Russia's Labour Code, such as repealing the 1992 Ordinance No. 2981-I to declare 12 June a public holiday (Text No. 1393) and cancelling the November 7th public holiday. • Bridge Public Holidays: The principle was established by Act No. 2-FZ of 18 January 2001 to supplement section 65 of the Labour Code (Text No. 274, Sobranie Zakonodatel'stva, 2001-01-22, No. 4, p. 997) which gave the possibility for the Government to transfer public holidays some other days, joining them with the next non-working days. Technically, this Act was repealed by the Labour Code of 30 December 2001, but the process, if anything, is getting more and more systematic every year, although these bridge public holidays are often declared during the current year (and then sometimes only just before), Russia will sometimes work on a Saturday or Sunday in order to bridge a public holiday that falls on a Tuesday or Thursday. • Weekend Public Holidays: The occurrence of public holidays on a weekend is regulated by Ordinance No. 65 of 29 december 1992 to clarify several questions relating to the report of weekly holidays which coincide with public holidays (Bjulleten, 1992-11, No. 11-12, pp. 58-60), which provides that weekly holidays which coincide with public holidays are reported to the following day. • Since the October 6, 2006 amendments to the Russian Labor Code, the federal government may now change the days on which public holidays fall, but any changes must be officially published no later than one month prior to the commencement of the calendar year in which it falls. Changes may only be adopted during the current calendar year if they are published no later than two months prior to the date to which the public holiday is to be moved. • Traditionally, but not always systematically, if a holiday falls on a Thursday or a Tuesday, the adjacent Friday or Monday were moved on a Sunday or Saturday, thus making a long weekend followed by an extended, black workweek. • International Women's Day (March 8) was created by the Soviet Union to celebrate women’s achievements at factories and in crop fields, operating heavy agricultural machinery and breaking out from domestic slavery. Despite recent attempts by greeting card makers and florists, there is very little romantic connotation attached to it. Due to its origins, this date is predominantly recognised in the countries with a Soviet background, where it often, but not always, remains an official holiday: Albania, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, China, Cuba, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Macedonia, Moldova, but especially Bulgaria, Romania and Russia. In Slavic countries, yellow Mimosa flowers are the symbol of the day. • Victory Day (May 9) was proclaimed in 1965 by Leonid Brejnev shortly after his accession to the supreme leadership of the Soviet Union. This new holiday was intended to be more of a patriotic holiday than a marxist one . • Replacement of Nov. 7 by Nov. 4. In Soviet times, November 7 was the main public holiday commemorating the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution. Celebrations under communism involved huge military parades and demonstrations observed by Soviet leaders on Lenin's mausoleum on Red Square. After the collapse of communism, November 7 was renamed National Reconciliation Day, but was only celebrated by hard-line left-wingers, who continued to mark it by marching on the streets under red banners. In 2004, the Russian parliament replaced National Reconciliation Day with National Unity Day on November 4, a pre-revolutionary public holiday commemorating the liberation of Moscow from Polish troops in 1612, which ended decades of civil war and foreign intervention in Russia. • The second Sunday of March is one of the two universal election days in Russia in any particular year, along with the second Sunday of October, under a law introduced in August 2005. Under another law, however, elections cannot be held on a day immediately after a public holiday . • Sami National Day, not an official public holiday, was set to be celebrated on February 6th, on the occasion of the 15th Sami conference in Helsinki in 1992. The Sami national day is common for all Sami, irrespective of where they live, whether in Sweden, Norway, Finland or Russia. The national day was celebrated for the first time in 1993 . • Russia International Codes RU and RUS (2 and 3-letter ISO3166 codes) and .ru (ICANN national top-level internet domain). • Other Sources of Information The following specialized websites are also a good source of Russia information and news: Central Bank of Russia (Russia central bank), ASI Hot Spots (security-related world events: terrorist threats, political strife, strikes, criminal activity, aviation incidents and health outbreaks), CIA World Factbook (Russia maps, demographics and economic statistics), the IFES (information covering upcoming elections, referenda, electoral structures and voter participation in Russia), and Wikipedia (includes Russia commemorative dates that are not necessarily public holidays).

Observance : Any entry in the Observance column indicates that, in Russia, the holiday may be regional or non-official or limited to certain religious and/or linguistic groups, or begin at a time other than midnight. Note that religious holidays are included only if they are national public holidays, or if the national labour code has specific holiday allowances for employees of specific religions. For more information, see our pages on the religious calendars of the world.

Disclaimer
In many parts of the world, holidays are subject to arbitrary, last minute, changes by local authorities. While every effort has been made to present an accurate list of 2010 bank holidays, legal holidays and public holidays for Russia, we cannot accept any responsibility for any error or omission in the data presented above. You are therefore advised to verify the above dates with the embassy or consulate of Russia, before planning any trip to Russia. For last-minute updates to worldwide public holidays, visit our blog or subscribe to our free email newsletters.