2017 in Russia

1155th anniversary the birth of Russian statehood (Presidential Decree No. 267 of March 3, 2011)

405 years the expulsion of Polish invaders from Moscow by the militia under the leadership of Minin and Pozharsky (October 26, 1612)

Besides, RIA-Novosti reports in the government discusses the idea of \u200b\u200bholding a theater in Russia in 2017.

2017 is also declared the Year of Specially Protected Natural Areas (Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of August 1, 2015 No. 392 "On the Year of Specially Protected Natural Areas in the Russian Federation").

January

3 - 125 years since the birth of Tolkien (Tolkien) (1892-1973), English writer, philosopher, language historian, author of fairy tales “The Hobbit”, “Lord of the Rings”.

4 - 205 years since the birth of E.P. Rostopchina (1812 - 1858), poetess, writer. The poet P. A. Vyazemsky called her "Moscow Safo."

6 (?) - 605 years of Jeanne D'Arc (c. 1412 - 1431), French military commander

6 - 145 years since the birth of A.N. Scriabin (1872-1915), Russian composer

6 - 130 years since the birth of I.I.Golikov (1887-1915), Russian master of Palekh miniature, founder of Palekh art.

9 - 220 years since the birth of F.P. Wrangel (1797-1870), a Russian traveler, admiral, one of the founders of the Russian Geographical Society. Born in Pskov.

12 -110 years since the birth of S.P. Korolev (1907-1966), an outstanding scientist and designer in the field of rocket science and astronautics.

13 - Russian Press Day

15 - 395 years since the birth of Moliere (Jean Baptiste Pocleen) (1622-1673), French playwright, creator of the so-called high comedy genre.

16 - 150th anniversary of the birth of V.V. Veresaeva (1867-1945), Russian prose writer, literary critic.

18 -135th anniversary of the birth of Alan Alexander Milne (1882-1956), English comedian, playwright, classic of English children's literature.

23 -185 years since the birth of Eduard Monet (1832-1883), French impressionist painter.

24 - 285 years since the birth of Auguste Caron de Beaumarchais (1732-1799), French playwright.

25 - 185 years since the birth of I.I.Shishkin (1832-1898), Russian painter, master of landscape.

27 - 185 years since the birth of Lewis Carroll (1832-1898), English writer, professor of mathematics at Oxford University.

28 - 120 years since the birth of V.P. Kataev (1897-1986), a Russian writer.

31 - 220 years since the birth of F. Schubert (1797 - 1828), the great composer

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180 years ago (1837) a duel took place A.S. Pushkin with Dantes on the Black River.

170 years ago (1847) in the journal Sovremennik in the first issue was published an essay by I. S. Turgenev “Pole and Kalinych”.

75 years ago (1942) the newspaper Pravda published a poem by K. Simonov “Wait for me”.

February

2 - 75 years ago, died in custody, Daniel Harms (1905-1942), a Russian writer.

7 - 205 years since the birth of Charles Dickens (1812-1870), a classic of English literature.

8 - Memorial Day of the young anti-fascist hero

9 - 130 years since the birth of V.I. Chapaev (1887-1919), the legendary hero of the civil war.

10 - Memorial Day A.S. Pushkin. 180 years from the date of death (1799-1837).

20 - 165 years since the birth of N. Garin (N. G. Mikhailovsky) (1852-1906), a Russian writer.

25 - 105 years since the birth of V.V.Sanaev (1912 - 1996), Russian actor

26 -215 years since the birth of Victor Hugo (1802-1885), French writer.

27 - 85th anniversary of the birth of Elizabeth Taylor (1932 - March 23, 2011), American actress

165 years ago (1852) the Hermitage Museum was opened in St. Petersburg.

140 years ago (1877) the premiere of the ballet PI Tchaikovsky "Swan Lake".

March

6 - 80 years since the birth (1937) V.V. Tereshkova, the first woman pilot-cosmonaut.

15 - 80 years since the birth of V.G.Rasputin (1937), Russian writer

24 - 235 years since the birth of O.A. Kiprensky (1782-1836), Russian portrait painter and graphic artist, representative of romanticism.

24 -140 years since the birth of A.S. Novikov-Priboy (1877-1944), a Russian writer.

27 - 90 years since the birth of M.L. Rostropovich (1927-2007), an outstanding cellist and conductor.

27 - International Theater Day

31 - 135 years since the birth of K.I. Chukovsky (1882-1969), Russian writer, critic, literary critic.

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95 years ago (1922) the former family estate of the Hannibals-Pushkins became the State Memorial Museum-Reserve of A.S. Pushkin (v. Mikhailovsky, Pskov region).

April

10 -80 years since the birth of B.A. Akhmadulina (1937), a Russian poetess.

12 - 90 years since the birth of Harper Lee (1927), an American writer.

15 - 565 years since the birth of Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), a brilliant Italian painter, scientist of the Renaissance.

22 - 110 years since the birth of I.A. Efremov (1907-1972), Russian science fiction writer, author of the social and philosophical novel "The Andromeda Nebula" - 55 years from the date of publication (1957).
28 -110 years since the birth of Z.I. Resurrection (1907-1992), a Russian writer.

75 years ago (1942) legendary pilot ace A.I. Maresyev (1916-2001).

May

16 - 130 years since the birth of Igor Severyanin (1887-1941), Russian modernist poet, translator, memoirist.

22 -145 years since the birth of Teffi (N.A. Lokhvitskaya) (1872-1952), poetess, writer of Russian foreign countries.

28 - 140 years since the birth of M.A. Voloshin (1877-1932), Russian poet, critic, artist.

29 -230 years since the birth of K.N.Batyushkov (1787-1855), Russian poet and poet, representative of sentimentalism.

29 - 120 years since the birth of I.S. Sokolov-Mikitov (1892-1975), a Russian writer.

June

1 - 85 years since the birth of B.A. Mozhaev (1932-1996), a Russian writer, publicist.

9 - 345 years since the birth of Peter the Great (1672-1725), Russian emperor, statesman.

15 - 150 years since the birth of K.D. Balmont (1867-1942), Russian poet, critic, representative of symbolism in Russian poetry.

18 -205 years since the birth of I.A. Goncharova (1812-1891), a Russian writer.

18 - 75th birthday of D.P. McCartney (1942), an English musician, one of the legendary Beatles

20 - 90 years since the birth of V.M. Kotenochkin (1927 - 2000), Russian animator, director "Well, wait a minute!"

20 - 85 years since the birth of R.I. Rozhdestvensky (1932-1994) Russian poet.

28 - 305 years since the birth of Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778), a French writer and philosopher of the Enlightenment, a representative of sentimentalism.

28 - 95 years ago V. Khlebnikov (1885-1922), a Russian poet, futurist theorist, died.

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July

1 - 110 years since the birth of V.T.Shalamov (1907-1982), Russian writer, poet, author of "Kolyma Tales".

7 - 130 years since the birth of M.Z. Chagall (1887-1985), a Russian artist.

24 - 105 years since the birth of N.O. Gritsenko (1912 - 1979), Soviet actor, People's Artist of the RSFSR and the USSR, Laureate of State Prizes of the RSFSR and the USSR.

29 200 years since the birth of P.K. Aivazovsky (1817-1900), Russian painter-marine painter.

31 - 80 years since the birth of E.S. Piekha, pop singer

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August

8 - 90 years since the birth of Yu.P. Kazakov (1927-1982), a Russian writer.

17 - 75 years since the birth of M.M. Magomayev (1942 - 2008), Azerbaijani singer, People's Artist of the USSR

19 - 145 years since the birth of M.F. Kshesinsky (1872-1971), Russian ballerina

19 - 80 years since the birth of A.Vampilov (1937-1972), Russian playwright, author of the plays “Duck Hunt”, “Elder Son”, etc.

20 - 85 years since the birth of V.P. Aksenov (1932-2009), a Russian writer.

29 - 155 years since the birth of Maurice Meterlink (1862-1949), Belgian writer, playwright, philosopher, Nobel laureate (1911).

September

5 - 200 years since the birth of AK Tolstoy (1817-1875), Russian poet, writer, playwright, author of the historical novel “Prince of Silver”.

8 - Day of military glory. Battle of Borodino (1812)

10 - 110 years since the birth of V.I. Nemtsov (1907-1993), a Russian science fiction writer.

11 -135 years since the birth of B.S. Zhitkov (1882-1938), Russian children's writer.

11 -80 years since the birth (1937) of Joseph Kobzon, pop singer.

17 -160 years since the birth of K.E. Tsiolkovsky (1857-1935), an outstanding Russian scientist and inventor, founder of modern astronautics.

21 - 70 years since the birth (1947) of Stephen King, an American writer.

21 - Day of military glory. The victory of the Russian regiments led by Grand Duke Dmitry Donskoy over the Mongol-Tatar troops in the Battle of Kulikovo (1380)

25 -225 years since the birth of I.I. Lazhechnikov (1792-1869), Russian writer, author of the novels "Ice House", "Basurman"

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75 years ago (1942) began the publication of the poem by A.T. Tvardovsky "Vasily Terkin", which is considered to this day the best poem about a soldier of the Great Patriotic War.

October

1 - 105 years since the birth of L.N. Gumilyov (1912 - 1992), Russian historian, geographer, author of the work "Ethnogenesis and Earth's Biosphere"

4 - 60 years ago (1957), the world's first artificial Earth satellite was launched in our country. The beginning of the space age.

7 - 65 years to Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (1952), Russian statesman

8 - 125 years since the birth of M.I. Tsvetaeva (1892-1941), a Russian poetess.

9 - 470 years since the birth of M. Cervantes (1547-1616), a Spanish writer of the Renaissance.

31 - 115 years since the birth of E. A. Permyak (1902-1982), a Russian writer.

60 years ago (1957) the film of the director M. Kalatozov “Cranes are flying” was released on the screens of the country, recognized as one of the best films in world cinema. At the Cannes Film Festival in 1958, the film was awarded the Golden Palm Branch.

November

2 - 220 years since the birth of A.A. Bestuzhev-Marlinsky (1797 - 1837), Russian prose writer, poet, critic, Decembrist.

3 -130 years since the birth of S.Ya. Marshak (1887-1964), Russian poet, translator, classic of children's literature.

495 years ago, the first circumnavigation of the expedition of Fernando Magellan (1522) was completed;
205 years since the battle of Borodino in the Patriotic War of 1812 (September 7, 1812);
195 years ago the poem "The Prisoner of the Caucasus" (1822) by A.S. Pushkin went out of print;
180 years ago, the inventor of the telegraph apparatus S. Morse transmitted the first telegram (1837);
165 years ago, in the journal Sovremennik, the story of L.N. Tolstoy's "Childhood" (1852);
155 years ago the St. Petersburg Conservatory was founded (September 20, 1862);
155 years ago, a monument to the Millennium of Russia was opened in the Novgorod Kremlin (sculptor M.O. Mikeshin) (1862);
95 years ago, prominent representatives of the intelligentsia were forcibly expelled from Soviet Russia, including N.A. Berdyaev, L.P. Karsavin, I.A. Ilyin, Pitirim Sorokin et al. (1922);
75 years ago, the publication of the poem by A.T. Twardowski "Vasily Terkin" (1942);

September 2, 2017 - the 90th anniversary of the birth of Yevgeny Pavlovich Leonov (1926-1994), a famous Soviet theater and film actor.

September 3, 2017 - Day of solidarity in the fight against terrorism. This is a new memorable date for Russia, established by the Federal Law “On the Days of the Military Glory of Russia” dated July 6, 2005. Connected with the tragic events in Beslan.

September 3, 2017 - the 90th anniversary of the birth of A.M. Adamovich (Ales Adamovich) (1927-1994), Belarusian writer;

September 3, 2017 - Day of workers in the oil, gas and fuel industry (first Sunday of September).

September 4, 2017 - Day of the Nuclear Support Specialist (Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of May 31, 2006 No. 549)

September 4, 2017 - 155 years since the birth of P.P. Soykina (1862-1938), a Russian book publisher;

September 5, 2017 - the 200th anniversary of the birth of A.K. Tolstoy (1817-1875), Russian poet, writer, playwright;

September 6, 2017 - the 80th anniversary of the birth of G.F. Shpalikov (1937-1974), Soviet screenwriter, poet;

September 8, 2017 - 205 years since the birth of N.N. Goncharova (1812-1863), the wife of A.S. Pushkin;

September 8, 2017 is International Literacy Day. Celebrated since 1967 by decision of UNESCO.

September 9, 2017 - World Beauty Day. The initiative is held by the International Committee of Aesthetics and Cosmetology.

September 10, 2017 - the 145th anniversary of the birth of V.K. Arsenyev (1872-1930), Russian researcher of the Far East, writer, geographer;

September 10, 2017 - 110 years since the birth of V.I. Nemtsov (1907-1994), Russian science fiction writer, publicist;

September 10, 2017 - the 105th anniversary of the birth of Herluf Bidstrup (1912-1988), a Danish cartoonist;

September 10, 2017 - Day of Lake Baikal. It was established in 1999 and since then it was celebrated annually on the fourth Sunday of August, but since 2008, by decision of the Legislative Assembly of the Irkutsk Region, Baikal Day was postponed to the second Sunday of September.

September 11, 2017 - 155 years since the birth of O. Henry (1862-1910), an American writer;

September 11, 2017 - 140 years since the birth of F.E. Dzerzhinsky (1877-1926), statesman, revolutionary;

September 11, 2017 - the 135th anniversary of the birth of B.S. Zhitkov (1882-1938), a Russian children's writer, teacher;

September 11, 2017 - the 80th anniversary of the birth of Joseph Kobzon (1937), a Russian pop singer;

September 14, 2017 - the 170th anniversary of the birth of P.N. Yablochkova (1847-1894), Russian inventor, electrical engineer;

September 15, 2017 is the birthday of Greenpeace international environmental organization (September 15, 1971 is the day of the first organized action of ecologists against nuclear testing).

September 16, 2017 - Juliet's birthday. On this day in the Italian city of Verona celebrate a holiday - the birthday of Juliet, the famous Shakespeare heroine.

September 17, 2017 - the 160th anniversary of the birth of K.E. Tsiolkovsky (1857-1935), a Russian scientist and inventor;

September 17, 2017 - the 105th anniversary of the birth of G.P. Menglet (1912-2001), a Russian film and theater actor;

September 17, 2017 - the 100th anniversary of the birth of Maxim Tank (1912-1995), a national Belarusian poet;

September 19, 2017 - 65 years since the birth of V.V. Erofeev (1947), Russian prose writer, essayist;

September 19, 2017 is the birthday of Smiley. On September 19, 1982, Scott Falman, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University, first proposed using three consecutive characters — a colon, a hyphen, and a closing bracket — to indicate a “smiling face” in a text typed on a computer.

September 21, 2017 is International Peace Day as a day of universal ceasefire and non-violence.

September 24, 2017 - World Sea Day. It was established at the 10th session of the Assembly by the International Maritime Organization, and has been celebrated since 1978. Included in the system of world and international days of the UN. Until 1980 it was celebrated on March 17, but then it began to be celebrated on one of the days of the last week of September. In Russia, celebrated on September 24.

September 24, 2017 - 140 years since the birth of G.A. Duperron (1877-1934), the founder of Russian football and the Olympic movement in Russia;

September 25, 2017 -220 years since the birth of I.I. Lazhechnikov (1792-1869), a Russian writer;

September 25, 2017 -115 years since the birth of William Faulkner (1897-1962), American novelist and novelist;

September 29, 2017 - the 470th anniversary of the birth of M. Cervantes (1547-1616), a Spanish writer of the Renaissance;

September 29, 2017 - the 195th anniversary of the birth of A.V. Sukhovo-Kobylin (1817-1903), Russian playwright;

2017 is declared the Year of Ecology in Russia.

1155th anniversary of the birth of Russian statehood (862 - calling Rurik elders of the tribal state of Northern Russia);
The 1135th anniversary of the unification by Prince Veshchiy Oleg of Northern and Southern Russia into one state with a center in Kiev (882);
980 years ago, Yaroslav the Wise at the St. Sophia Cathedral in Kiev founded the first library of Ancient Russia (1037);
775 years ago, Prince Alexander Nevsky defeated the Crusaders on Lake Peipsi (April 5, 1242);
870 years since the first annalistic mention of Moscow (1147);
405 years of the expulsion of Polish invaders from Moscow by the militia under the leadership of K. Minin and D. Pozharsky (October 26, 1612);
205 years since the battle of Borodino in the Patriotic War of 1812;
295 years ago, Peter I approved the Table of Ranks for all ranks of the Russian Empire (1722);
295 years ago Peter I issued a decree on the creation of a prosecutor's office (1722);
260 years since the founding of the Russian Academy of Arts (1757);
155 years since the founding of the St. Petersburg Conservatory (September 20, 1862);

Under the auspices of the UN

2015-2024 - International Decade for People of African Descent;
2014-2024 - Decade of Sustainable Energy for All;
2013-2022 - International Decade for the Rapprochement of Cultures;
2011-2020 - The Third International Decade for the Eradication of Colonialism;
2011–2020 - United Nations Decade of Biodiversity;
2011–2020 - Decade of Action for Road Safety;
2010–2020 - United Nations Decade for Deserts and Combating Desertification;
2008–2017 - Second United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty;
2017 - in Russia: the year of ecology and the year of specially protected natural territories;
The book capital of 2017 is the West African city of Conakry (the capital of Guinea).

Days of military glory and memorable dates of Russia in 2017

The list is given in accordance with Federal Law of March 13, 1995 No. 32-ФЗ with subsequent amendments. The dates of the battles that took place before the introduction of the Gregorian calendar in the Law were obtained by adding 13 days to the "old-style" date. However, the difference between the old and the new style of 13 days accumulated only by the 20th century. And, for example, in the XVII century the difference was 10 days. Therefore, historical dates adopted other dates than in this law.

The following days of the military glory of Russia are established in the Russian Federation:

January 27, 2017- The day the Soviet troops completely liberated the city of Leningrad from blockade by its fascist German troops (1944);
February 2, 2017- Day of the defeat by the Soviet troops of the Nazi-fascist troops in the Battle of Stalingrad (1943);
February 23, 2017- Defender of the Fatherland Day;
April 18, 2017- Victory Day of Russian soldiers of Prince Alexander Nevsky over German knights on Lake Peipsi (Battle of the Ice, 1242, actually happened on April 12 according to the new style or April 5 according to the old);
May 9, 2017- 72 anniversary of the Victory of the Soviet people in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 (1945);
July 7, 2017- Victory Day of the Russian fleet over the Turkish fleet in the Battle of Chesme (1770);
July 10, 2017- Day of the victory of the Russian army under the command of Peter the Great over the Swedes in the Battle of Poltava (1709, actually happened on July 8 according to the new style or June 27 according to the old style);
August 9, 2017- Day of the first in Russian history of the naval victory of the Russian fleet under the command of Peter the Great over the Swedes at Cape Gangut (1714, actually happened on August 7)
August 23, 2017 -Day of the defeat by the Soviet troops of the Nazi troops in the Battle of Kursk (1943);
September 8, 2017- Day of the Borodino battle of the Russian army under the command of M.I. Kutuzov with the French army (1812, actually happened on September 7 according to the new style or on August 26 but according to the old style);
September 11, 2017- Victory Day of the Russian squadron under the command of F.F. Ushakov over the Turkish squadron at Cape Tendra (actually happened on September 8-9 according to the new style or August 28-29 according to the old style);
September 21, 2017- Victory Day of Russian regiments led by Grand Duke Dmitry Donskoy over the Mongol-Tatar troops in the Battle of Kulikovo (1380, actually happened on September 16 according to the new style or September 8 but the old style);
November 4, 2017- Day of National Unity .;
November 7, 2017- The day of the military parade on Red Square in Moscow to mark the twenty-fourth anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution (1941);
December 1, 2017- Victory Day of the Russian squadron under the command of P.S. Nakhimov over the Turkish squadron at Cape Sinop (1853, actually happened on November 30 according to the new style or November 18 but the old style);
December 5, 2017- The day of the beginning of the counterattack of the Soviet troops against the Nazi troops in the battle of Moscow (1941);
December 24, 2017- Day of the capture of the Turkish fortress Izmail by Russian troops under the command of A.V. Suvorov (1790, actually happened on December 22 according to the new style or December 11 according to the old style).

The following memorial dates of Russia for 2017 are established in the Russian Federation:

The 25th of January -Day of Russian students;
February, 15 -Commemoration Day of Russians Performing Official Duties Outside of the Fatherland;
12th of April -Cosmonautics Day;
26 April -Day of participants in liquidating the consequences of radiation accidents and disasters and the memory of the victims of these accidents and disasters;
April 27 -Day of Russian parliamentarism;
22nd of June -Day of Remembrance and Sorrow - the day the Great Patriotic War began (1941);
June 29 -Partisans and Underground Day :;
July 28th -Day of the Baptism of Russia;
August 1 -Memorial Day for Russian soldiers who died in the First World War of 1914-1918;
September 2 -The day of the end of World War II (1945);
September 3 -Day of solidarity in the fight against terrorism;
November 7 -Day of the October Revolution of 1917;
9th December -Heroes of the Fatherland Day;
12 December -Constitution Day of the Russian Federation.

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Compiled by E.V. Voronova

Repl. for release: E. V. Manshina

Calendar of significant and memorable dates for 2017: a guide to help the librarian / MBUK TsBS, Central City Library named after M. I. Ladinsky; comp. E.V. Voronova. - Big Stone, 2016 .-- 11 p.

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

The publication is addressed to librarians, teachers, readers.

The calendar is available on the MBUK CBS website: http // site /

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By decision of the UN:

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 Road Safety

2010-2020 - United Nations Decade for Deserts and Combating Desertification

2008-2017 - United Nations Second Decade for the Eradication of Poverty.

2017 year in the Russian Federation will be announced The 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 Areas will be timed to coincide with the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Russian reserve system.

January
	90 years since the birth of the Russian children's writer, poet Lev Ivanovich Davydychev (1927-1988)
	125th Birth Anniversary of 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 Thanks Day
	Day of reserves and national parks
	110 years since the birth of the Soviet scientist, designer Sergei Pavlovich Korolev
	395th Birth Anniversary of French Playwright Jean Baptiste Moliere [present Poklen] (1622-1673)
	Vikentiy Vikentievich Veresaev (Smidovich) (1867-1945)
	135th Birth Anniversary of an English Writer, Poet, and Playwright Alana Alexandra MILNA (1882-1956)
	Epiphany
	Spouses day
	International Hug Day
	Grandfather's day
	Students Day (Tatyana's Day)
	185th anniversary of the Russian artist Ivan Ivanovich Shishkin (1832-1898)
	Day of military glory of Russia. The lifting of 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 an English writer, mathematician Lewis Carroll [present Charles Latunge Dodgson] (1832-1898)
	110th Birth Anniversary Valentin Petrovich Kataev (1897-1986)
February
	110 years since the birth of the poet Dmitry Borisovich Kedrin (1907-1945)
	World Cancer Day
	The 205th Birth Anniversary of an English Writer Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
	Russian Science Day
	130 years since the birth of the Soviet commander Vasily Ivanovich Chapaev (1887-1919)
	100th Birth Anniversary of an American Writer Sidney Sheldon (1917-2007)
	85th Birth Anniversary of Soviet Songwriter Igor Davydovich Shaferan (1932-1994)
	Valentine's Day
	The Presentation of the Lord
	Whale day
	Nikolai Georgievich Garin-Mikhailovsky (1852-1906)
	Defender of the Fatherland Day
	85th anniversary 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
	95th Birth Anniversary of the Russian Frontline Poet Semyon Petrovich Gudzenko (1922-1953)
	Grandmothers day
	80th birthday of the cosmonaut Valentina Vladimirovna Nikolaeva-Tereshkova (1937)
	International Women's Day

	Archives Day
	95th birthday of the poet David Nikitich Kugultinov (1922-2006)
	80th anniversary of the Russian writer Vladimir Semenovich Makanin (1937)
	International River Day
	80 years since the birth of the Soviet writer Valentin Grigoryevich 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 Russian writer, film playwright Vladimir Pavlovich Belyaev (1907-1990)
	140 years since the birth of Russian writer Alexey Silych Novikov-Surf [present Novikov] (1877-1944)
	Culture Workers Day
	1, translator and art critic Dmitry Vasilievich Grigorovich (1822-1900)
	135 years since the birth of Russian writer, poet, translator Korney Ivanovich Chukovsky [present. Nikolai Vasilievich Korneychukov] (1882-1969)
April
	Laughter day
	international bird day
	95th anniversary of the Russian writer Sergey Petrovich Alexey-ev (1922-2008)
	International Children's Book Day
	85th anniversary of the Polish writer Ioanna Khmelevskaya (née Irena Barbara Ioann Kühn) (1932)
	775 years since the Battle of the Ice (1242)
	205 years since the birth of Russian writer, philosopher Alexander Ivano-vich Herzen [present. Iskander] (1812-1870)
	205th Birth Anniversary
	Runet's Birthday
	World Health Day
	Annunciation
	80th birthday of the poet Bella Akhatovna Akhmadulina (1937-2010)
	200 years since the birth of Russian writer, poet and historian Konstantin Sergeyevich Aksakov (1817-1860)
	Vilya Vladimirovich Lipatov (1927-1979)
	World Aviation and Space Day
	155th anniversary of the birth of a Russian statesman Peter Arkadyevich Stolypin (1862-1911)
	spring Week of Goodness
	90th anniversary of the Russian writer Yuri Mikhailovich Druzhkov (1927-1983)
	International Day of Monuments and Sites
	Veniamin Alexandrovich Kaverin (1902-1989)
	International Earth Day
	110 years since the birth of Russian science fiction writer Ivan Antonovich Efremov (1907-1972)
	110 years since the birth of Russian writer Zoe Ivanovna Voskresenskaya (1907-1992)
	70th anniversary of the poet Yuri Mikhailovich Kublanovsky (1947)

	Spring and Labour Day
	115th Birth Anniversary of an Australian Writer Alan Marshall (1902-1984)
	Sun day
	245th Birth Anniversary 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 foundation of the pioneer organization (1922-1990)
	Nadezhda Aleksandrovna TEFFI [present. Lokhvitskaya] (1872-1952)
	Day of Slavic Writing and Culture
	All-Russian Library Day
	Border Guard Day
	140 years since the birth of the Russian poet Maximilian Alexandrovich Voloshin [present Kiriyenko] (1877-1932)
	230 years since the birth of the Russian poet Konstantin Nikolaevich Batyushkov (1787-1855)
	100th Birth Anniversary of an American Statesman John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)
	125th Birth Anniversary of Russian Naturalist 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
	125th Birth Anniversary of Russian Writer Konstantin Georgievich Paustovsky (1892-1968)
June
	80th Birth Anniversary of Australian Writer Colin McCullough (1937-2015)
	80 years since the birth of the Russian poetess Yunny Petrovna Moritz (1937)
	65th Birth Anniversary of Russian Children's Writer Elena Vasilievna Gabova (1952)
	World Oceans Day
	180th anniversary of the Russian artist Ivan Nikolaevich Kramskoy (1837-1887)
	Friend's day
	345th Birth Anniversary of the Russian Emperor PetraI Great (1672-1725)
	150 years since the birth of the Russian poet Konstantin Dmitrievich Bal-montage (1867-1942)
	Medical Worker's Day
	Father's day
	85th anniversary of the Russian poet Robert Ivanovich Rozhdestvensky (1932-1994)
	80 years since the birth of the Soviet and Russian scientist-zoologist Nikolai Nikolaevich Drozdov (1937)
	90 years since the birth of the Soviet and Russian storyteller, animator Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Kotenochkin (1927-2000)
	Day of Remembrance and Sorrow
	110 years since the birth of the Russian children's writer Andrei Sergeevich Nekrasov (1907-1987)
	205 years since the beginning of the Patriotic War of 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 of the Battle of Stalingrad (1942)
	from 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 Evgeny Aleksandrovich Evtushenko (1932, according to the passport - 1933)
	110 years since the birth of Russian writer Varlam Tikhonovich Shalamov (1907-1982)
	225 years since the birth of the Russian poet Pyotr Andreevich Vyazemsky (1792-1878)
	215th Birth Anniversary of 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 Apollon 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)
	90th anniversary 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)
	120th Birth Anniversary of an English Writer Enid Mary Blyton (1897-1968)
	80 years since the birth of the Russian playwright, writer Alexander Valentinovich Vampilov (1937-1972)
	190th Birth Anniversary of a Belgian Writer Charles de Coster (1827-1879)
	95th anniversary of the Russian writer Joseph Ivanovich Dick (1922-1984)
	Vasily Pavlovich Aksenov (1932-2009)
	Flag Day of Russia
	Day of military glory of Russia. Victory in the Battle of Kursk (1943)
	85th anniversary of the birth of the Brazilian writer, laureate of the International Prize. H.K. Andersen Ligi Bojungi Nunez (1932)
	155th anniversary of the Belgian playwright Maurice Meterlink (1862-1949)
	105 years since the birth of Russian writer Vitaly Georgievich Gubarev (1912-1981)
	40 years since the birth of a children's writer Tatyana Sergeevna Levanova (1977)
September
	Knowledge Day
	90 years since the birth of the Belarusian writer Alexander (Ales) Mikhai-lovich Adamovich (1927-1994)
	200 years since the birth of the Russian poet, writer, playwright Alexey Konstantinovich Tolstoy (1817-1875)
	Day of military glory of Russia. Battle of Borodino (1812)
	International Literacy Day. Nahum literate
	205 years since the battle of Borodino (1812)
	Beauty day
	145 years since the birth of Russian traveler writer, ethnographer Vladimir Klavdievich Arsenyev (1872-1930)
	90th Birth Anniversary of Uzbek Writer Kamil Akmalevich Ikramov (1927-1989)
	155th Birth Anniversary of an American Writer O’Henry [present William Sidney Porter] (1862-1910)
	135 years since the birth of the initiator of Soviet children's prose, writer Boris Stepanovich Zhitkov (1882-1938)
	105th anniversary of the poet Maxim Tank (1912-1995)
	Smiley's Birthday
	120th Birth Anniversary of an American Writer William Faulkner (1897-1962)
October
	International Day of Older Persons
	170th Birth Anniversary of French Writer Louis Henri Bussenard (1847-1910)
	Teacher's Day
	60th Anniversary of the Eternal Flame (1957)
	World Smile Day
	65th Birth Anniversary of the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (1952)
	125th Birth Anniversary of Russian Poetess Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva (1892-1941)
	470th Birth Anniversary of the Spanish Writer Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616)
	World Egg Day
	120 years since the birth of the Soviet writer Ilya Ilfa (Ilya Arnoldovich Fainzilberg) (1897-1937)
	85th anniversary of the Russian writer Vasily Ivanovich Belov (1932-2012)
	Remembrance Day for Victims of Political Repression
	115th Birth Anniversary of Russian Writer Evgeny Andreevich Permyak (1902-1982)
	85 years since the birth of the American writer, laureate of the International Prize. H.K. Andersen Katherine Paterson (1932)
November
	130 years since the birth of the Russian poet Samuel Yakovlevich Marshak (1887-1964)
	National Unity Day
	International men's day
	165th Birth Anniversary of Russian Writer Dmitry Narkisovich Mamin-Sibiryak [present. Mom’s] (1852-1912)
	90th anniversary of the Russian writer Anatoly Nikolaevich Tomilin (1927-2015)
	100 years since the beginning of the October armed uprising in Petrograd (1917)
	Remembrance Day for World War I Victims
	World Kindness Day
	110th Birth Anniversary of Swedish Writer Astrid Anna Emilia Lindgren (1907-2002)
	All-Russian Draftee Day
	80 years since the birth of Russian writer Victoria Samoilovna Tokareva (1937)
	Mother's Day of Russia
	70 years since the birth of Russian writer and poet Grigory Bentsionovich Oster (1947)
	215th Birth Anniversary of a German Writer Wilhelm Hauf (1802-1827)
	350th Birth Anniversary of 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)
	225th Birth Anniversary of Russian Mathematician Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky (1792-1856)
	160th Birth Anniversary of an English Writer Joseph Conrad Jozef Theodor Konrad Kozhenevsky] (1857-1924)
	110 years since the birth of the Russian poetess, translator Zinaida Nikolaevna Alexandrova (1907-1983)
	145th Birth Anniversary of Russian Writer Al Altayev [present Margarita Vladimirovna Yamshchikova] (1872-1959)
	Day of military glory of Russia. The beginning of the counteroffensive of Soviet troops 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 an English writer, science fiction writer Arthur Clark (1917-2008)
	135th Birth Anniversary of Russian Popularizer, Publicist Yakov Isidorovich Perelman (1882-1942)
	Father Frost's Birthday
	World Greetings Day World Greetings Day
	100th Birth Anniversary of German Writer, Nobel Laureate (1972) Heinrich Böll (1917-1985)
	80 years since the birth of Russian writer, adult children's comedian Eduard Nikolaevich Uspensky (1937)
	240 years since the birth of the Russian emperor AlexandraI (1777-1825)
	Day of military glory of Russia. Day of the capture of the Turkish fortress Izmail by Russian troops under the command of A.V. Suvorov (1790)
	225th Birth Anniversary of a Russian Writer Ivan Ivanovich Lazhechnikov (1792-1869)
	Day of the rescuer of the Russian Federation
In 2017, it was executed:
230 years	since the birth of the writer of the creator of the Russian Gothic tale Anthony Pogorelsky [present Alexey Alekseevich Perovsky] (1787-1836)
2455 years	from the date of completion Parthenon, Temple of the Goddess Athena (447-438 BC)
150 years	since foundation Moscow confectionery factory "Red October" (1867)
125 years	since its inception Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow (1892)
300 years	since publication “Youths of an honest mirror” (1717)
265 years	since the creation of the first Russian bicycle (1752)
BOOKS ANNIVERSARY
255 years	C. Gozzi The Deer King, Turandot (1762)
240 years	R. B. Sheridan The School of Slander (1777)
225 years	N. M. Karamzin “Poor Lisa” (1792)
195 years	A. S. Pushkin "Song of the 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 The Death of the Poet (1837)
170 years	I.A. potters Ordinary History (1847)
155 years	A. S. Griboedov “Woe from Wit” (1862)
	V.M. Hugo The Les Miserables (1862)
	I. S. Turgenev “Fathers and Sons” (1862)
150 years	Charles De Coster "The Legend of Ulenspiegel and Lamma 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 The Beautiful Margaret (1907)
105 years	A.K. Doyle The Lost World (1912)
	L. N. Tolstoy “Father Sergius”, “Hadji Murad” (1912)
90 years	A. N. Tolstoy "Hyperboloid engineer Garin"(1927)
	M. A. Bulgakov The White Guard (1927)
	A. A. Fadeev The rout "(1927)
85 years	N. A. Ostrovsky "How steel was tempered" (1932)
	M. A. Sholokhov "Virgin Soil Upturned" (1932)
	A.P. Gaidar "Far countries" (1932)
80 years	B. S. Zhitkov “Sea stories” (1937)
	D.R. R. Tolkien "The Hobbit, or There and Back," A. Christie, "Death on the Nile" (1937)
75 years	P.P. Bazhov The Key-Stone (1942)
	L. A. Kassil “Your Defenders” (1942)
	V. M. Kozhevnikov March-April (1942)
	A. Saint Exupery The Military Pilot (1942)
70 years	S. Ya. Marshak The Fable of Fiction (1947)
65 years	E.M. Hemingway “The Old Man and the Sea” (1952)
60 years	I. A. Efremov The Andromeda Nebula (1957)
	M.V. Sholokhov “The fate of man” (1957)
	N. N. Nosov The Fantazers (1957)
	R. D. Bradbury “Dandelion Wine” (1957)
	E.I. Charushin Tomka (1957)
45 years	A.N. Strugatsky, B.N. Strugatsky “A Picnic on the Sidelines” (1972)
	V.S. Pikul The Feather and the Sword (1972)
40 years	A. G. Aleksin "Third in the fifth row" (1977)
	V.S. Pikul “The Battle of the Iron Chancellors” (1977)
35 years	A. A. Likhanov "The supreme measure" (1982)
30 years	A. N. Rybakov "Children of the Arbat" (1987)
	Yu. M. Nagibin Get Up and Go (1987)
	Yu. S. Semenov "Expansion" (1987)

We bring to your attention a calendar of significant and memorable september 2017which contains not only historical, cultural, patriotic and international holidays, but also anniversary dates, andsignificant events.

495 years ago, the first circumnavigation of the expedition of Fernando Magellan (1522) was completed;
205 years since the battle of Borodino in the Patriotic War of 1812 (September 7, 1812);
195 years ago the poem "The Prisoner of the Caucasus" (1822) by A.S. Pushkin went out of print;
180 years ago, the inventor of the telegraph apparatus S. Morse transmitted the first telegram (1837);
165 years ago, in the journal Sovremennik, the story of L.N. Tolstoy's "Childhood" (1852);
155 years ago the St. Petersburg Conservatory was founded (September 20, 1862);
155 years ago, a monument to the Millennium of Russia was opened in the Novgorod Kremlin (sculptor M.O. Mikeshin) (1862);
95 years ago, prominent representatives of the intelligentsia were forcibly expelled from Soviet Russia, including N.A. Berdyaev, L.P. Karsavin, I.A. Ilyin, Pitirim Sorokin et al. (1922);
75 years ago, the publication of the poem by A.T. Twardowski "Vasily Terkin" (1942);