What holiday is celebrated on August 27 in Ukraine

On August 27, Orthodox believers honor the memory of St. Pimen. Oleksandra, Volodymyr, Ivan, Mykhailo, Stepan and Anfisa celebrate their name days according to the new style, and Alexei, Arkady, Vasily, Volodymyr, Matvii, Nikolai, Semena, Fedora, Eva and Eudokia according to the old style.

On August 27, Ukrainians celebrate a wonderful holiday - Salo Day. OBOZ.UA tells about the holidays and significant events of this day.

What holidays are celebrated on August 27

On August 27, Orthodox believers according to the New Julian calendar honor the memory of St. Pimen. The future saint was born in Egypt around 340. From his youth, he felt drawn to the lonely monastic life and went with his brothers to live in a deserted Skete monastery.

In 407, the barbarians destroyed the monastery, and Pimen and the monks moved to the ruins of the pagan temple of Terenufis. Pimen led a strict and ascetic life. Those who needed help and good advice began to come to him. Pimen's famous collection of Aphorisms includes about 1000 tips for a virtuous life. St. Pimen lived a long life and died at the age of about 110.

August 27 is also celebrated as:

• World Forgiveness Day;
• Earth Day - World Day Against the Eradication of Species;
• Lard Day in Ukraine:
• Independence Day in Moldova;
• Radio Broadcasting Day in Argentina;
• National Banana Day in the United States;
• National Burger Day in the United Kingdom.

Notable historical events on August 27

• 1859 - a well drilled by Edwin Drake in Pennsylvania produced the first oil. This day is considered the beginning of the oil era.
• 1913 - Pilot Petro Nesterov, flying a Nieuport IV, flew over Kyiv's Syretske military airfield and made the world's first famous "dead loop" at an altitude of 600 meters.
• 1929 - the seven-day week was canceled in the USSR, and a five-day week was introduced - 5 working days, one day off.
• 1938 - the Second Great Assembly of Ukrainian Nationalists took place in Rome, which officially approved Andriy Melnyk as the head of the Ukrainian Nationalist Leadership (leader of the OUN).

• 1939 - The world's first flight of the He-178 jet aircraft by German aircraft designer Ernst Heinkel took place.
• 1955 - the first edition of the Guinness Book of Records was published.
• 1977 - the 1st power unit was put into operation at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant.
• 1991 - Moldova proclaimed its independence.

Who was born on August 26

• 1770 - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, German philosopher.
• 1856 - Ivan Franko, writer, one of the most prominent spiritual leaders of Ukraine, scientist, public and political figure, publicist.
• 1865 - Charles Dowes, U.S. statesman, entrepreneur, and military officer, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (1925).
• 1871 - Theodore Dreiser, American writer and public figure.
• 1902 - Yuriy Yanovsky, Ukrainian writer.
• 1908 - Lyndon B. Johnson, 36th President of the United States (1963-1969).

• 1941 - Bohdan Stupka, Ukrainian theater and film actor.
• 1983 - Jamala, Ukrainian singer and actress of Crimean Tatar and Armenian descent.
• 1996 - Sophia Rose Stallone, American model, daughter of Sylvester Stallone.

Died on this day:

• 1576 - Titian Vecellio, Italian (Venetian) painter
• 1883 - Oleksii Savych, Ukrainian astronomer and geodesist.
• 1958 - Ernest Orlando Lawrence, American physicist, creator of the first cyclotron, Nobel Prize winner.

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