What holiday is celebrated in Ukraine on August 25, 2024

Today, Ukraine honors the work of its miners with a special date in the calendar. It also celebrates the symbolic birthdays of two regional centers.

Of course, the list of holidays that fall on this day does not end there. OBOZ.UA tells you what other dates in Ukraine and the world are celebrated on August 25.

Name days on August 25

According to the New Julian calendar, which the Orthodox Church of Ukraine has switched to, men named Volodymyr, Ivan, and Moses celebrate their name days on this day. Congratulate them with warm words.

What holidays fall on August 25

Miner's Day is a professional holiday that has no specific date and is celebrated on the last Sunday of August. This time, it falls on the 25th. The purpose of the holiday is to honor the work and contribution to Ukraine's economy of coal industry workers.

Donetsk City Day - Donetsk City Day also coincides with Miner's Day. This region of Ukraine has traditionally been engaged in coal mining, and its center is also known as the mining capital. Since 2014, Donetsk has been under Russian occupation, but it is still remembered in Ukraine, and on City Day, citizens share their memories of trips to the city of a million roses.

Rivne City Day - another regional center of Ukraine celebrates its holiday on the last Sunday of August. This time it is Rivne. Information about it appears in historical chronicles as early as 1283, and it received Magdeburg Law in 1492. Four years later, Rivne was first described as a city in the Volyn Brief Chronicle.

The Day of the Reconciliatory Kiss - Sometimes our relationships are severely tested because of differences in opinions or views. We quarrel and lose really meaningful connections. And yet the problem can often be solved with one simple action - a kiss. Think about those you don't get along with, meet up today and kiss each other. In the end, friendship and a warm attitude are always more important than any trifles.

Historical events on August 25

1604 - False Dmitry I with the Polish-Ukrainian army began a campaign against Moscow.

1609 - Galileo Galilei demonstrated a new device, a telescope, to the Venetian Small Council (Doge's Council).

1621 - 45,000 Cossacks led by Yatsko Borodavka arrived at the camp near Khotyn to help King Vladyslav against the Ottomans.

1718 - the French founded the city of New Orleans in North America.

1793 - French revolutionary troops took Marseilles.

1810 - Englishman Peter Durand patented the process of preserving food in tins.

1825 - Uruguay declared independence from the Brazilian Empire.

1830 - An uprising against the Dutch began in Brussels.

1875 - Matthew Webb became the first person to swim across the English Channel.

1912 - the Kuomintang Party ("People's State Party") is founded in the Republic of China.

1915 - German troops take Brest-Litovsk (now Brest).

1918 - the first issue of the newspaper Zvon (Bell), edited by Yanka Kupala, is published.

1919 - during the offensive on Kyiv, the UPR Army liberated Fastiv.

1919 - the world's first regular international air route London - Paris was opened.

1929 - the airship "Count Zepellin" departed from Tokyo and arrived in San Francisco.

1933 - an agreement was reached between the government of the Third Reich and the Jewish administration in Palestine, allowing German Jews to move to Palestine and other countries.

1941 - Soviet and British troops occupied Iran.

1944 - Allied troops liberated Paris from Nazi occupation.

1964 - Soviet dissident, Ukrainian Petro Hryhorenko was deprived of the rank of major general.

1973 - the first tomography scan was taken.

1991 - The Battle of Vukovar began during Croatia's war for independence.

1991 - The Supreme Soviet of the Belarusian SSR proclaimed the country's independence from the USSR.

Famous people born on August 25

1724 - George Stubbs, British biologist and animal painter. Author of the work "Anatomy of the Horse".

1819 - Alan Pinkerton, American entrepreneur of Scottish descent. Founder of the world's first detective agency.

1866 - Volodymyr Kosynsky, Ukrainian economist, co-founder of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences.

1868 - Serhiy Izotov, sergeant major of the UPR's active army.

1905 - Abram Lufer, Ukrainian Soviet pianist and teacher, Honored Artist of the Ukrainian SSR.

1918 - Leonard Bernstein, American conductor, composer, pianist, educator, and educator of Jewish-Ukrainian descent.

1924 - Pavlo Zahrebelnyi, Ukrainian writer.

1930 - Sean Connery, Scottish film actor and producer.

1938 - Borys Mykhailov, Ukrainian art photographer, permanently based in Berlin and Kharkiv, is considered a classic of contemporary photography.

1938 - Frederick Forsyth, English writer ("The Day of the Jackal")

1940 - Mykola Zhulynsky, Ukrainian literary critic and politician, director of the Taras Shevchenko Institute of Literature, academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

1949 - Gene Simmons, American bass guitarist, vocalist, actor and entrepreneur. One of the founders of Kiss.

1951 - Rob Halford, vocalist of the British band Judas Priest.

1958 - Tim Burton, American film director, screenwriter and producer.

1963 - Yuriy Verbytskyi, seismologist, PhD, Euromaidan activist.

1970 - Claudia Schiffer, German top model and actress.

1976 - Alexander Skarsgård, Swedish actor, director and screenwriter.

1987 - Blake Lively, American actress.

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