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The following are 11 public holidays in Ukraine .
[1]
Holidays established by law
During
martial law a public holiday is not a non-working day.
[10]
Easter postcard (by
Jacques Hnizdovsky ) Before the
Orthodox Church of Ukraine
[11]
[12] and the
Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
[13] switched to the Revised Julian calendar in September 2023 all religious holidays were observed according to the
Julian calendar , since then Christmas is officially celebrated on 25 December.
[5] From 2017 to 2022
Christmas was celebrated in Ukraine on 2 different days, 7 January (the date of the holiday according to the
Julian calendar ) and 25 December (the date of the holiday according to the
Gregorian and Revised Julian calendars).
[9] From 2023 Christmas is only officially celebrated in Ukraine on 25 December.
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When a public holiday falls on a
weekend (e.g. Saturday or Sunday), the following working day (e.g. Monday) turns into an official day off too.
If only one or only two working days are between a public holiday and another day off then the
Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine usually releases a recommendation to avoid this gap by moving these working days onto a certain Saturday (that is to have uninterrupted vacations, but to compensate this by work on another day which would be a day off). Usually such recommendations only concern those employees whose weekly days off are Saturday and Sunday.
The
Russian invasion of Ukraine that started on 24 February 2022 led to a reappraisal of the popularity of the public holidays in Ukraine.
[18] A March 2024 study by the
Kyiv International Institute of Sociology found that the popularity of
Independence Day of Ukraine and
Defenders Day had both almost more than doubled (from 37% to 64% and from 29% to 58%) while the popularity of
International Women's Day had fallen from being labelled "most beloved" by 49% of respondents in 2017 to 21% in March 2024.
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Holidays celebrated by the uniformed organizations
Flag of Ukraine
26 March — National Guard Day
30 April — Border Guards Day
6 May — Day of the Mechanized Infantry
18 May — Reservists' Day
23 May — Marine Corps Birthday, Heroes of Ukraine Day
4 July — Police Day
8 July — Air and Air Defence Forces Day
First Sunday in July —
Navy Day ;
[19] From 1997 till 2011 this day was celebrated on August 1
[20]
[21]
29 July — Special Operations Forces Day
8 August — Signal Corps Day
7 September —
Military Intelligence Forces Day
9 September —
Armoured Forces Day
14 September — Mobilized Servicemen Day
First Sunday in October - Territorial Defence Forces Day
29 October — Finance Officers Day
3 November —
Rocket Forces and Artillery Day
3 November — Corps of Engineers Day
21 November —
Air Assault Forces Day
[22]
[23]
[24]
6 December —
Armed Forces Day ; festive fireworks and salutes take place in various cities in Ukraine
[25] The holiday was established in 1993 by the
Verkhovna Rada (Ukraine's national parliament).
[26]
12 December —
Ground Forces Day
23 December — Operational Servicemen Day
Other national holidays
Fixed date
Commemorative and remembrance days in honor of Ukrainian victories won in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
Beginning 2023 the following days are earmarked as days of remembrance and honor in relation to Ukrainian victories during the
current (2022) invasion :
13 March — Victory Day in the Battles of Voznesensk
26 March — Victory Day in the Battle of Okhtyrka
28 March — Victory Day in the Battle of Irpin
31 March — Victory Day in the Battle of Bucha and Relief of the Siege of Chernihiv
4 April — Victory Day in the Battles of Sumy and Hlukhiv
8 April — Victory Day in the Battle of Mykolaiv
13 May - Victory Day in the Battle of the Siverskyi Donets
14 May — Victory Day in the Battle of Kharkiv
4 June — Memorial Day of the Deceased Children and Young War Victims of the Invasion
16 September - Liberation of Kupiansk Day
2 October - Victory Day in the Second Battle of Lyman
11 November — Liberation of Kherson Day
Movable
See also
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