Calendar-ritual excursions, entertainment

Preparations for the celebration of the New Year in full swing! This time we will introduce you to the festive Kharkov, show the most beautiful New Year's places and tell you about the traditions of celebrating the New Year and Christmas.

The mysterious Forest Glade is ready to share its riddles with everyone who is cheerful, joyful and ready for adventure! The adventure begins! There is very little time left before the New Year and Christmas!

Chrysanthemum Ball 2020 in Feldman Ecopark! The floristic festival starts on September 27 and will last until frost. For the eighth time, Kharkiv residents and guests from all over Ukraine will be able to participate in a fantastic flower show.

All the ceremonies of the autumn cycle were for our ancestors, directly or indirectly timed to the end of the harvest, and the philosophical ideas are old as the world: the calling of fertility fields, domestic animals, the continuation of the genus.

Korobov Khutor - one of the most beautiful places in the Kharkiv region. From the height of the Cossack mountain, from the banks of the Seversky Donets, a wonderful view of the picturesque places of the Kharkiv region opens. In winter, it is no less beautiful and interesting and there is much to do and have fun.

The tour operator "Navigator Ukraine" invites everyone to the Maslenitsa holiday, which will take place on the territory of the historical and archaeological museum-reserve "Verkhniy Saltov"!

It is impossible to imagine the end of winter without the traditional Pancake week, for which every real Ukrainian manages to eat so many delicious pancakes that it’s enough for the whole year. Do you know that Maslenitsa is one of the oldest Slavic holidays, because it dates back to pre-Christian times, during the period of worship of pagan gods?

How will they meet Maslenitsa in one of the most beautiful, paradisiacal places of Slobozhanshchina - in Kovalevsky's estate, in Skovorodinovke? We are sure that it will not be boring! Are we going to Skovorodinovka?

Summer customs and rites of Ukrainians were, of course, associated primarily with concerns about the harvest. The oldest and most emotional holiday is the holiday of Ivan Kupala. Kupala Fire and Water had a healing, purifying, magical power.

The traditions and customs of Ukraine on Shrovetide have come to us from the depths of centuries. Our ancestors celebrated this holiday in the springtime, when nature woke up from a winter dream. The meeting of spring was accompanied by fun festivities, baking of golden pancakes. 

Tour to Kiev during the winter school holidays with a visit to the Christmas decorations factory, New Year's performance in the Palace "Ukraine" or a circus show in the Palace of Sport.

Maslenitsa is an ancient Slav festival, which we got from the pagan ancestors. Pancake week is a mischievous and cheerful farewell to the winter and a meeting of spring carrying a revival in nature and solar heat. 

On the spring holidays it was customary to ride horses, go to visit, have fun, cook dumplings and, of course, pancakes, which symbolized the sun, the sun's warmth and power. 

Shrovetide is a farewell to winter and a solemn meeting of a beautiful woman - spring. Her celebration among the Gentiles was associated with the glorification of the Sun God Yarila, and after the adoption of Christianity, she became the last stage of preparation for Lent.

The traditions and customs of Ukraine on Shrovetide have come to us from the depths of centuries. Our ancestors celebrated this holiday in the springtime, when nature woke up from a winter dream. The meeting of spring was accompanied by fun festivities, baking of golden pancakes.