Butter Week
Maslenitsa is an Eastern Slavic traditional holiday with pagan roots, celebrated during the week before the Lent, retaining in its ritual a number of elements of Slavic mythology.
In the national calendar of the Eastern Slavs, the holiday marks the border of winter and spring, as well as the Myasoyed and Great Lent. An analogue of carnival in European countries. Maslenitsa is akin to "fat Tuesday" and Meat. In the calendar of the Russian Orthodox Church this period is called Cheese Week. The names Meatfish, Meat Week and Cheese Week in Russia were used only in the Svyatz as a "church" name.
The Shrovetide date varies every year, depending on the date of the celebration of Easter. The main traditional attributes of the folk celebration of Maslenitsa are the stuffed pancake week, fun, sleigh rides, festivities, pancakes and flat cakes, and Belarusians and Ukrainians also have vareniki, cheese cakes and a shoe.
The city and rural institutions of culture, sports, education, authorities and communal services took part in the organization of the festival, so the event turned out to be a large-scale event and gathered a lot of people of different ages and interests on the bank of the Uzhurka.
With the weather that day, lucky. If in the morning there was still a cold wind, then after dinner it was cleared up and it became really warm in the spring.
