Maslenitsa festivities took place in several places in Magadan, the press service of the government of the Magadan region reported on March 17.
“Today Malenika Week ends and, despite the strong wind, we did not cancel the program. And you see that a lot of people came, the children play with great pleasure, they participate in contests, the atmosphere is great!”– shared the teacher-organizer of the Children and Youth Center “Chaika” Andrey Nikitin.
For residents of houses on the street. Marchekan holiday “Hello, sunshine!” It was organized outdoors. Local children and adults gathered on the sports field near the Chaika children and youth center. The regional library named after AS Pushkin also held its own festive program in honor of the end of Maslenitsa Week.
Let us remember that Maslenitsa is a traditional East Slavic holiday that is celebrated during the week before Lent and that preserves in its ritual basis a series of elements from pre-Christian Slavic mythology.
In the popular calendar of the Eastern Slavs, the holiday marks the border between winter and spring, as well as between the Flesh Eater and Lent. An analogue of carnival in European countries. Maslenitsa is similar to “Fat Tuesday” and Empty Meat among Catholics. In the calendar of the Russian Orthodox Church, this period is called Cheese Week. The names of Empty Meat Week, Empty Meat Week and Cheese Week in Russia were used only in the calendar as “church names.”
The date of Maslenitsa changes every year depending on the date of Easter. Traditional attributes of the popular celebration of Maslenitsa are the Maslenitsa scarecrow, fun, sleigh rides, festivities; Russians eat pancakes and flatbreads, and Belarusians and Ukrainians have dumplings, syrniki and kolodka.
Source: Rossa Primavera
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