Eastern European Ukraine - holidays, women, ladies, dating

New Year's Day - Jan 01 (this holiday is very widely celebrated in Ukraine, similar to Christmas in Western European countries and America)
Orthodox Christmas - Jan 07 (Ukrainian Christmas. Unlike the New Year with fun, fireworks and big celebration, it is a religious holiday)
Old Orthodox Church New Year - Jan 14 (the New Year according to the Old Church Calendar - mostly a religious holiday, but fun and celebration is also proper)
St Valentine's Day - Feb 14 (the Day of all lovers, celebrated exactly the way it is celebrated in other western countries. People send valentines to their loved special ones, etc. This holiday appeared in Ukraine only several years ago after the USSR had collapsed)
Women's Day - Mar 08 (the greatest women's holiday in Ukraine, Russia, Belarus, Moldova and all other former CIS countries. It is very widely celebrated. It is something between Mother's Day and St Valentine's Day. It is the day of mothers, grandmothers, sisters, sweethearts - of all the women. While St Valentine's is celebrated mostly by younger people, March 08 is universal)
Orthodox Easter (its date is not fixed - this holiday is celebrated two weeks after Catholic Easter)
May Day - May 01 (International Workers' Day. The day of working people around the world and their solidarity. Even though the holiday appeared at the end of the 18th century in Chicago, USA, it is mostly marked only in the FSU countries. It is still marked in many countries of Eastern Europe, in the former Soviet block)
Victory Day - May 09 (the Victory Day over the fascist Germany in 1945, on which veterans of war, of whom there are fewer and fewer with every year, are congratulated, honored and given flowers. Military parades and fireworks are typical of this holiday)
Trinity - May 30 (a religious holiday, a day off in Ukraine)
Constitution Day - June 28 (the Day of Ukraine's Constitution)
Independence Day - Aug 24 (the Day of Independence of Ukraine. It marks the date when Ukraine separeted from the former USSR and became independent)
Day of Freedom - November 22 (the holiday in honor of the Orange Revolution which began on November 22, 2004)
Army Day - Dec 06 (the Day of Ukraine Military Forces. It is a holiday of all men)
Catholic Christmas - Dec 25 (Christmas celebrated by Catholics and Protestants of whom there are many in Ukraine)

January 29	Day of fire-fighter
February 23	Day of motherland defender (former USSR army day)
March 13	of land worker
March 21	of people employed in consumer services
March 23	All Ukraine's Day of people dealing with amateurish art and culture
March 25	Day of SBU (security service of Ukraine)
March 26	of internal troops of Ukraine's ministry of internal affairs
April 04	of geologist
April 12	of people working for rockets and cosmic industry
April 17	of environment protection
April 18	of historic and cultural monuments protection
April 26	of Chernobyl disaster
May 15	Day of science
May 24	of Slavonic (Slavic) writing and culture
May 29	of people employed in books publishing industry
May 30	of chemist
June 01	Day of children protection
June 06	of journalist
June 16	of people employed in light industry
June 20	of medical people
June 23	of government employees
June 25	of customs officers
June 27	Day of young people, the youth
July 01	of architect
July 02	Day of Ukraine's Navy
July 03	Day of peacemaker
July 04	Day of Ukraine's air forces
July 04	of people employed in sea and river shipping industry
July 11	of fisherman
July 18	of metallurgist
July 25	of people employed in trade and commerce
August 02	Day of aero-mobile troops
August 08	Day of communications troops
August 08	Day of veterinarian
August 08	of builder, constructor
August 18	of bee-keeper
August 28	of aviation
August 29	of coal miner
September 01	Day of knowledge
September 05	Day of entrepreneur
September 11	Day of Ukrainian cinema
September 11	of physical culture and sport
September 12	of people employed in oil and gas industry
September 12	of tankman
September 18	of inventor
September 18	of pharmacist
September 19	of forest ranger
September 21	Day of Peace
September 26	Day of machine builder
September 27	of tourist, traveller
September 30	of librarian
October 03	Day of education, of teacher
October 08	Day of lawyer
October 10	of standardization and metrology
October 10	of artist
October 17	of food industry
October 30	of tax inspector
October 30	of life-saver
October 31	Day of the President of Ukraine
October 31	Day of driver
November 03	of engineering troops
November 03	of missile troops and artillery
November 04	of railway worker
November 04	Day of frontier troops
November 07	of people employed in the social sphere
November 09	Day of Ukrainian written literacy and language
November 16	of radio and television
November 17	of student
November 19	of meteorologist
November 19	of glass producer
November 21	of people employed in agriculture
December 01	of prosecutor
December 03	Day of disabled people (international)
December 05	of statistics
December 06	of Ukraine's military forces
December 15	of people employed in the court system
December 19	of attorney
December 20	of police
December 22	of Ukraine's diplomacy
December 22	of power engineering specialist
December 24	of people employed in archive maintenance, of registrar