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May 26: holidays and events on this day

Holidays and commemorative dates:

Day of Kyiv – the capital of Ukraine celebrates its name day on the last Sunday of May. The holiday has been officially celebrated since 1987. The traditional event of this day is the sports and charity event “Running under chestnuts”. This year, for the Day of Kyiv, employees of the regional communal enterprises of the “Kyivzelenbud” cooperative created flower arrangements based on the works of Ukrainian artists (Alla Gorska, Kazimir Malevich, etc.).

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Floral arrangement based on the painting “Cossack Mama” by Lyubov Panchenko (park with water features along Roman Shukhevich Avenue) / Photo: kyivcity.gov.ua

Chemist’s Day — a professional holiday of workers of the chemical and petrochemical industries of Ukraine. It has been celebrated since 1994 on the last Sunday of May.

World Redhead Day – celebrated for the first time in 2005. Only 2 to 3% of people on Earth have red hair.

Events on this day:

1053 — Grand Duke Volodymyr Monomakh of Kyiv was born.

1648 — battle near Korsun. The 15,000-strong Cossack army of Bohdan Khmelnytsky defeated the 18,000-strong Polish army of Mykolai Pototsky.

1877 — born Olga Kosach-Kryvyniuk, Ukrainian writer, literary critic, translator, ethnographer, doctor, sister of Lesya Ukrainka.

2014 – battles for the Donetsk airport began. A strategic object worth more than 200 million dollars became a battlefield – it was hit by air and missile strikes. That day, the Armed Forces retained control of the airport. At that time, no one knew that the defense of the airport would last for 242 days. The separatists, who for a long time could not force the Ukrainian military to withdraw, even despite the superiority in force, nicknamed the defenders of the airport “cyborgs”.

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