Customs Day of the Russian Federation was established in 1995 by decree of President B. Yeltsin. The choice of the date of October 25 sends us back to the distant past, when a unified customs charter first appeared. Your own professional holiday emphasizes the importance and significance of the work of customs as a government body and those whose work is to protect national interests. The history of the customs service in Russia goes back almost a thousand years, maybe more. Mention in primary sources dates back to the end of the 10th century. The first trade duties are “myt” or “myto”, levied in the Russian state on transported goods. But the Tatar-Mongol yoke left its mark on Russian life and way of life - it introduced its own special duty, which took root on the territory of Rus'. "Tamga" from a symbolic sign of ownership turned into income levied on the value of goods, and gave its name to "customs". In the old days, this was the name given to the place at the market or fair where goods were “customsed” and stamped. In the middle of the 17th century, a historical event occurred that gave birth to the modern holiday. Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich decided to streamline the confusing and imperfect customs system that existed at that time. He adopted the Trade Charter on October 25, 1653, and over the next few years a customs charter and a New Trade Charter were developed. By the end of the 17th century, the composition of customs officers was strictly defined: the head, his assistants-kissers (who swear an oath for service and kiss the cross), clerks who draw up documents. Petrine reforms also affected the customs service: in 1700, bailiffs appeared. And although later attempts were made to transfer the management of affairs into private hands, the decree of Catherine II finally transferred customs to a state department. She also ordered the creation of a customs border guard to combat the secret transportation of goods. And years later, modern customs protects the economic interests of the country. A professional holiday is not complete without congratulations from senior management and presentation of awards to officials. Today, for its holiday, customs organizes interesting exhibitions of international scale. The business program includes a variety of current aspects of customs work. One of the achievements can be considered the introduction of information technology into control and registration processes. Her activities are congratulated and appreciated not only by Russia. For example, the International Football Federation has appreciated the work of officials, namely, identifying counterfeits bearing FIFA trademarks. But the detection of such products is not the most important thing - law enforcement activities aimed against the illegal movement of drugs and weapons are important, especially taking into account the terrorist threat to the world community. Criminal cases and investigative activities are not uncommon in customs affairs. It has become a tradition for the next anniversary to sum up the results of the current year’s activities, testifying to the conscientious work of the department’s specialists for the benefit of the state and its citizens.

Our life is impossible without cables - wires of various types provide communication and lighting. More than 300 enterprises are engaged in the production of cables in Russia, employing thousands of people in total. Approximately the same number of factories and people are engaged in the supply of components for production. That is why it was decided to hold a professional holiday for employees of the cable industry. Cable Industry Worker's Day is dedicated to October 25, 1879. On this day, Mr. Siemens, the owner of the eponymous and world-famous electrical products manufacturing plant, received a license to manufacture products in St. Petersburg. The document allowed the production of insulated metal wire and telegraph cable. In Russia, the cable industry began rapid development at the beginning of the 20th century. The first factories were launched in Kolchugino and Moscow. By 1916, four factories were engaged in the production of cable products; during the war, they managed to retrain and reorient their activities to meet the needs of the front. In Russia, the holiday has not received official status, but this does not prevent everyone involved from celebrating this day in a professional and family circle. Since the holiday has not received official status, there are no rules for organizing events. Each enterprise and workforce independently decides how and where to celebrate their professional anniversary. There are also common celebration traditions: • management and work teams exchange congratulations on this day; • ceremonial meetings are organized at production enterprises; • management congratulates the staff, the most responsible employees and production leaders are awarded certificates, cash bonuses, and given valuable gifts. After the official part and the working day, the unofficial part of the celebration follows. The first Russian cable was created back in 1812 by P. L. Schilling, a Russian inventor and diplomat. He managed to detonate a mine from a distance through wires lowered into the water. After a while, in 1836, he also created the first telegraph line. Schilling came up with the idea of ​​​​insulating the wires - silk, ozokerite, raw rubber, and varnish were used for this purpose. The year 1840 can be considered special for the Russian cable industry, when a secret training team began working in the Peter and Paul Fortress. It was engaged in the production of galvanic conductors, and galvanism was taught here.

October 25 is the Day of the Marketer - a specialist in managing the sales of goods and services. Professionals research the relationship between market supply of products and demand. Based on this data, marketers develop strategies and conduct product promotion campaigns. Thanks to the work of specialists, a sales system is built that brings maximum profit to enterprises or organizations. A marketer is one of the most sought-after professions in modern Russia. The professional holiday was established in honor of the creation on October 25, 1975 in the Soviet Union of a department responsible for advertising and promotion of goods to foreign markets under the Ministry of Foreign Trade. Therefore, according to a long-standing tradition, Marketer’s Day is celebrated not only in Russia, but also in the CIS countries. This is interesting: Marketing is inextricably linked with advertising. Some of its samples cause bewilderment and a smile among modern specialists. So, in the USSR there were posters everywhere with the call: “Fly with Aeroflot planes!” In the USSR there were no companies competing with the state carrier. Therefore, Aeroflot did not need advertising, especially since plane tickets were in short supply, and travelers often had difficulty purchasing them. In Russia, training in the specialty “marketing” became available to a wide range of people only in the early 90s. Before this, only a narrow circle of selected students from the All-Union Academy of Foreign Trade could become a professional in the field of commercial cooperation with foreign countries. The educational institution was opened in Moscow in 1931. Today, in addition to VAVT, marketers are trained in many colleges and economic universities in the country. This is interesting: According to scientists, a modern person sees and hears about 3,000 advertisements during the day, remembering no more than 10. This is the result of the right choice of product promotion strategy: competent market analysis, a successful brand name and the creation of a slogan by marketers. In honor of the holiday, leading marketers speak to students of institutes and academies, congresses, scientific and practical conferences, forums and competitions are held. The first lectures on marketing were given at the beginning of the twentieth century. within the walls of the University of Michigan, California and Illinois. Courses in the emerging specialty appeared in several US universities at once in 1902. In 1934, the first issue of the American Marketing Journal was published. Today, the marketing profession is on the list of the most in demand along with web developers and IT technology specialists. And although the celebration is not included in the register of official holidays, marketers, whose demand in the labor market is constantly growing, celebrate it annually on October 25. This is interesting: The most successful from a commercial point of view are considered to be advertising for teenagers of Snickers bars, a marketing ploy with Chupa Chups lollipops and an image of a camel on a pack of Camel cigarettes.

October 25 is World Pasta Day, although this holiday is still relatively new. However, many people, judging by the name, will guess that this celebration originated in Italy, where pasta, which is prepared in dozens and even hundreds of variations, is the favorite national dish and the pride of the country. The holiday began in 1995 in the capital of Italy. At that time, an international forum was held there, at which the world's leading producers of pasta and macaroni were present. It is known that pasta is sold in almost all countries of the world, being considered a healthy, tasty and, what is important for many people, an inexpensive product. At first, the international forum was purely business in nature, where current issues and problems of manufacturers were traditionally discussed. And it was at this forum that entrepreneurs came up with the idea to establish a special day. It is difficult to say whether the forum participants expected that the day they established would become so popular throughout the world. Perhaps it was just someone's joke idea, and no one expected that it would take root far beyond the borders of Italy. However, this is exactly what happened. Gourmets know that there are hundreds of types of pasta in the world, which are created from white and dark flour, with the addition of olive oil, eggs and many other ingredients. This is what makes them so tasty, healthy, and nutritious. Sometimes this dish is called “spaghetti” or traditionally “pasta”, which is typical mainly for Europe. Perhaps someone is wondering why pasta was given such an honor, since people’s diets contain other equally healthy products. The answer to this question lies in the fact that UNESCO has recognized the Mediterranean diet, which is so popular throughout the world, as the “intangible heritage of humanity,” and one of the central components in its composition is pasta. In addition, international organizations have recognized the numerous benefits of pasta. They remain one of the most inexpensive foods in the world, thanks to which many people in far from the richest countries in the world manage to avoid hunger. Somewhere you can hear that pasta, being a typical flour dish, does not belong to the category of healthy products, but is rather considered “food for the poor.” However, this statement is easy to dispute. The fact is that everything depends on the quality and nutritional value of the raw materials. In particular, there is spaghetti made from wholemeal flour enriched with fiber. In this case, they are a valuable product that has a beneficial effect on the human gastrointestinal tract. In this aspect, they can even be called a dietary product. Since this holiday is becoming really popular, you can celebrate it in different ways. On this day, many people invite their family and friends to wonderful Italian restaurants, which are located in large numbers in almost all corners of the planet. Restaurants and other catering establishments strongly support this tradition, offering significant discounts on World Pasta Day and stimulating even greater interest in the holiday. But this is not the only way to properly celebrate the occasion. There are many international organizations that use this day to share experiences with people. In particular, master classes on preparing pasta as they do in the best Italian restaurants are actively held. Also, some organizations use this day to draw attention to the problem of hunger that exists in some regions of the world.

Painting reflects the diverse and amazing world around us, internally transforming both viewers and the authors of the paintings. It is widely known that a person receives most of the information using the visual apparatus. Artistic paintings give an idea of ​​how the world works, as it was tens and hundreds of years ago.

International Women's Day for Peace

World Opera Day

Mutual responsibility day

There are quite a lot of subcultures that were formed against the backdrop of their representatives’ passion for music - hip-hop, rave, and heavy metal. One of the oldest is punk rock. Such famous groups as the British Sex Pistols and the Ramones from New York are considered the founders of the musical style. October 25th is Punk Day, a powerful countercultural movement of the 70s. twentieth century, which became one of the central trends of rock. The hippie culture, the “flower children,” became the ancestor of many types of alternative music. One of them was punk - garage rock. In addition to the raw and rough sound based on several chords, the musicians demonstrated a special manner of performing the compositions. Thus, the Ramones used a metronome that worked at the highest speed. The appearance of the performers spoke of a disregard for the mainstream: unwashed, disheveled hair, dirty and torn clothes reflected the philosophy of the subculture. Therefore, Ed Seders from the group The Fugs, an American musician and public figure, stated that punks are “lumpen hippies.” Translated from colloquial English, punk means “hooligan” or “punk”. Pins, spikes, silver jewelry, torn clothes, black leather jackets and berets (lace-up army boots), wristbands, leather bracelets - these and other items were used by representatives of the subculture to create the desired image. Aggression, constant confrontation with the surrounding world, the desire for freedom and independence, opposition to authoritarianism - this is what distinguishes punks from nihilists like them. Punk for a Day Day is celebrated by everyone interested in the history of the emergence of alternative music in the mid-twentieth century. Punk also made its mark in other areas of culture - literature (prose and poetry) and even fashion. Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood were designers who opened a boutique in London in 1971 that sold jackets with lots of metal studs, ripped jeans and other clothing in acid colors in a "dead style" featuring skulls and similar symbols of the afterlife. In 2010, Karl Lagerfeld, Valentino and Jean-Paul Gaultier turned to the subculture, creating several fashion collections in the haute-punk style. What is the best way to celebrate Punk Day for those who are close to this daring style and the underground philosophy of its supporters? Of course, communicating with like-minded people online and offline - listening to aggressive and driving music in a club or pub. You can dye your hair a bright color, make a devilock ("devil's curl") or a mohawk - a symbol of punks. To create a vertical composition of hair on the head, gel, varnish and grease are used. At Punk for a Day, Day attend concerts of your favorite bands who work in various styles of punk - hardcore, folk, pop, crust, gothic rock and many others. On October 25, fans of all directions of the subculture unite, which arose as a protest to the mainstream - a well-fed and measured bourgeois life. The holiday reminds us that rock and roll is alive, and with it, punk is explosive, aggressive and sincere in all its manifestations.

The folk holiday Andron the Astrologer is celebrated annually on October 25 and is associated with such saints as Provar, Tarakh and Andronik of Anazar. Three martyrs suffered at the hands of pagans back in the 4th century, during the reign of the Roman emperor Diocletian. Having arrested three men, they were mocked for a long time, trying to force them to renounce the Christian faith. However, none of the cruel tortures could break the martyrs; none of them renounced Jesus Christ. Having sentenced the saints to death, the men were thrown to be devoured by wild animals, but the animals did not even approach them. Enraged even more, the pagans chopped the martyrs into pieces, and devoted Christians collected the remains of the saints and buried them according to all customs. Saint Andronicus (Andron) was considered a wise astrologer, so on this day it is customary to watch the stars and guess from them the weather and what harvest to expect next year. If the stars blinked, it meant a change in the weather; if they glowed, it meant strong winds. And if there were many stars in the sky, this meant that the next year should be a good harvest for peas. Dim stars mean prolonged rains and thaws, bright stars mean severe frost. People believed that the stars were closely connected with a person and could influence his fate and important events. The number of stars corresponded to the number of people on earth; when a person was born, a new star lit up in the sky. And a shooting star spoke of someone’s death, so flying comets were considered harbingers of misfortune and natural disasters. On the day of Andron the Stargazer, it was not customary to laugh loudly and have fun, as well as to offend someone; it was believed that in this way a person would bring upon himself terrible troubles. You couldn’t answer a knock on the door and ask, “Who’s there,” because you could let trouble into the house. Therefore, a ribbon was often tied to the gate, over which a special prayer was said, protecting the owners of the house from various misfortunes. Those born on this day were predicted to have the gift of prediction by the stars, but it was believed that the fate of such people would be difficult, with many difficult trials.

Miller's Festival of Belarus

Romanian Armed Forces Day

Constitution Day of Lithuania

European Day of Civil Justice, European Lawyers Day

Orthodox holidays on October 25:

Feast of the Jerusalem Icon of the Mother of God

Memorial Day of the Rudny Icon of the Mother of God

Seventh Ecumenical Council

Feast of the Icon of the Mother of God Mokhnatinskaya

Feast of the Icon of the Mother of God “Hodegetria” Yaroslavl