Financier Day in Russia

Despite respect and honor, financial workers for a long time did not have their own common professional holiday. Perhaps the Soviet system did not consider financiers as a single whole, but separated accountants, cashiers, bank employees, and tax officers separately. But with the advent of a market economy, the authority of specialists in this industry has grown so much that the question has arisen about allocating a separate holiday date. The decree on Financier Day, met with general approval, was issued by President Dmitry Medvedev in 2011. On September 8, work teams host solemn congratulations and awards, banquets, corporate events, as well as professional competitions for the best specialist and expert in their field. On the one hand, this is a very young holiday, it is only a few years old, and on the other, the date September 8 has become a favorite of Russian treasurers since the beginning of the 19th century. Prone to reforming the government, Emperor Alexander 1 issued a manifesto on the establishment of the Ministry of Finance in 1802. Since then, the opinion of the minister of this institution has been almost decisive in the future fate of the country. The state economy reached its greatest prosperity towards the end of the 19th century, when Russia became the owner of the second largest gold reserve in the world after the United States. The date September 8 was memorable until the revolutionary events of 1917. The Bolsheviks tried to abandon everything that could connect the future of the new state with the overthrown tsarist regime. But, despite all the ideology and faith in bright communism, the Red Commissars could not strengthen their power without a monetary basis. It turned out that the existence of a successful state is unthinkable without a reasonable distribution of cash flows. As well as without competent, responsible, accurate performers of financial transactions at all levels. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the former fraternal republics had to turn to foreign experience in capital management; new specialties and positions related to the financial sector appeared - financial directors, auditors, analysts. A new generation of highly qualified specialists has grown up with the skills to function in difficult market conditions and succeed in them.