This completely new holiday is celebrated in Russia on June 6th. This decision was made in 2011, and is due to the fact that it was on this day that the great Pushkin was born. Calling our poet the founder of the modern Russian language, we are not lying at all. Paying a well-deserved tribute to this man, June 6th celebrates two related holidays.
150 million people on planet Earth are considered Russian-speaking and another 100 million speak it as a second language. Russian is the most widespread Slavic language, moreover, it is also the most widespread European language, if you look from a geographical point of view. It is also a language that astronauts who want to go to the International Space Station must study! On this day, various concerts are held, including Slavic folk music, festivals, exhibitions and competitions.
Picking a date is not a toy -
On this day Pushkin was born.
Every Russian knows this
He respects his language.
Glorious, strong and mighty,
Sometimes it's burning -
Our pride for centuries.
Happy birthday of the language!
How beautiful the Russian language is!
How powerful! How big!
Of course there is no better one -
Any Russian poet has proven this.
How picturesque
And varied
How amazing
How beautiful!
Today, you will remember for centuries,
Day of the glorious Russian language!
Congratulations on Russian Language Day and I would like to wish that there are always necessary and important words with which you can express any emotions, feelings, hopes and desires. May our mighty one live forever, may no one be able to desecrate or tarnish the great Russian language.
great and mighty
Our favorite language.
He is being taught today
Chinese and Tajik.
Alexander Pushkin himself
I wrote poems on it,
But the rules, of course,
Its not that easy.
And everyone to whom he is dear,
I want to congratulate you.
Let him prosper
It flies to all corners.
Let through generations
It grows stronger and lives.
Let him not know oblivion,
He will never die!
On this holiday of Russian speech
And native language
May you have a simple, carefree life,
Let the river flow with happiness
Spreads wider
Well, Russian is our language
Remains the best in the world
And more powerful than others!
Congratulations to everyone who writes,
Knows, loves, says,
Well, maybe I just heard
About our great language!
On Sasha Pushkin's birthday,
Whose poems sound like music,
Along with culture and arts
We celebrate language day.
Let's celebrate the holiday with the whole world.
May it be long lasting
Let there be an interlocutor
On this holiday of Russian speech.
Happy Russian Language Day
Today I congratulate you,
Worldwide understanding
I wish the language.
I wish that Russian speech
Sounded in every country
So that the firm Russian word
It was valued all over the world.
Celebrating Language Day
And today we congratulate
Everyone who knows Russian,
Writes and reads correctly.
Express yourself carefully
Precise, concise and clear:
Say what you want
But you love your language.
We will tell you in Russian,
Believe our words
What is powerful, beautiful, great
Our best language!
Happy day of the great language,
So many-sided
Calm, ebullient,
Not consistently better!
You have known Russian since childhood,
You all respect him
So let the Russian speech flow -
Beautiful, skillful!
Happy Russian Language Day
I want to sincerely congratulate you,
“Great, mighty,” undoubtedly he is,
We have all known about this for a long time.
Let's not spoil the speech
A bad and unpleasant word,
So that every syllable and turn
It was certainly agreed upon.
Pushkin and Tolstoy told them,
You and I are telling them now,
The Great Russian - the depth of centuries,
They wrote a lot of poems about you!
I wish you to be loved everywhere,
So that they speak to you with love,
So that Russians are respected all over the world,
And they considered it an honor to speak it.
The holiday was established at the initiative of the UN in 2010. The prerequisite for this was the support of multilingualism and cultural communication. Russian is one of the six official languages of the UN, along with Arabic, Chinese, English, Spanish and French.
Each of the representative countries proposed a date of celebration that reflects the priority for speakers of a particular language. For example, the Chinese wanted to glorify the man who invented their writing with a memorable date. For the Russian people, a special date is June 6, associated with Pushkin, and specifically with his birthday. It was thanks to his genius that the unification of the popular, colloquial dialect with the book one took place: the literary Russian language took the form that it has now.
On the first anniversary, the date became official for Russia by presidential decree. Russian is spoken by a sixth of the entire population of the planet. This is the official, national language for the Russian Federation; has state status, on a par with native ones, in Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, and a number of other countries. Even in those states where it is not a priority for the authorities, there are too many native speakers to ignore it. Unofficially, all countries of the former USSR communicate on it. It is not surprising that even cosmonauts are required to know Russian if they expect to end up on the ISS.
The General Assembly supports a special training program and has connections with the Russian Book Club. Multilingualism allows the organization to convey information to ordinary people, including through the website. It is important for the UN that anyone can get access to news and primary sources of information. All events on the holiday are aimed at studying, improving perception, development, knowledge of the most powerful and great.
The festival, which has international status and demonstrates Slavic culture in all its glory, is called “The Great Russian Word”. There are also concerts, competitions, and exhibitions of works of art related to the Russian people and helping to better understand the mentality of native speakers. Special events take place at UN headquarters in different countries.
Interest in Russia is steadily growing from the world community. With strong administrative support, in recent years it has been possible to increase the prestige and importance of the language. Russian contemporary writers are able to capture the attention of foreign audiences, for example, Dashkova, Akunin, Prilepin, Ulitskaya, Lukyanenko.
But they have to withstand tough competition from their own compatriots who only lived several centuries ago - the Russian classics. The opinion that literature helps to comprehend the secrets of the Russian soul makes the names of Chekhov, Lermontov, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Gogol famous abroad as never before.
And it doesn’t matter that literature is sometimes not read, but watched. For example, Chekhov as a playwright is considered a star of the first magnitude in terms of the number of productions throughout the world, and Anna Karenina has been filmed about 20 times. Maybe watching a film is a reason to get acquainted with the original, the source.
On June 6, on the birthday of the great Russian poet, founder of the modern Russian literary language, Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin, Russian Language Day is celebrated in Russia and around the world.
The decision to hold Russian Language Day, as one of the official languages of the UN, was first made at a meeting of the Department of Public Information of the UN Secretariat on February 20, 2010, on the eve of International Mother Language Day, as part of the program for the development of multilingualism and the preservation of cultural diversity. One of the goals of this program is to maintain the equality of all six official UN languages (English, Arabic, Spanish, Chinese, Russian and French), as well as to draw attention to different languages and cultural traditions.
On June 6, 2011, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed a decree on the annual celebration of Russian Language Day in Russia.
In order to support the Russian language in the Russian Federation and abroad, the Federal Target Program "Russian Language" was implemented, designed for 2011-2015. On May 20, 2015, the Russian government approved the Federal Target Program "Russian Language" for 2016-2020.
One of the most important tools for expanding international cultural and humanitarian cooperation between Russia and other countries is the support and promotion of the Russian language abroad.
The Federal Agency for the Commonwealth of Independent States, Compatriots Living Abroad, and International Humanitarian Cooperation - Rossotrudnichestvo and its foreign representative offices annually organize and conduct cultural, educational, scientific and methodological events aimed at popularizing the Russian language and stimulating the interest of foreign citizens to its study, to support national Russian studies and
The issue of the relevance of studying, preserving traditions and the infallibility of the Russian language in our country has been supported for many decades. Russian Language Day first began to be celebrated in the 60s. By the eighties, it began to be held annually, but the dates, as a rule, coincided with the anniversary celebrations of writers, and it did not have the status of a public holiday.
Nationwide love for the Russian word
Interest in the history of the native word arose en masse during the time of the struggle against general illiteracy. Along with mastering writing, students were taught to hear the richness of the vocabulary of the Russian language and the melodiousness of poetic syllables. People absorbed knowledge, learned to read and write, first by listening and then independently reading the literary works of Russian classics. In Soviet times, the love for the native language in our country was all-consuming, and it did not matter to people which day of the Russian language was considered a holiday. To write illiterately, not to be able to quote A. S. Pushkin, not to recognize the style of M. Gorky - it was simply shameful.
Even during the hard times of war, literature teachers organized themed holidays dedicated to the words of Russian writers and poets. People, exhausted by war and famine, listened with trepidation to the voices of the readers, forgetting for a while about the horrors of reality. The power of influence of the Russian word on the stamina and courage of the soldiers was great. And in the traveling duffel bags of many soldiers, well-read volumes of Russian classics were carefully kept.
The beginning of the annual celebrations of Russian literature
The Russian language acquired the status of the state language in the 21st century. But the first attempts to legitimize and give special significance to this event were made back in 1996 on the territory of Crimea. The question was not only about the scale of the celebration, but it was also decided on which days of the month Russian Language Day would be especially noticeable for society. This year, the Crimean Russian community came up with a proposal to establish such a holiday as the Day of Protection of the Russian Language. In order to attract everyone's attention, they decided to celebrate it in June - the month dedicated to the memory of A. Pushkin.
Russian Language Day: history of celebration
Already in 1997, on the initiative of defenders of the native literary language, on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of A. Pushkin, June 6 was first declared the Day of Russian Poetry, and since that time the holiday has been celebrated annually. Magnificent events dedicated to this date were held not only in our country, but also in many other countries, attracting new, young listeners to the ranks of lovers of Russian poetry. The all-Russian status of the holiday allowed wordsmiths to draw public attention to the problems of preserving the purity of the Russian language.
Ten years of discussions about the need to develop interest in language among young people were required to make a significant government decision. In 2007, an article entitled “Let there be a Day!” appeared on the pages of the Parliamentary Newspaper. Its author, I. Klimenko, can be called the herald of the idea. It must be said that this call was not heard immediately. At first, the slogan “Russian language in every home” served as the reason for the opening of a new annual literature festival - “The Great Russian Word”. In its second year, the festival acquired international status.
Russian language outside the Motherland
In 2010, the idea of establishing days of languages of international importance was supported by the UN Assembly, defining dates for the celebrations of French, Chinese, English, Russian, Spanish and Arabic. A year later, the President of the Russian Federation officially declared Russian Language Day. No one doubted the month of celebration - June.
From now on, June 6, the date of glorification of Russian poetry throughout the world is usually celebrated as Russian Language Day. It is held as part of an international program aimed at expanding the boundaries of the multilingual space and supporting the equal importance of the six languages recognized as official by the UN.
Popularization of the Russian word in modern society
Nowadays, Russian is recognized as one of the most popular languages in the world. In terms of distribution, it ranks fourth after English, Chinese and Spanish. Interest in our language is constantly growing, primarily due to Russian cultural heritage. It is this factor that always determines the degree of mutual understanding between people of different nations.
Today, the desire of foreigners to read our classics in the original is no longer surprising. Economic and business areas of cooperation with Russia are a strong motivation for foreigners to learn Russian. In this regard, in recent years in many countries around the world the number of educational programs that included Russian literature has sharply increased. According to statistics, today almost 200 million people outside Russia study the language of L. Tolstoy and A. Pushkin, and the birthday of the Russian language is celebrated in many parts of our planet.
The holiday of Russian literature is a special event in our country
After several years, the Birthday of the Russian language in our country has become a grandiose event, and the scale of the celebrations is only increasing. The language of A. Pushkin, recognized as the “golden measure” of classical Russian literature, serves as the leitmotif of the entire holiday. As before, thousands of people come to the Pushkin Mountains to once again enjoy the sounds of music and poetry. It is difficult to fit all the planned events into one day, so festive performances are held here throughout the month. Programs and dates of performances are planned in advance, and concert venues are filled with both famous and young poets, musicians and actors.
The name of the Russian poet, the brilliant A. Pushkin, not only unites lovers of literature around him, but also continuously expands the boundaries of the use of the Russian word. His “poetry of reality” and fairy tales, despite the difficulty of translation, attract readers all over the world, of all ages and nationalities.
Such an annual event as Russian Language Day has today become evidence of the consolidation of Russian-speaking people around the world, the connection of generations and the strengthening of citizenship among young people.
