Page of the Soviet revolutionary calendar showing December 12, 1937: Election Day for the Supreme Soviet of the USSR

The Soviet revolutionary calendar was in use in the USSR from 1929 to 1940. This article is about the Vietnamese holiday For the 1968 military operation that began on that holiday see Tết Offensive. By the traditional Xhosa calendar, the year began in June and ended in May when Canopus, a large star visible in the Southern Hemisphere, signalled the The Zoroastrian calendar is a religious Calendar used by members of the Zoroastrian faith and it is an approximation of the (tropical Solar calendar. The Runic calendar is a Perpetual calendar based on the 19 year long Metonic cycle of the Moon Mesoamerican calendars are the calendrical systems devised and used by the Pre-Columbian cultures of Mesoamerica. In the Mesoamerican calendars, Calendar Round dates are composed by interlacing the dates of a 260-day period ( Tzolk'in in the Maya Calendar, Tonalpohualli The Julian calendar, a reform of the Roman calendar, was introduced by Julius Caesar in 46 BC and came into force in 45 BC (709 Ab urbe condita The Calendar of saints is a traditional Christian method of organizing a Liturgical year on the level of days by associating each day with one or more Saints The Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar describes and dictates the rhythm of the life of the Eastern Orthodox Church. The liturgical year, also known as the Christian year, consists of the cycle of liturgical seasons in Christian churches which determines when The Darian Calendar is a proposed system of time-keeping designed to serve the needs of any possible future human settlers on the planet Mars. The Discordian or Erisian calendar is an alternative Calendar used by some adherents of Discordianism. A perpetual calendar is a Calendar which is good for a span of many years such as the Runic calendar. A wall calendar is a Calendar intended for placement on a wall Economic calendar is a type of Calendar that is intended to inform financiers and traders about the scheduled major economic numbers (like CPI, Events 627 - Battle of Nineveh: A Byzantine army under Emperor Heraclius defeats Emperor Khosrau II 's Persian Year 1937 ( MCMXXXVII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The Supreme Soviet of the USSR (Верхо́вный Сове́т СССР Verkhóvnyj Sovét SSSR) was the highest legislative body in the Soviet Union in The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR was a constitutionally Socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991

Shortly after the October Revolution of 1917, Vladimir Lenin had decreed to change the calendar in the Soviet Union from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar. The October Revolution (Октябрьская революция Oktyabrskaya revolyutsiya) also known as the Soviet Revolution The word Calendar consist of two words 1 Cal ( in Pashto means Year in Hindi and Persian is Sal- also means Year The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR was a constitutionally Socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991 The Julian calendar, a reform of the Roman calendar, was introduced by Julius Caesar in 46 BC and came into force in 45 BC (709 Ab urbe condita The Gregorian calendar is the most widely used Calendar in the world today This change involved bypassing the days from February 1 until February 13, 1918. Events 1327 - Teenaged Edward III is crowned King of England, but the country is ruled by his mother Queen Events 1258 - Baghdad falls to the Mongols, and the Abbasid Caliphate is destroyed Year 1918 ( MCMXVIII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common

Starting on October 1, 1929, as an experiment, a new rationalized version of the calendar was introduced. Events 331 BC - Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of Gaugamela. Year 1929 ( MCMXXIX) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. In this version, all weeks had 5 days, all months had 30 days and the remaining five days of a year were added as holidays in between, not belonging to any month or week. These days were:

• Lenin day after January 30
• Labour Days, two days after April 30
• Industry Days, two days after November 7
• in leap years, a leap day after February 30

The abolition of the seven-day week in favor of a five-day week was in part an anti-religious measure to banish the Christian Sunday as day of rest. Events 1648 - Eighty Years' War: The Treaty of Münster is signed ending the conflict between the Netherlands and Spain Labour Day is an annual Holiday celebrated all over the world that resulted from efforts of Events 313 - Roman emperor Licinius unifies the entire Eastern Roman Empire under his rule Events 1492 - The Ensisheim Meteorite the oldest Meteorite with a known date of impact strikes the Earth around noon in a Wheat A leap year (or intercalary year) is a year containing one or more extra days (or in the case of Lunisolar calendars an extra month in order to keep the occurs in some calendars unlike the Gregorian calendar A week (also called sennight or sevennight) is a unit of Time longer than a Day and shorter than a Month. Christianity ( Greek Χριστιανισμός from the word Xριστός ( Christ)is a monotheistic Religion centered on the life and teachings (In this it closely parallels the French Republican Calendar. The French Republican Calendar or French Revolutionary Calendar was a Calendar proposed during the French Revolution, and used by the French government ) Under the five-day week all workers were divided into five groups according to colour (yellow, pink, red, purple, green), and each group had one day of the week, according to the colour, as their day of rest. The intention was to improve industrial efficiency by avoiding the regular interruption of a non-working day. ^[1]

Although workers had more days off work under the new system (one day in five instead of one day in seven), the separation into five groups made family and social life inconvenient and proved very unpopular. In addition, the projected efficiency gains of the shorter week did not show up in reality.

It appears that the Gregorian calendar kept being used in the Soviet Union during this period. This is confirmed by consulting the successive dates in daily issues of Pravda, the official newspaper of the Communist Party, in which February had 28 days in 1930 and 1931. Pravda (Правда "The Truth" was a leading Newspaper of the Soviet Union and an official organ of the Central Committee of the

Page of the Soviet calendar. It's showing October 22, 1935, 4th day of shestidnevki, tuesday. Events 202 BC - Hannibal Barca, leader of the Carthaginians, is defeated by the Roman legions under Scipio Africanus Year 1935 ( MCMXXXV) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar.

Starting December 1, 1931, the Western schedule of month lengths was restored. Events 800 - Charlemagne judges the accusations against Pope Leo III in the Vatican Year 1931 ( MCMXXXI) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1931 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The 5-day workweek was replaced with the 6-day workweek, with a common day of rest on every 6th, 12th, 18th, 24th and 30th of the month. The 31st was kept outside this six-day week cycle and varied between a holiday and a working day, and March 1st was used instead of February 30th.

In practice the Sunday rest tradition proved hard to eliminate, with workers often taking both Sunday and the new day of rest. Finally, in 1940, the old seven day week was restored.

Sources

• Blackburn, Bonnie; and Leofranc Holford-Strevens (1999). The Oxford Companion to the Year. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 688-689. ISBN 0-19-214231-3.  

References

See also

• French Republican Calendar

External links

• A (partly satirical) article discussing the 6-day calendar