Anniversaries of writers in the year. Essay competition

The 2018 calendar is rich in dozens of significant dates, a special place among which is given to the birth anniversaries of “geniuses of the pen.” The creativity of writers opens up the opportunity to enjoy the atmosphere of feelings and emotions, gain precious knowledge and find answers to burning questions.

We recommend!Anniversaries of writers and poets in 2019

The whole world honors the memory of the eternal builders of the flowering wall of celebration and inspiration on the days of writers' anniversaries in 2018 by month:

date	Anniversary	Literary hero of the day
03.01.1903	115	Alexander Beck
22.01.1788	230	George Gordon Byron
23.01.1783	235	Stendhal
25.01.1938	80
04.02.1873	145	Mikhail Prishvin
10.02.1938	80	Georgy Weiner
01.03.1863	155	Fedor Sologub
13.03.1913	105
16.03.1903	115	Tamara Gabbe
28.03.1868	150	Maksim Gorky
15.04.1843	175	Henry James
22.06.1898	120	Erich Maria Remarque
25.06.1903	115	George Orwell
03.07.1883	135
12.07.1828	190	Nikolai Chernyshevsky
27.07.1848	170	Hans Hoffmann
27.07.1853	165	Vladimir Korolenko
30.07.1818	200	Emily Brontë
09.09.1828	190	Lev Tolstoy
09.09.1918	100	Boris Zakhoder
21.09.1708	310	Antioch Cantemir
28.09.1803	215	Prosper Merimee
09.10.1733	285	Mikhail Kheraskov
09.11.1818	200	Ivan Turgenev
23.11.1908	110
01.12.1913	105	Victor Dragunsky

The immortal creations of writers are a precious heritage that is not measured in material terms, but makes humanity many times richer and wiser.

Russian and foreign anniversaries

Prose writers and poets, whose birthdays fall in 2018, created their masterpieces on different continents, in different countries and different parts of the world.

A galaxy of Russian writers

"Winter" birthday people

The eightieth anniversary of the birth of the outstanding “master of rhyme” Vladimir Vysotsky will be celebrated on January 25. In addition to the traditional visit to his grave by devoted friends and fans, this day will be marked by the opening of new halls in the Vysotsky House dedicated to the life path of the genius.

The anniversary date - 115 years from the birth of the writer Alexander Bek, who immortalized a whole milestone in the history of the Soviet period in his stories, falls on January 3, 2018. And on February 10, the great screenwriter and master of detective stories, Georgy Weiner, would have turned 80 years old.

Spring and summer

On March 16, the literary society will celebrate the anniversary of Maxim Gorky - 150 years from birth. The opening of restored museums dedicated to the memory of the great writer, who made a significant contribution to world literature, was timed to coincide with this day.

July will be marked by the anniversary of the Soviet-era writer-critic Nikolai Chernyshevsky and publicist Vladimir Korolenko.

"Autumn" birthday people

The brightest and most significant autumn event for true connoisseurs of verbal art is the 200th anniversary of the birth of Ivan Turgenev. By November 11, a large-scale celebration of the round anniversary is being prepared with the presentation of the “Turgenev” encyclopedia, the opening of a museum with its six branches and the release of memorable works of the writer.

The brightest anniversary stars in the literary firmament of foreign countries

Winter

On January 22, the whole world will pay tribute to the well-deserved respect and recognition of the great English poet of the Romantic era, George Gordon Byron, who would have turned 230 years old in 2018. And the 23rd day of the same month marks the 235th anniversary of Stendhal, a French writer whose works are read by fans of the “psychological novel” genre.

The writer and traveler, whose name is known throughout the world, the great Jules Verne was born on February 8, 1828. And on this day, but already in 2018, the public will celebrate its 190th anniversary.

Spring

An American writer who wrote 12 plays, 112 gripping stories and 20 novels, prose writer Henry James was born on April 15, 1843. 2018 marks the 175th anniversary of his birth.

Summer

The public will celebrate the 120th birthday of the famous German prose writer, one of the best writers of the “lost generation” Erich Maria Remarque on June 22.

The outstanding “genius of the pen,” the German-language writer Franz Kafka, would have celebrated his 135th birthday on July 3, 2018. In the same month, but on the 30th back in 1818, Emily Brontë was born in Foggy Albion, who glorified her great literary family with the novel Wuthering Heights. In 2018 she would have turned 200 years old.

The 170th anniversary of Hans Hoffmann, a talented German innovative teacher and writer, whose pen wrote the famous grotesque story “Little Zaches,” falls on July 27.

Autumn

The date September 28, 1803 is known in literary circles as the birthday of the French prose writer Prosper Merimee, a recognized master of the short story. In 2018, the date of its 215th anniversary is celebrated.

Each of these literary geniuses, in their works, presented the world with a piece of their soul, feelings, emotions and experiences, the spirit of the time and the extraordinary flavor of the era in which they happened to live and create.

As a gift to children

The dates of the anniversaries of children's writers in 2018 deserve special attention. To open the door to a fairy tale, to open the curtain of a mysterious secret, to give a whole world of fantastic adventures - because for this it is not enough to just be a talented author, you need to love children with all your heart, and subtly feel their emotional experiences.

Among everyone’s favorite poets and prose writers who have created real masterpieces of the pen for their smallest and most grateful readers is the 110-year-old hero of the day, Nikolai Nosov. His stories, fairy tales and stories full of love for children are lively, real, witty and exciting. That is why they are so loved by young literature connoisseurs. Little Dunno, smart Bobik and Barbos, Vitya Maleev - these and other ageless, perky characters have forever settled in the hearts of long-grown-up “kids” and are just as quickly gaining warm recognition among modern children.

Boris Zakhoder, whose centenary is being celebrated in 2018, has also done a lot for the development of children's literature. His poems about professions and animals, which are both light and filled with deep meaning, and playful little rhymes are written simply and clearly, as if the author himself is still a child and sees the whole world as a child, in its brightest colors.

2018 marks the 145th anniversary of the birth of Mikhail Prishvin, whose authorship includes stories about nature that very captivatingly and kindly introduce little readers to the greatness and beauty of the world around them.

Tamara Gabbe, a teacher at heart and a talented storyteller, gave many works to children's literature (“A Book for First Reading,” plays “The Crystal Slipper,” “City of Masters, or the Tale of the Two Hunchbacks,” a retelling of “Gulliver at the Lilliputians,” etc.). Her 115th anniversary also falls in 2018.

The 105th anniversary of the birth of Sergei Mikhalkov, a famous and beloved author of perky poems by children, will be celebrated on March 13, 2018. The same age would have been this year for the great classic Viktor Dragunsky, whose pen the cycle “Deniska’s Stories” belongs to.

True masters of artistic expression have brought their valuable gifts, filled with love and respect for young readers, to the collection of literature for children.

The anniversaries of writers and poets in 2018 are the best occasion to discover the wonderful world of words, to revive the work of venerable geniuses of the pen, or to enjoy amazing novels, short stories, novellas and poems for the first time.

2006-2016 - Decade of rehabilitation and development of affected regions

(third decade after Chernobyl)

2010-2020 - Decade to Combat Desertification

2011-2020 - Decade of Biodiversity

Decade of Action for Road Safety

2012-2017 - Decree of the President of the Russian Federation “On the National Strategy of Action in the Interests of Children for 2012-2017.”

2013-2022 - International Decade for the Rapprochement of Cultures

JANUARY

January 3 - 80 years old Nikolai Mikhailovich Rubtsov (1936-1971)

6th January - 120 years Efim Nikolaevich Permitin (1896-1971)

January 8 - 70 years old on the birthday of the Russian writer, translator Mikhail Davidovich Yasnova (1946)

13th of January - 85 years old since the birth of the Russian writer Arkady Alexandrovich Weiner (1931-2005)

January 14 - 105 years since the birth of the Russian writer Anatoly Naumovich Rybakov (1911-1999)

January 15 - 125 years since the birth of the Russian poet Osip Emilievich Mandelstam (1891-1938)

January 24 - 240 years on the birthday of the German writer Ernst Theodore Amadeus Hoffmann (1776-1822)

January 27 - 190 years on the birthday of the Russian satirist writer Mikhail Evgrafovich Saltykov-Shchedrin (1826-1889)

January 27 - 125 years since the birth of the Russian writer, poet Ilya Grigorievich Erenburg (1891-1967)

January 29 - 150 years on the birthday of the French prose writer and playwright Romain Rolland (1866-1944)

FEBRUARY

February 5th - 180 years since the birth of the Russian critic, publicist Nikolai Alexandrovich Dobrolyubov (1836-1861)

February 9th - 575 years since the birth of the Uzbek poet Nizamaddin Mir Alisher Navoi (1441-1501)

February 10 - 135 years since the birth of the Russian writer Boris Konstantinovich Zaitsev (1881-1972)

February 13 - 135 years since the birth of the English children's writer, the first laureate of the International Literary Prize. H. C. Andersen Elinor Farjeon (1881-1965)

February, 15 - 110 years since the birth of the Tatar poet Musa Jalil (1906-1944)

February 16 - 185 years since the birth of the Russian writer Nikolai Semenovich Leskov (1831-1895)

February 17 - 110 years on the birthday of the Russian children's poet Agni Lvovna Barto (1906-1971)

February 17 - 160 years Josepha Roni(senior) (1856-1940)

February 22 - 195 years since the birth of the Russian writer Alexey Mikhailovich Zhemchuzhnikov (1821-1905)

24 February - 230 years on the birthday of the German writer, philologist Wilhelm Grimm (1786-1859)

24 February - 85 years old on the birthday of the Israeli writer, laureate of the International Prize. H. C. Andersen (1996) Uri Orleva (1931)

25 February - 145 years on the birthday of the Ukrainian writer Lesya Ukrainka (1871-1913)

25 February - 105 years Agnia Alexandrovna Kuznetsova (1911-1996)

28th of February - 150 years since the birth of the Russian symbolist poet Vyacheslav Ivanovich Ivanov (1866-1949)

MARCH

March 4 - 110 years, laureate of the International Prize named after. H. C. Andersen Meindert De Jong (1906-1991)

5th of March - 110 years since the birth of the Russian writer Nikolai Vladimirovich Bogdanov (1906-1989)

March 12 - 80 years old on the birthday of the American writer, laureate of the International Prize. H. C. Andersen (1992) Virginia Hamilton (1936-2002)

March 25 - 105 years since the birth of the Russian writer Alexey Ivanovich Musatov (1911-1976)

March 27 - 135 years since the birth of the Russian writer Arkady Timofeevich Averchenko (1881-1925)

March 27 - 145 years since the birth of the German writer, public figure Heinrich Mann (1871-1950)

APRIL

12th of April - 85 years old Vitaly Titovich Korzhikova (1931-2007)

April 12 is World Aviation and Space Day. 55 years from the day first manned space flight(1961) (noted by UNESCO)

April 13 - 110 years anniversary of the birth of the Irish writer, Nobel laureate Samuel Beckett (1906-1989)

April 15 - 130 years since the birth of the Russian poet Nikolai Stepanovich Gumilyov (1886-1921)

April 15 - 90 years old on the birthday of the Russian poetess Emma Efraimovna Moshkovskaya (1926-1981)

April 18th - 115 years on the birthday of the Hungarian writer Laszlo Nemeta (1901-1975)

April 24 - 225 years Nikolai Alexandrovich Bestuzhev (1791-1855)

April 28 - 105 years since the birth of the Russian writer Georgy Makeevich Markov (1911-1991)

April 28 - 80 years old on the birthday of the Russian poet, prose writer Viktor Alexandrovich Sosnory (1936)

April 30 - 80 years old since the birth of the Russian writer Viktor Ivanovich Likhonosov (1936)

MAY

May 2 - 160 years on the birthday of the Russian writer, philosopher Vasily Vasilievich Rozanova (1856-1919)

May 2 - 105 years since the birth of the Tajik poet Mirzo Tursun-Zade (1911-1977)

5 May - 170 years on the birthday of the Polish writer, Nobel Prize laureate in literature Henryk Sienkiewicz (1846-1916)

May 7 - 155 years birthday of Indian writer Rabindranath Tagore (Thakur) (1861-1941)

May 11 - 110 years on the birthday of the Russian writer Vera Kazimirovna Ketlinskaya (1906-1976)

May 15 - 160 years birthday of American children's writer Lyman Frank Bouma (1856-1919)

May 15 - 125 years since the birth of the Russian writer Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov (1891-1940)

May 20 - 105 anniversary of the birth of the Dutch writer, poet, laureate of the International H. C. Andersen Prize (1988) Anna Schmidt (1911-1995)

May, 23rd - 100 years on the birthday of the Russian writer Susanna Mikhailovna Georgievskaya (1916-1974)

May 28 - 130 years since the birth of the Russian poet Vladislav Felitsianovich Khodasevich (1886-1939)

May 29 - 60 years since the birth of the Russian writer Grigory Shalvovich Chkhartishvili - Boris Akunin (1956)

May 31 - 90 years old on the birthday of the German writer, laureate of the International Prize. H. C. Andersen James Crews (1926-1997)

JUNE

2 June - 140 years since the birth of the Russian writer Konstantin Andreevich Trenev (1876-1945)

June 4 - 195 years since the birth of the Russian poet Apollon Nikolaevich Maykov (1821-1897)

June 11 - 205 years since the birth of the Russian critic Vissarion Grigorievich Belinsky (1811-1878)

June 14 - 125 years on the birthday of the Russian children's writer Alexander Melentyevich Volkov (1891-1977)

June 14 - 205 years anniversary of the birth of the American writer Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896)

June 17 - 105 years since the birth of the Russian writer Viktor Platonovich Nekrasov (1911-1987)

June 20 - 95 years old on the birthday of the Russian children's writer Anatoly Markovich Markushi (1921-2005)

21st of June - 200 years Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855)

June 22 - Day of Remembrance and Sorrow, 75 years old since the beginning of the Great Patriotic War and defense of the Brest Fortress (1941)

22nd of June - 160 years Henry Rider Haggard (1856-1925)

30 June - 105 years anniversary of the birth of the Polish writer Czeslaw Milosz (1911-2004)

JULY

3 July - 90 years old since the birth of the Russian writer Vladimir Osipovich Bogomolov (1926-2004)

July 17th - 125 years since the birth of the Russian writer Boris Andreevich Lavrenev (1891-1959)

July 17th - 75 years old on the birthday of the Russian children's writer Sergei Anatolyevich Ivanov (1941)

July 18 - 205 years anniversary of the birth of the English writer William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863)

July 22 - 90 years old on the birthday of the Russian prose writer, poet Sergei Alexandrovich Baruzdin (1926-1991)

26 July - 160 years anniversary of the birth of the English playwright, writer George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

A B G U S T

August 7 - 100 years since the birth of the Russian writer Vitaly Grigorievich Melentyev (1916-1984)

August 9 - 110 years anniversary of the birth of the English writer Pamela Lyndon Travers (1906-1996)

August 14 - 150 years since the birth of the Russian writer Dmitry Sergeevich Merezhkovsky (1866-1941)

August 20 - 110 years since the birth of the Russian writer Georgy Georgievich Belykh (1906-1938)

August 21 - 145 years since the birth of the Russian writer Leonid Nikolaevich Andreev (1871-1919)

August 22 - 110 years since the birth of the Russian writer Leonid Panteleev (Alexey Ivanovich Eremeev) (1906-1987)

August 22 - 100 years since the birth of the Russian writer Anatoly Veniaminovich Kalinin (1916-2008)

August 27 - 145 years anniversary of the birth of the American writer Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945)

SEPTEMBER

September 1 - 160 years since the birth of the Russian poet Innokenty Fedorovich Annensky (1856-1909)

September 2 - 110 years on the birthday of the Russian science fiction writer Alexander Petrovich Kazantsev (1906-2002)

September 3 - 75 years old since the birth of the Russian writer Sergei Donatovich Dovlatov (1941-1990)

September 7 - 75 years old since the birth of the Russian writer Vladimir Nikolaevich Krupin (1941)

12-th of September - 95 years old anniversary of the birth of the Polish science fiction writer Stanislav Lem (1921)

12-th of September - 110 years since the birth of the Russian writer Sergei Nikolaevich Markov (1906-1979)

September 14 - 80 years old since the birth of the Russian poet Alexander Semenovich Kushner (1936)

September 15th - 125 years anniversary of the birth of the English writer Agatha (Clarissa) Christie (Miller) (1891-1976)

September 19 - 105 years since the birth of the Russian poet Semyon Izrailevich Lipkin (1911-2003)

September 21 - 150 years anniversary of the birth of the English science fiction writer H.G. Wells (1866-1946)

September 22nd - 125 years since the birth of the Russian writer Reuben Isaevich Fraerman (1891-1972)

23 September - 80 years old Edward Stanislavovich Radzinsky (1936)

September 24 - 120 years anniversary of the birth of the American writer Francis Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940)

September 28 - 110 years on the birthday of the Russian playwright Alexander Petrovich Stein (1906-1993)

September 30th - 110 years on the birthday of the Russian writer Lyubov Fedorovna Voronkova (1906-1976)

OCTOBER

October 1 - 225 years since the birth of the Russian writer Sergei Timofeevich Aksakov (1791-1859)

October 6 - 85 years old on the birthday of the Russian poet, prose writer, playwright Romana Sefa (1931-2009)

October 8 - 85 years old since the birth of the Russian writer Yuliana Semenovich Semenov (1931-1993)

October 13 - 80 years old on the birthday of the Austrian children's writer, laureate of the International Prize named after. H. C. Andersen, laureate of the International Prize in Memory of Astrid Lindgren Christine Nestling (1936)

17 October - 85 years old since the birth of the Russian writer Anatoly Ignatievich Pristavkin (1931-2008)

October 21 - 120 years on the birthday of the Russian writer, playwright Evgeniy Lvovich Schwartz (1896-1958)

NOVEMBER

November 4 - 65 years old since the establishment of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization - UNESCO (1945)

November 7 - 130 years since the birth of the Russian writer Mark Alexandrovich Aldanov (1886-1957)

November 7 - 125 years since the birth of the Russian writer Dmitry Andreevich Furmanov (1891-1926)

November 7 - 95 years old since the birth of the Russian writer Andrey Dmitrievich Zharikov (1921)

11th of November - 195 years since the birth of the Russian writer Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821-1881)

11th of November - 115 years on the birthday of the Russian writer, illustrator Evgeniy Ivanovich Charushin (1901-1965)

November 18th - 70 years old since the birth of the Russian writer Vyacheslav Alexandrovich Pietsukh (1946)

November 19 - 305 years since the birth of the Russian poet, scientist Mikhail Vasilievich Lomonosov (1711-1765)

20 November - 100 years since the birth of the Russian poet Mikhail Alexandrovich Dudin (1916-1994)

November 22 - 215 years since the birth of the Russian philosopher, lexicographer, ethnographer Vladimir Ivanovich Dahl (1801-1872)

November 28 - 135 years anniversary of the birth of the Austrian writer Stefan Zweig
(1881-1942)

November 28 - 110 years on the birthday of the Russian outstanding public figure, philosopher Dmitry Sergeevich Likhachev (1906-1999)

DECEMBER

5th of December - 115 years anniversary of the birth of the American film director, artist Walt Disney(Disney, 1901-1966)

9th December - 105 years on the birthday of the Russian children's writer Nikolai Vladimirovich Toman (1911-1974)

December 10 - 195 years since the birth of the Russian poet Nikolai Alekseevich Nekrasov (1821-1877)

December 11th - 160 years since the birth of the Russian philosopher, publicist Georgy Valentinovich Plekhanov (1856-1918)

12 December - 195 years anniversary of the birth of the French writer Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880)

12 December - 250 years on the birthday of the Russian writer, historian Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin (1766-1826)

December 14 - 100 years on the birthday of the Russian children's writer Viktor Ivanovich Banykin (1916-1986)

December 24 - 115 years since the birth of the Russian writer Alexander Alexandrovich Fadeev (1901-1956)

December 25 - 75 years old since the birth of the Russian writer Ruslan Timofeevich Kireev (1941)

Anniversary books of 2016

695 years (1321)

A. Dante "The Divine Comedy"

290 years (1726)

J. Swift "Gulliver's Travels"

235 years(1781)

D. I. Fonvizin "Undergrown"

225 years (1791)

R. E. Raspe "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen"

200 years (1816)

E. T. Goffman "Nutcracker"

195 years (1821)

A. S. Pushkin "Prisoner of the Caucasus"

190 years (1826)

V. Gauf "Collection of fairy tales for 1826»

Brothers Grimm "Fairy tales"(first Russian translation)

J. Cooper "The Last of the Mohicans"

185 years (1831)

N.V. Gogol "Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka"

A. S. Griboyedov "Woe from Wit"

V. Hugo "Notre Dame Cathedral"

A. S. Pushkin “The Tale of the Priest and his Worker Balda”, “The Tale of Tsar Saltan, his glorious and mighty hero Prince Gvidon Saltanovich and the beautiful Princess Swan”

Stendhal "Red and black"

O. de Balzac "Shagreen skin"

180 years(1836)

Charles Dickens "Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club"

A. S. Pushkin "Captain's daughter"

175 years (1841)

J. Cooper "St. John's Wort, or the First Warpath"

170 years (1846)

A. Dumas "The Count of Monte Cristo"

E. Lear "The Book of Nonsense"

165 years (1851)

G. Melville "Moby Dick, or the White Whale"

160 years (1856)

S. T. Aksakov "Family Chronicles"

Charles Dickens "Little Dorrit"

155 years (1861)

F. M. Dostoevsky "Humiliated and Offended"

N. A. Nekrasov "Peasant Children"

150 years (1866)

F. M. Dostoevsky "Crime and Punishment"

T. Main Reid "Headless horseman"

145 years (1871)

L. Carroll "Alice in the Wonderland"

140 years (1876)

N. A. Nekrasov “Who lives well in Rus'”

M. Twain "Adventures of Tom Sawyer"

135 years (1881)

C. Collodi "The Story of Pinocchio"

N. S. Leskov “The Tale of the Tula Oblique Lefty and the Steel Flea”

130 years (1886)

M. E. Saltykov-Shchedrin "Fairy tales"

125 years (1891)

A. Conan Doyle "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes"

120 years (1896)

F. E. Burnett "Little Lord Fauntleroy"

115 years (1901)

A. Conan Doyle "The Hound of the Baskervilles"

90 years old (1926)

A. S. Green "Running on the waves"

A. Milne "Winnie the Pooh"

V. A. Obruchev "Sannikov's Land"

K. I. Chukovsky “Fedorino’s grief”, “Miracle tree”, “Confusion”, “Telephone”

M. A. Sholokhov "Don Stories"

85 years old (1931)

I. Ilf and E. Petrov "Golden calf"

80 years old (1936)

V. P. Belyaev "Old Fortress"

V. P. Kataev "The Lonely Sail Is White"

S. V. Mikhalkov "Uncle Styopa"

A. N. Tolstoy « The Golden Key, or the Adventures of Pinocchio"

K. Chapek "War with the Salamanders"

75 years old (1941)

A. P. Gaidar "Timur and his team", "Timur's Oath"

L. Panteleev "Honestly"

70 years old (1946)

N. M. Verzilin "In the footsteps of Robinson"

E. Ilyina "Fourth Height"

A. Lindgren "The famous detective Kale Blumkvist"

65 years old (1951)

N. N. Nosov “Vitya Maleev at school and at home”

J. Rodari "The Adventures of Cipollino"

D. Salinger "Catcher in the rye"

60 years (1956)

Y. L. Akim "Incompetent"

J. Darrell "My Family and Other Animals"

A. Rybakov "Bronze Bird"

55 years (1961)

V. Yu. Dragunsky "It's alive and glowing"

N. N. Nosov "The Adventures of Tolya Klyukvin"

50 years (1966)

S. S. Vangeli "The Adventures of Gugutse"

B.V. Zakhoder "Comrade children"

O. Preusler "Little Baba Yaga", "Little Merman", "Little Ghost"

N. I. Sladkov "Underwater newspaper"

45 years (1971)

N. N. Nosov Trilogy about Dunno

O. Preusler “Krabat.” Legends of the old mill"

G. N. Troepolsky "White Bim Black Ear"

40 years (1976)

A. G. Aleksin "Mad Evdokia"

V. G. Rasputin "Farewell to Matera"

35 years (1981)

A. Lindgren "Roni, the Robber's Daughter"

Anniversaries of newspapers and magazines

155 years (1861) of the magazine "Around the world"

80 years (1936) of the magazine "Literary Review"

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“The library is an open table of ideas to which everyone is invited...”

A. I. Herzen

The calendar of significant and memorable dates for 2017 contains anniversaries of domestic and foreign writers, poets, international and professional holidays and other significant dates that will be celebrated in 2017. Dates are indicated according to the new style.

According to the UN decision:

2013-2022 - International Decade for the Rapprochement of Cultures

International decades

2015-2024 - International Decade for People of African Descent

2014-2024 - A decade of sustainable energy for all

2011-2020 - Third International Decade for the Eradication of Colonialism

2011-2020 - United Nations Decade of Biodiversity

2011-2020 - Decade of Action for Road Safety

2010-2020 - United Nations Decade for Deserts and the Fight against Desertification

2008-2017 - Second decade of the United Nations for the eradication of poverty.

The year 2017 in the Russian Federation will be announced Year of specially protected natural areas. Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on holding the Year of Specially Protected Natural Areas in 2017. The Year of Protected Natural Areas will be timed to coincide with the celebration 100th anniversary of the Russian nature reserve system.

ANNIVERSARY DATES:

WRITERS AND BOOKS ANNIVERSARY OF 2017

ANNIVERSARY BOOKS

255 years- C. Gozzi "The Deer King", "Turandot"(1762)

240 years- R.B. Sheridan "School of Scandal"(1777)

225 years- N. M. Karamzin "Poor Lisa"(1792)

195 years- A. S. Pushkin "Song about the prophetic Oleg"(1822)

180 years- M. Yu. Lermontov "Borodino"(1837)

155 years- A. S. Griboyedov "Woe from Wit" V. M. Hugo "Les Miserables" I. S. Turgenev "Fathers and Sons" (1862)

150 years- Charles De Coster “The Legend of Ulenspiegel and Lamm Gudzak, about their valiant, funny and glorious deeds in Flanders and other lands”, V. V. Krestovsky "Petersburg slums" F. M. Dostoevsky "Crime and Punishment", G. Ibsen "Peer Gynt"(1867)

145 years- I. S. Turgenev "Spring Waters" J. Verne "Around the world in 80 Days" (1872)

140 years- L. N. Tolstoy "Anna Karenina"(1877)

135 years- M. Twain "Prince and the Pauper"(1882)

120 years- G. D. Wells "Invisible Man"(1897)

115 years- A.C. Doyle "The Hound of the Baskervilles" E. L. Voynich "Gadfly" (1902)

110 years- G. R. Haggart "Beautiful Margaret"(1907)

105 years- A.C. Doyle "Lost World"(1912)

90 years old- A. N. Tolstoy "Engineer Garin's Hyperboloid" M. A. Bulgakov "White Guard"(1927)

85 years old- N. A. Ostrovsky "As the Steel Was Tempered"(1932)

80 years old- J. R. R. Tolkien "The Hobbit, or There and Back Again" A. Christie "Death on the Nile"(1937)

65 years old- E. M. Hemingway "The Old Man and the Sea"(1952)

60 years- R.D. Bradbury "Dandelion Wine" N. N. Nosov "Dreamers" M. V. Sholokhov "The Fate of Man" I. A. Efremov "Andromeda's nebula"(1957)

45 years- V. S. Pikul "Pen and Sword" A. N. Strugatsky , B. N. Strugatsky “Roadside Picnic”(1972)

40 years- V. S. Pikul "Battle of the Iron Chancellors"(1977)

30 years- A. N. Rybakov "Children of Arbat"(1987)

WRITERS-JUBILARIES

350 years

November 30th - 350 yearsJonathan Swift(1667-1745)

300 years

November 25 - 300 yearsAlexander Petrovich Sumarokov(1717-1777)

200 years

April 10th - 200 years on the birthday of the Russian writer, publicist Konstantin Sergeevich Aksakov(1817-1860)

16th of May - 200 years on the birthday of the Russian historian and writer Nikolai Ivanovich Kostomarov(1817-1885)

September 29 - 200 yearsAlexander Vasilievich Sukhovo-Kobylin(1817-1903)

September 5 - 200 yearsAlexei Konstantinovich Tolstoy(1817-1875)

150 years

June 16 - 150 years-symbolist, translator, essayist, one of the most prominent representatives of Silver Age poetry Konstantin Dmitrievich Balmont(1867-1942)

August 14 - 150 years anniversary of the birth of the English writer John Galsworthy(1867-1933)

100 years

21 December - 100 years, Nobel Prize winner Heinrich Böll(1917-1985)

December 16 - 100 years anniversary of the birth of the English science fiction writer Arthur Charles Clarke(1917)

JANUARY

January 3 - 125 years since the birth of the English writer - the founder of the literary genre of fantasy, poet and philologist John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892-1973)

January 15 - 395 years anniversary of the birth of the French playwright, reformer of performing arts Jean Baptiste Poquelin, stage name Moliere(1622-1673)

January 16 - 150 years on the birthday of the Russian writer, literary critic, translator Vikenty Vikentyevich Veresaev(1867-1945)

January 24 - 285 years on the birthday of the famous French playwright and publicist Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais(1732-1799)

The 25th of January - 135 years anniversary of the birth of the English writer and literary critic Virginia Woolf(1882-1941)

January 27 - 185 years anniversary of the birth of the English writer, mathematician, philosopher and photographer Lewis Carroll real name Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832-1898)

January 27 - 85 years old on the birthday of the Russian poetess, author of popular songs Rimma Fedorovna Kazakova(1932-2008)

28 January - 120 years on the birthday of the Russian writer, playwright, screenwriter, Hero of Socialist Labor Valentin Petrovich Kataev(1897-1986)

FEBRUARY

February 2 - 135 years anniversary of the birth of the Irish writer and poet James Joyce(1882-1941)

February 7 - 205 years anniversary of the birth of the English writer Charles Dickens(1812-1870)

11 February - 100 years and screenwriter Sydney Sheldon real name Sidney Schechtel(1917-2007)

February 13 - 85 years oldIgor Davydovich Shaferan(1932-1994)

February 17 - 210 years on the birthday of the bishop, Russian theologian and spiritual writer Ignatius (Brianchaninova), in the world Dmitry Alexandrovich Brianchaninov(1807-1867)

February 20th - 165 years since the birth of the Russian writer Nikolai Georgievich Garin-Mikhailovsky(1852-1906)

24 February - 125 years on the birthday of the Russian writer, Hero of Socialist Labor Konstantin Alexandrovich Fedin(1892-1977)

25 February - 100 years birthday of the English writer, critic Anthony Burgess ( 1917-1993)

25 February - 310 years on the birthday of the Italian playwright, creator of national comedy Carlo Goldoni ( 1707-1793)

February 26 - 215 years anniversary of the birth of the French romantic writer and playwright Victor Marie Hugo(1802-1885)

February 27 - 210 years anniversary of the birth of the American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow(1807-1882)

February 27 - 115 yearsJohn Ernst Steinbeck(1902-1968)

28th of February - 95 years old since the birth of the Russian literary critic and culturologist Yuri Mikhailovich Lotman(1922-1993)

MARCH

5th of March - 95 years old since the birth of the Soviet front-line poet Semyon Petrovich Gudzenko(1922-1953)

March 13 - 80 years old since the birth of the Russian writer Vladimir Semenovich Makanin(1937)

March 15th - 80 years old on the birthday of the Russian writer, representative of “village prose” Valentin Grigorievich Rasputin(1937-2015)

18th of March - 85 years old anniversary of the birth of the American writer John Updike(1932-2009)

18th of March - 175 years anniversary of the birth of the French symbolist poet Stefan Mallarmé(1842-1898)

March 24 - 140 years since the birth of the Russian writer Alexey Silych (Silantievich) Novikov-Priboi(1877-1944)

March 24 - 110 years on the birthday of the Russian writer, poet, publicist, editor Lidia Korneevna Chukovskaya(1907-1996)

March 27 - 220 years anniversary of the birth of the French poet, writer, historian, playwright, translator, philosopher Alfred Victor de Vigny(1797-1863)

playwright Alexander Konstantinovich Gladkov(1912-1976)

March 31 - 195 years since the birth of the Russian writer Dmitry Vasilievich Grigorovich(1822-1899)

March 31 - 135 years on the birthday of the Russian writer, poet and literary critic Korney Ivanovich Chukovsky(1882-1969)

APRIL

April 1 - 320 years on the birthday of the French writer, author of adventure novels Antoine Francois Prevost ( 1697-1763)

April 6 - 205 years on the birthday of the Russian writer, philosopher and revolutionary Alexander Ivanovich Herzen(1812-1870)

April 10th - 80 years old on the birthday of the Russian poetess, writer, translator Bella Akhatovna Akhmadulina ( 1937-2010)

April 10th - 90 years old since the birth of the Russian writer Vilya Vladimirovich Lipatov(1927-1979)

12th of April - 130 years on the birthday of the Russian poetess Elizaveta Ivanovna Dmitrieva, better known by her pen name Cherubina de Gabriac(1887-1928)

April 19 - 115 years on the birthday of the Russian writer and screenwriter Veniamin Aleksandrovich Kaverin(1902-1989)

April 22 - 310 years on the birthday of the English writer and playwright Henry Fielding(1707-1754)

April 22 - 110 years on the birthday of the outstanding Russian science fiction writer, paleontologist Ivan Antonovich Efremov(1907-1972)

MAY

may 13 - 80 years old anniversary of the birth of the American writer Roger Zelazny(1937-1995)

16th of May - 130 years since the birth of the Russian poet of the Silver Age Igor Severyanin, real name Igor Vasilievich Lotarev ( 1897-1941)

May 21st - 145 years on the birthday of the Russian poetess and writer Teffi, real name Nadezhda Aleksandrovna Lokhvitskaya(1872-1952)

May 28 - 140 years since the birth of the Russian poet, literary critic, translator, artist Maximilian Aleksandrovich Voloshin(1877-1932)

May 29 - 230 years since the birth of the Russian poet Konstantin Nikolaevich Batyushkov(1787-1855)

May 29 - 125 years since the birth of the Russian writer Ivan Sergeevich Sokolov-Mikitov(1892-1975)

May 30 - 105 years since the birth of the Soviet songwriter Lev Ivanovich Oshanin(1912-1996)

May 31 - 125 years since the birth of the Russian writer Konstantin Georgievich Paustovsky(1892-1968)

JUNE

June 18 - 205 years since the birth of the Russian writer Ivan Alexandrovich Goncharov(1812-1891)

June 18 - 110 years on the birthday of the Russian writer and poet Varlam Tikhonovich Shalamov(1907-1982)

June 20 - 85 years old since the birth of the Soviet poet, translator Robert Ivanovich Rozhdestvensky, birth name Robert Stanislavovich Petkevich(1932-1994)

21st of June - 220 yearsWilhelm Karlovich Kuchelbecker(1797-1846)

June 25 - 110 years on the birthday of the Russian poet, translator Arseny Alexandrovich Tarkovsky(1907-1989)

JULY

July 2 - 140 years on the birthday of the German writer, poet and essayist, Nobel Prize laureate Hermann Hesse(1877-1962)

July 6 - 120 years since the birth of the Russian writer Anatoly Borisovich Mariengof(1897-1962)

July 6 - 140 years since the birth of the Russian writer Alexey Mikhailovich Remizov ( 1877-1957)

July 22 - 210 years on the birthday of the Russian poetess and translator Karolina Karlovna Pavlova(1807-1893)

July 23 - 225 years since the birth of the Russian poet, literary critic Pyotr Andreevich Vyazemsky(1792-1878)

July 24 - 215 years on the birthday of the French writer, author of romantic historical dramas and adventure novels Alexandra Dumas(1802-1870)

July 28th - 195 years since the birth of the Russian poet, literary and theater critic Apollo Alexandrovich Grigoriev(1822-1864)

July 28th - 120 years on the birthday of the Russian poet and prose writer Peter Vasilievich Oreshin(1887-1938)

A B G U S T

August 4 - 225 years on the birthday of the English romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley(1792-1822)

10th of August - 105 years anniversary of the birth of the Brazilian writer, public and political figure Jorge Amadou(1912-2001)

August 19 - 80 years old on the birthday of the Russian playwright Alexander Valentinovich Vampilov(1937-1972)

August 20 - 85 years old since the birth of the Russian writer Vasily Pavlovich Aksenov(1932-2010)

August 20 - 190 years anniversary of the birth of the Belgian French-speaking writer Theodore Henri de Coster ( 1827-1879)

August 27 - 140 years on the birthday of the Russian writer and poet Sergei Konstantinovich Makovsky(1877-1962).

August 30 - 220 years anniversary of the birth of the English writer Mary Shelley, born Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin ( 1797-1851)

SEPTEMBER

6 September - 80 years old since the birth of the Soviet screenwriter, director, poet Gennady Fedorovich Shpalikov ( 1937-1974)

11 September - 155 years anniversary of the birth of the American writer O.Henry, real name William Sydney Porter(1862-1910)

September 25 - 120 years anniversary of the birth of the American writer, Nobel laureate William Faulkner(1897-1962)

September 26 - 85 years old since the birth of the Russian writer Vladimir Nikolaevich Voinovich(1932)

September 29 - 470 years anniversary of the birth of the Spanish writer Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra(1547-1616)

September 30th - 810 years anniversary of the birth of the Persian Sufi poet Mawlana Jalal ad-Din Muhammadt Rumi(1207-1273)

OCTOBER

October 3 - 120 years since the birth of the French poet, one of the founders of surrealism Louis Aragon(1897-1982)

The 4th of October - 170 years anniversary of the birth of the French writer Louis Henri Boussenard(1847-1910)

October 8 - 125 years on the birthday of the Russian poetess, prose writer, translator, the greatest poet of the 20th century Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva(1892-1941)

October 15 - 120 years since the birth of the Russian writer Ilya Arnoldovich Ilf, at birth Yechiel-Leib Arievich Fainzilberg(1897-1937)

October 21 - 245 years anniversary of the birth of the English poet and critic Coleridge Samuel Taylor(1772-1834)

October 31 - 115 years since the birth of the Russian writer Evgeniy Andreevich Permyak(1902-1982)

NOVEMBER

the 3rd of November - 130 years since the birth of the Soviet poet and translator Samuil Yakovlevich Marshak(1887-1964)

November 6 - 165 years since the birth of the Russian writer Dmitry Narkisovich Mamin-Sibiryak(1852-1912)

10th of November - 130 years on the birthday of the German writer Arnold Zweig(1887-1968)

November 14 - 110 years anniversary of the birth of the Swedish children's writer Astrid Anna Emilia Lindgren, born Erickson ( 1907-2002)

November 17 - 210 years since the birth of the Russian poet Vladimir Grigorievich Benediktov(1807-1873)

20 November - 80 years old on the birthday of the Russian writer Victoria Samoilovna Tokareva(1937)

November 27 - 70 years old since the birth of one of the most read and published Russian children's writers Grigory Bentsionovich Oster(1947).

November 28 - 260 years anniversary of the birth of the English poet, artist and engraver William Blake(1757-1827)

29th of November - 215 years on the birthday of the German writer Wilhelm Hauff(1802-1827)

DECEMBER

December 8 - 215 years since the birth of the Russian poet, Decembrist Alexander Ivanovich Odoevsky(1802-1839)

December 10 - 195 years on the birthday of the Russian publicist and sociologist Nikolai Yakovlevich Danilevsky(1822-1885)

December 13th - 220 years on the birthday of the German poet and publicist Heinrich Heine(1797-1856)

December 22 - 80 years old on the birthday of the Russian children's writer Eduard Nikolaevich Uspensky(1937)

admin 15.04.2016

2016 is notable not only because it is a leap year. We will celebrate many anniversaries and significant dates in all areas of life: in politics and history, in culture and sports, in art and economics. Our article will introduce you to the most significant of them.

You will learn not only about anniversaries of global significance, but also about dates associated with the most significant historical incidents, outstanding personalities and events important for. So, what are the anniversary dates for 2016?

In 2016, the Russian ruble will turn 700 years old

Historical events

• 1000th anniversary celebrations approaching presence of Russian monasticism on Holy Mount Athos in Greece, which is an autonomous monastic state, and for Orthodox Christians around the world - one of the main holy places on earth. It is believed that monasticism came to Rus' from Holy Athos, and the Russian Incas have been present on the Mountain from the 11th century to the present day. Since 2016 is called the “Year of Greece in Russia and the Year of Russia in Greece,” these countries decided to hold a joint celebration of this great date. Negotiations have already taken place between the foreign ministers of Greece and Russia regarding the organization of the celebration.
• Important holiday of 2016 – 700th anniversary of the ruble. The monetary unit “ruble” appeared during the times of Ancient Rus', but then it periodically disappeared and then came into use again. In 1704 (during the reign of Peter I), the minting of ruble coins resumed again and never stopped. The original weight of the ruble was 28 grams and contained up to 26 grams of pure silver. But later the share of silver decreased, and coins were partially replaced by paper bills. Over time, the silver standard was replaced by a gold one, and the gold ruble became the monetary unit. Today the ruble has no gold equivalent.
• A very important date - 155 years ago in the Russian Empire there was serfdom abolished. Emperor Alexander II, who ascended the throne in 1855, decided to actively fight the shortcomings of Russian life, one of which he considered to be a feudal relic of the past - serfdom. In 1861, the emperor signed the manifesto “Regulations on the Liberation of Peasants,” which was reviewed and approved by the State Council.
• 160 years ago, by the highest imperial permission, the first domestic information service was created - Russian Telegraph Agency.
• 75th anniversary of the liberation battle for Leningrad will be celebrated in 2016. In January 1944, the Soviet Army began a deadly battle for the city, which ended in victory and the liberation of Leningrad from the Nazi invaders.
• Two more important dates will be celebrated in 2016: 50 years have passed since automatic interplanetary station "Luna-9" carried out the world's first soft landing, and after that, for the first time, broadcast television footage of a panorama of the lunar landscape.
• The last date on our list is 50th anniversary of the first trip around the world committed by a detachment of USSR nuclear submarines in the depths of the sea. It lasted a month and a half. This strategic maneuver demonstrated the strength and capabilities of Soviet weapons, and also gained the authority of Western countries.

2016 is the centenary anniversary of the death of Grigory Rasputin

Historical figures

• 2016 will mark the 220th anniversary of the birth of the Emperor of Russia Nicholas I Romanov, son of Emperor Paul I and Maria Feodorovna. It was during his reign that the Decembrist uprising took place on Senate Square, after which Russia received the unflattering international nickname of “the gendarme of Europe.”
• Russia will also celebrate the 100th anniversary of his death Grigory Rasputin, a peasant of the Tobolsk province, who gained worldwide fame and became close to the imperial family and a close friend of the last Russian Emperor Nicholas II. He was a seer and healer, as well as the personal confessor of the Empress. His impact on all members of the royal family was enormous; it was also believed that he influenced the fate of the Russian Empire. There were many rumors and mysterious stories about Rasputin. Even his death is shrouded in mystery. In the USSR, the image of Rasputin was severely criticized and debunked.
• 2016 will mark the 120th anniversary of the birth of the legendary Soviet commander, Marshal and four-time Hero of the Soviet Union - Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov, who, as Deputy Supreme Commander-in-Chief, played a decisive role in the victory of the USSR in the Great Patriotic War. In the post-war years, Zhukov was Commander-in-Chief of the Ground Forces, commanded the Odessa and Ural military districts, and fought post-war banditry.
• Also in 2016 will be the 110th anniversary of the birth of Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev- statesman and political figure of the USSR, penultimate General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee. According to the results of a 2013 sociological survey in Russia, Brezhnev was recognized as the best head of state.
• Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, the last General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee and the last Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Council, as well as the Only President of the USSR, will celebrate his 85th birthday in 2016. Under him, a large-scale reform of the state system began - perestroika. Under him, the Cold War ended and Soviet troops were withdrawn from Afghanistan. Under him, the Soviet Union collapsed.
• In 2016, to the First President of the Russian Federation Boris Nikolaevich Yeltsin would have turned 85 years old. He became the first popularly elected head of state, a radical reformer of the country's socio-political and economic structure.
• July 2016 will mark the 170th anniversary of the birth of the famous Russian ethnographer, traveler, anthropologist and biologist Nikolai Nikolaevich Miklouho-Maclay, who studied the indigenous populations of Southeast Asia, Australia, Oceania and New Guinea. He left behind many invaluable works, which became textbooks for his followers. Miklouho-Maclay's birthday is celebrated throughout the world as Ethnographer's Day.
• Another significant date - 180 years since the birth of the great Russian scientist-surgeon, professor and director of the Imperial Clinical Institute Nikolai Vasilievich Sklifosovsky. He became especially famous for his work on military field surgery of the abdominal cavity.

The novel “Crime and Punishment” will turn 150 years old in 2016

Significant dates for Russia

• The first opera in Russia began 280 years ago, during the time of Empress Anna Ioannovna, and began with the arrival of the Italian opera troupe. The first performance was the opera “The Power of Love and Hate.”
• The oldest reserve in Russia– Barguzinsky – was created 100 years ago. Established before the October Revolution, today it has been transformed into the Trans-Baikal National Park of federal significance.
• 150 years ago Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky created his literary masterpiece - "Crime and Punishment", which has become one of the favorite works for theatrical productions and film adaptations for directors around the world.
• 120 years ago passed First World Skating Championships. It took place at the Yusupov skating rink in St. Petersburg. The first place was taken by the German athlete Gilbert Fuchs. Russian skating master Georgy Sanders took third place.
• The city on the Neva, which, as a result of the 1991 referendum, was returned to its historical name, will celebrate its 25th anniversary. Saint Petersburg. The historical names of many streets, squares, boulevards and bridges in St. Petersburg were also returned.

In 2016, the world will celebrate 175 years since the birth of Tchaikovsky
2016 will mark the 400th anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare.

Outstanding personalities celebrating anniversaries

• One of the most important anniversary dates will be the 250th anniversary of his birth Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin, an outstanding writer, historian, critic and publicist. An entire period in the history of Russian literature and literature is called “Karamzinsky”, so great was its influence on Russian culture. Already today, grandiose preparations are underway to celebrate the anniversary of this great creative man. This date will be celebrated in many cities of Russia - Moscow, St. Petersburg, Tver, etc.
• Celebrations of the 195th anniversary of the birth of the great Russian writer, philosopher and thinker are also being prepared. Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky. This classic of Russian literature is recognized as one of the best novelists of all times.
• The date of 190 years since the birth of another Russian writer, journalist and bright satirist will be widely celebrated Mikhail Evgrafovich Saltykov-Shchedrin. His work rightfully occupies a special place in Russian literature, because no other writer so boldly, accurately and mercilessly ridiculed, criticized and denounced Russian reality. His aphorisms, created almost 200 years ago, are still striking in their relevance today.
• The world will celebrate the 175th birthday of the greatest Russian romantic composer, conductor and music teacher - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. His famous ballets “Swan Lake”, “Sleeping Beauty”, “The Nutcracker”, operas “Eugene Onegin”, “Iolanta” and “The Queen of Spades”, numerous symphonies and concerts became a grandiose and most valuable contribution to world musical culture.
• For the entire world of fine arts, two dates are important, which will be celebrated in 2016 - 90 years since the death of the great Russian storyteller. Viktor Mikhailovich Vasnetsov and 160 years since the birth of the brilliant symbolist artist Mikhail Alexandrovich Vrubel.
• Also in 2016 we will celebrate the 125th anniversary of the birth of Sergei Sergeevich Prokofiev and 110th birthday anniversary Dmitry Dmitrievich Shostakovich, two of the most important composers, pianists and music teachers of the twentieth century.
• The world of poetry and literature will celebrate the 125th anniversary of his birth Osip Mandelstam, Ilya Ehrenburg And Mikhail Bulgakov, as well as 50 years from the date of death Anna Akhmatova.
• Children's literature will celebrate the 110th anniversary of the birth of the Russian Soviet poet and writer Agni Barto, whose books are known and loved by children of several generations.
• The world of cinema will celebrate several dates at once: to the talented Russian theater and film actor Valery Zolotukhin in 2016 he would have turned 75 years old, and his colleague Evgeniy Leonov– 90 years old. Also, many will remember the anniversary date - 105 years since birth Arkadia Raikina, an outstanding Soviet humorist, director and actor of theatre, cinema and stage.
• We cannot forget the greatest Russian theater and film actress of the twentieth century, the author of catchphrases and aphorisms - Faina Ranevskaya. 2016 marks the 120th anniversary of her birth.

World anniversaries

• In 2016, the whole world will celebrate 400 years to the death of the great English poet and world famous playwright - William Shakespeare.
• England will celebrate a sad date - 350 years since Great Fire of London, which literally wiped the city off the face of the earth, depriving dozens of people of their lives and hundreds of families of a roof over their heads.
• In 2016, it will be 310 years since the birth of the outstanding American statesman, diplomat, inventor and writer, one of the leaders of the American War of Independence - Benjamin Franklin, whose portrait we see on the 100 dollar bill.
• For all lovers of literature (as well as for all cultural people) the date of 240 years since the birth of the German novelist, lawyer, composer and artist will be important Ernst-Theodor-Amadeus Hoffmann.
• All artists, as well as many residents of France, will celebrate the 175th anniversary of the birth of one of the representatives of impressionism, the great French artist and sculptor Pierre Auguste Renoir.
• The 160th anniversary of the birth of the world famous Austrian psychiatrist and psychologist will be celebrated on a grand scale - Sigmund Freud.