“Public holidays in Armenia”的意思、由来-开放百科全书

Official Holidays and Remembrance Days

Per law 16 days are declared as non-working. However, as 8 days from December 31 to January 7 are consecutive , at least two of these will span over weekend days, which are non-working anyways.

Official Holidays and remembrance days in Armenia:^[1]^[2]

Date

English Name

Local Name

Remarks

1–4 January

New Year Day

Ամանոր

Tradition (days-off)

5 January

Christmas Eve

Նախածննդյան տոներ

Tradition (days-off)

Government proposed to discard non-working status of these, but this never went into law.

6 January

Christmas Day

Սուրբ Ծնունդ

Religious (day-off)

7 January

The day of commemoration of all dead people after Christmas Day

Սուրբ Ծննդյան և Հայտնության տոնին հաջորդող` Մեռելոց հիշատակի օր

Religious (day-off)

28 January

Army Day

Բանակի օր

In celebration of Armenian Army formation on that day in 1992 (day-off)

8 March

International Women's Day

Կանանց տոն

Women's day (day-off)

24 April

Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day

Եղեռնի զոհերի հիշատակի օր

Armenian Genocide in 1915 (day-off)

1 May

International Workers' Day

Աշխատանքի օր

International Workers' Day (day-off)

9 May

Victory and Peace Day

Հաղթանակի եւ Խաղաղության տոն

Shushi liberation day - on May 8, 1992 Armenian forces freed the city from Azerbaidjani military forces, which was an important milestone in Artsakh liberation war for Armenians.

Victory Day : 9 May (World War II) was a holiday throughout the USSR and is still an official holiday in Armenia. (day-off)

28 May

Republic Day

Հանրապետության օր

Establishment of the Democratic Republic of Armenia in 1918 (day-off)

5 July

Constitution Day

Սահմանադրության օր

Adopted in 1995 (day-off)

21 September

Independence Day

Անկախության օր

From the Soviet Union in 1991 (day-off)

31 December

New Year Eve

Ամանոր

(day-off)

Other traditional, international and professional holidays, as well as religious holidays, are also celebrating in Armenia.

National minorities are also celebrating their national holidays.

Reshuffling by Government

Government is allowed to swap working and non-working days. It usually makes use of this e.g. declaring Easter Monday (calculated according to Armenian Apostolic Church, and in general not always coinciding with Orthodox or Western Easter day calculations) non-working, while one of proximate Saturdays becomes a working days instead.

Also during Frankophony days in Armenia in 2018, two weekdays were declared non-working, while two Saturdays became working ones instead.

Other Memorable Days

On the fourth Sunday preceding Dormition (15 August), a special celebration called Vardavar (Վարդավար) takes place, where anyone is free to soak others with water from spray guns, hoses or even buckets.

Notes

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