How to organize a subbotnik in your yard and enjoy it. How to organize a subbotnik in your yard and enjoy it Victory Park on Poklonnaya Hill

Every year, Orthodox believers in Russia celebrate the holiday -
Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary .

This day is celebrated by the Orthodox Church as a day of universal joy. A blessed event took place in the small Galilean city of Nazareth (according to other sources - in Jerusalem).

The parents of the Virgin Mary, the righteous Joachim and Anna, had no children for a long time. Anna and Joachim were barren, and in those days this was considered a punishment for the sins they allegedly committed. Because of this, the couple suffered bullying from their compatriots, and absolutely not justified, because they behaved very decently.

Despite constant ridicule, the future parents of the Most Holy Theotokos did not lose hope that someday they would have a child, and passionately prayed to God for this. In addition to prayers, for the high title of being the parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the future mother of our Lord Jesus Christ, they prepared themselves with a virtuous life and worthy behavior.

When Joachim and Anna were already in adulthood, the Archangel Gabriel appeared to them and told them the joyful news that their prayers had been heard and that their daughter Mary would be born, through whom salvation would be given to the whole world.

The full name of the holiday is:
Nativity of Our Most Holy Lady Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary.

Other events on September 21:

* Day of military glory dedicated to the victory of the Russian regiments in the Battle of Kulikovo. Six and a half centuries ago, Russian troops led by Dmitry Donskoy fought the hordes of the Golden Horde. The battle took place on the Kulikovo field and marked the beginning of the liberation of Russia from the power of foreign invaders who came from the East.

* International Day of Peace. The event was established by the United Nations and is dedicated to "establishing peace in the world", and most importantly - the cessation of war. On September 21, the opposing sides temporarily cease hostilities (they introduce a "ceasefire regime").

* World Day of Russian Unity- so far this is an unofficial holiday, which has been celebrated on September 21 since 2010.

In Russia, All Saints Day itself is not a popular event. In contrast, the eve of All Saints' Day is a secular event that reminds us of the fine line between the world of the living and the kingdom of the dead.

November 1, 2019 - what day of the week:

November 1, 2019 is Friday.

November 1, 2019 will be a weekend or a working day in Russia:

Since no official state. holidays that are non-working days in Russia are not scheduled for November 1, 2019, in our country this day is working.

The nearest official holiday, which is an additional day off in the Russian Federation, is National Unity Day (November 4, 2019).

Note that in many countries with a predominantly "Catholic" population, All Saints Day (November 1, 2019) is a day off. For example, in Poland, France, Belgium, Germany, Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Austria on November 1, 2019 they rest.

November 1, 2019 in Russia - reduced or full time:

In fact, Friday, November 1, 2019 is preceded by three days off in honor of the celebration of National Unity Day.

Subbotniks, which were obligatory in Soviet times, are now a voluntary choice for everyone. But this does not stop them from being a unique opportunity to make the yard cleaner, meet new interesting people, and generally change the world for the better.

Before cleaning

Primarily, need to decide on a place where the subbotnik will be held. It is important to realistically assess your strengths and choose the territory that you can really remove. If the yard is too large, then you can stop only on the playground or even limit yourself to the sidewalk in front of the entrance.

Remember: it is not the area of the territory that is important, but the quality of its cleaning.

City authorities need to be notified. about the planned subbotnik. The municipality can help activists with inventory and garbage collection.

Remember: cooperation with the authorities can be productive and should not be ignored.

Inventory most often issued by the municipality, but things like garbage bags and gloves will need to be prepared by yourself. You also need to think about what clothes to go for cleaning: if there were no old pants and a sweater at home, it is better to buy a work suit in a hardware store: it is inexpensive, but it will come in handy on the next community work day.

Remember: the main thing in clothes for cleaning is not its beauty, but practicality.

invite people Cleaning has become easier in the age of the internet. In addition to announcements at the entrance, where the time, place of cleaning and the phone number of the organizer will be indicated, you can create a group on social networks, as well as send an announcement about the subbotnik to the e-mail of several public organizations that attract activists in Moscow. Contrary to popular belief that subbotniks are a thing of the past, hundreds of people often gather for cleaning.

Remember A: It all depends on you. If you really want to do a good job and are enthusiastic, people will reach out to you.

Subbotnik

During cleaning it is necessary to correctly distribute responsibilities among the activists. It is better to send women to wipe the dust, plant seedlings and remove small debris. For men, hard physical labor is more suitable.

Remember: as in any other business, competent organization of the process is the key to success.

Garbage removal - also one of the keys to good cleaning. If the subbotnik takes place in the yard, you need to throw the bags in an organized way into containers that the municipality has emptied in advance. If cleaning takes place in the forest, you need to think about the transport by which they can be transported and find out where the nearest landfill is.

Remember: Organized waste disposal is needed in order to clean up in one place without polluting another.

Try to involve in cleaning as many people as possible. It is necessary to ask them to help you, but not to demand.

Remember: social work is a personal matter for everyone, and you can interest people in it only by personal example.

After work

No good rest good work is not possible. It's best to take the activists on a tour if there are landmarks near the cleaning site, and then gather them all around one table in a cafe or restaurant.

Remember: subbotnik is not only a good deed, but also an opportunity to meet interesting people.

Share your experience in every possible way. Write a post about the subbotnik on social networks, send an article to the local newspaper, just tell your story to your friends. This should be done not at all out of boasting, but in order for as many people as possible to realize that the cleanliness of their yards, the quality of their life depend only on themselves. Pay attention to how your yard or resting place in the forest will change, how people's attitude to this territory will change. This may allow you to make interesting discoveries.

Remember: social work is not a matter of one day, and even if at first it may seem that nothing will come of it, over time it will certainly bear fruit.

On April 8 and 29, citywide community work days will take place at 75 venues in Moscow parks. Muscovites will be offered to help with the spring cleaning of Sokolniki, Gorky Park, Muzeon, the Hermitage Garden, the Kolomenskoye and Tsaritsyno estates, and even the Moscow Zoo. These days, the park's guests are waiting for music programs, quests, culinary master classes and other entertainment.

Subbotniks will be held in green areas under the jurisdiction of the Department of Culture of the city of Moscow in almost all districts. About 25,000 people are expected to take part in the events. “They will be given gloves, aprons and all the necessary equipment - rakes, brooms, garbage bags, brushes for cleaning the plinths of buildings, shovels,” the Moscow City Park noted.

In large parks, several sites for subbotniks will be organized at once: in Gorky Park, it will be possible to participate in the collective restoration of order both in the main territory and on the Krymskaya embankment and Vorobyovy Gory. The full list of parks will be published later.

On the same days, April 8 and 29, Saturdays will be held throughout the city, including in courtyards, district squares and other areas. Cleaning will take place in urban and courtyard areas.

Houses and roads, facades of buildings, shop windows, stop pavilions, lighting poles, road signs and signs will be put in order. In addition, lawns will be improved, trees and shrubs will be planted, children's and sports grounds will be repaired, and other seasonal works will be completed.

April 29 Saturday program:

Gorky Park

The subbotnik will be held in the Neskuchny Garden under the patronage of the Yellow Buckets Society. Participants will receive branded aprons, gloves and brooms equipped with selfie sticks to take pictures of the work in progress. The rhythm will be set by the HUT drummer, who will play a bucket set. The Green School team, together with the youngest participants, will make birdhouses and bird feeders, which will then be hung on trees.

Tagansky children's park

Cleaning will take place on the territory of the Tagansky Children's Park (Children's Park named after N.N. Pryamikov), where the complex improvement work is being completed. The park is located between Taganskaya Street and Bolshoy Fakelny Lane. Guests will be given aprons with the symbols of the park and treated to hot coffee. Participants will sweep paths, wash benches and plant flowers.

The park« Krasnaya Presnya»

Saturday will be held in the format of a quest. The program will begin with a morning warm-up. Then the participants will be divided into teams and will have to solve puzzles and look for prizes hidden in the park. An Animal Defenders Alliance promo zone will operate on the Big Island, where you can immerse yourself in the animal world through the prism of virtual reality glasses. Active games and master classes will be held for the youngest participants of the subbotnik.

Hermitage Garden

A fitness subbotnik will be held together with the network of X-fit sports clubs. The program includes classes and master classes in popular fitness areas with network trainers, cleaning and a healthy snack for participants.

Victory Park on Poklonnaya Hill

The cleanup will be attended by park employees, the Department of Regional Security and the You Are Not Alone National Foundation, which helps orphans and children left without parental care. There will be a concert with the participation of pupils and wards of the fund.

Izmailovsky park

The family subbotnik will begin with a charge on the Central Square. Signs with a QR code will be installed next to green spaces, and cleaning participants will be able to learn more about the park's plants. There will be a tour of the most interesting places in the territory. Everyone will be able to take part in the Photoexpedition family bike quest or attend a painting master class in the open air. The most active participants of the subbotnik will be presented with kits for home cleaning.

The park« Kuzminki»

The Green Subbotnik program includes a master class on separate waste collection (10:00) and a veg lunch with vegetable and fruit snacks and lemonade (12:00). At the playground, kids will be told how the ecosystem works and why every link needs to be protected. At 13:30 there will be a master class on upcycling "The second life of old things". For photos, a photo zone with props will appear near the main stage. Pre-registration for the event: https://goo.gl/forms/2feUyJl1NeolD25T2.

Perovsky park

A flower Saturday will be held in the park. Under the guidance of landscape design expert Oleg Yachmenev, participants will plant flowers in flowerpots on the central alley. Visitors are waiting for a master class on painting flower pots, a flower quiz, contests and useful gifts.

Vorontsovsky park

There will be dance and art master classes and lectures on a healthy lifestyle and proper nutrition. Saturday will be held to the music of the FV Brass brass band. The main guest of the event will be the famous TV presenter Nikolai Drozdov.

The park« gardeners»

"Zoo-subbotnik" with pets of the "Shcherbinka" and "Red Pine" shelter, a charity fair, a photo zone, a performance by a folk group, a lottery and demonstration performances of the Disk Hunters dog-frisbee club. Pre-registration for the subbotnik: https://goo.gl/forms/2feUyJl1NeolD25T2.

AT « Sokolniki» Saturday from 10:00 to 14:00 will be held with the participation of the Park Dog Breeders Club. AT Lianozovsky park from 10:00 to 17:00 it will be possible to complete an ecological quest and turn in old equipment. AT Babushkinsky park at 13:00 they will hold an ecological workshop on making handicrafts from improvised materials. AT park« Fili» there will be an action "EcoRun" - a social race for children from orphanages. Start at 10.00.

Citywide subbotniks will also be held in Sadu them. Bauman, Goncharovsky park, Lilac garden, park« Friendship» , North Tushino park, park of the 850th anniversary of Moscow, park them. Artem Borovik and other parks.

MOSCOW, March 21. /TASS/. Mass city-wide subbotniks in Moscow this year will be held on April 8 and 29, such dates on March 21 were approved at a meeting of the presidium of the city government. This was announced by the deputy mayor of the capital Peter Biryukov. He noted that in order to put the city in order after the winter, from March 25 to April 29, a month of improvement will be held in the capital.

"April 8 and 29 will be organized mass citywide subbotniks. Residents are always happy to take part in these subbotniks. Especially schoolchildren, students, employees of city services," Biryukov said.

According to him, the clean-up on April 8 will be the "first stage" of mass cleaning of the city, and on April 29 - "the final one, on the territory of city parks and squares." “I invite Muscovites to take part in this. All the necessary equipment and materials will be prepared. Based on the experience of past years, we can say that Muscovites come to subbotniks with pleasure to restore order in their hometown,” the deputy mayor said.

He noted that the townspeople will be informed about the upcoming subbotniks. "Information about the venues for subbotniks, points for issuing protective equipment and equipment, as well as those responsible for organizing work, will be posted in the media, on the websites of the prefectures of administrative districts and district governments," the deputy mayor said.

Over 2.6 million people took part in the subbotniks last year. No fewer participants are expected this spring.

Cleaning started early

According to Biryukov, this year the weather allowed public utilities to start cleaning the city three weeks earlier. "To organize and carry out work related to the improvement month, a city headquarters has been created, which includes representatives of all city departments, services and business entities," the deputy mayor said.

He noted that the work of communal services goes in several main areas - "these are urban and courtyard areas where cleaning is underway, repair of playgrounds", the second is the housing stock - repair of socles, facades, putting in order the canopies of entrances, the third is roads and road transport infrastructure.

"Taking into account the current winter, a large number of air temperature transitions through zero marks, a large number of activities are being carried out related to the replacement of asphalt, markings, approaches to stops, transfer hubs, repair of signs. A separate program is cleaning the territories of industrial enterprises, construction sites.

"To date, we have practically completed pruning of trees near road signs, trimmed trees near power lines, about a third of children's and sports grounds have already been repaired, a fifth of the plinths have been put in order. The territories occupied by garages have already been put in order by half," the deputy mayor specified. Noise protection screens are washed. This year, the roads have already been washed twice with a special shampoo. "Two more washings will take place in April," Biryukov said.

According to him, as of March 20, about one third of the planned scope of work has been completed. "Individual works have to be carried out additionally, repeatedly - weather conditions oblige," the deputy mayor explained. According to him, public utilities still have to do a fairly large amount of work.

“In general, during the month we will make up to about 30% of road markings, repair asphalt. We will fully prepare almost 270 city fountains for the summer, put all central heating and electrical points in order. Now work is underway in a residential area. Work will be carried out in large forest parks in the second half of April," the deputy mayor said, adding that the green areas adjacent to the Third Transport Ring and the Moscow Ring Road have already been put in order by half.