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On November 4 Vologda marked National Unity Day.
05.11.2025 11:22
The public holiday was established in honour of events of 1612 when Russian voluntary troops commanded by Kuzma Minin and Dmitry Pozharsky liberated Moscow from foreign invaders. In the church calendar this is Day of Our Lady of Kazan whose icon was the main relic of the voluntary troops. In 2005, the Russian government made November 4th a public holiday.
The holiday is linked with the heroic pages in the history of the Russian people; it implicates the idea of national consent, cohesion and unity.
The Vologda Region is a diverse assemblage of ethnicities, languages and faiths. But marking national occasions like People’s Unity Day helps all Russian citizens realize that they are one people with a shared past and a shared future.
On November 4, Vologda City erected a 9-meter-tall statue of Tsar Ivan IV, better known as Ivan the Terrible. The monument to Ivan the Terrible was installed in the centre of Vologda near the Vologda Kremlin. It was under his leadership that the large-scale construction of a stone fortress (St.Sophia Cathedral) began in Vologda.
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