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North - Eastern Federal University Medical Institute Women’s Day made: Pavlov Nickolai Sergeevich, LD-102 1 st course Yakutsk 2017.

In Russia Women’s Day is celebrated on the 8 th of March.

People prepare for this holiday beforehand. Men buy flowers and small presents. They usually give women sweets or perfume. Sometimes they just send postcards or make telephone calls.

Children draw pictures for their mothers or make handmade presents. They learn poems about mother.

On this day people invite guests and cook tasty dishes. Men and boys congratulate women and girls. People like to go to concerts or watch a concert on TV.

The origins of that day are believed to go to 8 th of March 1857, when female workers of textile industry went on strike in New York, demanding for better work conditions and higher salaries. In spring of 1908 women of New York City went on another street meeting, demanding women’s suffrage (the right of women to vote on the same terms as men).

In 1917 demonstrations marking International Women's Day in Petrograd, Russia, on the last Thursday in February (which fell on March 8 on the Gregorian calendar) initiated the February Revolution. Women in Saint Petersburg went on strike that day for "Bread and Peace"

Following the October Revolution, the Bolshevik Alexandra Kollontai and Vladimir Lenin made it an official holiday in the Soviet Union, but it was a working day until 1965. On May 8, 1965 by the decree of the USSR Presidium of the Supreme Soviet International Women's Day was declared a non-working day in the USSR