Day of workers of the forest and timber industry

"Day of the forest" is an international professional holiday of all forest workers, which is celebrated on the third Sunday of September in the Republic of Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, Russian Federation and Ukraine.

 

September 18, 1977, the Soviet Union had taken the first "Forest legislation». In fact, it was the realization that no matter how "wide country... native”, but this does not mean that it is unlimited and you need to cherish what was given by nature. Approximately three years later, on 1 October 1980, the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR issued a Decree No. 3018-X "On holidays and memorial days” in which he established and "Day of the forest", coinciding with the date of the celebration to the release of "Forest legislation– 1977, several sliding it so that it fell on a day off. In the case of people whose professional activity is directly related to forests has its own holiday.

After the collapse of the USSR many cultural ties between the former Soviet republics were lost, but common sense and the realization that we all live on the same planet is not allowed to destroy them all.