30 April - Monday
Rodonica
International jazz festival
Walpurgis Night
Day of Fire Protection of Russia
1945 Soviet soldiers hoisted the Banner of Victory over the Reichstag in Berlin
The last spring cold ends on the thirtieth of April. With sunset open the beginning.
On this day they remember their ancestors, they call on them to visit the land: "Fly, dear grandfathers ...". They go to the graves, bringing memorial gifts: pancakes, oat jelly, millet porridge, painted egg-pysanka. After zachina begins trizna: warriors on the mountain "fight on the dead", showing his martial art.
From a high mountain, they roll colored eggs, competing. The winner is the one whose egg rolls on without breaking up. By midnight, on the same mountain, firewood is laid out for a large fire.
Midnight begins the holiday - Zhivin day. Women, taking brooms, perform a ritual dance around the fire, clearing the place of evil. Glorify Lives, the goddess of life, which revitalizes nature by sending spring to Earth.
Everyone jumps through the Fire, cleansing of the glamor (Navy) after a long winter. On the same high mountain cheerful merrymaking and round dances around the fire begin. They play a fairy tale, narrating about the journey to the world of Navy and returning to Java.
With the onset of the morning treat cookies in the form of larks, release live birds from the cells at will, calling for spring.
Recall that the Orthodox Church notes Radonitsa on Tuesday the second week after Easter, the day after Fomin Sunday (or Antipaschi).