I chose this topic because I am interested to learn more about Christmas in Russia and the USA and how they differ.
Purpose of work: learn the difference Christmas in Russia and the United States.
Tasks: to find out information about Christmas in Russia and the United States.
Object of research: Christmas in Russia and in the USA.
Methods: search for more accurate information, ask anything from adults.
Relevance: average.
Applications: http://in2english.net/2016/12/20/christmas-in-the-usa/
https://www.whychristmas.com/cultures/russia.shtml
https://celebrations.onehowto.com/article/how-is-christmas-celebrated-in-the-usa-973.html
https://www.tripsavvy.com/russia-christmas-traditions-1502306
sparkle with bright lights and decorations. Churches, home, schools, shops and streets are decorated with Christmas tree, colored lights, Santa Claus and his reindeer, and nativity scenes showing the stable where Jesus Christ was born. The traditional colors for this holiday are red and green, and the red poinsettia considered the Christmas flower.
Families prepare for this holiday weeks before. They make special foods. They make and buy gifts. They wrap them with bright paper and ribbons. They choose a tree and decorate it with ornaments lights. Houses are decorated with wreaths of holly, evergreens, and mistletoe.
Christmas cards are sent to friends are relatives.
Children hang up stockings to receive gifts from Santa Claus.
Schools usually hate two weeks of vacation, and some families take vacation together.|
Churches, organizations, and newspapers ask for donations of money and food for the needy. Volunteers from the Salvation Army stand outside stores collecting money for the needy. Hot meals and prepared and served to the poor and homeless.
Toys and games are given children at Christmas parties by somebody dressed as Santa Claus.
About Christmas in Russia. Christmas in Russia is normally
celebrated on January 7th( only few Catholics might celebrated it on 25th December). The date is different because the Russian Orthodox Church uses the old ‘Julian’ calendar for religious celebration days. The Orthodox Church also celebrates Advent. But it has fixed dates, starting on 28th November and going to the 6th January, so it’s 40 days long.
The official Christmas and New holidays in Russia last from December 31st to January 10th.
Christmas in Russia – it is a family-individual and global gifts more accepted for the new year to give. Christmas is mostly for kids.
Celebrate Christmas in Russia begin on January 6 with the rise of the first star, when the whole family sit down at the table with a festive dinner. But in this evening can be cannabis only lean it, which on the table should be exactly twelve dishes: jelly domestic baked sausage, the hot, pork, pate, stuffed with flesh, blood sausage.