Recently, at work with female colleagues, a conversation about the holidays came up and I said that Halloween was coming soon. They answered me - this is not our holiday, we do not celebrate this.
I wanted to decorate the house's entrance for the holiday, but I completely forgot about it; I only remembered it late.
They are missing out! Are there any old celebrations for harvest that take place at this time of year?
I don't remember such a holiday.
It is likely that there was something similar once, but in Soviet Times the holiday "Agricultural Worker's Day" was introduced, which is celebrated on the second Sunday of October. It turns out he was there last week. In our country, they still like to celebrate various Soviet holidays, especially professional ones.
I requested "autumn holidays in Russia," and Yandex gave me a list. There are a lot of professional military holidays there, which made me sad.
When we were young, we used to have an autumn ball at our club in the village.
I specifically did not search for such a query. The country is big. And our region is a bit special in terms of "old Slavic holidays".
Perhaps I should say that there are old Tatar and Udmurt villages across the river in our area. There are really old holidays there, and there is a special holiday—Sabantuy ("plow holiday") is an annual national holiday of the end of spring fieldwork among the Tatars and Bashkirs
We can say that there was an autumn holiday - September 21, which is simply called the Harvest Festival. But... I say that in September, not all the crops are harvested from the fields, from the gardens, so I doubt the celebration of this day among the ancient Slavs, especially since the Slavs are southern, eastern, and northern. And these are regions and life that are completely different in terms of climatic conditions. Non-Slavic customs and holidays have been preserved better - for example, Tatars, Chuvash, Bashkirs, Udmurts, Kalmyks, peoples of the Caucasus, Siberia, and the Far East.