Mother's Day

====Russia====
{{main|International Women's Day}}
Traditionally [[Russia]] had celebrated International Women's Day and Mother's Day on 8 March, an inheritance from the [[Soviet Union]], and a public holiday.<ref>{{cite news
| author = Постановление ЦК ВКП(б).
| script-title = ru:К советским женщинам, обращение ЦК КПСС в связи с Международным днём 8 Марта.
| newspaper = Советское искусство
| date = 8 March 1966
| pages = 4
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Women's Day was first celebrated on the last Sunday in February in 1913 in Russia.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.internationalwomensday.com/About|title=About International Women's Day|website=International Women's Day|access-date=8 November 2016}}</ref>

In 1917, demonstrations marking International Women's Day in [[Saint Petersburg]] on the last Sunday in February (which fell on 8 March on the [[Gregorian calendar]]) initiated the [[February Revolution]]. Following the [[October Revolution]] later that year, the [[Bolshevik]] [[Alexandra Kollontai]] persuaded [[Vladimir Lenin]] to make it an official holiday in the Soviet Union, and it was established, but was a working day until 1965.{{citation needed|date=March 2016}}

On 8 May 1965, by the decree of the [[Presidium of the Supreme Soviet]], International Women's Day was declared a non-working day in the Soviet Union "in commemoration of the outstanding merits of Soviet women in communistic construction, in the defense of their [[Fatherland]] during the [[Great Patriotic War (term)|Great Patriotic War]], in their heroism and selflessness at the front and in the rear, and also marking the great contribution of women to strengthening friendship between peoples, and the struggle for peace. But still, women's day must be celebrated as are other holidays."<ref>{{cite encyclopedia| last =Балаховская| first =Л. Г.| editor-last =Введенский| editor-first =Борис| script-title =ru:Международный женский день 8 марта.| encyclopedia ="Большая советская энциклопедия" (БСЭ)| publisher =Советская энциклопедия| location =Москва| year =1969–1978| url =http://slovari.yandex.ru/8%20%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%82%D0%B0/%D0%91%D0%A1%D0%AD/%D0%9C%D0%B5%D0%B6%D0%B4%D1%83%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B9%20%D0%B6%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9%20%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%8C%208%20%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%82%D0%B0/| archive-url =https://archive.today/20120720071049/http://slovari.yandex.ru/8%20%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%82%D0%B0/%D0%91%D0%A1%D0%AD/%D0%9C%D0%B5%D0%B6%D0%B4%D1%83%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B9%20%D0%B6%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9%20%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%8C%208%20%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%82%D0%B0/| url-status =dead| archive-date =20 July 2012| language =ru}}</ref>