Where the New Year is celebrated first (13 photos). How is the New Year moving around Russia? Infographics When the New Year is celebrated in the Russian Federation

New Year traditionally celebrated almost all over the world on December 31st. However, the first to celebrate the New Year begin in the dwarf Kingdom of Tonga in the Pacific Ocean. And they complete - in Haiti and Samoa - in 25 hours.

0.15 - Chatham Island (New Zealand), remote from the main islands of New Zealand, is in a special time zone and is the second place where the New Year comes.

1.00 - New Zealand (Wellington, Auckland, etc.) and polar explorers from the South Pole in Antarctica celebrate the New Year.

2.00 - The New Year begins with the inhabitants of extreme eastern Russia (Anadyr, Kamchatka), the Fiji Islands and some other Pacific islands (Nauru, Tuvalu, etc.)

2.30 - Norfolk Island (Australia).

3.00 - Part of eastern Australia (Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra) and some Pacific islands (Vanuatu, Micronesia, Solomon Islands, etc.).

January 1st is an ordinary day and Iran. The country lives according to the Persian calendar. The New Year is celebrated in Iran on the day of the spring equinox - March 21. The holiday is called Navruz, that is, a new day.

In a multicultural India there are so many holidays that if you had to celebrate everything, there would be no time to work. Therefore, some of them have become "holidays of choice". These days, all institutions and offices are open, but employees can take time off. January 1 is one of those holidays. March 22 is the New Year according to the unified national calendar of India. In Kerala, New Year is celebrated on April 13th. It is called Vishu. Sikhs celebrate their New Year, Vaisakhi, on the same day. In South India, the Divapali festival is widely celebrated in autumn, which also means the arrival of the new year. This is not a complete list of New Year's days that can be celebrated in India. By the way, among the "holidays to choose from" there is also Catholic Christmas.

AT South Korea January 1 is a day off. Decorated Christmas trees and Santa Clauses are common here, but the beginning of the year in Korea is perceived rather than as a holiday, but as an additional day off that can be spent in a pleasant circle of family and friends. But if something is celebrated on an unprecedented scale, it is Sollal - the New Year according to the lunar calendar. By this day, most Koreans leave for their hometowns to honor the memory of their ancestors.

Every time, on New Year's Eve, we all sit at festive table, or standing on the street near a beautifully decorated city Christmas tree, looking forward to the chiming clock and the New Year. Already in the hands of glasses of champagne - the long-awaited moment is about to come. In these seconds, someone makes wishes, and someone exchanges funny jokes with neighbors, and now it has come - the New Year!

The whole vast country is celebrating his arrival. Have you ever thought about who is still the first to celebrate the New Year 2020, to whom the first Santa Claus or Santa Claus will send his reindeer team in the first place? And who had already met him long before us? It is quite interesting who will celebrate the New Year a few hours after you, and who in general will be the last to meet it on this planet. Let's look at this interesting moment of the holiday from the height of the flight of satellites and Santa Clauses.

Residents of which countries are the first to celebrate the New Year 2020?

As it turned out, the inhabitants of Line Island, located in the state of Kiribati, are the first to begin to congratulate each other on the New Year. This country is part of the Christmas Islands. Kiribati is in the earliest time zone UTC + 14, it is worth noting that the island completely coincides with Hawaii in hours, but the difference is a whole day. Thus, it turns out that when it is midnight on December 30 in Hawaii, it is already midnight on December 31 on Line Island. Also, among the first to celebrate the New Year are the inhabitants of the city of Nuku'alofa, which is also located in Oceania. Next in line will be New Zealand, which is in the UTC+13:45 time zone, followed by Phoenix, Tonga and Fiji, which are 13 hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time.

When is the New Year celebrated in the Russian Federation?

Surely, everyone knows that Russia is located in more than one time zone, but did you know that their number is nine? Thus, it turns out that the Russians have a great opportunity to celebrate the New Year nine times. Residents of Magadan, Kamchatka and Petropavlovka are the first to fill their glasses and light sparklers. They have a New Year on December 31 at 16.00 Moscow time, while Muscovites are just starting to put dishes on the festive table. Further, at 17.00 Moscow time, everyone living in Khabarovsk, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Vladivostok and Ussuriysk begins the celebration of the New Year.

And so every hour the inhabitants of one or another territory of Russia fill their glasses and say festive toasts. We will not write in detail about each city, since Mother Russia is a rather large country and listing all its cities will take a very long time. We only note that Moscow and St. Petersburg celebrate this magnificent holiday at 00.00 on the first of January, and an hour later the clink of glasses will be heard in the homes of the inhabitants of Kaliningrad - this is the last city in Russia where the New Year is coming.

When is the New Year according to the Chinese calendar?

The Chinese celebrate this holiday differently than we do - December 31st. They adhere to the lunar calendar, according to which the New Year will not come on January 1, but on February 19, since this will be the first new moon after the winter solstice. Thus, all those who believe in the Eastern (Chinese) calendar will celebrate the New Year one and a half months later, compared to those who are used to celebrating this holiday strictly on December 31st.

How to celebrate Chinese New Year?

It's no secret that China is a country that has a rich culture and many different traditions. They are preparing especially diligently and diligently for the coming of the New Year. First of all, the Chinese thoroughly clean their house, since dirt and dust are the highest degree of disrespect for the owner of the home for the coming year.
The Chinese try to pay off any debts before the New Year in order to start life from scratch and not owe anyone. Important for the people of China is what they will wear on New Year's Eve. It is preferable to wear new clothes and bright accessories that will symbolize this amazing holiday.
The Chinese consider a rich festive table to be the key to success, prosperity and wealth in the coming year. As a rule, it contains traditional oriental dishes, such as: rice, seafood and noodles. Dishes made from these ingredients will help appease the White Metal Rat, the patron saint of 2020.
Of course, these are far from all the traditions of Chinese culture, but they can be called fundamental.

Finally

It doesn’t matter which calendar you prefer to meet 2020 and what traditions you follow, the main thing is a good mood and faith in the best. Try to ensure that there is no place for conflicts, quarrels and talk about troubles and troubles at the festive table. Greet your guests with a smile, willingly thank everyone who will present you with New Year's gifts, and completely plunge into the festive atmosphere, forgetting about any problems and worries. And it doesn’t matter at all who is the first to celebrate the New Year 2020, the main thing is that everyone celebrates it well.

Nowhere in the world is the New Year celebrated as often as on the Indonesian island of Bali. The fact is that a year in Bali lasts only 210 days. The main attribute of the festival is multi-colored rice, from which long ribbons, often two meters high, are baked...

Muslims use moon calendar, so the date of the New Year for Muslims is shifted forward by 11 days every year. In Iran, the New Year is celebrated on March 21. A few weeks before the New Year, people plant grains of wheat or barley in a small dish. By the New Year, the grains sprout, which symbolizes the beginning of spring and the new year of life.

Hindus celebrate the New Year in different ways depending on where they live. It is not so easy for a resident of India to determine what year is coming. Four eras are celebrated in India: Salivaha, Vikramditya, Jaina and Buddha. In the south of India, the New Year is celebrated in March, in the north of the country - in April, in the west - at the end of October, and in the state of Kerala - either in July or August. The inhabitants of northern India adorn themselves with flowers of pink, red, purple, or white hues. In south India, mothers place sweets, flowers, small gifts on a special tray. On the morning of the new year, children should wait with their eyes closed until they are led to the tray. In central India, orange flags are hung on buildings. In western India, small lights are lit on rooftops. In the New Year, Hindus think of the goddess of wealth, Lakshmi.

The Jewish New Year is called Rosh Hashanah. This is a holy time when people think about the sins they have committed and promise to atone for them next year with good deeds. Children are given new clothes. People bake bread and eat fruit.

Chinese New Year is celebrated between January 17 and February 19, during the new moon. Street processions are the most exciting part of the holiday. Thousands of lanterns are lit during the processions to light the way for the New Year. The Chinese believe that the new year is surrounded by evil spirits. Therefore, they scare them away with firecrackers and firecrackers. Sometimes the Chinese seal windows and doors with paper to keep out evil spirits.

In Japan, New Year is celebrated on January 1st. Mandatory is the custom of seeing off the Old Year, which includes organizing receptions and visiting restaurants. At the beginning of the new year, the Japanese begin to laugh. They believe that laughter will bring them good luck in the coming year. On the first New Year's Eve, it is customary to visit the temple. In temples, 108 bells are beaten. With each blow, according to the Japanese, all the bad things go away, which should not be repeated in the New Year. To keep out evil spirits, the Japanese hang bundles of straw in front of their houses, which they believe brings good luck. In houses, rice cakes are placed in a conspicuous place, on top of which tangerines are placed, symbolizing happiness, health and longevity. In Japan, the European Christmas tree is furnished with exotic plants that grow on the islands.

In Korea, after the New Year's Eve, festivities begin on the village streets, during which girls always compete in high jumps.

In Vietnam, the New Year is called Tet. He is met between January 21 and February 19. The exact date of the holiday varies from year to year. The Vietnamese believe that a god lives in every house, and on New Year's Eve this god goes to heaven to tell how each member of the family spent the past year. The Vietnamese once believed that God floated on the back of a carp fish. Nowadays, on New Year's Eve, the Vietnamese sometimes buy live carp, and then release it into a river or pond. They also believe that the first person to enter their home in the New Year will bring good or bad luck in the coming year.

In Mongolia, the New Year is celebrated at the Christmas tree, although the Mongolian Santa Claus comes to the kids in a cattle breeder costume. On New Year's holiday, sports competitions, games, tests of dexterity and courage are held.

Burma celebrates the New Year in April when the tropical downpours end. As a sign of gratitude to nature, the Burmese pour water on each other and wish them a Happy New Year.

In Haiti, the New Year is the beginning of a new life and therefore is considered the most beloved holiday. By the New Year, Haitians are trying to thoroughly clean their homes, repair furniture or replace it with new ones, and also make peace with those with whom they have quarreled.

In Kenya, it is customary to celebrate the New Year on the water. Kenyans on this day bathe in rivers, lakes, in the Indian Ocean, ride boats, sing and have fun.

In Sudan, it is necessary to celebrate the New Year on the banks of the Nile, then all wishes will come true.

In Panama, on New Year's Eve, unimaginable noise rises, cars honk, people scream ... According to an ancient belief, noise scares away evil spirits.

The Navajo Indians of North America have preserved the custom of celebrating the New Year by a huge fire in a forest clearing. They dance in white robes, their faces are painted in White color, in the hands of sticks with balls of feathers at the ends. The dancers try to be closer to the fire, and when the balls flare up, they rejoice. But then sixteen of the strongest men appear, they carry a bright red ball and, to the music, pull it up with a rope to the top of a high pillar. Everyone is shouting: A new Sun is born!

The United States celebrates the New Year pompously, colorfully and enthusiastically - in anticipation of gifts from Santa Claus. America breaks all records for greeting cards and Christmas gifts every year.

In Cuba, the clock only strikes 11 times on New Year's Day. Since the 12th stroke falls on New Year's Eve, the clock is given a rest and calmly celebrate the holiday with everyone. In Cuba, before the onset of the New Year, all the dishes that are in the house are filled with water, and after midnight they throw it out into the street, wishing that the New Year was as clear and clean as water.

Latin America accompanies the New Year's Eve with street carnivals, theatrical performances of a mass character.

In Australia, travel agencies for the New Year offer: shows with Polynesian dances and natives, representatives of Australia's oldest culture; a walk through a glass tunnel, laid in the water column, to view the inhabitants of the underwater world of Australia: sharks, rays, turtles, coral reef inhabitants and other marine animals.

Western Europe: celebrates the New Year with elements of choral singing, a lit up elegant Christmas tree and luxurious gifts.

In Scotland and Wales, at the last second of the old year, the doors are supposed to be opened wide to let out Old year and let the new one in!

In Scotland, on New Year's Eve, they set fire to a barrel of resin and roll this barrel through the streets. The Scots consider it a symbol of the burning of the Old Year. After that, the road to the New Year is open. It is believed that the first person to enter the house after the onset of the New Year brings good luck or bad luck. A dark-haired man with a gift - fortunately.

In Wales, going to visit the New Year, you should grab a piece of coal and throw it into the fireplace kindled on New Year's Eve. This testifies to the friendly intentions of the guests who came.

In France, on New Year's Eve, they bake bean into gingerbread. And the best New Year's gift to a fellow villager is a wheel.

In Sweden, on New Year's Eve, it is customary to break dishes at the neighbors' doors.

For Italians, every New Year requires paying off debts, and secondly, parting with unnecessary rubbish. On the night of January 1, it is customary to throw out old furniture, empty bottles, etc. from the windows of apartments, so it is not safe to be on the streets at this time.

Residents of Greece, going on a visit to celebrate the New Year, take with them a stone that they throw at the threshold of a hospitable house. If the stone is heavy, they say: "Let the wealth of the owner be heavy, like this stone." And if the stone is small, then they wish: "Let the thorn in the owner's eye be as small as this stone."

In the houses of Bulgaria, as midnight approaches on December 31, the lights are extinguished for three minutes and the time for New Year's kisses begins, the secret of which is preserved by darkness.

In Romania, it is customary to bake small surprises in New Year's pies - coins, porcelain figurines, rings, hot pepper pods. The ring found in the cake means that the New Year will bring a lot of happiness. And a pod of pepper will cheer everyone around.

The peoples of the North are the most interesting, unexpected, festive. New Year's Eve turns here into the personification of a feeling of immense joy, the friendliness of the holiday. This is a fair-sale, this is sports, this is folklore with the presence of a Christmas tree and Santa Claus, who is the keeper of secrets and surprises on this New Year's Eve

By the way, here's something else worth noting

Last updated: 12/29/2015

Russians will celebrate the New Year 11 times this year. AiF.ru has created a special infographic hint that will help Muscovites not to get confused and at the right time to congratulate their relatives living in other regions of the country on the holiday.

In what order will the people of Russia celebrate the New Year?

In Russia, the people of Kamchatka and the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug will be the first to celebrate the New Year. The holiday for them will come 9 hours earlier than for Muscovites.

Following Kamchatka and Chukotka, the president will congratulate the inhabitants of the eastern regions of the Yakutsk region and the Severo-Kuril region of the Sakhalin region on the New Year. There, the last strike of the chimes will sound 8 hours earlier than in the capital.

The third champagne will be opened by residents of the central part of Yakutia, as well as Primorsky Territory, Khabarovsk Territory, Magadan Region, the Jewish Autonomous Region and the western part of the Sakhalin Region. They will meet the holiday 7 hours earlier than Moscow.

Then, walking around the country, the New Year will come to visit the inhabitants of the western regions of Yakutia and the Amur Region. For them, the holiday will come 6 hours earlier than the Russian capital.

Fifth in the new year will be residents of Buryatia, the Trans-Baikal Territory and the Irkutsk Region. They will make their most cherished wish under the chiming clock five hours earlier than Muscovites.

The sixth to celebrate the holiday will be residents of Tuva, Khakassia, the Krasnoyarsk Territory and the Kemerovo Region. They will uncork the champagne four hours earlier than they do in Moscow.

Novosibirsk, Omsk and Tomsk regions, as well as the Republic of Altai and the Altai Territory will join the New Year celebrations seventh. They will be able to see fireworks three hours earlier than Muscovites.

Bashkortostan, Perm Territory, Yugra, Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, as well as Kurgan, Orenburg, Sverdlovsk, Tyumen and Chelyabinsk regions will celebrate the holiday eighth in the Russian Federation. Glasses in anticipation of the last blow of the chimes will be raised there two hours earlier than Moscow.

Residents of the Udmurt and Samara regions will be the ninth to launch fireworks and blow up firecrackers. They will enter the new year an hour earlier than Muscovites.

Tenth glasses of champagne will be raised by Muscovites and residents of the European part of Russia and the Crimean peninsula.

Residents of the Kaliningrad region will be the last to celebrate the holiday in the Russian Federation - the president wishes them happiness in the new year an hour later than Muscovites.

The President's New Year's Address 2018 has already been published online. Putin's speech was shown in the easternmost time zone of the country, where the New Year has already arrived.

President Vladimir Putin delivered a traditional New Year's address to the people of the country. It has already been seen by residents of the easternmost time zone of Russia, where 2018 has already begun. The video is also available online.

Addressing the residents of the country, the head of state noted that the New Year is a family holiday, which is celebrated with gifts, surprises and expectations of change.

“This holiday comes to us every year, but still we perceive it as intcbatch new, kind, desirable. We believe that everything that is envisioned in these moments, all our hopes will come true,” the president began his address to the Russians.

According to the Russian leader, changes will definitely occur if you remember and take care of your parents, understand children more and “support those who are nearby, who need our participation and generosity.”

Putin sent special congratulations to those who are now at work or in the service, "perform military or professional duty, are on duty in hospitals, fly planes and trains."

“We are together on this wonderful New Year's Eve,” the President assured.

In his address, Putin did not mention anything about 2017 at all.

“The time has come to say the most cherished words to each other, forgive mistakes, insults, hug, confess love, warm with care and attention. May there be changes for the better in the new year in the life of every person, every family, so that everyone is healthy, that children are born and that they make us happy, ”he said.

“Peace and prosperity to our great Russia, our beloved and only. Be happy,” the President concluded his address.

New Year's address of President Putin 2018. Watch VIDEO