On December 18, employees of civil registry offices celebrate their professional holiday. This day is not marked as a red day on the calendar, so very often workers celebrate the holiday right at their workplaces. In total, there are 412 registry offices in Russia, in which daily continuous work is carried out. Here the birth and death of a person, marriage and divorce, change of surname, first name, adoption and establishment of paternity are registered.

Day of the internal security units of the internal affairs bodies of the Russian Federation

December 18 marks the Day of the Arabic Language, one of the six officially approved by the UN. There are 7,000 thousand languages ​​in the world, Arabic is one of the most common. It is considered native to the so-called Semitic-Hamitic language family, numbering 280 million people and approved as official in 28 countries.

The pattern of each snowflake is unique, because nature has inexhaustible imagination and limitless imagination. Ice crystals, which take the form of hexagons or plates, have long been of interest to scientists. Romantics glorify them in verse, calling them the frozen happiness of water, and compare them to pearls and crystal. December 18 is a funny and at the same time touching Snowflake Appreciation Day.

People curl into the fetal position in stressful situations because they need comfort and protection. With its help, people try to return to the state of peace and serenity that they experienced in the womb before being born. In honor of giving the body the shape of a ball, a sweet and touching holiday was invented.

According to statistics, every 35 people around the planet are immigrants who left their country for work or a better life. In 1990, on December 18, the Convention on the Protection of the Rights of Immigrants and Their Families came into force, and in 2000, by decision of the UN, a new holiday appeared on the calendar, which was called International Migrants Day.

Police Day in Moldova (Ziua Politiei)

Qatar National Day

Day of workers of the insurance market of Kyrgyzstan

The holiday comes from the church holiday of the righteous Savva the Sanctified, who knew how to heal with prayers. People tried not to go into the forest on Savvin Day, because they believed that they could get lost or freeze. Signs of the weather: if the logs burning in the stove crackled or the fire gave off a red tint, then frosts were expected; smoke creeping along the ground from the chimney foreshadowed bad weather.

Orthodox holidays on December 18:

Memorial Day of St. Savva the Illuminated

Memorial Day of the Venerable Karion the Monk and his son Zacharias

Memorial Day of Saint Gury, Archbishop of Kazan, and Barsanuphius of Tver