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messe_de_minuit - 12/31/2010 The people of the Fiji Islands are the first to celebrate the New Year. The islands are located at 180 degrees east latitude, where the international conditional date change boundary passes. east of the international conditional date change boundary. For example, residents of the islands of Samoa, Phoenix, etc.

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 the lunar calendar, so the date of the New Year for Muslims shifts 11 days forward each 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 clothes, their faces are painted white, in their hands are 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 open wide to let the Old Year out and the New Year in!

In Scotland, on the eve of the New Year, 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

Every time, on New Year's Eve, all of us, sitting at the festive table, or standing on the street near the beautifully decorated city Christmas tree, look 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 particular city is the last 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 meet 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 dwelling 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 celebrate 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.

New Year is 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.

IN 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.

Which countries are the first to celebrate the New Year and the new day? These are the Kingdom of Tonga, the Republic of Kiribati, as well as the New Zealand possession of Chatham Island.

Let's talk about this in more detail.

Map of time zones.

Map of time zones.

In the far left and right parts of the map, the Dateline, or (in other words) the International Date Line, is indicated.

It is crossed (at the bottom of the map, near Australia) by the Republic of Kiribati. Kiribati, due to its length, is located simultaneously in three time zones in relation to Greenwich time, namely in the zones: plus 12, plus 13, plus 14, and therefore cannot be considered a country that is entirely the first to celebrate the New Year and the new day. Only that part of Kiribati, which is located in the time zones: plus 13 and plus 14, celebrates the New Year and the new day first in the world.

In turn, the Kingdom of Tonga (time zone: plus 13) is the only country in the world that is the first to celebrate the New Year and the new day all year round. Tonga does not switch to daylight saving time as New Zealand does (New Zealand winter time: plus 12 and summer time: plus 13). Thus, in winter, New Zealand cannot boast of being the first country in the world to celebrate the New Year.

However, the New Zealand possession - Chatham Island (with its winter time: plus 12 hours 45 minutes) celebrates the New Year just 15 minutes after Tonga.

Kingdom of Tonga()is the only country in the world that is entirely the first to celebrate the New Year and year-round - the new day b.

The organ of the government of Tonga, the Tonga Chronicle newspaper (published in 1964-2009), in its issue of February 20, 1997, described the privilege and right of the Kingdom of Tonga to be called the first country to celebrate the New Year and the new day:

“Until the end of the 19th century, the world did not have a system of time zones. But as the network of railroads and regular shipping lines expanded, the need to somehow harmonize their timetables became apparent. As a result, the main trading nations in 1870 began to discuss the introduction of standard and standard time in order to get rid of the chaos in this matter.

These efforts culminated in the Washington International Meridian Conference. 1884., which divided the Earth into 24 standard meridians, 15° apart in longitude, starting west of the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, England. Meridian, located at 180 ° (12 hours before Greenwich) became the basis for the so-called. Dateline, along which countries to the west of it entered the next day, while countries to the east remained in the previous one. (The following countries participated in the Washington International Meridian Conference, which developed a system of time zones for the whole world and drew the International Date Line: Austria-Hungary, the Brazilian Empire, Venezuela, the German Empire, Guatemala, Denmark, the Dominican Republic, Spain, Italy, Colombia, Hawaii , Costa Rica, Mexico, Netherlands, Ottoman Empire, Paraguay, Russian Empire, El Salvador, Great Britain, USA, France, Chile, Sweden (in union with Norway), Switzerland and Japan Note site).

Nevertheless, when determining the international Date Line, the conference participants agreed with its deviations from the 180th parallel in order to avoid dividing the day within individual subjects, such as New Zealand, Fiji, Samoa, Siberia (meaning the Far North of Russia Note ..

In the Southern Hemisphere, the International Date Line was drawn north of the South Pole... so as not to separate Chatham Island in terms of date. Raoul, Eng. Sunday, now New Zealand Note . site), the Kingdom of Tonga, which belongs to Fiji, the Lau archipelago, similarly to the North and South Islands of New Zealand ... Similar deviations in the date line were agreed in the Northern Hemisphere, so as not to divide the territories in the sense of date in Eastern Siberia ( meaning the Far North of Russia.

In theory, standard time should never be more than 12 hours ahead of or behind Greenwich Mean Time. But the permissible deviation, according to the decisions of the mentioned conference 1884 put Tonga in the zone 13 hours ahead of GMT. In turn, New Zealand and Fiji were in the zone 12 hours ahead of Greenwich time, and Western Samoa 11 hours behind Greenwich time.

But until 1941, Tonga did not adhere to its local time, which was supposed to be 13 hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time. Tongan time was then 50 minutes ahead of New Zealand winter time, and accordingly Tongan time was 12 hours and 20 minutes ahead of Greenwich Mean Time.

When New Zealand adjusted its standard time in the 1940s, Tonga had the choice of either changing its local time to match New Zealand's time; or move to a time ahead of Greenwich Mean Time by 13 hours (which would be 50 minutes ahead of New Zealand time).

His Majesty, the future King Taufaahau Tupou IV (Taufa'ahau Tupou IV, became king in 1965 ., and rules up to 2006. Note. site), while known as Crown Prince Tungi (Tungi), chose in this regard to change the Tongan time so that Tonga could be called the land where time begins.

The Legislative Assembly approved this choice. But some of the older, more conservative members of parliament from the outlying islands objected: “If we move the clock forward 40 minutes at midnight on December 31, as Your Royal Highness wishes, will that mean that we will simply lose 40 minutes?”

To which the crown prince presented a win-win argument: “But in this case, remember that during the “weekly prayer of the year” (see. Note. website) we will be the first people on Earth to perform the morning prayer".

Since 1974, when New Zealand began to switch to daylight saving time, during the four summer months this country is also in the zone when its time is 13 hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time. But Tonga is still the country in the world that is the first to welcome every new day of every week, every month and every year, ”the Tongan newspaper proudly noted.

So, time in Tonga is Greenwich Mean Time (GMT, today also called Coordinated Universal Time UTC) +13 hours .

In addition, the Republic of Kiribati, neighboring Tonga and another island country, can also be considered the first country to celebrate the New Year and the new day. However, Kiribati, due to its length, is located simultaneously in three time zones in relation to Greenwich time, namely in the zones +12, +13, +14, and therefore cannot be considered a country that is entirely the first to celebrate the New Year and the new day.

A still frame from the New Year's (2000) broadcast of the American television company ABC, which shows the Dateline (or (otherwise) International Date Line), as well as the first three countries in the world that are the first to celebrate the New Year and the new day: the Kingdom of Tonga ( Time zone: GMT plus 13); as well as part of the islands of the Republic of Kiribati (namely, those related to time zones plus 13, plus 14); and besides this, the New Zealand possession is Chatham Island (Chatham, its winter time: plus 12 h.

A still frame from the New Year's (2000) program of the American television company ABC, which shows the Dateline (Dateline, or (otherwise) International Date Line), as well as the first three countries in the world that are the first to celebrate the New Year and the new day:

Kingdom of Tonga (Time zone: GMT plus 13);

as well as part of the islands of the Republic of Kiribati (namely, those related to time zones plus 13, plus 14);

and besides this, the New Zealand possession is Chatham Island (Chatham, its winter time: plus 12 hours 45 minutes).

Quite close to Tonga is the New Zealand possession of Chatham Island, where the difference with Greenwich time is +12 hours 45 minutes, i.e. 15 minutes slower than Tongan. However, in the summer, Chatham switches to summer time and then the difference with Greenwich time is already +13 hours 45 minutes, and therefore 45 minutes more than Tongan.

In turn, New Zealand has winter time (Greenwich time +12), and summer time (Greenwich time +13). Thus, as noted in the Tonga Chronicle article, in summer New Zealand can be said to be the first to meet the new day. But not the New Year, because. Summer time in New Zealand operates from April to September.

A few words about how the New Year is celebrated in Tonga.

The entire first week of the New Year is called Uike Lotu (i.e. "weekly prayer") in Tonga. On every day of this week, members of the Protestant churches, to which the largest part of the population of Tonga belongs (despite the fact that 15% are Catholics), hold meetings and prayers in the morning and evening, and in between prayers there is a solemn meal.

A New Year's treat in Tonga consists of umu (umu, used in the Hawaiian Islands) of the traditional Tongan dish "lu-pulu" (lu pulu), which is beef cooked in taro leaves along with onions and coconut milk. Also, people eat root vegetables, such as taro, and also sweet potatoes, i.e. sweet potato, called in Tonga « kumala» (kumala), and besides this - tapioca (i.e. starchy puree), prepared from the roots of the cassava plant (plants of the Euphorbiaceae family), and seafood.

Young people launch fireworks with the help of cannons in the form of a large bamboo tube lying on the ground, such a cannon is called fana pitu .

Video: A Tongan teenager prepares a fana pitu bamboo cannon for the 2010 New Year's fireworks. Here's how the cannon fires:

On January 1, people also go to the beach and swim, at this time in Tonga the hottest midsummer. On the night of January 1, the King of Tonga arranges a reception for his high-ranking guests.

Video: Tonga, Kiribati and the New Zealand possession of Chatham Island are the first to celebrate the New Year (Here is 2000, and thus, in this case, the new millennium):

The video below is a fragment of the special international TV program "Meeting of the Year 2000" (also known as "2000 Today"), which was broadcast throughout the day on December 31, 1999 around the world and was organized in cooperation with 60 TV broadcasters from different countries, including which included both public - British Broadcasting Corporation (British Broadcasting Corporation - BBC), Polish Television (Telewizja Polska - TVP), Australian Broadcasting Corporation (Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ABC), Spanish Television (Corporación de Radio y Televisión Española - RTVE) and Public broadcasting service in the USA (Public Broadcasting Service - PBS), and private - American Broadcasting Company in the USA (American Broadcasting Company - ABC), Japanese TV Asahi. Broadcast short excerpts from the program in Russia.

The program was a telethon, consisting of live broadcasts, showing how the countries of the world, one after another, met the new year 2000. Starting from the very first countries where the new day comes: the Kingdom of Tonga and the Republic of Kiribati, as well as the New Zealand possession - Chatham Islands.

So the last minutes 1999 . and meeting 2000 . in Tonga, Kiribati and Chatham Island.

It first shows how the then King of Tonga, Taufaahau Tupou IV, addresses his subjects with a welcoming speech, and the subjects pray (as part of the so-called "weekly prayer") and sing religious songs.

At the same time, dancers and singers from the neighboring Republic of Kiribati, who came to the Kiribati-owned and usually uninhabited Caroline Island Atoll, officially renamed Millennium Island by the government of this republic in 1999, held a ceremony to welcome the new millennium and year, in the presence of the leadership of the republic and journalists. Caroline Atoll is the very first territory of Kiribati, where the New Year and the new day come. It is also the first territory in the world to have a new date, as The atoll lies next to the Dateline, or International Date Line. Until 1995, the atoll was one of the last places on earth to welcome a new day. The date line ran to the east, and thus Kiribati was a country where new and old days went simultaneously. Now all three time zones of Kiribati are in the zone of one current day, in other words, at the initiative of the government of Kiribati, the Date Line has been pushed back.

Kiribati dancers performed traditional dances during a televised ceremony mwaie as well as songs. In addition, a traditional canoe was launched into the water, driven by an old man and a boy, with a torch. The descent of the canoe symbolized the hope for a new journey - from the past to the future.

Also in the program it was shown how the year 2000 was met on the New Zealand possession - Chatham Island. There were both Europeans and representatives of the Maori - the indigenous population of the islands of New Zealand, who once inhabited Chatham.

For our video, the broadcast of the TV program “Meeting of the Year 2000” (“2000 Today”) was taken from the airs of Polish Television (Telewizja Polska - TVP, broadcast was on the second TV channel of this broadcaster) and the American Broadcasting Company (American Broadcasting Company - ABC (USA). Comments, respectively, were in Polish and English.

This material is based on an article in the former government English-language Tongan newspaper Tonga Chronicle and an article from the Internet community Hubpages (in both cases translated from English by the site), as well as other sources;

Time zones in Russia are established by the Federal Law, adopted in the fall of 2014. Prior to its approval, there were 9 zones, today there are 11. According to international numbering, they are in the range from 2 to 12. Moscow time (hereinafter referred to as MSK) refers to the third time zone. The changes were adopted at the legislative level so that each subject of the Russian Federation belongs to one zone. The exception is Yakutia (three time zones). So who in Russia is the first to celebrate the New Year?

Uelen, Chukchi village

The globe is divided into two hemispheres: Western and Eastern. The line along which the border runs is the 180th meridian. It is established by international agreement that a new day begins here. The 180th meridian passes through the water basin and crosses the land only twice - the Fiji Islands and the Chukchi Peninsula. That is why every Russian schoolchild knows that in our country the day begins with Chukotka. It originates at the point of the 180th meridian, the border of which is conditionally transferred from the territory of the Bering Strait to land. In which villages does morning come first? "Border of the day" - these are the easternmost settlements of Uelen and Naukan.

Here lies the answer to the question of who in Russia is the first to celebrate the New Year. For those who are in the MSK + 9 time zone, it arrives at 15:00 Moscow time. Nearby is the easternmost settlement of our country - the village of Uelen, where about 650 people live. It stretches along the pebble strip that separates the lagoon from the Chukchi Sea, and is located at the very foot of the hill, the slope of which is visible at any time because of the black hillocks on them. The inhabitants of the village are Eskimos, Chukchi and Russians, who are engaged in fishing and sea hunting. It is curious that Yu. S. Rytkheu, a famous writer, was once born in this small settlement.

Township of Naunkan

In fact, the easternmost village was Naunkan. Founded presumably in the XIV century, the village was located directly on Cape Dezhnev. When asked where the New Year was celebrated first in Russia, until 1958 they always answered: "In Naunkan."

But it was 1958 that was the last year in the life of the inhabitants of the village. It was abolished by resettling 400 people across the territory of the Autonomous Okrug. Now only a few monuments have survived on the cape in the place where one of Dezhnev's koches once crashed. May the memory of the most famous natives of the village be preserved, among them the famous engraver Khukhutan and the poetess Z.N. Nenlyumkin.

Together with Chukotka, the capital of the ChAO, Anadyr, is the first to meet Santa Claus and the Snow Maiden. The most northeastern city of the Russian Federation, located on the banks of the river of the same name. It was founded as an outpost in 1889 and was called Novo-Mariinsk. Already in the 30s it became the administrative center of the district, and in 1965 acquired the status of a city. Today, its population exceeds 15 thousand people, Russians, Chukchi and Eskimos predominate. By the way, the locals call the capital of CHAO Kagyrgym, which in translation from Chukchi means "mouth", or Vyen ("entrance"). The city is really located in a small neck, from where the path to the upper part of the estuary opens.

Residents of the city, living in permafrost conditions, call the rest of Russia the mainland, emphasizing their remoteness. The distance to the capital of the Russian Federation is more than 6,100 km. Residential houses built on piles are painted in bright colors, which looks quite impressive against the background of the gray tundra. The facades are decorated with drawings of animals, people, shaman tambourines. There is practically no unemployment in the city. In addition to reindeer breeding, hunting and fishing, residents mine coal and gold, work at a fish factory and the largest wind farm - the Anadyr WPP. So, which city of Russia will be the first to meet? Undoubtedly, Anadyr. But it is not the only one located in the MSK+9 time zone.

Other cities in ChAO

Two more cities are located in the Autonomous Okrug, where its residents are the first to celebrate the New Year in Russia. These are Bilibino and Pevek. The first one has had the status of a city since 1993 and is located even further from the capital of the Russian Federation - at a distance of 6500 km. Previously, it was called Karalvaam - after the name of the river on the banks of which it is located. The town was founded in connection with the discovery by geologists of a placer gold deposit and is now considered one of the most expensive cities in the country. At the moment, its population exceeds 6.3 thousand people.

Answering the question about which city in Russia will be the first to celebrate the New Year, it should be said about the northernmost - Pevek, founded in 1933. It received its current status in 1967. Its population is 4.5 thousand people. This is an important port located on the shore of the strait that connects the East Siberian Sea and the Chaun Bay. At one time, tin deposits were discovered on its territory and two ITC institutions were founded. Today Pevek is one of the gold mining regions. However, after the closure of the tin mines in the 90s, the population of the city began to decline sharply due to employment problems. By the way, during the meeting of the New Year, the polar night reigns in the city, lasting until January 16th.

The main city of Kamchatka

The Kamchatka Territory is also located in the MSK + 9 time zone. The capital of the administrative district is Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. This is the answer to the question of which city in Russia celebrates the New Year first. Almost 180.5 thousand residents of the capital of the region raise their glasses with champagne before others in Russia. Among them, about 80% are Russians, a little more than 3.5% are Ukrainians. Other nationalities make up less than 1%. Among them are Tatars, Azerbaijanis, Belarusians, Koryaks, Chuvashs and others.

The city is located in the southeast of the peninsula, on the hills, on the very shore of the Avacha Bay. There are four volcanoes in the visibility zone, two of them are active. Kamchatka (especially its eastern coast) is a seismically dangerous place, so most of the buildings are built with five floors. Recently, skyscrapers have also appeared that can withstand an earthquake of 10 points. The peculiarity of the peninsula is that there are no overland communications with the mainland. To get to Vladivostok, for example, you can only by plane or boat.

Who in Russia is the first to celebrate the New Year: Kamchatka Territory

There are two more cities of regional subordination in Kamchatka - Vilyuchinsk and Yelizovo. The first is ZATO. It was formed by the merger of workers' settlements, where the Navy's ship repair plant and the nuclear submarine base were once built. The name of the city is given by the name of an extinct volcano, which is a natural monument. Year of foundation - 1968. The population is just over 22 thousand people.

To the question of who in Russia is the first to celebrate the New Year, it will be correct to answer: Yelizovo. Located 32 km from this city with 38 thousand people, it occupies the banks of the Avacha River. Here in the middle of the 19th century there was a settlement renamed in honor of G. M. Elizov, the commander of a partisan detachment who died in 1922. The village received city status in 1975. Its inhabitants live by catching fish and processing it.

So, we have sorted out the inhabitants of which regions are the first to celebrate the New Year. An hour later, Magadan, Sakhalin Island and the east of Yakutia take the baton.

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