If the bird cherry has blossomed, it will soon get colder. Folk omens May 16

Mavra Green Shchi. Maura the milkmaid. They began to cook cabbage soup not from sauerkraut, but from fresh herbs (sorrel, quinoa, sleepweed, nettle). "Look for nettles in green cabbage soup." Peasant food becomes more abundant. Cows add milk . "And it's easy for the hostess, if there's milk on the table."

If the oak leaves its leaves before the ash tree, then this promises a dry summer.

If the bird cherry has blossomed, it will soon get colder.

Orthodox believers honor the memory of St. Theodosius, Abbot of the Kiev Caves, St. Peter the Wonderworker, Bishop of Argos, Martyrs Timothy and Maura.

Orthodox believers celebrate the icon of the Mother of God: the Assumption of the Kiev Caves, brought from Constantinople, Pechersk and Svenskaya.

Orthodox: Nicholas, Peter, Timothy.

Catholic: Andrew, Venchislav, Symon.

International day of light. Celebrated annually on May 16, the anniversary of the first successful application of the laser in 1960, developed by physicist and engineer Theodor Maiman. This day is a call to strengthen scientific cooperation and use its potential to promote peace and sustainable development.

International Day of Peaceful Coexistence. The UN General Assembly adopted resolution 72/130 proclaiming May 16 as the International Day of Peaceful Coexistence, emphasizing that its observance is a way of regularly mobilizing the efforts of the international community to promote peace, tolerance, unity, mutual understanding and solidarity, as well as expressing its commitment to the desire to live and to act together, maintaining unity without abandoning differences and diversity, in order to achieve sustainable peace, solidarity and harmony throughout the world.

1867 - the reform of the state peasants was carried out - a system of measures of the Russian government aimed at eliminating the feudal dependence of the state peasants. It was held in Belarus, Right-Bank Ukraine and Lithuania in accordance with the law of May 16, 1867. The land management of the state peasants is organized on the same terms as those of the former landlord peasants. They were transferred to the mandatory redemption and ranked among the "peasant-owners", who were assigned plots that were in their constant use.

1887 - Severyanin Igor, Russian poet, translator, memoirist, essayist. Author of the autobiographical novel in verse "The Bells of the Cathedral of Feelings", the collections "The Thundering Cup", "Pineapples in Champagne", the collection of sonnets "Medallions". Died in 1941. Died in 1941.

1911 - Vitka Vasil (present Krysko Timofei Vasilyevich), Belarusian poet, Honored Worker of Culture of Belarus (1970). He worked as the editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Litaratura i mastatstva", the magazine "Vyasyolka". A significant place in the work is occupied by satirical poems, parodies, epigrams. Author of the collections "Loyalty", "Rose and Bayonet", "Seeing the Summer", etc. He translated into Belarusian the novel "Lord Golovlev" by M. Saltykov-Shchedrin, the poem "Good!" by V. Mayakovsky, individual works by L. Tolstoy, I Rainis, M. Stelmakh and others Laureate of the State Prize of Belarus (1972). He was awarded the Honorary Diploma of the International Jury for the H. Andersen Prizes (1978) with the poet's name included in the honorary list of the Danish writer. Died in 1996.

1947 - Zhlobo Lyudmila Alexandrovna, Belarusian architect. Among the works in Minsk: the reconstruction of the Gorky Park and part of F. Skaryna Avenue (now Independence Avenue), the reconstruction and restoration of the palace and park ensemble in Nesvizh, etc. Laureate of the USSR State Prize (1989).

1957 - Yuri Yulianovich Shevchuk, Russian musician, poet and artist, leader of the DDT group.

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