Orthodox Christmas (Nativity of Christ) · Rozhdestvo Khristovo

Culture of origin: Christian · Cultural

Holiday sources: Eastern Orthodox

The churches on the old calendar, among them the Russian, Serbian and Georgian, keep the Nativity on 25 December of the Julian calendar, which is 7 January until 2100. It is one of the Twelve Great Feasts and a public holiday in Russia, where it was restored in 1991 after decades of Soviet suppression of religion, and in Belarus, Serbia and Georgia.