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Maslenitsa

Maslenitsa (Belarusian: Масленіца; Russian: Мaсленица [ˈmas⁽ʲ⁾lʲɪnʲɪt͡sə]; Rusyn: Пущаня; Ukrainian: Масниця), also known as Butter Lady, Butter Week, Crepe week, or Cheesefare Week, is an Eastern Slavic religious and folk holiday which has retained a number of elements of Slavic mythology in its ritual. It is celebrated during the last week before Great…

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2025 date
24 February to 2 March
2026 date
16 February to 22 February
Also called
Butter Week, Crepe week, Cheesefare Week, Syropust, Kolodiya, Masnytsia
Celebrations
Making blini (crepes), making visits, sleigh rides, dressing up, bonfires, snowball fights, the capture of the Snow Fortress, burning of the Maslenitsa Scarecrow In Ukraine and…
Duration
7 days
Frequency
Annual

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Maslenitsa

Nodes47
Edges46
Triples72
Avg. degree1.96
Density0.042553
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Maslenitsa

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related to Sunday of Forgiveness · 17
Maslenitsa → Another, As, At Vespers, Cheesefare Sunday, Cheesefare Week, Clean Monday, Easter, Fish, Forgiveness Sunday, Great Lent, Lady Maslenitsa, Lady Maslenitsa's, Left-over, Orthodox Christians, Relatives, Sunday, The
related to Gallery · 13
Maslenitsa → Celebration, Forgiveness, Kharkiv, Kryzhanovsky, Leonid Solomatkin, MaslenitsaMaslenitsa, Petersburg, Scenery, Snow Town, St, Sunday, Taking, Vasily Surikov
related to Adaptations · 12
Maslenitsa → Airat Ichmouratov, Canada, Chicoutimi, February, French-Canadian, It, Jacques Clément, L'Orchestre Symphonique, Lac-Saint-Jean, Overture Maslenitsa, Russian-Canadian, Saguenay
related to Modern times · 10
Maslenitsa → After, Due, In, Moscow, Red Square, Russian Empire, Russian Revolution, Since, Soviet Union, USSR
related to Traditions · 9
Maslenitsa → According, AD, Christian, During, Freedom, Great Lent, In, Orthodox Christians, Slavic
2025 date · 1
Maslenitsa → 24 February to 2 March
2026 date · 1
Maslenitsa → 16 February to 22 February
Also called · 1
Maslenitsa → Butter Week, Crepe week, Cheesefare Week, Syropust, Kolodiya, Masnytsia
Celebrations · 1
Maslenitsa → Making blini (crepes), making visits, sleigh rides, dressing up, bonfires, snowball fights, the capture of the Snow Fortress, burning of the Maslenitsa Scarecrow In Ukraine and…
Duration · 1
Maslenitsa → 7 days

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Maslenitsa2025 date24 February to 2 March1.00infobox
Maslenitsa2026 date16 February to 22 February1.00infobox
MaslenitsaAlso calledButter Week, Crepe week, Cheesefare Week, Syropust, Kolodiya, Masnytsia1.00infobox
MaslenitsaCelebrationsMaking blini (crepes), making visits, sleigh rides, dressing up, bonfires, snowball fights, the capture of the Snow Fortress, burning of the Maslenitsa Scarecrow In Ukraine and…1.00infobox
MaslenitsaDuration7 days1.00infobox
MaslenitsaFrequencyAnnual1.00infobox
MaslenitsaObserved byEastern Slavs Mostly Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, as well as Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian diaspora communities1.00infobox
MaslenitsaRelated toMardi Gras1.00infobox
MaslenitsaSignificanceSeeing off winter, last week before Great Lent1.00infobox
MaslenitsaTypeEthnic1.00infobox
Maslenitsais alast week before the onset of Great Lent.During the week of Maslenitsa0.90text
Maslenitsarelated to AdaptationsRussian-Canadian0.60section

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