How has Masnitsa been celebrated in Ukraine since ancient times? TEST on knowledge of traditions

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Masnytsia is a traditional Ukrainian holiday celebrated a week before Easter. This year it begins on February 20 and ends on February 26. It is a kind of preparation for Lent. According to Alla Dmytrenko, associate professor of the department of document studies and museum affairs, candidate of historical sciences of Lesya Ukrainka University, the original name of the holiday in Ukraine was Kolodka, Kolodiy. “If you read the works of the Ukrainian ethnologist, folklorist Pavlo Chubynskyi, he wrote that in the 19th century it was common to all of Ukraine,” says Alla Dmytrenko. She adds that under the influence of Soviet power, sometime after 1950, traditions were transformed and changed somewhat. UP.Zhyttia offers you to take a test and check how much you know about the Ukrainian traditions of celebrating Shrovetide. Alla Dmytrenko and folklorist, philologist, doctor of philological sciences Viktor Davidyuk told about them.

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