Does Ukraine have have Christmas

Answer 1

We celebrate Christmas on January 7th. First of all Christmas is a day when Jesus Christ was born, not the day when Santa Claus brings gifts. That stuff happens on New Years in some families, but it's not a tradition. On Christmas Eve we make Kutya - unique dish and another 12 different lenten meals, then we have a supper and then we go to church for evening service. On the next day (January 7th) we can eat meat, ham, jellied meat, and all the rest of meals. People basicly have a supper, on Christmas, with their relatives, family, sometimes with friends. Also we trade gifts with each other on December 19 - St.Mikolay (Nickolas). As I already typed, some people give each other gifts on New Years day. We celebrate Christmas according to tradition.

About 19th of December, usually adults trade gifts, but St. Nicola's day is the day when kinds receive presents under their pillows from St. Nicolas if they were good the last year. It is favorite holiday for all the ukrainian children because it is always so much fun. I remember i was the happiest little girl in the world when I woke up the 19th of December with my pillow slanted up with all the candies and goodies.

About Christmas Day, also kids go from house to house, from appartment to appartment, singing carols and people give them usually money for that. I personally did that when i was little and it was quite a good profit. Sometimes churches organize singing carols and gathering money for that for church. Also it is a lent like 2 weeks before Christmas so we can't have any parties, night clubs, no meat on Fridays (usually), the only one exception is the New Year day. It is quite entertaining to celebrate Christmas in Ukraine, everybody's welcome!

Answer 2

well, yes but not technically. you see, like any other country they have their own traditions for this holiday.

yes, we have Christmas as all the other countries but we celebrate it in much different way and on the 7th of January because we mostly are Greek catholics and Roman catholics celebrate it on the 25th of December.

For more about traditions of celebrating go to "how people celebrate Christmas in Ukraine"

Answer 3

they dress in red and white