Maslenitsa

is Maslenitsa – the holiday, which lasts for a week, to say goodbye to winter. People celebrate it at the end of February or at the beginning of March. During this holiday they celebrate the end of winter and the beginning of spring.
During ‘’ Maslenitsa week ‘’ people always cook pancakes. They invite their friends, their nearest and dearest, to see each other and eat pancakes with sour cream, fish, caviar or butter, sugar, honey.

we have fires, burn straw figures of winter, we sing songs and dance.