Day of spring and work. What was the May Day in Smolensk at different times

On May 1 in the country celebrate a holiday of spring and work. I will remind, originally on May 1 proletarians of the whole world went in memory of participants of meeting to Chicago, unfairly sentenced to penal servitude and hanging. Before revolution when day of solidarity of workers to Russian Federation was illegal, workers gathered allegedly for picnics mayovkas where discussed requirements to employers: eight-hour working day, increase of salaries, social guarantees. Other tradition – festive processions of labor collectives in the downtown. Because of a difficult epidemiological situation in Smolensk demonstration was not...