On July, the 17th in Suzdal is the Day of a Cucumber.
The capital city of this holiday is Suzdal. It declared itself in the year of 2001 and since then it has been celebrated almost with the greater scope, than the Day of the city.
People grow cucumbers, and make pickled cucumbers without vinegar and other acids and sell them and their seeds all over Russia. There are the great performances of the best folk companies of the area. Those people who are interested in this kind of leisure can visit a cucumber fair; try dishes and drinks which recipes have been passing on from father to son for the last six thousand years. All the visitors of this holiday will have an opportunity to be photographed in a suit of the Cucumber, to cope swords in competitions "the Cucumber extreme", to learn secrets of truck farming, to buy theme souvenirs. |
