PAN-FINNO-UGRIAN DAYS


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The first Pan-Finno-Ugrian days were held in Finland on Feb. 28, 1928 together with the Kalevala days. In Estonia the first Pan-Finno-Ugrian days were organised by Fenno-Ugria on Jan. 28-29, 1929. At the IV Cultural Congress of Finno-Ugrians (1931) it was decided to celebrate the Pan-Finno-Ugrian Days in Estonia, Finland and Hungary on the third weekend of October each year. In Estonia, festive meetings with concerts were held on that day (e.g. in the theatre "Estonia", in Tartu Town Hall, and also in other places, schools in particular). In towns you could see Estonian, Finnish and Hungarian flags. After World War Two the Pan-Finno-Ugrian Days were cancelled in Finland, as well as in Estonia and Hungary. In Estonia the tradition was re-established in 1988 on the initiative of the Estonian-Hungarian Society. In 1989 church services in Estonian, Finnish and Hungarian were restarted in Tallinn, since 1990 our fellow Eastern peoples have been participating in the Pan-Finno-Ugrian Days. Many Finno-Ugric concerts, exhibitions and lectures are held at the present time. All over Estonia tours by guest Finno-Ugric folkgroups take place annually. The year 1991 was a break-through in the history of the Pan-Finno-Ugrian Days: almost all Finno-Ugrian peoples celebrated the Pan-Finno-Ugrian Days for the first time in their homeland on the territory of Russia.