Civil Registry Office Workers' Day in Russia
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Civil Registry Office Workers' Day is for the people who record life's biggest moments: births, marriages, divorces, name changes and deaths. Thanks to them, each of these events gets an official certificate.
How it is celebrated: registry offices hold ceremonial meetings, give out awards and put the kettle on, while staff swap stories from their most unusual weddings. Managers and former colleagues send congratulations.
The Russian abbreviation ZAGS stands for "recording of acts of civil status". The system was introduced in December 1917, when Soviet decrees took the registration of marriages and births away from the church and gave it to the state.