Anniversaries and significant events in 2022 - in Russia and worldwide

We bring to your attention a full list of anniversaries of 2022 and significant events that are expected in Russia and in the world.

2022 in art

The upcoming 2022 will be rich in anniversaries. Let's start our review with the birthdays of famous literary figures - poets, prose writers, novelists.

January

• January 3 - 130 years since the birth of John Ronald Ruel Tolkien (Tolkien) (1892-1973), English writer, philologist-medievalist.
• January 5 - 90 years since the birth of Umberto Eco (1932-2016), Italian literary critic, writer.
• January 6 - 200th anniversary of the birth of Heinrich (Johann Ludwig Heinrich Julius) Schliemann (1822-1890), a German lover of antiquities.
• January 6 - 150th anniversary of the birth of Alexander Nikolaevich Scriabin (1872-1915), Russian composer and pianist.
• January 15 - 400th anniversary of the birth of Jean Baptiste Moliere (Poquelin) (1622-1673), French playwright and actor.
• January 18 - 140 years since the birth of Alan Alexander Milne (1882-1956), English writer, playwright, poet.
• January 25 - 190 years since the birth of Ivan Ivanovich Shishkin (1832-1898), Russian artist.
• January 27 - 190th anniversary of the birth of Lewis Carroll (Charles Latwidge Dodgson) (1832-1898), English writer and mathematician.
• January 28 - 125 years since the birth of Valentin Petrovich Kataev (1897-1986), Russian writer.
• January 31 - 70 years since the birth of Nadya Rusheva (1952-1969), Russian graphic artist.

February

• February 2 - 140th anniversary of the birth of James (James Augustine Aloysius) Joyce (1882-1941), Irish writer.
• February 7 - 210th anniversary of the birth of Charles Dickens (1812-1870), English writer.
• February 26 - 220 years since the birth of Victor Marie Hugo (1802-1885), French poet, writer, playwright.
• February 28 - 100th anniversary of the birth of Yuri Mikhailovich Lotman (1922-1993), Russian literary critic, culturologist.

March

• March 1 85th anniversary of the birth of Eugene (Eugeniu) Dmitrievich Doga (1937), Moldovan and Russian composer.
• March 13 - 85 years since the birth of Vladimir Semenovich Makanin (1937-2017), Russian writer.
• March 15 - 85 years since the birth of Valentin Grigorievich Rasputin (1937-2015), Russian writer, publicist.
• March 18 - 180 years since the birth of Stephen Mallarmé (1842-1898), French poet.
• 90th anniversary of the birth of John Hoyer Updike (1932-2009), American writer.
• March 24 - 240 years since the birth of Orest Adamovich Kiprensky (1782-1836), Russian painter and graphic artist.
• March 31 - 150 years since the birth of Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev (1872-1929), Russian theater and art figure, critic, founder of the World of Art association, organizer of Russian Seasons abroad at the beginning of the 20th century.
• 140 years - since the birth of Korney Ivanovich Chukovsky (Nikolai Vasilievich Korneichukov) (1882-1969), Russian writer, literary critic, translator.

April

• April 1 - 325th anniversary of the birth of Antoine François Prévost (1697-1763), French writer.
• April 4 - 90 years since the birth of Andrei Arsenievich Tarkovsky (1932-1986), Russian film director and screenwriter.
• April 10 - 95 years since the birth of Vily Vladimirovich Lipatov (1927-1979), Russian writer, publicist, screenwriter and journalist.
• April 10 - 85 years since the birth of Bella (Isabella) Akhatovna Akhmadulina (1937-2010), Russian poetess.
• April 19 - 120 years since the birth of Veniamin Aleksandrovich Kaverin (Zilber) (1902-1989), Russian prose writer.
• April 21 - 100 years since the birth of Stanislav Iosifovich Rostotsky (1922-2001), Russian film director.

May

• May 5 - 145 years since the birth of Georgy Yakovlevich Sedov (1877-1914), Russian hydrographer and explorer of the Arctic.
• May 16 - 135 years since the birth of Igor Vasilyevich Severyanin (Lotarev) (1887-1941), Russian poet.
• May 21 - 50 years since the birth of Nadezhda Alexandrovna Teffi (Lokhvitskaya) (1872-1952), Russian poetess, writer.
• May 28 - 145 years since the birth of Maximilian Alexandrovich Voloshin (Kirienko-Voloshin) (1877-1932), Russian poet, critic, artist.
• May 29 - 235 years since the birth of Konstantin Nikolaevich Batyushkov (1787-1855), Russian poet.
• May 31 - 160 years since the birth of Mikhail Vasilyevich Nesterov (1862-1942), Russian painter and graphic artist.
• May 31 - 130 years since the birth of Konstantin Georgievich Paustovsky (1892-1968), Russian writer.

June

• June 2 - 85 years since the birth of Yunna Petrovna (Pinkhusovna) Moritz (1937), Russian poetess, translator and screenwriter.
• June 8 - 185 years since the birth of Ivan Nikolaevich Kramskoy (1837-1887), Russian painter and graphic artist.
• June 9 - 350 years since the birth of Peter I (the Great) Alekseevich Romanov (1672-1725), the last tsar of all Russia (1682-1721), the first emperor of the Russian Empire (1721-1725).
• June 15 - 155 years since the birth of Konstantin Dmitrievich Balmont (1867-1942), Russian poet, prose writer, publicist and translator.
• June 17 - 140 years since the birth of Igor Fedorovich Stravinsky (1882-1971), Russian and American composer and conductor.
• June 18 - 210 years since the birth of Ivan Alexandrovich Goncharov (1812-1891), Russian writer.
• June 18 - 115 years since the birth of Varlam Tikhonovich Shalamov (1907-1982), Russian writer and poet.
• June 18 - 80 years since the birth of Paul (James Paul) McCartney (1942), English composer, singer and guitarist.
• June 20 - 95 years since the birth of Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Kotyonochkin (1927-2000), Russian director of animated films.
• June 20 - 90 years since the birth of Robert Ivanovich Rozhdestvensky (1932-1994), Russian poet.
• June 21 - 60 years since the birth of Viktor Robertovich Tsoi (1962-1990), Russian rock musician, singer, poet, composer, film actor, leader of the Kino group.
• June 25 - 170th anniversary of the birth of Antonio (Antoni) Gaudi (Gaudí y Cornet) (1852-1926), Spanish (Catalan) architect.
• June 26 - 95 years since the birth of Vladimir Yakovlevich Motyl (1927-2010), Russian film director, screenwriter.

July

• July 2 - 145 years since the birth of Hermann Hesse (Hesse) (1877-1962), a German writer.
• July 6 - 135 years since the birth of Mark Zakharovich Chagall (1887-1985), Russian and French painter, graphic artist, set designer, monumental artist.
• July 16 - 150th anniversary of the birth of Roald Amundsen (1872-1928), Norwegian polar traveler and explorer.
• July 24 - 220 years since the birth of Alexandre Dumas (Dumas-father) (1802-1870), French writer, playwright, journalist.
• July 29 - 205 years since the birth of Ivan (Hovhannes) Konstantinovich Aivazovsky (Gaivazovsky) (1817-1900), a Russian painter.

August

• August 8 - 95 years since the birth of Yuri Pavlovich Kazakov (1927-1982), Russian writer.
• August 14 - 155 years since the birth of John Galsworthy (1867-1933), English writer, Nobel Prize winner.
• August 19 - 85 years since the birth of Alexander Valentinovich Vampilov (1937-1972), Russian playwright, prose writer.
• August 20 - 90 years since the birth of Vasily Pavlovich Aksyonov (1932-2009), Russian prose writer, playwright, screenwriter.
• August 21 - 150th anniversary of the birth of Aubrey Vincent Beardsley (Beardsley) (1872-1898), English graphic artist and writer.
• August 22 - 160 years since the birth of Claude Achille Debussy (1862-1918), French composer, pianist, conductor, music critic.
• August 29 - 160 years since the birth of Maurice Maeterlinck (1862-1949), Belgian writer.

September

• September 2 - 85 years since the birth of Olga Alexandrovna Fokina (1937), Russian poetess.
• September 5 - 205 years since the birth of Alexei Konstantinovich Tolstoy (1817-1875), Russian poet, writer, playwright.
• September 11 - 160 years since the birth of O'Henry (William Sidney Porter) (1862-1910), American writer.
• September 25 - 125th anniversary of the birth of William Cuthbert Faulkner (1897-1962), American writer, Nobel Prize winner.
• September 26 - 90 years since the birth of Vladimir Nikolaevich Voinovich (1932-2018), Russian writer.
• September 29 - 475 years since the birth of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616), Spanish writer.

October

• October 8 - 130 years since the birth of Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva (1892-1941),
• Russian poet, prose writer, playwright.
• October 15 - 125 years since the birth of Ilya Ilf (Ilya Arnoldovich Fainzilberg) (1897-1937), Russian satirist.
• October 18 - 150 years since the birth of Mikhail Alekseevich Kuzmin (1872-1936), Russian poet, prose writer, translator, composer, art critic.
• October 23 - 90 years since the birth of Vasily Ivanovich Belov (1932-2012), Russian writer.
• October 31 - 100 years since the birth of Anatoly Dmitrievich Papanov (1922-1987), Russian actor.

November

• November 3 - 135 years since the birth of Samuil Yakovlevich Marshak (1887-1964),
• Russian poet, playwright, translator and public figure.
• November 11 - 100th anniversary of the birth of Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007), American
• writer.
• November 14 - 115 years since the birth of Astrid Anna Emilia Lindgren (1907-2002),
• Swedish writer.
• November 30 - 355th birthday of Jonathan Swift (1667-1745), English

writer.

Dekar

• December 13 - 225 years since the birth of Heinrich Heine (1797-1856), German poet, publicist, critic.

2022 in literature

There will be anniversaries in the literature of Russia and other countries in 2022.

We bring to your attention a complete list of the 2022 anniversary books:

• 835 years - "The Word about Igor's Regiment" (1187)
• 260 years - K. Gozzi "The Deer King", "Turandot" (1762)
• 230 years - N. M. Karamzin "Poor Liza" (1792)
• 200 years - A. Pushkin "Song of the Prophetic Oleg" (1822)
• 190 years - A. Pushkin "Dubrovsky" (1832)
• 190 years - N. V. Gogol "Evenings on a farm near Dikanka" (1832)
• 185 years - M. Yu. Lermontov "Borodino" (1837)
• 185 years - Charles Dickens "The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club" (1837)
• 180 years - N. V. Gogol "Dead Souls" (first volume), "Overcoat" (1842)
• 175 years - Charles Bronte "Jen Eyre" (1847)
• 170 years - I. S. Turgenev "Notes of a Hunter" (1852)
• 165 years - G. Flaubert "Madame Bovary" (1857)
• 160 years - A. Griboyedov "Woe from Wit" (1862)
• 160 years - V. Hugo "Les Miserables" (1862)
• 155 years - Ch. De Coster "The Legend of Ulenspiegel and Lamma Gudzak, about their valiant, funny and glorious deeds in Flanders and other lands" (1867)
• 155 years - G. Ibsen "Peer Gynt" (1867)
• 155 years - F. M. Dostoevsky "Crime and Punishment" (1867)
• 150 years - I. S. Turgenev "Spring Waters" (1872)
• 150 years - J. Verne "Around the World in 80 Days" (1872)
• 145 years - L. N. Tolstoy "Anna Karenina" (1877)
• 140 years - M. Twain "The Prince and the Pauper" (1882)
• 125 years - A. P. Chekhov "Uncle Vanya" (1897)
• 125 Years - The Invisible Man by H. D. Wells (1897)
• 120 years - M. Gorky "At the bottom" (1902)
• 120 Years - A. K. Doyle "The Hound of the Baskervilles" (1902)
• 95 years - M. A. Bulgakov "White Guard" (1927)
• 90 years - N. A. Ostrovsky "How the Steel Was Tempered" (1932)
• 85 - D.R.R.Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back (1937)
• 70 years - E. Hemingway "The Old Man and the Sea" (1952)
• 65 - R.D. Bradbury's Dandelion Wine (1957)
• 65 years - M. V. Sholokhov "The Fate of a Man" (1957)
• 50 years - A. N. and B. N. Strugatsky "Roadside Picnic" (1972)
• 35 years old - A. Rybakov "Children of the Arbat" (1987)

Significant events

Numerous significant events are expected for Russians in 2022. Unfortunately, at the moment there is practically no information about the events that will be timed to the anniversary dates of the coming year, but the dates of important sporting events, car dealerships and important exhibitions are already known for sure.

January

• 01.01.22 - entry into force of ICD-11 (update of the International Classifier of Diseases);
• 01/10/22 - 01/16/22 - European Figure Skating Championship;
• 01/11/22 - termination of technical support for the operating system Windows Server 2016.

February

• 04.02.22-20.02.22 - XXIV Winter Olympic Games in China (Beijing);

March

• so far no date - Geneva International Motor Show;
• 03/04/22 - 03/13/22 - XXXIII Winter Paralympic Games;
• 03/21/22 - 03/27/22 - World Figure Skating Championships;

April

• 04/07/22 - 04/09/22 - Australian Auto Aftermarket Expo 2022 exhibition (Australia, Melbourne);

May

• 05/01/22 - 05/17/22 - Ice Hockey World Championship in Finland (Helsinki, Tampere);
• 05/11/22 - 05/14/22 - exhibition Autopar 2022 (Brazil); 05/13/22 - 05/29/22 - Ice Hockey World Championship;
• 05/17/22 - 05/19/22 - the leading European exhibition UNIT EXPO (Germany, Stuttgart);
• 05/25/22 - 05/28/22 - International exhibition Autopromotec 2022;
• 05/31/22 - 06/02/22 - International exhibition VIV Europe 2022;

June

• 06/22/22 - exhibition Automechanika Birmingham (Birmingham);

July

• 07/27/22 - 08/07/22 - Commonwealth Games (Birmingham);

August

• 08/26/22 - 09/11/22 - FIVB 2022 Volleyball World Cup;

September

• 09/10/22 - 09/25/22 - Summer Asian Games 2022 (China);
• 09/11/22 - Unified voting day;
• No exact date - 68th International Exhibition IAA Commercial Vehicles (Germany, Hannover);

October

• 22.10.22 - 09.11.22 - IV Summer Youth Olympic Games;
• 10/25/22 - partial solar eclipse;
• 04.10.22 - 09.10.22 - international exhibition Intermot 2022 (Germany, Cologne);
• 10/26/22 - 10/28/22 - 3rd International Bus Salon Busworld Russia 2022;

November

• 11/21/22 - 11/18/22 - 22nd FIFA World Cup in Qatar;
• no date - population census in Uzbekistan;

December

• 10.12.22 - presentation of the Nobel Prize.

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