Sweet Old Habits": Semiotics of Traditional Baking in the Soviet and Post-Soviet Periods on the Territory Central Black Earth
In this article we will consider the spring tradition of honoring some important dates of the Church-folk calendar, namely the feast of the Annunciation and ascension. The main importance of religious holidays was supplemented by ancient Slavic experiences and preserved archaic natural meanings in the manufacture of special baked goods. Dough products prepared for these dates, in the folk tradition, form a system of cultural communication, perform symbolic functions of holidays, have cultural semantics and are subject codes of the national calendar.