It is the ethnolinguistic phenomenon in the history the day of the and the completion of the harvest ritual, falling in many places August 15 (28), in other places celebrated in September. By mid-August harvest grain ends, hence the name of the holiday. Includes the rituals associated with last (dozhinochnym) sheaf, the ritual of "curling beard" and a celebratory meal. Almost lost in Russia at the Soviet period. In the post-Soviet period this folk tradition in some countries has been recreated as an official holiday. Harvest Festival in Poland has been celebrated after the harvest since the time of the feudal systems. In present-day Poland the "Presidential Harvest Festival" was created in 1929.