In a national calendar of east Slavs the holiday marks border of winter and spring, and also the Meat eater and the Lent [1]. The Carnival analog in the European countries. Maslenitsa is similar to "fat Tuesday" and the Meat-Fare Sunday. In a calendar of Russian Orthodox Church this period is called Cheese week. The names Meat-Fare Sunday, Week in Russia were used meat-fare and Cheese week only in the Calendar as the "church" name [2].
Date of Maslenitsa changes every year depending on date of celebration of Easter. The main traditional attributes of national celebration of Maslenitsa — an effigy of Maslenitsa, an entertainment, driving on sledge, celebrations, at Russians are surely pancakes and flat cakes, Ukrainians and Belarusians have vareniki, cheesecakes and a block