Today we have a real day of the city, because it was on September 11, 1596 by decree of Tsar Fedor Ioannovich the city of Belgorod was founded as a border fortress, as the center of the Belgorod Voivodeship. In a good way today we need to celebrate the birthday, but we are more accustomed to August 5. In the 92nd year, there was an attempt to breed these holidays - on September 11, they celebrated the City Day, on August 5 - ritual events, flowers, wreaths at the eternal fire. Did not take root.