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How many working days in year 2006?

Here is the detail of the calculation:

Because 2006 is not a leap year, it has 365 days.

Let's remove 52 saturdays and 53 sundays. It remains 260 days.

Now, let's remove 8 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 252 working days in 2006.

Here is the list of these 8 public holidays:

1. Новы год : Monday, 2 January, 2006
2. Мiжнародны жаночы дзень : Wednesday, 8 March, 2006
3. Дзень працы : Monday, 1 May, 2006
4. Радунiца : Tuesday, 2 May, 2006
5. Дзень Перамогi : Tuesday, 9 May, 2006
6. Дзень Незалежнасцi : Monday, 3 July, 2006
7. Дзень Кастрычніцкай рэвалюцыі : Tuesday, 7 November, 2006
8. Каляды каталiцкiя : Monday, 25 December, 2006

And here are the 2 public holidays falling on a weekend:

1. Новы год : Sunday, 1 January, 2006
2. Каляды праваслаўныя : Saturday, 7 January, 2006