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How many working days in year 1996?

Here is the detail of the calculation:

Because 1996 is a leap year, it has 366 days.

Let's remove 52 saturdays and 52 sundays. It remains 262 days.

Now, let's remove 9 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 253 working days in 1996.

Here is the list of these 9 public holidays:

1. New Year Holiday : Monday, 1 January, 1996
2. New Year Holiday : Tuesday, 2 January, 1996
3. Women's Day : Friday, 8 March, 1996
4. Radonitsa : Tuesday, 23 April, 1996
5. Labour Day : Wednesday, 1 May, 1996
6. Victory Day : Thursday, 9 May, 1996
7. Independence Day : Wednesday, 3 July, 1996
8. October Revolution Day : Thursday, 7 November, 1996
9. Christmas Day : Wednesday, 25 December, 1996

And here is the public holiday falling on a weekend:

1. Orthodox Christmas : Sunday, 7 January, 1996