The Cabinet of Ministers of Lithuania, from 2013 the Father's
Day given the status of an official holiday. From now on Father's Day in
Lithuania is celebrated every first Sunday of June. Thus, the government of
Lithuania counterbalanced the importance of women who have the holiday, and men
at whom this holiday appeared. Up to this point in Lithuania a holiday was the Mother
Day celebrated on the first Sunday of May.
On June 1, 2013, on the eve of an official holiday Father's Day
the Republic of Lithuania post issued a new postage value by drawing of the
same winner of children's competition to Gryta Kuchinskayte which work was
awarded for the postage edition dated for the Monther Day. Artist
E Jakutavičiūtė. Offset. Art
paper. Size of stamp: 30 x 36 mm. Edition: 80 000 copies. Printing
in printing-house “Garsu Pasaulis”
(Lithuania).
