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How many working days in year 1944?

Here is the detail of the calculation:

Because 1944 is a leap year, it has 366 days.

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

Now, let's remove 6 public holidays that do not fall during a weekend and we obtain 254 working days in 1944.

Here is the list of these 6 public holidays:

1. Iseseisvuspäev : Thursday, 24 February, 1944
2. Suur Reede : Friday, 7 April, 1944
3. Kevadpüha : Monday, 1 May, 1944
4. Võidupüha : Friday, 23 June, 1944
5. Esimene jõulupüha : Monday, 25 December, 1944
6. Teine jõulupüha : Tuesday, 26 December, 1944

And here are the 6 public holidays falling on a weekend:

1. Uusaasta : Saturday, 1 January, 1944
2. Ülestõusmispühad : Sunday, 9 April, 1944
3. Nelipühad : Sunday, 28 May, 1944
4. Jaanipäev : Saturday, 24 June, 1944
5. Taasiseseisvumispäev : Sunday, 20 August, 1944
6. Jõululaupäev : Sunday, 24 December, 1944