How many working days in year 1972?
Here is the detail of the calculation:
Because 1972 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 1972.
 Here is the list of these 6 public holidays: 
 
 1. Independence Day : четверг, 24 февраль, 1972 
2. Good Friday : пятница, 31 март, 1972 
3. Spring Day : понедельник, 1 май, 1972 
4. Victory Day : пятница, 23 июнь, 1972 
5. Christmas Day : понедельник, 25 декабрь, 1972 
6. Second Day of Christmas : вторник, 26 декабрь, 1972 
And here are the 6 public holidays falling on a weekend:
1. New Year's Day : суббота, 1 январь, 1972 
2. Easter : воскресенье, 2 апрель, 1972 
3. Pentecost : воскресенье, 21 май, 1972 
4. Midsummer Day : суббота, 24 июнь, 1972 
5. Independence Restoration Day : воскресенье, 20 август, 1972 
6. Christmas Eve : воскресенье, 24 декабрь, 1972