Day of workers of Standardization and Metrology - a professional holiday, which is celebrated annually in Ukraine October 10.
Day of workers of standardization and metrology in Ukraine has appeared in Ukrainian official calendar in 2002, after the October 8, 2002, President of Ukraine, Leonid Kuchma signed the Decree N 910/2002 «On the Day of workers of Standardization and Metrology" which is enjoined to celebrate it every year October 10. The Presidential Decree Leonid Kuchma, in particular, said that this festival is introduced: "Given the significant contribution of standardization and metrology of workers in the economy development of the state ...".
The decree published in the 101 anniversary of the opening, October 10, 1901 (October 23, 1901, old style), on the initiative of the great scientist Dmitri Mendeleev in Kharkov the first in Ukraine for the verification tent alignment and marking trade measures and weights.