Ivan Kupala Day celebrations in Veliky Novgorod city of Russia. Ivan Kupala Day is celebrated in Poland, Russia, Belarus and Ukraine currently on the night of 6/7 July.On Kupala Day youths would jump over the flames of bonfires. Girls would float wreaths of flowers often lit with candles on rivers and would attempt to gain foresight into their relationship fortunes from the flow patterns of the flowers on the river.