1983 - George Balanchine, Russian-born dancer and choreographer dies (b. 1904)

1642 - Dmitry Pozharsky, Russian prince dies (b. 1578)

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1942 - Galina Kulakova, Soviet cross country skier is born

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1920 - Azerbaijan is annexed into the Soviet Union.

1941 - Iryna Zhylenko, Ukrainian poet is born

1868 - Georgy Voronoy, Russian mathematician is born (d. 1908)

1886 - Äžabdulla Tuqay, Russian poet is born (d. 1913)

2002 - Alexander Lebed, Russian general dies (b. 1950)

1813 - Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov, Russian field marshal dies(b. 1745)

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1920 - Mark Krasnosel’skii, Russian-Ukrainian mathematician is born (d. 1997)

 

1894 - Nicolas Slonimsky, Russian-born musicologist and composer is born (d.1995)

 

1891 - Sergei Prokofiev, Russian composer is born (d. 1953)

 

 

 

 

1915 - Alexander Scriabin, Russian composer dies (b. 1872)

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Litergical feast of Stephen of Perm and Old Permic Alphabet Day is observed by the Russian Orthodox Church

 

 

 

 

 

 

1986 - In Ukraine, a nuclear reactor accident occurrs at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, creating the world’s worst nuclear disaster.

1886 - Äžabdulla Tuqay, Tatar poet is born (d. 1913)

1945 - Pavlo Skoropadsky, Ukrainian politician and general dies (b. 1871)

1789 - Count Petr Ivanovich Panin, Russian aristocrat and soldier dies (b. 1721)

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1983 - American schoolgirl Samantha Smith is invited to visit the Soviet Union by its leader Yuri Andropov after he read her letter in which she expressed fears about nuclear war.

1945 - Elbe Day: United States and Russian troops meet in Torgau along the River Elbe, cutting the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany in two, a milestone in the approaching end of World War II in Europe.

1946 - Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Russian politician is born

1931 - Felix Berezin, Russian mathematician is born (d. 1980)

1903 - Andrey Nikolayevich Kolmogorov, Russian mathematician is born (d. 1987)

1840 - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer is born (d. 1893)

1943 - Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko, Russian theatre director dies (b. 1858)

1928 - Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel, Russian counter-revolutionary dies (b. 1878)

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1967 - Cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov dies in Soyuz 1, when the parachute fails to open. He was the first human to die during a space mission.

1877 - Russo-Turkish War, 1877–1878 begins - Russia declares war on Ottoman Empire.

1958 - Valery Lantratov, Russian ballet dancer is born

1899 - Oscar Zariski, Russian mathematician is born (d. 1986)

1889 - Lyubov Popova, Russian painter is born (d. 1924)

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Boris Yeltsin, Russia’s first democratically elected President, died at the age of 76 of cardiac arrest today. More about Mr. Yeltsin here

 

 

 

 

 

1969 - Yelena Shushunova, Russian gymnast is born

 

1880 - Michel Fokine, Russian choreographer and dancer is born (d. 1942)

 

1865 - Ali-Agha Shikhlinski, Russian-Azerbaijani general is born (d. 1943)

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1912 - Pravda, the “voice” of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, begins publications in Saint Petersburg.

1907 - Ivan Efremov, Russian paleontologist and author is born (d. 1972)

1899 - Vladimir Nabokov, Russian writer is born (d. 1977)

1881 - Alexander Kerensky, Russian politician is born (d. 1970)

1870 (N.S.) - Vladimir Lenin, Russian revolutionary is born (d. 1924)

1839 - Denis Davydov, Russian general and poet dies (b. 1784)

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1945 - World War II: Soviet Union forces south of Berlin at Zossen attack the German High Command headquarters.

1964 - Ludmila Engquist, Russian-born Swedish athlete is born

1729 - Empress Catherine II of Russia is born (d. 1796)

1980 - Aleksandr Oparin, Russian biochemist dies (b. 1894)

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