1971 - Soyuz 11 Disaster the Crew of Soyuz 11, CosmonautsViktor Patsayev (b. 1933) Georgi Dobrovolski (b. 1928) Vladislav Volkov (b. 1935), is lost in a tragic accident.

 

1995 - Georgi Beregovoi, Soviet cosmonaut dies (b. 1921)

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1659 - The Russians, led by prince Trubetskoy are defeated by the Ukrianian armies of Ivan Vyhovsky in the Battle of Konotop.

 

1895 - Doukhobors burn their weapons as a protest against conscription by the Tsarist Russian government.

 

1914 - Jina Guseva attempts to assassinate Grigori Rasputin at his home town in Siberia.

 

1945 - Carpathian Ruthenia was annexed by Soviet Union.

 

1995 - Space Shuttle program: STS-71 Mission (Atlantis docks with the Russian space station Mir for the first time.)

 

1866 - Mykhailo Hrushevsky, Ukrainian statesman is born (d. 1934)

 

1906 - Ivan Chernyakhovsky, Russian general is born (d. 1945)

 

1940 - Vyacheslav Artyomov, Russian composer is born

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1651 - Battle of Beresteczko between Poles and Ukrainians, the biggest battle in the 17th century, starts.

 

1940 - Romania cedes Bessarabia (current-day Moldova) to the Soviet Union.

 

1992 - The Constitution of Estonia is signed into law.

 

1996 - The Constitution of Ukraine is signed into law.

 

2004 - Estonia, Lithuania and Slovenia join the European Exchange Rate Mechanism

 

1175 - Andrei Bogolyubsky, Russian prince dies

 

1813 - Gerhard von Scharnhorst, Prussian general dies (b. 1755)

 

1834 - Joseph Bové, Russian architect dies (b. 1784)

 

1922 - Velimir Khlebnikov, Russian poet dies (b. 1885)

 

1992 - Mikhail Tal, Latvian chess player dies (b. 1936)

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1905 - Battleship Potemkin uprising: Sailors start a mutiny aboard the Battleship Potemkin, denouncing the crimes of autocracy, demanding liberty and an end to war. (See also Eisenstein’s classic film on the subject, The Battleship Potemkin).

 

1954 - The world’s first nuclear power station opens in Obninsk, near Moscow.

 

1983 - Alsou, Russian singer is born

 

 

1985 - Svetlana Kuznetsova, Russian tennis player is born

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1718 - Tsarevich Alexei Petrovich of Russia, Peter the Great’s son, mysteriously dies after being sentenced to death by his father for plotting against him.

 

1723 - After a lasting siege and firing from the cannons Baku surrendered to Russians.

 

1940 - World War II: Under the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, the Soviet Union presents an ultimatum to Romania requiring it to cede Bessarabia and northern part of Bukovina.

 

1925 - Pavel Belyayev, Soviet cosmonaut is born (d. 1970)

 

1963 - Mikhail B. Khodorkovsky, Russian businessman is born

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1997 - An unmanned Progress spacecraft collided with the Russian Space station, Mir.

 

1928 - Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov, Russian physicist, Nobel laureate is born

 

1975 - Vladimir Kramnik, Russian chess playeris born

 

1982 - Mikhail Youzhny, Russian tennis player is born

 

1686 - Simon Ushakov, Russian painter dies (b. 1626)

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1948 - Start of the Berlin Blockade. The Soviet Union makes overland travel between the West with West Berlin impossible.
1945 - Moscow Victory Parade

 

1812 - Napoleonic Wars: Napoleon’s Grande Armée crosses the Neman River beginning his invasion of Russia

 

1963 - Anatoly Borisovich Jurkin, Russian writer is born
1907 - Arseny Tarkovsky, Russian poet is born (d. 1989)

 

2003 - Vladimir Garin, Russian actor dies (b. 1987)

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1794 - Empress Catherine II grants Jews permission to settle in Kiev.

 

1889 - Anna Akhmatova, Russian poet is born (d. 1966)

 

1856 - Ivan Kireevsky, Russian literary critic and philosopher dies (b. 1806)

 

1956 - Reinhold Gliare, Russian composer dies (b. 1875)

 

1995 - Anatoly Tarasov, Russian ice hockey coach dies (b. 1918)

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1944 - Opening day of the Soviet Union’s Operation Bagration against Army Group Centre

1941 - Nazi Germany invades the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa, one of the most dramatic turning points of World War II

 

 

1812 - Napoleonic Wars- Napoleon invades Russia

 

1990 - Ilya Frank, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate dies (b. 1908)

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1962 - Viktor Tsoi, Russian musician is born

 

 

1919 - Vladimir Simagin, Russian chess master and teacher is born

 

1910 - Aleksandr Tvardovsky, Soviet poet is born (d. 1971)

 

1883 - Fyodor Gladkov, Russian writer is born (d. 1958)

 

 

1782 - Pyotr Kotlyarevsky, Russian general is born (d. 1852)

 

1908 - Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Russian composer dies (b. 1844)

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