Today in Russia History (Part 8)
Sub-Topics: Chechnya - Dagestan - Kamchatka - Khabarovsk - Mordovia - Moscow - Saint Petersburg - Tatarstan - Volgograd
Historical Events
Results 701 - 800 of 878
1961-06-17 - Russian ballet dancer Rudolph Nureyev defects to west in Frankfurt
1961-08-06 - Gherman S Titov, 2nd Russian in space aboard Vostok 2 (17 orbits)
1961-11-11 - Molotov, Malenkov & Kaganovitsj kicked out of Russia's comm party
1962-02-04 - Russian newspaper Izvestia reports baseball is an old Russian game
1962-08-11 - Andrian G Nikolayev, becomes 3rd Russian in space aboard Vostok 3
1962-08-12 - Russia launches Vostok 4, Pavel Popovich, who lands safely Aug 15
1962-10-18 - JFK meets Russian minister of Foreign affairs Andrei Gromyko
1962-10-22 - JFK addresses TV about Russian missile bases in Cuba
1962-10-26 - JFK warns Russia US will not allow Soviet missiles to remain in Cuba
1962-10-27 - Black Saturday - Russian nuclear missile crisis in Cuba
1963-03-13 - 2 Russian reconnaissance flights over Alaska
1963-06-19 - 2 Russian space missions return to Earth
1963-07-25 - US, Russia & England sign nuclear Test ban treaty
1964-05-27 - "From Russia With Love" premieres in US
1964-10-16 - Brezhnev & Kosygin replace Khrushchev as head of Russia
1964-10-23 - Japanese beat Russian for 1st Olympic Gold in woman's volleyball
1966-05-05 - Borussia Dortmund wins 6th Europe Cup II
1968-08-21 - After 5 years Russia once again jams Voice of America radio
1968-10-16 - Czechoslovakia & Russian "accord" rules allies Soviet forces
1968-12-31 - 1st supersonic airliner flown (Russian TU-144)
1969-03-02 - Chinese-Russian borders fight (approx 70 die)
1969-03-15 - Violent Chinese-Russian border dispute leaves 100s dead
1969-05-17 - Russian probe Venera 6 landed on Venus
1969-07-13 - Russia launches unmanned Luna 15 to Moon
1969-07-21 - Russia's Luna 15 impacts moon after 52 lunar orbits
1970-05-04 - Premier Kosygin affirms existence Russian military advisors in Egypt
1970-09-04 - Russian ballerina Natalia Makarova gets political asylum
1970-10-15 - Russian passenger flight hijacked to Turkey
1970-11-04 - Russian nuclear physicist Sacharov forms Human Rights Comittee
1970-11-17 - Russia lands Lunokhod 1 unmanned remote-controlled vehicle on Moon
1970-11-18 - Russia lands self propelled rover on Moon
1971-09-24 - 90 Russian diplomats expelled from Britain for spying
1972-02-14 - Luna 20 (Russia) launched to orbit & soft landing on Moon
1972-07-18 - Egypt president Sadat throws 20,000 Russian military aids out
1972-09-25 - Dutch air force drives away Russian Tupolev-bomber
1973-05-18 - Russian party leader Brezhnev visits West Germany
1973-05-25 - Borussia Minchengladbach wins 2nd UEFA Cup at Enschede
1973-06-17 - Russian party leader Brezhnev visits US
1973-06-25 - Russian party leader Brezhnev visits France
1975-05-21 - Borussia Mönchengladbach wins 4th UEFA Cup at Enschede
1976-04-09 - US & Russia agreed on size of nuclear tests for peaceful use
1976-07-30 - Japanese beat Russian for Olympic gold in woman's volleyball
1976-09-06 - Russian pilot Belenko defects to Japan in a Mig 25 jet
1977-06-01 - Russia charges Jewish rights activist Anatoly Shcharansky with treason
1977-08-17 - Russian nuclear sub "Artika" is 1st to North Pole
1978-04-14 - Korean Air Lines Boeing 707, fired on by Soviets, crashes in Russia
1978-04-20 - Korean Airlines flight 007 shot down by Soviets in Russian airspace
1978-04-27 - Afghanistan revolution (National Day), pro-Russian military coup
1978-05-04 - Russian president Brezhnev visits West-Germany
1978-05-18 - Russian dissident Yuri Orlov exiled to compulsory work
1978-07-13 - Russian dissident Ginsburg/Piatkus/Sjtsjaranki sentence to work camp
1979-04-10 - Soyuz 33 launched with a Russian & a Bulgarian
1979-05-23 - Borussia Minchengladbach wins 8th UEFA Cup at Dusseldorf
1979-08-17 - 2 Russian passenger planes collide above Ukraine, 173 killed
1979-09-24 - Russian ice skaters Protopopov & Beloussova ask for asylum in Switz
1980-01-01 - Mob storms Russian embassy in Teheran
1980-07-16 - Polish railway workers block railway to Russia
1981-06-23 - Amanda Maccaro becomes 1st American to win Russian Ballet Competition
1982-03-01 - Russian spacecraft Venera 14 lands on Venus, sends back data
1982-03-05 - Russian spacecraft Venera 14 lands on Venus sends back data
1982-11-02 - Fire in Salung tunnel, Afghanistan, 1,000+ Russians die
1983-01-23 - Russian radioactive satellite falls into Indian Ocean
1983-05-23 - Radio Moscow announcer Vladimir Danchev praises Afghanistan Muslims standing up to Russia; he is removed from the air
1983-09-14 - US House of Representatives votes, 416 to 0, in favor of a resolution condemning Russia for shooting down a Korean jetliner
1984-04-20 - Russian offensive in Panshirvallei Afghanistan
1984-08-11 - During a radio voice test Pres Reagan joked he "signed legislation that would outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in 5 minutes"
1985-06-11 - Russian space probe Vega 1 lands on Venus
1985-06-15 - Russian space probe Vega 2 lands on Venus
1985-10-02 - Russian party leader Gorbatsjov visits Paris
1986-03-29 - Beatle records officially go on sale in Russia
1986-04-20 - Vladimir Horowitz performs in his Russian homeland
1986-08-31 - Russian cargo ship crashes into cruise ship Admiral Nakhimov; 398 die
1986-10-06 - Russian nuclear sub sinks in Atlantic Ocean
1986-12-12 - Russian Tupolev-134 crashes in East Berlin, 70 killed
1986-12-31 - Russian TU-144 flies for 1st time faster than sound
1987-02-23 - Russian Writers Union accepts Boris Pasternak posthumous as member
1987-08-08 - Lynne Cox became 1st to swim from US to Russia across Bering Strait
1987-09-02 - West German pilot Mathias Rust, who flew a private plane from Helsinki Finland, to Moscow's Red Square, forms trial in Russia
1987-09-18 - US & Russia sign accord to remove mid range missiles
1988-04-07 - Russia announced it would withdraw its troops from Afghanistan
1988-06-05 - Russian orthodox church celebrates 1,000th anniversary
1988-08-08 - Russian troops begin pull out of Afghanistan after 9 year war
1989-01-03 - Russian newspaper Izvestia gets its 1st commercial advertisement
1989-07-04 - Unmanned Russian Mig-23 crashes in Bellegem-Kooigem, Belgium (1 dies)
1990-01-31 - 1st McDonalds in Russia opens in Moscow, world's biggest McDonalds
1990-05-29 - Boris Yeltsin is elected president of the Russian republic
1990-07-07 - NJ Devils sign Russians Viacheslav Fetisov & Sergei Starikov
1990-07-27 - White-Russia declares independence
1990-10-13 - 1st Russian Orthodox service in 70 yrs held in St Basil's Cathedral
1991-06-12 - Boris Yelstin elected president of Russian Federation
1991-06-16 - Boris Yeltsin elected president of Russian SSR
1991-06-18 - Boris Yeltsin, president of Russia, arrives in US
1991-07-10 - Boris Yeltsin sworn in as 1st elected president of Russian Rep
1991-07-31 - Russia & US sign long range nuclear weapons reduction pact
1991-08-19 - Janajev & KGB coup in Russia deposes Mikhail Gorbachev
1991-08-25 - White-Russia declares it's independence
1991-09-06 - The name Saint Petersburg is restored to Russia's second largest city, which had been renamed Leningrad in 1924.
1991-11-06 - Russian president Yeltsin outlaws Communist Party
1991-12-08 - Russia, Belorussia & Ukraine form Commonwealth of Ind States
1992-03-17 - Russian manned space craft TM-14, launches into orbit
Famous Birthdays
Results 701 - 800 of 1,187
1917-01-25 - Ilya Prigogine, Russian scientist Nobel Laureate (d. 2003)
1918-05-01 - Gersh Budker, Russian physicist (d. 1977)
1918-07-29 - Vladimir Dudentzev, Russian writer
1918-10-09 - Lila Kedrova, Russian-born actress (d. 2000)
1918-12-10 - Anatoli Tarasov, Russian ice hockey coach (d. 1995)
1918-12-11 - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russia, writer (Cancer Ward, Nobel 1970)
1919-01-30 - Nikolay Glazkov, Russian poet (d. 1979)
1919-06-09 - Izaak Boleslavski, Russian chess player
1919-10-17 - Isaak Markovich Khalatnikov, Russian physicist
1919-11-10 - Mikhail Timofeevich Kalashnikov, Russian inventor
1920-01-02 - Isaac Asimov, Russia, scientist/writer (I Robot, Foundation Trilogy)
1920-02-20 - Evgeny Dragunov, Russian weapons designer (d. 1991)
1920-02-29 - Ivan Petrov, Russian operatic bass (d. 2003)
1920-04-27 - Mark Krasnosel'skii, Russian-Ukrainian mathematician (d. 1997)
1920-06-15 - Alla Kazanskaya, Russian stage and film actress (d. 2008)
1920-07-11 - Yul Brynner, Russian-born actor (d. 1985)
1920-07-21 - Isaac Stern, Kreminiecz Russia, violinist (debut SF Symph)
1920-12-17 - Armin Mueller-Stahl, Tilsit East Prussia, actor (Kafka, Music Box)
1920-12-24 - Evgeniya Rudneva, Russian World War II heroine (d. 1944)
1921-10-06 - Yevgeniy Landis, Russian mathematician (d. 1997)
1921-10-22 - Alexander Kronrod, Russian mathematician (d. 1986)
1922-02-08 - Joeri Averbach, Russian chess grandmaster
1922-03-07 - Olga Aleksandrovna Ladyzhenskaya, Russian mathematician (d. 2004)
1922-04-02 - Nikolaj G Bassov, Russia, atomic physicist (laser, Nobel 1964)
1922-04-19 - Erich Hartmann, German WW II pilot (downed 352 Russian aircrafts)
1922-04-28 - Iser J Koepermann, Russian/US world checkers champ (1958-68, 75-76)
1922-09-26 - Nicholas Romanov, French-born pretender to the Russian throne
1922-11-19 - Yuri Knorozov, Russian epigrapher (d. 1999)
1922-11-22 - Fikret Dzhamil Amirov, Kirovabad Russia, Azerbaijani composer (Shur)
1923-05-06 - Vladimir Etush, Russian actor
1923-06-03 - Igor Shafarevich, Russian mathematician
1923-11-08 - Dmitri T Jazov, Russian minister of defense (1991 coup)
1923-12-15 - Valentin Varennikov, Russian general and statesman
1924-05-02 - Theodore Bikel, Austrian/US folk singer/actor (Russians Are Coming)
1924-05-09 - Bulat S Okudzjava, Russian author (Student!)
1924-05-11 - Eugene Dynkin, Russian mathematician
1924-05-12 - Alexander Esenin-Volpin, Russian mathematician
1924-10-03 - Arkady Vorobyov, Russian weightlifter
1924-11-14 - Leonid B Kogan, Dnepropetrovsk Russia, violinist (Lenin Prize-1952)
1924-12-24 - Grigory Kriss, Russian Olympic champion fencer
1925-10-19 - Victor Zorza, journalist/Russian specialist
1925-11-15 - Yuli Daniel, Russian writer (d. 1988)
1925-12-12 - Vladimir Shainsky, Soviet and Russian composer
1926-01-11 - Lev Stepanovich Demin, Russia, cosmonaut (Soyuz 15)
1926-08-31 - Georgiy Petrovich Katys, Russia, cosmonaut (Voskhod 1 backup)
1926-10-26 - Yuri Aleksandrovich Letunov, Russia, cosmonaut
1927-02-07 - Vladimir Kuts, Russian runner (d. 1975)
1927-03-12 - Mstislav Rostropovich, Baku Russia, cellist (Cello Concerto) [3/22 NS]
1927-03-16 - Vladimir M Komarov, Moscow Russia, cosmonaut (Voshkod I Soyuz 1)
1927-06-27 - Peter Bayliss, Thames England, actor (From Russia With Love)
1927-07-10 - Grigory Barenblatt, Russian mathematician
1927-09-04 - Aleksandr Nikolayevich Matinchenko, Russia, cosmonaut
1928-02-26 - Anatoli Vassilyevich Filipchenko, Russia, cosmonaut (Soyuz 7, 16)
1928-04-02 - Serge Gainsbourg, [Ginsburg], Russian/French singer (Ford Mustang)
1928-07-16 - Bella Davidovich, Baku Russia, pianist (Chopin, Beethoven, Ravel)
1928-09-06 - Evgeny Svetlanov, Moscow Russia, conductor (Siberian Fantasy)
1928-11-20 - Aleksey Batalov, Russian actor
1929-07-17 - Sergei K. Godunov, Russian mathematician
1929-10-22 - Lev Jasjin, Russian soccer player (goalie)
1930-01-21 - Valentin Ignatyevich Filatyev, Russia, cosmonaut
1930-01-25 - Tanya Savicheva, Russian diarist (d. 1944)
1930-02-26 - Lazar Berman, Leningrad Russia, pianist (Budapest 3rd place-1956)
1930-03-15 - Zhores Ivanovich Alferov, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1930-05-07 - Aviard Gavrilovich Fastovets, Russia, cosmonaut
1930-06-11 - Anatoli Fyodorovich Voronov, Russia, cosmonaut (Soyuz 12a backup)
1930-07-08 - Valeri Aleksandrovich Yazdovsky, Russian cosmonaut
1930-07-31 - Oleg Popov, Russian clown
1931-01-09 - Algi[rda]s [Jonas] Budrys, Prussia, sci-fi author (Man of Earth)
1931-02-01 - Boris Yeltsin, Ural Mts USSR, president of Russian SSR
1931-02-24 - Lev Vasilyevich Vorobyov, Russia, cosmonaut
1931-03-17 - Eunice Gayson, London England, actress (Dr No, From Russia With Love)
1931-03-30 - Aleksey Vasilyevich Sorokin, Russian cosmonaut
1931-04-12 - Leonid Derbenyov, Russian poet-songwriter (d. 1995)
1931-04-25 - Felix Berezin, Russian mathematician (d. 1980)
1931-04-27 - Igor Oistrach, Russian violinist/son of David Oistrach
1931-05-04 - Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, Moscow Russia, conductor (USSR State Radio)
1931-10-24 - Sofia Gubaidulina, Russian composer
1932-01-03 - Anatoli Petrovich Kuklin, Russia, cosmonaut
1932-01-21 - Boris Shakhlin, Russia, gymnast (Olympic-gold-1956-60-64)
1932-03-14 - Naina Yeltsina, Russia's first First Lady
1932-03-24 - Yuri Anatoyevich Ponomaryov, Russia, cosmonaut (Soyuz 18 backup)
1932-04-04 - Andrei Tarkovski, Russian director (Solaris, Stalker)
1932-04-15 - Nikolai Stepanovich Porvatkin, Russian cosmonaut
1932-04-29 - Yevgeni Alekseyevich Zaikin, Russian cosmonaut (Voshkod 2 backup)
1932-06-20 - Robert Rozjdestvenski, Russian poet (Requiem, Userjoz)
1932-07-16 - Oleg Protopopov, Russia, olympic pairs skater (Gold 1964, 68)
1932-08-20 - Vasily Aksyonov, Russian novelist
1932-08-25 - Anatoli Yakovlevich Kartashov, Russia, cosmonaut
1932-10-14 - Anatoly Larkin, Russian-American physicist (d. 2005)
1933-03-20 - Alexander Gorodnitsky, Russian geologist and poet
1933-05-12 - Andrey Voznesensky, Russian poet
1933-07-18 - Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Zima Russia, poet (Bratsk Station)
1933-08-19 - Vladimir Borisovich Alekseyev, Russia, cosmonaut
1933-09-12 - Tatiana Doronina, Russian actress
1933-09-30 - Mars Zakirovich Rafikov, Russian cosmonaut
1934-03-04 - Gleb Yakunin, Russian priest and dissident
1934-03-09 - Yuri Gagarin, Russia, cosmonaut, 1st man into space (aboard Vostok 1)
1934-03-23 - Ludvig Faddeev, Russian mathematician
1934-03-31 - Grigori Grigoyevich Nelyubov, Russia, cosmonaut (Vostok 1 backup)
1934-04-01 - Vladimir Posner, Russian journalist
Famous Deaths
Results 701 - 731 of 731
2004-01-12 - Olga Aleksandrovna Ladyzhenskaya, Russian mathematician (b. 1921)
2004-05-22 - Mikhail Voronin, Russian gymnast (b. 1945)
2004-05-26 - Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh, Russian astronomer (b. 1931)
2004-08-22 - Konstantin Aseev, Russian chess player (b. 1960)
2004-11-17 - Alexander Ragulin, Russian hockey player (b. 1941)
2004-12-25 - Gennady Strekalov, Russian cosmonaut (b. 1940)
2005-02-06 - Lazar Berman, Russian pianist (b. 1930)
2005-07-09 - Yevgenij Grishin, Russian speed skater (b. 1931)
2005-08-04 - Anatoly Larkin, Russian-American physicist (b. 1932)
2005-08-05 - Polina Astakhova, Russian gymnast (b. 1936)
2005-12-08 - Georgiy Zhzhonov, Russian actor and author (b. 1915)
2006-03-12 - Victor Sokolov, Russian dissident journalist and priest (b. 1947)
2006-10-07 - Anna Politkovskaya, Russian journalist (b. 1958)
2006-11-16 - Yuri Levada, Russian sociologist (b. 1930)
2006-11-23 - Alexander Litvinenko, Russian spy (b. 1962)
2006-11-28 - Lyubov Polishchuk, Russian actress (b. 1949)
2006-12-22 - Elena Mukhina, Russian gymnast (b. 1960)
2006-12-22 - Galina Ustvolskaya, Russian composer (b. 1919)
2007-01-19 - Murat Nasyrov, Russian singer and composer (b. 1969)
2007-01-28 - Yelena Romanova, Russian athlete (b. 1963)
2007-02-04 - Ilya Kormiltsev, Russian poet and translator (b. 1959)
2007-03-02 - Ivan Safronov, Russian journalist (b. 1956)
2007-04-23 - Boris Yeltsin, first President of the Russian Federation (b. 1931)
2007-04-27 - Mstislav Rostropovich, Russian cellist and conductor (b. 1927)
2007-08-14 - Tikhon Khrennikov, Russian composer (b. 1913)
2007-11-02 - Igor Moiseyev, Russian choreographer (b. 1906)
2008-01-03 - Aleksandr Abdulov, Russian actor (b. 1953)
2008-01-10 - Mikhail Minin, Russian Soviet soldier (b. 1922)
2008-02-19 - Yegor Letov, Russian song writer and singer (b. 1964)
2008-07-02 - Natasha Shneider, Russian-born musician (b. 1956)
2008-08-03 - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian writer (b. 1918)
