Today in Russia History (Part 9)
Sub-Topics: Chechnya - Dagestan - Kamchatka - Khabarovsk - Mordovia - Moscow - Saint Petersburg - Tatarstan - Volgograd
Historical Events
Results 801 - 878 of 878
1992-03-25 - Russian manned space craft TM-14, lands
1992-04-20 - 21st Boston Women's Marathon won by Olga Markova of Russia in 2:23:43
1992-12-12 - Julia Kurotchkina, 18, of Russia, crowned 42nd Miss World
1993-01-17 - Russian Irina Privalova cycles world record 300m indoor (35.45")
1993-02-04 - Russian space agency tests a 82' wide space mirror
1993-04-19 - 22nd Boston Women's Marathon won by Olga Markova of Russia in 2:25:27
1993-04-25 - Russia elect Boris Yeltsin leader
1993-07-01 - Russian manned space craft TM-17, launches into orbit
1993-09-17 - Last Russian troops leave Poland.
1993-10-04 - Troops of pres Yelsin occupy Russian White House (parliament)
1993-11-16 - Russian President Yeltsin shuts Lenin museum
1994-01-08 - Russian manned space craft TM-18, launches into orbit
1994-01-14 - Russian manned space craft TM-17, lands
1994-02-04 - Russian team beats ladies world record 4x800 m indoor (8:18.71)
1994-02-14 - Andrei Chikatilo, a Russian serial killer is executed by shooting.
1994-03-23 - Russian Airbus A-310 crashes in Siberia (74-75 killed)
1994-05-27 - Alexander Solzhenitsyn returned to Russia after 20 years in exile
1994-07-04 - Russian manned space craft TM-18, lands
1994-08-31 - Last Russian soldiers leave Estonia & Latvia
1994-10-10 - Value of Russian ruble decreases, 3081 rubles per dollar
1994-10-11 - Russian ruble decreases to 3,926 rubles per dollar
1994-12-04 - 83rd Davis Cup: Sweden beats Russia in Moscow (4-1)
1994-12-11 - Russian troops pull inside Tsjetsjenie
1995-01-20 - Russian ruble drops to 3,947 per dollar (record)
1995-05-28 - Earthquake hits Russian town of Khabarovsk, killing 2,000 people
1995-11-15 - Space shuttle Atlantis docks with orbiting Russian space station Mir
1995-12-03 - 84th Davis Cup: USA beats Russia in Moscow (3-2)
1996-01-12 - Russian troops arrived in Bosnia (joint operation with US)
1996-03-26 - The International Monetary Fund approves a $10.2 billion loan for Russia.
1997-02-07 - US & Russia announce summit set for Helsinki, March 20-21
1997-02-28 - FBI agent Earl Pitts pleads guilty to selling secrets to Russia
1997-03-02 - Soyuz TM-24 returns to Earth (Russia)
1997-03-04 - Zeya Start-1 launched (Russia)
1997-03-18 - Russian AN-24 plane crashes in Turkey, 50 die
1997-04-06 - Progress M-34 Launch (Russia)
1997-05-12 - Russia & Chechnya sign peace deal after 400 years of conflict
1997-05-20 - Cosmos Zenit-2 Launch (Russia), Failed
1997-05-27 - Russian Pres Boris Yeltsin signs a historic treaty with NATO
1997-06-07 - Cosmos 2344 Proton-K Launch (Russia), Failed
1997-06-29 - Progress M-35 Soyuz Launch (Russia)
1997-08-16 - For only 2nd time Stanley Cup leaves North America (heads to Russia)
1997-11-25 - US telephone tech Richard Bliss, arrested for spying in Russia
1997-12-29 - Russia signs agreement to build a $3B nuclear power plant in China
1998-01-01 - Russia begins to circulate new rubles to stem inflation and promote confidence.
1998-07-17 - Russia buries tsar Nicholas II & family, 80 years after they died
1998-10-01 - Vladimir Putin became a permanent member of the Security Council of the Russian Federation.
1999-08-09 - Russian President Boris Yeltsin fires his Prime Minister, Sergei Stepashin, and for the fourth time fires his entire cabinet.
1999-08-31 - The first of a series of Russian Apartment Bombings in Moscow, killing one person and wounding 40 others.
1999-09-13 - Bomb explodes in Moscow, Russia. At least 119 people are killed.
1999-12-31 - Boris Yeltsin resigns as President of Russia, leaving Prime Minister Vladimir Putin as the acting President.
2000-08-12 - The Oscar class submarine K-141 Kursk of the Russian Navy explodes and sinks in the Barents Sea during a military exercise.
2000-09-20 - The British MI6 Secret Intelligence Service building is attacked by a Russian-built Mark 22 anti-tank missile.
2001-03-23 - The Russian Mir space station is disposed of, breaking up in the atmosphere before falling into the southern Pacific Ocean near Fiji.
2001-06-14 - China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan form the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation.
2001-07-03 - A Vladivostok Avia Tupolev TU-154 jetliner crashes on approach to landing at Irkutsk, Russia killing 145 people.
2002-05-09 - In Kaspiysk, Russia, a remote-controlled bomb explodes during a holiday parade killing 43 and injuring at least 130.
2002-05-24 - Russia and the United States sign the Moscow Treaty.
2002-05-28 - NATO declares Russia a limited partner in the Western alliance.
2002-08-19 - A Russian Mi-26 helicopter carrying troops is hit by a Chechen missile outside of Grozny, killing 118 soldiers.
2002-09-25 - The Vitim event, a possible bolide impact in Siberia, Russia.
2002-10-26 - Moscow Theatre Siege: Approximately 50 Chechen rebels and 150 hostages die when Russian Spetsnaz storm a theater building in Moscow, which had been occupied by the rebels during a musical performance three days before.
2003-02-02 - Russian pop girl duo Tatu start a four-week run at No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'All The Things She Said'
2004-02-14 - In a suburb of Moscow, Russia, the roof of the Transvaal water park collapses, killing more than 25 people, and wounding more than 100 others.
2004-03-19 - A Swedish DC-3 shot down by a Russian MiG-15 in the 1950s is finally recovered after years of work. The remains of the crew are left in place, pending further investigations.
2004-08-24 - 89 passengers die after two airliners explode after flying out of Domodedovo International Airport, near Moscow. The explosions were caused by suicide bombers (reportedly female) from the Russian Republic of Chechnya.
2004-09-01 - The Beslan school hostage crisis begins when armed terrorists take hundreds of school children and adults hostage in the Russian town of Beslan in North Ossetia.
2004-11-18 - Russia officially ratifies the Kyoto Protocol.
2005-02-16 - The Kyoto Protocol comes into force, following its ratification by Russia.
2005-08-19 - The first-ever joint military exercise between Russia and China, called Peace Mission 2005 begins.
2005-09-08 - Two EMERCOM Il-76 aircraft land at a disaster aid staging area at Little Rock Air Force Base; the first time Russia has flown such a mission to North America.
2007-04-25 - Boris Yeltsin's funeral - the first to be sanctioned by the Russian Orthodox Church for a head of state since the funeral of Emperor Alexander III in 1894.
2007-04-27 - Estonian authorities remove the Bronze Soldier, a Soviet Red Army war memorial in Tallinn, amid political controversy with Russia.
2007-07-14 - Russia withdraws from the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe.
2007-09-11 - Russia tests the largest conventional weapon ever, the Father of all bombs.
2008-04-30 - Two skeletal remains found near Ekaterinburg, Russia were confirmed by Russian scientists to be the remains of Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia and one of his sisters.
2008-08-07 - Georgia launches a military offensive to surround and capture the capital of South Ossetia, Tskhinvali, from Russian control, starting the South Ossetia War.
2008-08-08 - Georgian invasion into South Ossetia. Begin of five-day war between Georgia and Russia.
2008-08-26 - Russia unilaterally recognizes the independence of the former Georgian breakaway republics Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
Famous Birthdays
Results 801 - 900 of 1,187
1934-04-10 - Vladimir Posner, Russian journalist
1934-06-16 - Elvira Vinogradova, Russian TV persona
1934-08-15 - Valentin Stepanovich Varlamov, Russian cosmonaut
1934-10-12 - Albert Shiryaev, Russian mathematician
1934-11-24 - Alfred Schnittke, Russia, composer (St Florian)
1935-01-01 - Valentin Nikolaevich N Benderov, Russia, cosmonaut
1935-06-13 - Aleksandr Alekseyevich Kiselyov, Russia, cosmonaut
1935-06-27 - Eduard Pavlovich Kugno, Russia, cosmonaut
1935-07-19 - Vasily Livanov, Russian and Soviet film actor
1935-08-17 - Oleg Tabakov, Russian actor
1935-09-05 - Mikhail Ivanovich Lisun, Russia, cosmonaut
1935-11-10 - Igor Dmitrievich Novikov, Russian astrophysicist
1935-11-23 - Vladislav Nikolayevich Volkov, Moscow Russia, cosmonaut (Soyuz 7, 11)
1935-12-22 - Oleg Alekseyevich Protopopov, Russia, pairs skater (Oly-gold-1964, 68)
1936-01-16 - Michael White, theater/film producer (From Russia With Love)
1936-05-30 - Galina Shostakovitch, daughter of Russian composer Dmitri
1936-09-21 - Yuriy Luzhkov, Russian politician, mayor of Moscow
1936-09-27 - Yuri Nikolayevich Stepanov, Russian cosmonaut
1936-10-07 - Gennadi Mikhailovich Kolesnikov, Russia, cosmonaut
1936-10-16 - Andrei Chikatilo, Russian serial killer (d. 1994)
1936-10-31 - Sergei Nikolayevich Gaidukov, Russia, cosmonaut
1936-11-06 - Mikhail Vladimirovich Sologub, Russian cosmonaut
1937-03-04 - Yuri Aleksandrovich Senkevich, Russian cosmonaut
1937-04-10 - Bella Akhmadulina, Russian poet
1937-04-12 - Igor Petrovich Volk, Russia, cosmonaut (Soyuz T-12)
1937-04-17 - Eduard N Stepanov, Russian cosmonaut
1937-05-31 - Vladislav Ivanovich Gulyayev, Russia, cosmonaut
1937-06-12 - Vladimir Arnold, Russian mathematician
1937-08-10 - Anatoly Sobchak, Russian politician
1937-08-17 - Yevgeni Aleksandrovich Illyin, Russia, cosmonaut
1937-09-06 - Irina Bayanovna Solovyova, Russian cosmonaut
1937-09-11 - Iosif Kobzon, Soviet singer and Russian businessman
1937-11-20 - Viktoriya Tokareva, Russian playwright
1938-02-03 - Vladimir Grigoryevich Fartushny, Russia, cosmonaut
1938-03-17 - Rudolf Nureyev, Russia, ballet dancer/choreographer (Kirov)
1938-03-20 - Sergei Petrovich Novikov, Russian Mathematician, Fields Medalist
1938-04-09 - Viktor Chernomyrdin, Russian politician
1938-05-10 - Maxim Shostakovich, Leningrad Russia, conductor (Atlanta Symph)
1938-05-12 - Andrei Amalrik, Russian writer/dissident
1938-05-26 - Lyudmila Petrushevskaya, Russian playwright and novelist
1938-08-16 - Oleg Grigoryevich Kononenko, Russia, cosmonaut
1938-09-20 - Pia Lindstrom, critic (WNBC-TV)/journalist (From Russia With Love)
1938-12-10 - Yuri Temirkanov, Nalchik Russia, conductor (Kirov)
1939-02-03 - Vladimir Yevgenyevich Preobrazhensky, Russian cosmonaut
1939-05-06 - Zhanna Dmitriyevna Yerkina, Russian cosmonaut
1939-06-26 - Ansar Ilgamovich Sharafutdinov, Russian cosmonaut
1939-07-02 - Valeri Vasilyevich Illarianov, Russia, cosmonaut
1940-01-05 - Yuri Ershov, Russian mathematician
1940-04-04 - Vladimir Timofeyevich Isakov, Russia, cosmonaut
1940-04-09 - Vasily Dmiotriyevich Shcheglov, Russian cosmonaut
1940-08-06 - Mukhu Aliyev, Russian politician, President of Dagestan
1940-09-10 - Yevgeni Nikolayevich Khludeyev, Russia, cosmonaut
1940-09-28 - Aleksandr Y Kalery, Russian cosmonaut
1940-10-06 - Boris Dmitriyevich Andreyev, Russia, cosmonaut
1940-12-05 - Boris Ignatyev, Russian footballer and manager
1940-12-31 - Oleg Anatolyevich Yakovlev, Russian cosmonaut
1941-08-15 - Viktor Mikhailovich Pisarev, Russian cosmonaut
1941-09-03 - Sergei Dovlatov, Russian writer (d. 1990)
1941-09-15 - Yuri Norstein, Russian animator
1942-01-07 - Vasily Alexeev, Russian weightlifter
1942-01-10 - Aleksandr Yakovlevich Petrushenko, Russia, cosmonaut
1942-04-24 - Valeri Abramovich Voloshin, Russian cosmonaut
1942-04-26 - Vitali Andreyevich Grishchenko, Russia, cosmonaut
1942-04-27 - Valeri Vladimirovich Polyakov, Russian cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-6, TM-18)
1942-05-22 - Malika A Sabirova, Russian dancer
1942-06-08 - Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Skvortsov, Russian cosmonaut
1942-11-08 - Aleksandr Yakovlevich Kramarenko, Russia, cosmonaut
1942-12-30 - Vladimir Bukovsky, Russian author and dissident
1943-02-20 - Aleksandr Pavlovich Alexandrov, Russian, cosmonaut (Soyuz T-9, TM-3)
1943-03-01 - Rashid Sunyaev, Russian physicist
1943-05-04 - Mikhail Chemiakin, Russian painter
1943-08-13 - Yuri Fedorovich Isaulov, Russia, cosmonaut
1943-08-31 - Leonid Ivashov, Russian general
1943-10-05 - Inna Churikova, Russia, actress (Theme)
1943-10-06 - Alexander Maxovich Shilov, Russian painter
1943-11-07 - Boris Gromov, Russian general
1943-11-21 - Viktor Sidjak, Russian fencer
1943-12-23 - Mikhail Gromov, Russian-born mathematician
1944-01-12 - Hans Henning Atrott, Prussian euthanasia advocate
1944-01-12 - Viktoria Postnikova, Russian pianist
1944-03-08 - Sergey Nikitin, Russian composer
1944-07-26 - Rimantas Antanas-Antonovich Stankiavichus, Russian cosmonaut
1945-03-13 - Anatoly Timofeevich Fomenko, Russian mathematician
1945-05-20 - Nikolai Nikolayevich Fefelov, Russian colonel/cosmonaut
1945-09-23 - Igor Ivanov, Russian politician
1946-01-19 - Alexandr Vladimirovich Shchukin, Russian cosmonaut
1946-02-24 - Grigory Margulis, Russian mathematician
1946-03-09 - Gherman Semyonovich Arzamazov, Russian cosmonaut (backup TM-6)
1946-04-19 - Viktor Viktorovich Zabolotsky, Russia, cosmonaut (BST-02)
1946-04-25 - ... Zhirinovsky, [Edelstein], Russian ultra nationalist/anti semite
1946-04-25 - Vladimir Zhirinovsky, [Edelstein], Russian nationalist/anti-semite
1946-07-22 - Stephen M. Wolownik, Russian musician (d. 2000)
1947-01-01 - Alexei Ivanovich Bobrov, Russia, cosmonaut
1947-01-03 - Sergey Filipovich Protchenko, Russian cosmonaut
1947-02-21 - Victor Sokolov, Russian journalist (d. 2006)
1947-03-15 - Larisa Grigoriyevna Pozharskaya, Russian cosmonaut
1947-03-17 - Yury Chernavsky, Russian-born Composer and Producer
1947-04-11 - Lev Bulat, Russian physicist
1947-06-30 - Yuri Petrovich Sheffer, Russian cosmonaut
1947-07-28 - Alexei Sergeyevich Borodai, Russian colonel/cosmonaut
Famous Deaths
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