2001 Russian Mir space station is crashed into the Pacific during a controlled re-entry
2000 Two onboard torpedoes explode on the Russian submarine Kursk in the Barents Sea, which eventually killed all onboard, despite a rescue operation
1997 Svyatoslav Richter, Russian pianist, dies of heart attack at 82
1997 Russian President Boris Yeltsin signs a historic treaty with NATO
1997 Yegorov, Russian leader (1994-95), dies
1997 Russian AN-24 plane crashes in Turkey, 50 die
1997 Stanislav Shatalin, Russian economist (500 Days), dies
1996 Victor Zorza, journalist/Russian specialist, dies at 71
1996 Russian troops arrived in Bosnia (joint operation with U.S.)
1995 Space shuttle Atlantis docks with orbiting Russian space station Mir
1995 Earthquake hits Russian town of Khabarovsk, killing 2,000 people
1995 Alexander Gudonov, Russian dancer/actor (Witness), dies at 45
1995 Vladislav Listyev, Russian TV-journalist, murdered at 38
1995 Alexis d'Anjou de Bourbon-Conde, French prince/Russian, dies at 47
1995 Russian ruble drops to 3,947 per dollar (record)
1995 Viktor Vorobyov, Russian general-major, dies in battle
1994 Russian troops pull inside Tsjetsjenia
1994 Jesus "Enrique" Lister, Span/Russian general (Civil War), dies at 87
1994 Dmitri Cholodov, Russian journalist, murdered at 27
1994 Russian ruble decreases to 3,926 rubles per dollar
1994 Value of Russian ruble decreases, 3081 rubles per dollar
1994 Boris B Yegorov, Russian doctor/cosmonaut (Voskhod I), dies at 56
1994 Last Russian soldiers leave Estonia and Latvia
1994 Leonid Leonov, Russian playwright (Russky Lesson), dies at 95
1994 Innokenti Smoktunovski, Russian actor (Hamlet), dies at 69
1994 Russian manned space craft TM-18, lands
1994 Joeri Nagibin, Russian screenwriter (Babje Karstvo), dies at 74
1994 Michel Vitold, Russian/French actor (Madame et le Mort), dies at 78
1994 Nikolai Krjoetsjkov, Russian actor (Ballad of Soldatje), dies at 83
1994 Russian Airbus A-310 crashes in Siberia (74-75 killed)
1994 Igor Aleinikov, Russian director (tractors, air crash), dies at 32
1994 Andrei Tsjikatilo, [Rostov Ripper], Russian mass murdered, executed
1994 Russian team beats ladies world record 4x800 m indoor (8:18.71)
1994 Jevgeni P Leonov, Russian actor (Gori, Moja Zvezda), dies at 67
1994 Nikolai Ogarkov, Russian marshal (Flight KAL 007), dies at 76
1994 Russian manned space craft TM-17, lands
1994 Russian manned space craft TM-18, launches into orbit
1993 Tatiana Nikolajeva, Russian pianist (Bach), dies at 69
1993 Russian President Yeltsin shuts Lenin museum
1993 Vladimir Yevgenyevich Preobrazhensky, Russian cosmonaut, dies at 54
1993 Troops of President Yelsin occupy Russian White House (parliament)
1993 Andrei Solovyiov, Russian photographer, dies in battle at 38
1993 Anatoli Koretski, Russian major general, murdered
1993 Sergei Y Vozovikov, Russian major/cosmonaut, dies in accident at 35
1993 Vladimir Barmyn, Russian inventor (Stalinorgel), dies at 84
1993 Russian manned space craft TM-17, launches into orbit
1993 Claudia Yeltsin, mother of Russian president Yeltsin, dies at 85
1993 Oksana Kostina, Russian gymnist, dies in an auto accident
1993 Russian space agency tests a 82' wide space mirror
1993 Russian Irina Privalova cycles world record 300m indoor (35.45")
1993 Rudolph Nureyev, Russian ballet dancer (Kirov), dies of AIDS at 54
1993 George L George, Russian/US journalist/director/producer, dies at 85
1992 Nikita Magaloff, Russian/Swiss pianist, dies at 80
1992 Sergei Aleksandrovich Yemelyanov, Russian cosmonaut, dies at 41
1992 Viktor Louis, Russian journalist, dies
1992 Vitali Andreyevich Grishchenko, Russian cosmonaut, dies at 50
1992 Russian manned space craft TM-14, lands
1992 Russian manned space craft TM-14, launches into orbit
1992 Yevgeny Yevstigneev, Russian actor (Welcome Kosta), dies at 65
1991 Russian president Yeltsin outlaws Communist Party
1991 Kaganovitch, Russian minister of Transport for Stalin, dies
1991 Boris Yeltsin sworn in as 1st elected president of Russian Rep
1991 Irina Nijinska, Russian/US dancer, dies at 77
1991 Boris Yeltsin elected president of Russian SSR
1991 Boris Yelstin elected president of Russian Federation
1990 1st Russian Orthodox service in 70 years held in St. Basil's Cathedral
1990 Valentin Ignatyevich Filatyev, Russian cosmonaut, dies at 60
1990 Rimantas Antanas Stankiavichus, Russian cosmonaut, dies at 46
1990 Boris Yeltsin is elected president of the Russian republic
1990 Venedikt Jerofejev, Russian writer, dies
1990 Oleg Anatolyevich Yakovlev, Russian cosmonaut, dies at 49
1990 Jev Jasjin, Russian soccer goalie, dies at 60
1990 Lev Yashin, Russian Athlete
1989 Andrei Sakharov, Russian physicist/dissident (Nobel 1975), dies at 68
1989 Unmanned Russian Mig-23 crashes in Bellegem-Kooigem, Belgium (1 dies)
1989 Andrei A. Gromyko, Russian Politician
1989 Tikhon Toropets, patriarch of Russian Orthodox/saint, dies at 123
1989 Russian newspaper Izvestia gets its 1st commercial advertisement
1988 Andrei P Ershov, Russian computer pioneer, dies
1988 Alexandr V Shchukin, Russian cosmonaut, dies in SU-26 crash at 42
1988 Russian troops begin pull out of Afghanistan after 9 year war
1988 Russian orthodox church celebrates 1,000th anniversary
1988 Dmitri F Polyakov, Russian secret-general/top spy for U.S., executed
1988 Georgi M Malenkov, Russian premier (1953-55), dies at 86
1987 Constantin Alajalov, Russian artist, dies at 86
1987 Maria Sharapova, Russian Athlete
1987 Russian Writers Union accepts Boris Pasternak posthumous as member
1986 Russian TU-144 flies for 1st time faster than sound
1986 Andrei Tarkovski, Russian director (Stalker), dies at 54
1986 Russian Tupolev-134 crashes in East Berlin, 70 killed
1986 Russian nuclear sub sinks in Atlantic Ocean
1986 Russian cargo ship crashes into cruise ship Admiral Nakhimov; 398 die
1986 Vladimir Horowitz performs in his Russian homeland
1985 Russian party leader Gorbatsjov visits Paris
1985 Russian space probe Vega 2 lands on Venus
1985 Russian space probe Vega 1 lands on Venus
1985 Sergei Yutkevich, Russian director, (Otello, Banya), dies at 80
1985 Efrem A Zimbalist, Russian/US composer/violinist, dies at 95
1984 Tigran Petroshan, Russian chess grand master, dies at 55
1984 Alexandra Kosteniuk, Russian Celebrity
1984 Russian offensive in Panshirvallei Afghanistan
1984 Michail A Sholochov, Russian writer (Ocean Don, Nobel 1965), dies
1983 George Balanchine, Russian/US composer, dies at 79
1983 Nina Dumbadze, Russian discus thrower (Oly-bronze-1952), dies at 64
1983 Russian radioactive satellite falls into Indian Ocean
1982 Leonid B Kogan, Russian violist, dies at 58
1982 Aleksandr A Alekseyev, Russian director, dies
1982 Vladimir Smirnov, Russian foil fencer, 1980 Olympics gold, dies at 28
1982 Russian spacecraft Venera 14 lands and sends back data from Venus
1982 Russian spacecraft Venera 14 lands on Venus, sends back data
1982 Malika A Sabirova, Russian dancer, dies at 39
1981 Amanda Maccaro becomes 1st American to win Russian Ballet Competition
1981 Anna Kournikova, Russian Athlete
1981 Kirill Petrovich Kondrashin, Russian conductor/composer, dies at 67
1980 Romain Gary, Russian Novelist
1980 Andrei Amalrik, Russian writer/dissident, dies at 42
1980 Valentin Stepanovich Varlamov, Russian cosmonaut, dies at 46
1980 Lewis Milestone, Russian Director
1980 Oleg Grigoryevich Kononenko, Russian cosmonaut, dies at 41
1980 Marat Safin, Russian Athlete
1980 Andre Kostelanetz, Russian conductor, dies at 78
1980 Mob storms Russian embassy in Teheran
1979 Russian ice skaters Protopopov and Beloussova ask for asylum in Switz
1979 2 Russian passenger planes collide above Ukraine, 173 killed
1979 Soyuz 33 launched with a Russian and a Bulgarian
1979 Nikolay Semyonovich Tikhonov, Russian poet, dies at 82
1978 Anastas I Mikojan, Russian politician, dies at 83
1978 Russian dissident Ginsburg/Piatkus/Sjtsjaranki sentence to work camp
1978 Russian dissident Yuri Orlov exiled to compulsory work
1978 Russian president Brezhnev visits West-Germany
1978 Aram Katchaturian, Russian composer (The Earth), dies at 74
1978 Korean Airlines flight 007 shot down by Soviets in Russian airspace
1977 Aleksei G Stachanov, Russian model miner, dies at 72
1977 Alexander Nikolayevich Tcherepnin, Russian composer, dies at 78
1977 Russian nuclear sub "Artika" is 1st to North Pole
1977 Vladimir V Nabokov, Russian/US writer (Lolita), dies at 78
1977 Jack Gardner, actor (Wild Bill Hickok, 3 Russian Girls), dies at 77
1977 Sergei Ilyushin, Russian airplane builder (Ilyushin), dies at 82
1977 Izaak Boleslavski, Russian chess player, dies at 67
1976 Russian pilot Belenko defects to Japan in a Mig 25 jet
1976 Gregor Piatigorsky, Russian cellist, dies at 73
1976 Japanese beat Russian for Olympic gold in woman's volleyball
1976 S Constantine Timoshenko, Russian marshal, dies at 75
1976 Aleksey Vasilyevich Sorokin, Russian cosmonaut, dies at 44
1976 Trofim Lysenko, Russian Celebrity
1975 Vladimir Kutz, Russian distance runner (Olympic-gold-56) dies at 48
1975 Dimitri Shostakovich, Russian Composer
1975 Vladimir Kramnik, Russian Celebrity
1974 David Oistrach, Russian violinist, dies at 65
1974 Sonia Gaskell, Russian/Neth choreographer (Diaghilev), dies at 70
1974 Georgi K Zhukov, Russian marshal/minister of Defense, dies at 77
1973 Selman A Waksman, Russian/U.S. microbiology (Nobel 1952), dies at 85
1973 Vasily Dmiotriyevich Shcheglov, Russian cosmonaut, dies at 33
1973 Alexander Vasilyevich Mosolov, Russian composer (Zavod), dies at 72
1973 Leonid Stein, Russian chess player, dies at about 39
1973 Russian party leader Brezhnev visits France
1973 Russian party leader Brezhnev visits U.S.
1973 Russian party leader Brezhnev visits West Germany
1973 Grigory M Kosinzev, Russian director, dies
1973 Vera Fjodorova Panova, Russian author (Sputniki), dies at 67
1972 Andrej N Tupolev, Russian aircraft builder, dies at 84
1972 Igor Sikorsky, Russian/US helicopter builder, dies at 83
1972 Dutch air force drives away Russian Tupolev-bomber
1972 Egypt president Sadat throws 20,000 Russian military aids out
1972 David Lichine, [Lichtenstein], Russian/US choreographer, dies at 61
1972 Al Goodman, Russian/US orch leader (NBC Comedy Hour), dies at 81
1971 90 Russian diplomats expelled from Britain for spying
1971 Ekaterina Gordeeva, Russian Athlete
1971 Igor Stravinsky, Russian Composer
1970 Artem Mikoyan, Russian aircraft designer (MIG), dies at 65
1970 Russian nuclear physicist Sacharov forms Human Rights Comittee
1970 Russian passenger flight hijacked to Turkey
1970 Russian ballerina Natalia Makarova gets political asylum
1970 Aleksandr F Kerenski, Russian premier (1917), dies at 89
1970 Alexander Kerensky, Russian Public Servant
1970 Premier Kosygin affirms existence Russian military advisors in Egypt
1970 Arthur Adamov, Russian/French playwright, dies at 61
1969 Pavel I Apostolov, Russian military bandmaster, dies
1969 Russian probe Venera 6 landed on Venus
1968 1st supersonic airliner flown (Russian TU-144)
1968 Irina Privalova, Russian runner, indoor world record 50/60m
1968 Czechoslovakia and Russian "accord" rules allies Soviet forces
1968 Konstatin G Paustovski, Russian sailor/author, dies at 76
1968 Lev D Landau, Russian physicist (Nobel 1962), dies at 59
1968 Irina Belova, Russian pentathelete, world record 1992
1968 Pitirim A Sorokin, Russian/US sociologist, dies at 79
1967 Felix F Yussupov, Russian monarch, dies at 80
1967 Ilja G Ehrenburg, Russian poet and writer (9th wave), dies at 76
1967 Sergei Grinkov, Russian ice skater
1966 Pavel Petrovich Mukhortov, Russian cosmonaut
1966 Anna Akhmatova, Russian Poet
1966 Dmitri Volkov, Russian swimmer, world record
1966 Grigori Grigoyevich Nelyubov, Russian cosmonaut, dies at 31
1966 Sergei Korolev, Russian space station constructor, dies
1964 Japanese beat Russian for 1st Olympic Gold in woman's volleyball
1964 Eugen Varga, Hungarian/Russian economist/politician, dies at 84
1964 Vassily Vainonen, Russian ballet choreographer (Gayaneh), dies at 66
1963 Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Russian Businessman
1963 2 Russian space missions return to Earth
1963 2 Russian reconnaissance flights over Alaska
1962 Vladimir Vladimirovich Karashtin, Russian cosmonaut
1962 Black Saturday - Russian nuclear missile crisis in Cuba
1962 John F. Kennedy addresses TV about Russian missile bases in Cuba
1962 John F. Kennedy meets Russian minister of Foreign affairs Andrei Gromyko
1962 Andrian G Nikolayev, becomes 3rd Russian in space aboard Vostok 3
1962 Galina Chistyakova, Russian jumper, world record 1988
1962 Russian newspaper Izvestia reports baseball is an old Russian game
1961 Yuri Ivanovich Malinchenko, Russian Lt-colonel/cosmonaut, Soyuz TM-19
1961 Gherman S Titov, 2nd Russian in space aboard Vostok 2 (17 orbits)
1961 Russian ballet dancer Rudolph Nureyev defects to west in Frankfurt
1961 Grigoriy Kornev, Russian speed walker, world record 5 km
1961 Yuri Ivanovich Onufriyenko, Russian major/cosmonaut, Mir, Soyuz TM-23
1961 Joseph Schenck, Russian Businessman
1961 Russian espionage ring detected in Great Britain
1960 Abram F Joffe, Russian physicist (crystal), dies
1960 Fjodor I Panfjorov, Russian author (Volga - matushka-reka), dies at 63
1960 Boris Pasternak, Russian poet (Dr. Zhivago), dies at 70
1960 Igor V Kurtshatov, Russian nuclear physicist, dies at 57
1959 "Russian Band Stand" by Spencer and Spencer hits #91
1958 Fjodor W. Gladkow, Russian author (Cement), dies at 75
1958 Vasili Yuriyevich Lukiyanyuk, Russian cosmonaut
1958 Michail M Zosjtsjenko, Russian author, dies at 62
1958 Gennadi Ivanovich Padalka, Russian major/cosmonaut, SK: Soyuz TM-28
1958 Sergei Yuriyevich Vozovikov, Russian major/cosmonaut
1958 Marshal Boelganin becomes director of Russian Staatsbank
1957 Aleksei M Remizov, Russian author (Iveren), dies
1957 Tunisia refuses Russian weapons
1957 Aleksandr Ivanovich Lazutkin, Russian cosmonaut, Soyuz TM-25
1957 Russian minister of Defense Zjoekov deposed
1957 Pavel V Vinogradov, Russian cosmonaut, Soyuz TM-26
1957 Yelena Vladimirovna Kondakova, Russian cosmonaut, Soyuz TM 20, STS 84
1957 German DR accepts 22 Russian divisions
1957 Mark Aldanov, [Mark A Landau], Russian/French chemist, dies at 70
1956 Sergei Gayevich Severin, Russian cosmonaut
1956 200,000 Russian troops attack anti-Stalinist revolt in Budapest
1956 Karelo-Finnish SSR becomes part of Russian SFSR
1956 Sergey Nikiforovich Vasilenko, Russian opera composer, dies at 83
1956 Russian party leader Khrushchev attacks memory of Stalin
1956 Alexander Tikhonovich Gretshaninov, Russian/US composer, dies at 91
1956 Sergei Vasiliyevich Avdeyev, Russian cosmonaut, Soyuz TM-15, SK:TM-28
1955 Anatoly Chubais, Russian Politician
1955 Aleksandr Nikolayevich Yablontsev, Russian Lt-colonel and cosmonaut
1954 Johnny Ace, ballad singer, dies at 25 of Russian Roulette
1954 Nina Vasar, wife of Russian composer Dmitri Sjostakovitsj, dies
1954 Andrej J Vysjinski, Russian United Nations ambassador, dies at 70
1954 U.S., Great Britain and France reject Russian membership in NATO
1954 Dziga Vertov, [Kaufman], Russian dir (3 Songs of Lenin), dies at 58
1954 Michail M Prishvin, Russian writer, dies
1953 Valeri Yuriyevich Sharov, Russian cosmonaut
1953 Yuri Viktorovich Prikhodko, Russian cosmonaut
1953 Aleksandr Nikolayevich Balandin, Russian cosmonaut, Soyuz TM-9
1953 Irina D Latysheva, Russian cosmonaut
1953 Russian vice-premier/interior minister Beria arrested
1953 Irina Rudolfovna Pronina, Russian cosmonaut
1953 Tatyana Providokhina, Russian 1K runner, world record
1953 Valery Grigoriyevich Korzun, Russian colonel/cosmonaut, TM-24
1953 Joseph Stalin, Russian Leader
1953 Sergei Prokofiev, Russian Composer
1953 Sergei S Prokoviev, Russian composer (Peter and the wolf), dies at 61
1952 Vladimir N Ipatiev, Russian/US chemist, dies at 85
1952 Valeri I Tokarev, Russian colonel/cosmonaut
1952 Mikhail Georgiyevich Potapov, Russian cosmonaut
1952 Vladimir Putin, Russian Statesman
1952 Nikolai Alekseyevich Pushenko, Russian Lt-colonel/cosmonaut
1952 Aleksandr A Volkov, Russian colonel/cosmonaut
1952 Efim D Bogolyubov, Russian chess player, dies at 63
1952 Tamara Sergeyevna Zakharova, Russian cosmonaut
1951 Maxim M Litvinov, [Meyer H Wallach], Russian diplomat, dies at 75
1951 Agrippina J Vaganova, Russian ballet dancers/pegagoge, dies at 72
1951 Aleksandr Ivanovich Laveykin, Russian cosmonaut, Soyuz TM-2
1951 Sergei Aleksandrovich Yemelyanov, Russian cosmonaut
1951 Magomed Omarovich Tolboyev, Russian cosmonaut
1951 Talgat Amangeldyyevich Musabayev, Russian mjr/cosmonaut, TM-19, TM-27
1951 Andrei P Platonov, Russian author (Prok, Kotlovan), dies at 51
1950 Boris Vladimirovich Morukov, Russian cosmonaut
1950 Valery Yevgenyevich Maksimenko, Russian colonel/cosmonaut
1950 Antonina Neshdanova, Russian soprano (Bolshoi Theater), dies
1950 Marina Stepanova, Russian hurdler, world record 1986
1949 German Dem Rep formed from Russian occupation zone (National Day)
1949 Yekaterina Aleksandrowna Ivanova, Russian cosmonaut, Soyuz T-15A
1949 Yuri Michaylovich Baturin, Russian cosmonaut, SK:Soyuz TM-28
1949 Russian stop train traffic West-Berlin
1949 Hans Erich Pfitzner, Russian/German composer, dies at 80
1949 Mary Antin, Russian Activist
1949 Oleg Yuriyevich Atkov, Russian cosmonaut, Soyuz T-10
1948 Viktor Mikhailovich Afanasieyv, Russian cosmonaut, Soyuz TM-11, TM-18
1948 Ural Nazibovich Sultanov, Russian cosmonaut
1948 Valeri Viktorovich Baberdin, Russian colonel/cosmonaut
1948 U.N. reject Russian proposal to destroy atomic weapons
1948 Aleksandr S Puchkov, Russian colonel/cosmonaut
1948 Svetlana Y Savitskaya, Russian cosmonaut, Soyuz T-7, T-12, T-15A
1948 500th anniversary Russian orthodox church celebrated in Moscow
1948 Nikolai Berdyaev, Russian Philosopher
1948 Sergei Eisenstein, Russian director (Battleship Potemkin), dies at 50
1948 Natan Sharansky, Russian Writer
1947 Yelena Ivanovna Dobrokvashina, Russian cosmonaut, Soyuz T-15a
1947 Aleksandr Stepanovich Andryushkov, Russian colonel/cosmonaut
1947 Alexei Sergeyevich Borodai, Russian colonel/cosmonaut
1947 Yuri Petrovich Sheffer, Russian cosmonaut
1947 Larisa Grigoriyevna Pozharskaya, Russian cosmonaut
1947 Morris Raphael Cohen, Russian Philosopher
1947 Sergey Filipovich Protchenko, Russian cosmonaut
1946 Andrei Vlasov, Russian general (Red Army, Wehrmacht) executed at 45
1946 Aleksander V Aleksandrov, Russian composer and conductor, dies at 63
1946 Zhirinovsky, [Edelstein], Russian ultra nationalist/anti semite
1946 Vladimir Zhirinovsky, [Edelstein], Russian nationalist/anti-semite
1946 Part of East Prussia incorporated into Russian SFSR
1946 Gherman Semyonovich Arzamazov, Russian cosmonaut, backup TM-6
1946 Alexandr Vladimirovich Shchukin, Russian cosmonaut
1945 Russian troops occupy Harbin and Mukden
1945 Nikolai Nikolayevich Fefelov, Russian colonel/cosmonaut
1945 Russian troops occupied Prague
1945 Russian Army frees Ravensbruck concentration camp
1945 Aleksei Tolstoi, Russian poet and writer (Pjotr Peroyj), dies at 62
1945 Russian Red Army crosses the river Oder
1944 Vassily V Kandinsky, Russian/German/French painter, dies
1944 Russian/Yugoslavian troops free Belgrade
1944 Russian troops free Sofia Bulgaria
1944 Russian offensive at Jassy and Kisjinev
1944 Russian troops arrive at Austria-Prussia border
1944 Russian offensive at Weichsel
1944 Russian troops arrive in Weichsel
1944 Rimantas Antanas-Antonovich Stankiavichus, Russian cosmonaut
1944 Russian troops cross river Bug/march into Poland
1944 Russian offensive in central front sector
1944 Russian offensive in Carelia
1944 Russian offensive against Sebastopol Krim
1944 Ivan Sollertinski, friend of Russian composer D Sjostakovitsj, dies
1944 Wassily Kandinsky, Russian Artist
1943 Russian troops land on Kertsj peninsula
1943 Russian troops liberate Smolensk
1943 Russian 13th/61st Army reconquer Chyernigov
1943 Russian units reach suburbs of Orel
1943 Russian offensive at Orel
1943 Erich Hartmann shoots 7 Russian aircraft at Kursk
1943 Vladimir I Nemirovitch-Dantshenko, Russian playwright, dies at 84
1943 Sergei Vasilievitch Rachmaninov, Russian composer/pianist, dies at 69
1943 Aleksandr Pavlovich Alexandrov, Russian, cosmonaut, Soyuz T-9, TM-3
1943 Gen Friedrich von Paul surrenders to Russian troops at Stalingrad
1943 Russian offensive at Don under general Golikov
1943 Russian offensive against German 6th/4th Armies near Stalingrad
1942 Russian artillery/tank battle on German armies at Stalingrad
1942 Russian 21st Army recaptures Kalatsj at Don
1942 26th Russian Armoured Corps recaptures Perelazovski
1942 Successful Russian counter attack through 37th Guard division
1942 Russian counter offensive at Stalingrad
1942 Russian counter offensive begins in Moscow
1942 Mikhailmichel Fokine, Russian ballet dancer/choreographer, dies
1942 Erwin Schulhoff, Czech/Russian composer/pianist, dies at 48
1942 4th Russian Pantser army forms with 80 tanks
1942 Time puts Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovitch on its cover
1942 Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Skvortsov, Russian cosmonaut
1942 Malika A Sabirova, Russian dancer
1942 Valeri Vladimirovich Polyakov, Russian cosmonaut, Soyuz TM-6, TM-18
1942 Valeri Abramovich Voloshin, Russian cosmonaut
1941 L M Dovator, Russian general, dies in battle
1941 Russian 20th army recaptures Soljetsjnogorsk
1941 Russian 16th army recaptures Krijukovo
1941 Russian anti offensive in Moscow drives out nazi army
1941 Russian government moves from Moscow to Volga as Nazis close in on Moscow
1941 1st use of Zyclon-B gas in Auschwitz (on Russian prisoners of war)
1941 English and Russian troops attack pro-German Iran
1941 Viktor Mikhailovich Pisarev, Russian cosmonaut
1941 20 divisions of Russian 6th/12th Army surrender at Oeman
1941 German 11st Army surrounds 20 Russian divisions at Oeman
1941 Russian counter attack at Rovno
1941 Isaak E Babel, Russian writer (Zakat, Marija), executed at 46
1941 El Lissitzky, Russian Artist
1941 Russian general Zhukov appointed chief of general staff
1940 Oleg Anatolyevich Yakovlev, Russian cosmonaut
1940 Russian general Zhukov warns of German assault
1940 Aleksandr Y. Kalery, Russian cosmonaut
1940 Leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary, icepicked by Frank Jackson at 62
1940 Paul Juon, Russian/Swiss violinist and composer, dies at 68
1940 Andrej N Rimski-Korssakov, Russian musicologist/son of Nikolai, dies
1940 Vasily Dmiotriyevich Shcheglov, Russian cosmonaut
1940 Russian troops conquer Lasi Island
1940 Isaac Babel, Russian Journalist
1939 Russian air and ground attack against Finnish positions near Summa
1939 Russian air raid on Helsinki
1939 Ansar Ilgamovich Sharafutdinov, Russian cosmonaut
1939 Zhanna Dmitriyevna Yerkina, Russian cosmonaut
1939 Stalin requests British, French and Russian anti-nazi pact
1939 Nadezjda K Krupskaya, Russian revolutionary/wife of Lenin, dies at 70
1939 Vladimir Yevgenyevich Preobrazhensky, Russian cosmonaut
1938 LP Beria follows Nikolai Jezjov as head of Russian secret police
1938 Aleksander Kuprin, Russian author (Jama), dies at 67
1938 Konstantin S Stanislavski, Russian director (S Method), dies at 75
1938 Vladimir M Kirshon, Russian playwright, executed at 35
1938 Andrei Amalrik, Russian writer/dissident
1938 Feodor Chaliapine, Russian author (Man and Mark), dies at 65
1937 Russian chess player Aljechin recaptures world title from Max Euwe
1937 Irina Bayanovna Solovyova, Russian cosmonaut
1937 Eduard N. Stepanov, Russian cosmonaut
1937 Yuri Aleksandrovich Senkevich, Russian cosmonaut
1937 Lou [Andreas-]Salome, Russian/German author (Eroticism), dies at 75
1936 Mikhail Vladimirovich Sologub, Russian cosmonaut
1936 Yuri Nikolayevich Stepanov, Russian cosmonaut
1936 Grogorij J Zinovjev, Russian revolutionary, dies
1936 Alexander Berkman, Russian Writer
1936 Maxim Gorki, [Alexei M Peshkov], Russian writer (Mother), dies at 68
1936 Maxim Gorky, Russian Novelist
1936 Galina Shostakovitch, daughter of Russian composer Dmitri
1936 Ivan P Pavlov, Russian physiologist (reflexes, Nobel 1904), dies at 86
1936 Ivan Pavlov, Russian Psychologist
1935 Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Russian Scientist
1935 Russian Aleksei Stachanov digs 6 hours, 105 tons of cabbages
1935 U.S. - Russian commerce treaty takes effect
1935 Ivan V Mitsjoerin, Russian botanist, dies
1935 Mikhail Mikhaylovich Ippolitov-Ivanov, Russian composer, dies at 75
1934 Catherine Kunstantino Breshkovsky, mother of Russian revolution, dies
1934 Valentin Stepanovich Varlamov, Russian cosmonaut
1933 Nikolaj N Joedenitsj, Russian general/contra revolutionary, dies at 71
1933 Mars Zakirovich Rafikov, Russian cosmonaut
1933 Alexander Schmuller, Russian/Dutch violinist and conductor, dies at 52
1932 Russian author Mikhail Bulgakov marries Yelena Sergeyevna
1932 Robert Rozjdestvenski, Russian poet, Requiem, Userjoz
1932 Russian composer Dmitri Sjostakovitch marries Nina Varsar
1932 Yevgeni Alekseyevich Zaikin, Russian cosmonaut, Voshkod 2 backup
1932 Nikolai Stepanovich Porvatkin, Russian cosmonaut
1932 Andrei Tarkovski, Russian director, Solaris, Stalker
1932 Andrei Tarkovsky, Russian Director
1931 Igor Oistrach, Russian violinist and son of David Oistrach
1931 Aleksey Vasilyevich Sorokin, Russian cosmonaut
1931 Viktor Korchnoi, Russian
1931 Boris Yeltsin, Ural Mts U.S.S.R., president of Russian SSR
1931 Anna Pavlova, Russian ballerina (Diaghilew, Dying Swan), dies
1930 Valeri Aleksandrovich Yazdovsky, Russian cosmonaut
1930 Vladimir Majakovski, Russian poet, dies
1929 Lev Jasjin, Russian soccer player, goalie
1929 Lev Yashin, Russian Athlete
1928 China expels all Russian instructors and civil servants
1928 Pjotr N Wrangel, Russian baron general, dies at 49
1928 Serge Gainsbourg, [Ginsburg], Russian/French singer, Ford Mustang
1927 Sergei D Sazonov, Russian Foreign minister (1910-16), dies at 66
1927 Adolf A Joffe, Russian author/diplomat, commits suicide at 44
1926 Russian Politburo throws out Leo Trotsky and followers
1925 Sergei Yesenin, Russian Poet
1925 Victor Zorza, journalist/Russian specialist
1925 Boris V Savinkov, Russian writer/terrorist, dies
1925 Aleksei Kuropatkin, Russian general/minister of War, dies at 76
1925 Leon Trotsky dismissed as CEO of Russian Revolution Military Council
1924 Pavel S "Paul" Urysohn, Russian mathematician, drowns at 26
1924 Bulat S Okudzjava, Russian author, Student!
1924 Lev N Lunts, Russian writer (Outside the Law), dies at 23
1924 Russian city of St. Petersburg renamed Leningrad
1924 Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov Lenin, Russian leader, dies of a stroke at 53
1924 Vladimir Lenin, Russian Leader
1923 Alexander V Amfiteatrov, Russian/French/Italian writer, dies at 60
1923 Dmitri T Jazov, Russian minister of defense, 1991 coup
1923 Vaslav Vorovsky, Russian delegate, assassinated
1922 Jevgeni B Vachtangov, Armenian/Russian actor and director, dies at 39
1922 Iser J Koepermann, Russian/U.S. world checkers champ, 1958-68, 75-76
1922 Yakut ASSR formed in Russian SFSR
1922 Erich Hartmann, German WW II pilot, downed 352 Russian aircrafts
1922 Dmitri B Shostakovitch, father of Russian composer Dmitri D S, dies
1922 Joeri Averbach, Russian chess grandmaster
1921 Alexander A Block, Russian poet (Dvenatsat), dies at 40
1921 Turkestan ASSR forms in Russian SFSR
1921 Pjotr A Kropotkin, Russian ruler/anarchist, dies at 78
1920 Salomon Anski, Russian/Polish yiddish author (Dibboek), dies at 57
1920 Tatar ASSR forms in Russian SFSR
1920 Alexander Koltsjak, adm/leader Russian counter-revolutionary, executed
1919 U.S. police raid offices of Union of Russian Workers
1919 Leonid Andreyev, Russian Playwright
1919 Izaak Boleslavski, Russian chess player
1919 Vasili V Rozanov, Russian philosopher and writer, dies at 62
1919 Mikhail Kalashnikov, Russian Inventor
1918 Russian 10th Army drives out White armies of Tsaritsyn (Stalingrad)
1918 Michail V Alekseyev, Russian general (WW I), murdered at 60
1918 Vladimir Dudentzev, Russian writer
1918 Russian Soviet Federal Socialist Republic forms
1918 Georgi V Plechanov, Russian revolutionary theorist, dies
1918 Tatars declares Azerbaijan, in Russian Caucasus, independent
1918 Russian Bolshevik Party becomes the Communist Party
1917 Russian secret police in Czech forms under Felix Dzerzjinski
1917 Kerenski regime declares Russian republic
1917 Fanya Kaplan, Russian who shot at Lenin on Aug 30th, executed
1917 Alexander Kerensky becomes Russian PM
1917 Russian Black Sea fleet mutiny at Sebastopol
1917 Nicholas II, last Russian tsar, says he will abdicate [3/3 OS]
1917 Russian Dumas sets up Provisional Committee; workers set up Soviets
1917 Russian revolution breaks out in Petrograd
1917 Nicholas II, last Russian tsar, abdicates (OS)
1917 Russian Duma sets up Provisional Committee; workers set up Soviets
1917 Russian revolution breaks out
1917 Joel Angel, Russian musicologist/composer, dies at 48
1916 Grigori J Rasputin, Russian faith healer/intriguer, murdered at 45
1916 Grigori Efimovich Rasputin, Russian monk, assassinated
1916 Grigori Rasputin, a powerful Russian monk, murdered
1916 Russian offensive in Armenia
1916 Russian General Brusilov fails on his Eastern Front attack
1916 Russian troops conquer Kermansjah Persia
1916 Russian troops conquer Erzurum Armenia
1916 Russian offensive in Kaukasus
1915 Russian troops overrun Qom, Persia
1915 Russian troops overrun Hamadan, Persia
1915 Margarita J Aliger, Russian poet, Zoja,
1915 Margarita J Aliger, Russian poet, Zoja,
1915 Czar Nicolaas II takes control of Russian Army
1915 Sergey Ivanovich Taneyev, Russian composer (Oresteia), dies at 58
1915 Alexander Scriabin, Russian Composer
1915 20th Russian Army corps surrenders
1915 2nd Battle of Masurian Lakes: German armies surrounded a Russian army
1915 Trans-Caucausus Russian defeat Turkish troops
1914 British, French and Russian government sign Pact of London, against Germany
1914 Battle at Tannenberg ends in destruction of Russian 2nd Narev army
1914 Aleksandr Samsonov, Russian general, commits suicide
1914 4th day of Tannenberg: Russian Narev-army panics, Gen Martos caught
1914 ... Machagovsky, Russian general (Tannenberg), dies in battle
1914 3rd day of battle at Tannenberg: violent German/Russian battles
1914 Russian army atacks Austrian army in Galicia
1914 Battle of Tannenberg - 8th German army defeats Russian Narev army
1914 Battle at Gumbinnen, East-Prussia: Russian beat Germans
1914 Anatol K Liadov, Russian composer (Baba yaga), dies at 59
1914 Russian troops take East-Prussia and occupy Marggrabowa
1914 Russian troops invade Eastern Prussia
1914 Yuri Andropov, Russian KGB chief/1st secretary
1914 Romain Gary, Russian Novelist
1913 Russian kingdom forbids Polish congregation of speakers
1913 Irina Nijinska, Russian/US dancer
1913 Lt Peter Nestrov, of Imperial Russian Air Service, performs a loop in a monoplane at Kiev (1st aerobatic maneuver in an airplane)
1912 Nikita Magaloff, Russian/Swiss pianist, Arkadia 598-Schubert
1910 David Lichine, [Lichtenstein], Russian/US dancer, Make Mine Music
1910 Leo Tolstoy, Russian author (Anna Karenina), dies at 82
1910 Leo Tolstoi, Russian earl/writer (War and Peace), dies at 82
1910 Soulima Stravinsky, Lausanne Switz, Russian pianist, Igor's son
1910 Aleksandr T. Tvardovski, Russian conductor
1910 Mili Alexeyevich Balakirev, Russian composer (Islamej), dies at 73
1910 Joeri German, Russian writer
1909 Innokenti F Annenski, Russian poet/interpreter, dies at 53 [OS 11/30]
1909 Innokenti F Annenski, Russian poet/translator, dies at 53
1909 Andrei A. Gromyko, Russian Politician
1909 Trofim Lysenko, Russian Celebrity
1909 Mary Antin, Russian Activist
1909 Russian tsar Nicolas II dissolves Finnish Diet
1909 Lev D Landau, Russian physicist, Nobel 1962
1909 Sinovi P Rozhestvensky, Russian admiral, dies at 60
1908 Viktor A Ambartsoemjan, Russian astronomer, Stalin Prize 1946, 50
1908 Nikolai A Rimski-Korssakov, Russian composer (Sheherazade), dies at 64
1908 Boris N Poveloi, [Kampov], Russian journalist/writer
1908 Boris N. Poveloi, [Kampov], Russian journalist/writer
1907 Constantine P Pobedonostsev, Russian reactionary senator, dies at 79
1907 Dmitri I Mendelejev, Russian chemist (Periodic Table), dies at 72
1906 Dimitri Shostakovich, Russian Composer
1906 Andrei P Kirilenko, Russian member of Central Committee of CP
1906 Pavel P Parenago, Russian astronomer
1906 Anton Stepanovich Arensky, Russian composer and conductor c t, dies at 44
1906 Serge Poliakoff, Russian/French painter/guitarist
1905 "October Manifesto" Russian Tsar Nicholas II grants civil liberties
1905 Russian tsar allows Polish people to speak Polish
1905 Russian tsar installs "Imperial Duma," without legislative powers
1905 Russian sailors mutiny aboard battleship "Potemkin"
1905 Warsaw and Lodz revolt against Russian occupation
1905 Japanese fleet destroys Russian East Sea fleet in Straits of Tushima
1905 Grigorij M. Kosinzev, Russian director
1905 Vera Fjodorova Panova, Russian author, Sputniki
1905 Bloody Sunday: Russian demonstrators fired on by tsarist troops
1904 Russian fleet shoots at British fishing ship
1904 Russian Baltic fleet departs to Port Arthur
1904 Field battle at Liao-Yang-200,000 Japanese against 150,000 Russian
1904 Plehve, Russian foreign minister (bomb under carriage), dies
1904 Anton Pavlovich Chechov, Russian writer (Uncle Vanya), dies at 44
1904 Anton Chekhov, Russian Dramatist
1904 N I Bobrikov, Russian governor-general in Finland, dies
1904 Sonia Gaskell, Russian/Neth choreographer
1904 Vasili Vereshtshagin, Russian painter (War and Peace), dies
1904 Japan and Russia declares war after Japan's surprise attack on Russian fleet at Port Arthur disabled 7 Russian warships
1904 Boris Kochno, Russian ballet dancer, La Chatte
1903 Michael Kalatozov, Russian producer, When the Cranes Fly
1903 Grigori V Aleksandrov, Russian director, Veselye Rebjata
1903 Igor V Kurtshatov, Russian nuclear physicist, 1st Rus nuclear bomb
1902 Michail A Suslov, Russian party ideologist
1902 Vladimir M Kirshon, Russian playwright, Ultimatum Factory,
1902 Vladimir M Kirshon, Russian playwright, Ultimatum Factory,
1902 Nathalie Sarraute, [Cherniak], Russian/French playwright
1902 Mark M Antokolski, Russian/French sculptor, dies at 58
1902 Sipyagain, Russian min of interior/headed Secret Service, assassinated
1901 Georg M Rimski-Korssakov, Russian musicologist/theory
1901 Alexander Alexeieff, Russian/French painter and graphic artist
1900 Andrei Vlasov, Russian general, Red Army, Wehrmacht
1900 Fjodor Godunov-Tcherdynchev, Russian poet, Life of Tchernyshevsky
1900 Ivan K Aivazovski, Russian painter (harbor scenes), dies at 82
1899 Lev V Kuleshov, Russian director/theorist, Po Zakonu
1898 Jakov P Polonski, Russian poet (Stichotvorenija), dies at 78
1898 Jakov P Polonski, Russian poet (Stichotvorenija), dies at 78
1898 Vassily Vainonen, Russian ballet dancers/choreographer, Gayaneh
1898 Paul Urysohn, Russian mathematician
1898 Sergei M Eisenstein, Russian director, Alexandr Nevski,
1896 Constantine Rokossovski, Russian marshal/vice-premier of Poland
1896 Georgi K Zjukov, Russian minister of Defense, WW II, [OS-Dec 2]
1896 Nikolai S Tichonov, Russian writer, against Pasternak,
1896 Nikolai S Tichonov, Russian writer, against Pasternak,
1896 Fjodor I Panfjorov, Russian author, Volga
1896 Fjodor I Panfjorov, Russian author, Volga, [NS=Oct 2]
1896 Pavel G. Antokolski, Russian poet/director, Syn,
1896 Andrei A. Zjdanov, Russian politician, against kosmopolitism
1896 Dziga Vertiv, [Denis A Kaufman], Russian director, Sjagai, Soviet!
1895 Lewis Milestone, Russian Director
1895 Sergei Yesenin, Russian Poet
1895 Michail M Soschtschenko, Russian author
1895 Michail M Zosjtsjenko, Russian author
1895 S Constantine Timoshenko, Russian marshal/people's commissioner
1894 Anton Rubinstein, Russian composer (Dmitri Donskoi), dies at 64
1894 Isaac Babel, Russian Journalist
1894 Erwin Schulhoff, Czech/Russian composer/pianist, Ogelala
1894 Nikita Khrushchev, Russian Statesman
1894 Sergei Ilyushin, Russian airplane builder, Ilyushin
1893 Aleksei N Apuchtin, Russian poet (Stichotvorenia), dies at 52
1892 Alexander A Aljechin, Russian/French chess champ, 1927-35, 37-46
1892 Marina Tsvetaeva, Russian Poet
1892 Russian/French generals Obruchev/Boisdeffre signs Duple Alliance
1892 Konstatin G Paustovski, Russian author, Bespokojnaja Joenostj,
1892 Konstatin G Paustovski, Russian author, Povestj Zjizni,
1892 Nikolaj A. Orloff, Russian/British pianist, Chopin
1891 Helena Petrovina Blavatsky, Russian theosophist, dies
1891 Sergei Prokofiev, Russian Composer
1891 Sofia Kovalevskaya, Russian Mathematician
1891 Osip E Mandelstam, Warsaw Poland, Russian poet, Noise of Time
1891 Osip E Mandelstam, Polish/Russian poet and author, Kamenj
1890 Lubov Tchernicheva, Russian ballerina
1890 Naum Gabo, [Pevsner], Russian/US sculptor, Stillife Flower
1890 Georg Annenkov, Russian/French painter
1890 Boris L Pasternak, Russian poet and writer, Dr. Zhivago,
1890 Boris Pasternak, Russian Novelist
1890 El Lissitzky, Russian Artist
1889 Anna Akhmatova, Russian Poet
1889 Efim D. Bogoljubov, Russian chess player
1889 Ivan S Aksakov, Russian journalist, dies at 65
1889 Pitirim A. Sorokin, Russian/US sociologist, Social mobility
1888 Andrej N Tupolev, Russian aircraft builder
1888 Anna Achmatova, [AA Gorenko], Russian conductor, Tsjetki
1887 John Reed, journalist who reported on Mexican, Russian revolutions
1887 Felix F Yussupov, Russian monarch
1887 Pavel Annenkov, Russian literature historian, dies at 73
1887 Pavel Annenkov, Russian literature historian/critic, dies at 73
1887 Alexander Porfir'yevich Borodin, Russian composer, dies at 53
1886 Mark Aldanov, [Landau], Russian/French chemist/writer
1886 Grigory K Ordzhonikidze, [Sergo], Russian revolutionary politician
1886 Mark Aldanov, [Landau], Russian/French chemist, Myslitel,
1886 Piotr F Scharoff, Russian/Italian actor and director, Chechov
1883 Andrej J Vysjinski, Russian lawyer/foreign min/UN-ambassador
1883 Adolf A Joffe, Russian revolutionary/writer, Brest-Litovsk
1883 Grogorij J Zinovjev, [Gerson Radomyslski], Russian
1883 Fjodor W. Gladkow, Russian writer, Cement
1883 Aleksander V. Aleksandrov, Russian composer and conductor
1883 Pavel Melnikov, [Petsjerski], Russian historian, dies at 64
1883 Jevgeni B Vachtangov, Armenian/Russian actor and director, Eric XIV
1883 Pavel Melnikov, Russian historian/author, dies
1883 Aleksei Tolstoi, Russian poet and writer, Pjotr Peroyj,
1882 Sergei G Netsjajev, Russian nihilist, dies at 35
1882 14 Russian Jews of Bilu, arrive in Jaffa Palestine
1882 Bilu, a Russian Zionist organization, forms
1881 Aleksandr F Kerenski, Russian premier, 1917-Prelude to Bolshevism
1881 Pogroms against Russian Jews start in Elisabethgrad
1881 Alexander Kerensky, Simbirsk, Russian PM, 1917
1881 Max Weber, Polish/Russian/US painter
1881 Modest P Mussorgsky, Russian composer (Boris Godunov), dies at 42
1881 Feodor M Dostoevski, Russian novelist (Crime and Punishment), dies at 59
1881 Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian Novelist
1881 Aleksej F Pisemski, Russian writer (Clodhopper), dies at 59
1880 Alexander Schmuller, Russian/Neth violinist and conductor
1880 Alexander A Block, Russian poet, Dvenatsat
1880 Alexander A Block, Russian poet, Dvenatsat
1880 Abram F Joffe, Russian physicist, crystal
1880 Morris Raphael Cohen, Russian Philosopher
1879 Joseph Stalin, Russian dictator; murdered 11,000,000
1879 Eugen Varga, Hungarian/Russian economist/politician
1879 Leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary, President of 1st Soviet,
1879 Agrippina J Vaganova, Russian ballet dancer
1878 Andrei N Rimski-Korssakov, Russian musicologist/son of Nikolai
1878 Pjotr N Wrangel, Russian baron/general, White Armies, WW II
1878 Russian assault on Plevna Turkey, 7,300 Russian casualties
1878 Joseph Schenck, Russian Businessman
1877 Nikolai A Nekrasov, Russian poet (Metshty into Zvuki), dies at 56
1877 Aleksei M Remizov, Russian writer, Iveren
1876 Maxim M Litvinov, [Meyer H Wallach], Russian diplomat
1876 Mikhail Bakunin, Russian Revolutionary
1875 Michail P Pogodin, Russian historian/writer (Povesti), dies at 75
1875 Michael I Kalinin, Russian metal worker/head of state
1875 Aleksei K Tolstoi, [Kozjma Prutkov], Russian poet and writer, dies at 58
1875 Aleksei K Tolstoi, [Kozjma Prutkov], Russian poet, dies at 58
1874 Nikolai Berdyaev, Russian Philosopher
1874 Vsevolod Meyerhold, Russian theatrical director/actor, Houligan
1873 L Martov, [Yuly O Tsederbaum], Russian revolutionary
1873 Antonina Neshdanova, Russian soprano, Rigoletto
1873 Sergei V Rachmaninov, Russian/US pianist/composer, Aleko
1873 Feodor Chaliapine, Russian author/novelist, Pages from My Life
1872 Alexandra Fjodorovna Romanova, last Russian tsarina, 1894-1918
1872 Paul Juon, Russian/Swiss violinist and composer
1872 Pavel P Gagarin, Russian monarch/politician, dies at 82
1872 Alexander Scriabin, Russian Composer
1871 Alexander N Afanasjev, Russian story teller, dies at 45
1871 Leonid N Andrejev, Russian journalist and writer, Red Laugh
1871 Leonid Andreyev, Russian Playwright
1871 [Gregory Efimovich] Rasputin, mad Russian monk
1870 Constantine D Uschinsky, Russian educator, dies at 46
1870 Aleksander Kuprin, Russian author, Pojedinok
1870 Aleksander Kuprin, Russian author, Pojedinok
1870 Vladimir D Nabokov, Russian jurist/minister of Justice, 1918-19
1870 Vladimir Lenin, Russian Leader
1870 Anatoli O Demidov, Russian ruler of Donato/traveller, dies
1870 Alexander Berkman, Russian Writer
1870 Constantine D Uschinsky, Russian educationalist, dies at 46
1869 Nadezjda K Krupskaja, Russian revolutionary/wife of Lenin
1869 Nadezhda Konstantinova Krupskaya, Russian revolutionary, Soc-Dem
1868 Joel Angel, Russian musicologist/composer
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