...1915 — The police of Petrograd closed the famous club of artists and poets "The Wandering Dog." 1917 - February Revolution: Abdication of Mikhail Alexandrovich in favor of the Provisional Government. Issue of an act on Mikhail Alexandrovich's refusal to accept the supreme power. 1921 - Closing of the X Congress of the RCP(b); the beginning of the transition to the NEP (New Economic Policy). 1921 - A treaty of friendship and brotherhood was signed between the RSFSR and Turkey. 1921 - Th...
...e USSR concludes a trade agreement with Great Britain in #London. 1927 - The Optical-Mechanical Trust for the first time in the USSR began mass production of lenses for glasses. 1936 -The first Soviet passenger car, the M-1 limousine, rolled off the assembly line of the Gorky Automobile Plant. 1944 — Latvian units of the #SS troops (15th and 19th divisions) first participated together in combat against the advancing Soviet forces near Leningrad. 1961 — The Tu-104 disaster in Sverdlovsk...
.... Due to the failure of both engines, the aircraft landed on the frozen Lower-Isetsky pond and crashed into a rest house. Seven people died. 1962 - Nikita Khrushchev announces that the USSR has an intercontinental missile. 1995 - Armenia and Russia sign an agreement on maintaining Russian troops in Armenia. 2004 — An explosion occurred in a residential building in Arkhangelsk, resulting in the deaths of 58 people. 2005 — The AN-24 disaster in the village of Varandey. 2014 - An all-Cri...
...mean referendum was held, as a result of which #Crimea became part of Russia. 2022 - Russia was expelled from the Council of #Europe.