...ed in Kitay-Gorod district alone. 1861 - Alexander II's manifesto on the abolition of serfdom was published. 1922 - Alexander Pushkin's estate in the village of Mikhailovsk, his grave in the Svyatogorsk Monastery, and the nearby places - Trigorskoye, Gorodishche, and the village of Voronich - were declared a State Reserve. 1927 - In Leningrad production of miniature light bulbs for flashlights began at the Svetlana plant. 1951 — The Ukrainian Insurgent Army (#UPA) called on the #USA to...
... assist in its struggle against the USSR. 1966 — The first launch from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome: the "Vostok-2" launch vehicle successfully put the artificial satellite "Kosmos-112" into Earth orbit. 1979 — A Tu-104 disaster in Vnukovo resulted in 59 fatalities, prompting the final cessation of regular flight operations of this model in civil aviation by the end of the year. 1980 - The British Parliament voted to boycott the Moscow Olympics. 1991 - An All-Union referendum was held, in w...
...th a turnout of 77%.