...s 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-Crimean referendum was held, as a re...