Russian History Timeline (Part 4)

Events 601 - 800 of 1,103

• 1944-10-28 Russia & Bulgaria sign weapons pact
• 1945-02-06 WWII: Russian Red Army crosses the Oder River between Poland and Germany
• 1945-04-13 WWII: Russian Red Army occupies Vienna, Austria

• 1948-07-08 500th anniversary of the Russian Orthodox Church celebrated in Moscow
• 1948-10-21 UN rejects Russian proposal to destroy atomic weapons
• 1949-10-07 German Democratic Republic formed from Russian occupation zone (National Day). Wilhelm Pieck becomes 1st president, Otto Greatwohl 1st premier

• 1953-08-20 Russia publicly acknowledges hydrogen bomb test detonation
• 1954-04-26 USSR Supreme Soviet transfer the Crimean oblast from Russian SFSR to Ukrainian SSR
• 1954-05-07 US, Great Britain & France reject Russian membership of NATO
• 1954-06-27 First nuclear power station opens, in Obninsk near Moscow, Russia
• 1955-01-25 Russia ends state of war with Germany
• 1956-02-11 British diplomats Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean deny working as spies for Soviet Russia after reappearing in the Soviet Union after going missing 5 years earlier
• 1956-07-16 Karelo-Finnish SSR becomes part of Russian SFSR
• 1956-11-04 200,000 Russian troops attack anti-Soviet movement in Budapest, Hungary
• 1956-12-11 Anti-Russian demonstrations in Stettin & Wroclaw, Poland
• 1957-01-06 Yeshiva Kol Ya'ackov opens in Moscow Russia
• 1957-03-12 German DR accepts 22 Russian divisions
• 1957-10-25 Russian minister of Defense Zjoekov deposed
• 1957-11-18 Tunisia refuses Russian weapons

• 1959-09-15 Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev arrives in United States to begin a 13-day visit, the first state visit of a Soviet or Russian leader to the US

• 1960-07-12 Orlyonok, the main Young Pioneer camp of the Russian SFSR, is founded.
• 1961-01-01 Russia introduces a new ruble worth $1.11
• 1961-01-16 Russian espionage ring detected in Great Britain

• 1961-08-06 Gherman S. Titov is the 2nd Russian in space aboard Vostok 2 (17 orbits)
• 1962-02-04 Russian newspaper Izvestia reports baseball is an old Russian game
• 1962-08-11 Andrian G Nikolayev, becomes 3rd Russian in space aboard Vostok 3
• 1962-08-12 Russia launches Vostok 4, Pavel Popovich, who lands safely Aug 15

• 1962-10-26 Nikita Khrushchev sends note to JFK offering to withdraw his missiles from Cuba if US closes its bases in Turkey. Offer is rejected and JFK warns Russia that the USA will not allow Soviet missiles to remain in Cuba.
• 1962-11-01 Noble Prize for Physics awarded to Russian physicist Lev Landau for "theories for condensed matter, especially liquid helium" [1]
• 1963-03-13 Two Russian reconnaissance flights over Alaska
• 1963-06-19 2 Russian space missions return to Earth
• 1963-07-25 US, Russia & Britain sign nuclear Test ban treaty
• 1966-02-14 Russian writers Andrei Sinyavsky & Joey Daniel found guilty under the offense of anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda for publishing their satirical writings abroad
• 1967-02-28 A West German court rules that impostor Anna Anderson failed to prove that she was missing Russian duchess Anastasia Romanov, ending a legal case that lasted almost 30 years

• 1968-10-16 Czechoslovakia & Russian "accord" rules allies Soviet forces
• 1968-12-31 Soviet TU-144 makes its maiden flight, the first by a commercial supersonic airliner
• 1969-03-02 Chinese-Russian borders fight (approx 70 die)
• 1969-03-15 Violent Chinese-Russian border dispute leaves 100s dead
• 1969-05-17 Russian probe Venera 6 landed on Venus
• 1969-07-13 Russia launches unmanned Luna 15 to Moon
• 1969-07-21 Russia's Luna 15 impacts moon after 52 lunar orbits

• 1970-06-19 Russian cosmonauts Andriyan Nikolayev and Vitaly Sevastyanov return after 18 days in Soyuz 9, the longest crewed flight by a solo spacecraft
• 1970-10-15 Russian passenger flight hijacked to Turkey

• 1970-11-17 Russia lands Lunokhod 1 unmanned remote-controlled vehicle on Moon
• 1970-11-18 Russia lands self propelled rover on Moon
• 1971-06-30 Crew of Russian space mission Soyuz 11 found dead upon arrival on earth becoming the only people to die in space
• 1971-09-24 90 Russian diplomats expelled from Britain for spying
• 1972-02-14 Luna 20 (Russia) launched to orbit & soft landing on Moon

• 1972-09-25 Dutch air force drives away Russian Tupolev-bomber

• 1974-09-19 The KGB begin a large-scale operation to discredit Russian novelist Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and cut his communications with Soviet dissidents

• 1975-04-03 Bobby Fischer stripped of world chess title for refusing to defend it, title awarded to Russian Anatoly Karpov
• 1976-04-09 US & Russia agreed on size of nuclear tests for peaceful use
• 1976-09-06 Russian pilot Belenko defects to Japan in a Mig 25 jet
• 1977-06-01 Russia charges Jewish rights activist Anatoly Shcharansky with treason
• 1977-08-17 Russian nuclear sub "Artika" is 1st to North Pole
• 1978-04-14 Korean Air Lines Boeing 707, fired on by Soviets, crashes in Russia
• 1978-04-27 Afghanistan revolution (National Day), pro-Russian military coup
• 1978-05-04 Russian leader Brezhnev visits West-Germany
• 1978-05-18 Russian dissident Yuri Orlov exiled to compulsory work
• 1978-07-13 Russian dissidents Ginsburg, Piatkus and Sjtsjaranki sentenced to work camps
• 1979-04-10 Soyuz 33 launched with a Russian & a Bulgarian
• 1979-08-17 2 Russian passenger planes collide above Ukraine, 173 killed
• 1980-01-01 Mob storms Russian embassy in Tehran
• 1980-01-22 Russian dissidents Andrei Sakharov and Yelena Bonner arrested in Moscow and banished to Gorky
• 1980-07-16 Polish railway workers block railway to Russia
• 1981-06-23 Amanda Maccaro becomes 1st American to win Russian Ballet Competition
• 1982-03-01 Russian spacecraft Venera 14 lands on Venus, sends back data
• 1982-03-05 Russian spacecraft Venera 14 lands on Venus sends back data
• 1982-11-02 Fire in Salung tunnel, Afghanistan, 1,000+ Russians die
• 1983-01-23 Russian radioactive satellite falls into Indian Ocean
• 1983-05-23 Radio Moscow announcer Vladimir Danchev praises Afghanistan Muslims standing up to Russia; he is removed from the air
• 1983-09-14 US House of Representatives votes, 416 to 0, in favor of a resolution condemning Russia for shooting down a Korean jetliner
• 1984-04-20 Russian offensive in Panshirvallei Afghanistan

• 1985-06-11 Russian space probe Vega 1 lands on Venus
• 1985-06-15 Russian space probe Vega 2 lands on Venus

• 1985-09-21 American CIA case officer Edward Lee Howard flees to Russia after being identified as a KGB agent

• 1986-03-29 Beatle records officially go on sale in Russia
• 1986-04-20 Vladimir Horowitz performs in Moscow, Russia, his first appearance in his Russian homeland since 1925

• 1986-08-31 Russian cargo ship crashes into cruise ship Admiral Nakhimov; 398 die
• 1986-10-06 Russian nuclear sub K291 sinks in Atlantic Ocean
• 1986-12-12 Russian Tupolev-134 crashes in East Berlin, 70 killed
• 1986-12-31 Russian TU-144 flies for 1st time faster than sound
• 1987-02-23 Russian Writers Union accepts Boris Pasternak posthumous as member

• 1988-04-07 Russia announces it will withdraw its troops from Afghanistan
• 1988-06-05 Russian Orthodox Church celebrates its 1,000th anniversary
• 1988-08-08 Russian troops begin pull out of Afghanistan after 9 years of war
• 1989-01-03 Russian newspaper Izvestia gets its 1st commercial advertisement
• 1989-07-04 Unmanned Russian Mig-23 crashes in Bellegem-Kooigem, Belgium (1 dies)

• 1990-07-27 White-Russia declares independence
• 1990-08-09 Russian spacecraft Soyuz TM-10 launches
• 1990-10-13 First Russian Orthodox service in over 70 years held in St Basil's Cathedral, in Red Square, Moscow
• 1991-06-12 Boris Yeltsin wins Russia's first presidential election with 57% of the vote
• 1991-06-18 Boris Yeltsin, President of Russia, arrives in US
• 1991-07-10 Boris Yeltsin sworn in as the first elected President of the Russian Federation
• 1991-07-31 Russia and US sign long range nuclear weapons reduction pact
• 1991-08-25 White-Russia declares its independence
• 1991-09-06 The name Saint Petersburg is restored to Russia's second largest city, which had been renamed Leningrad in 1924.
• 1991-11-06 Russian President Boris Yeltsin outlaws the Communist Party
• 1991-12-08 Russia, Belorussia & Ukraine form Commonwealth of Ind States
• 1992-01-01 The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic is renamed the Russian Federation, becoming the successor state to the Soviet Union.
• 1992-03-17 Russian manned space craft TM-14, launches into orbit
• 1992-03-25 Russian manned space craft TM-14, lands

• 1992-11-05 "Revenge Match of the 20th century" American chess grandmaster Bobby Fischer defeats Russian Boris Spassky to win an unofficial match in Belgrade
• 1993-01-03 In Moscow, the Start II arms reduction treaty is signed by George H. W. Bush (USA) and Boris Yeltsin (Russia)
• 1993-01-17 Russian Irina Privalova cycles world record 300m indoor (35.45")
• 1993-02-04 Russian space agency tests a 82-foot wide space mirror
• 1993-04-25 Russia elects Boris Yeltsin President of the Russian Federation
• 1993-07-01 Russian manned space craft TM-17, launches into orbit
• 1993-09-17 Last Russian troops leave Poland.
• 1993-10-04 Troops and tanks of President Boris Yeltsin shell and occupy the Russian White House in Moscow, the house of government of the Russian Federation
• 1993-10-05 Russian President Boris Yeltsin removes honor guard from Lenin's mausoleum
• 1993-10-22 Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr Serebrov makes record 9th space walk

• 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)
• 1994-03-23 Russian Airbus A-310 crashes in Siberia (74-75 killed)

• 1994-05-27 Writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn returns to Russia after 20 years in exile
• 1994-07-01 Russian spacecraft Soyuz TM-19 launches from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
• 1994-07-09 Russian spacecraft Soyuz TM-18 lands after successful trip to Mir spacestation
• 1994-07-23 Goodwill Games III open in St Petersburg, Russia
• 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
• 1994-10-29 Antonov AN-12A crashes short of runway at Ust-Ilimsk Airport (Irkutsk, Russia), possibly due to icing; all 23 on board killed
• 1994-11-20 Russian Kosmos satellites 2294, 2295 and 2296 launch
• 1994-12-11 Russian Federation forces attack city of Grozny, beginning the First Chechen War, in which the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria gains its independence from Russia
• 1994-12-11 Russian troops enter Chechnya
• 1995-01-20 Russian ruble drops to 3,947 per dollar (record)
• 1995-02-09 STS-63 - 2nd mission of US/Russian Shuttle-Mir Program goes into space
• 1995-05-28 Earthquake hits Russian town of Khabarovsk, killing 2,000 people
• 1995-06-30 Exxon signs a $15.2-billion deal to develop oil and gas fields near Russia's Sakhalin Island
• 1995-11-15 Space shuttle Atlantis docks with orbiting Russian space station Mir
• 1996-01-12 Russian troops arrive in Bosnia as part of a joint operation with the US
• 1996-02-29 Russian spacecraft Soyuz TM-23 returning from Mir space station
• 1996-03-26 The International Monetary Fund approves a $10.2 billion loan for Russia
• 1996-06-11 Exxon states that it will begin work on its $15-billion Sakhalin I oil and natural gas development in Russia's Far East
• 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
• 1997-05-16 Final agreement creating Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC) signed by project participants, including Russia, Kazakhstan, Chevron Corp and others
• 1997-05-20 Cosmos Zenit-2 Launch (Russia), Failed
• 1997-05-27 Russian President Boris Yeltsin signs a historic treaty with NATO
• 1997-06-07 Russian reconnaissance satellite Cosmos 2344 launches from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan using a four-stage Proton-K rocket [1]
• 1997-06-29 Progress M-35 Soyuz Launch (Russia)
• 1997-11-20 Iraq's Revolution Command Council formally endorses an agreement, arranged by Russia, that enables UN weapons inspection teams to resume operations in Iraq
• 1997-11-25 US telephone technician 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 and family, 80 years after they died

• 1999-08-09 Russian President Boris Yeltsin fires his Prime Minister, Sergei Stepashin, and for the fourth time fires his entire cabinet.
• 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 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 Real Irish Republican Army (RIRA) attacks British MI6 Secret Intelligence Service building, using 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
• 2001-03-26 Kazakhstan's Prime Minister opens an oil pipeline from the giant Tengiz Field to the Russian port of Novorossiysk on Monday, giving the Central Asian producer its first direct link to international markets
• 2001-06-14 China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan form the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation.
• 2001-07-02 UN Security Council, facing an almost certain Russian veto, agrees to postpone indefinitely a vote on the US-led "smart sanctions" package for Iraq
• 2001-07-03 A Vladivostok Avia Tupolev TU-154 jetliner crashes on approach to landing at Irkutsk, Russia killing 145 people
• 2001-10-15 The first tanker loading of the new $2.5-billion Kazakh-Russia Pipeline takes place
• 2001-10-29 ExxonMobil announces that a consortium it leads will spend $4 billion over 5 years to develop large offshore oil and natural gas fields in Russia's far eastern Sakhalin region
• 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.
• 2002-09-20 The Kolka-Karmadon rock and ice slide starts in North Ossetia–Alania, Russia
• 2002-09-25 The Vitim event, a possible bolide impact in Siberia, Russia.
• 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.

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