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1978 In The Soviet Union
The following lists events that happened during 1978 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Incumbents * General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union: Leonid Brezhnev * Premier of the Soviet Union: Alexei Kosygin * Chairman of the Russian SFSR: Mikhail Solomentsev Events January *24 January – The Kosmos 954 ends its mission February March April *14 April – 1978 Georgian demonstrations *20 April – The Soviet Air Force shoots down Korean Air Lines Flight 902, a civilian airliner That flew into Soviet airspace. *25 April – 18th Komsomol Congress May June * 21 June – 1978 Iranian Chinook shootdown: 2 Boeing CH-47 Chinook belonging to the Imperial Iranian Armed Forces strayed into Soviet airspace over the Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic during a training mission, resulting in the Shootdown of both aircraft by the Soviet Air Forces. July September * 28 September – one of the last Forest Brother guerilla movement fighter August Sabbe wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1978
Events January * January 1 – Air India Flight 855, a Boeing 747 passenger jet, crashes off the coast of Bombay, killing 213. * January 5 – Bülent Ecevit, of Republican People's Party, CHP, forms the new government of Turkey (42nd government). * January 6 – The Holy Crown of Hungary (also known as Stephen of Hungary Crown) is returned to Hungary from the United States, where it was held since World War II. * January 10 – Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Cardenal, a critic of the Nicaraguan government, is assassinated; riots erupt against Anastasio Somoza Debayle, Somoza's government. * January 13 – Former American Vice President Hubert Humphrey, a Democrat, dies of cancer in Waverly, Minnesota, at the age of 66. * January 18 – The European Court of Human Rights finds the British government guilty of mistreating prisoners in Northern Ireland, but not guilty of torture. * January 22 – Ethiopia declares the ambassador of West Germany ''persona non grata''. * January 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
August Sabbe
August Sabbe (1 September 1909 – 27 or 28 September 1978) was one of the last surviving Estonians, Estonian members of the Forest Brothers, a group of citizens of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania who resisted and fought against the Soviet Union, Soviet occupation of their three nations. Sabbe hid in the forests of Estonia, living off of the land like other Forest Brethren. In 1978, at the age of 69, Sabbe was found near his birthplace of Paidra, Lasva Parish in southeastern Estonia by two KGB agents posing as fishermen. When they attempted to arrest him, he leaped into the Võhandu River and either drowned accidentally or deliberately wedged himself under a submerged log. The KGB, which took photographs before and after the attempted arrest, maintained that Sabbe drowned while attempting to escape. But someMart Laar, ''Metsvennad'', Tallinn 1993 have observed that the river is narrow, sluggish and shallow at that point, an unlikely place for an accidental drowning, and that the ope ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1903 In Russia
Events from the year 1903 in Russia. Incumbents * Monarch – Nicholas II Events * 14 January - Opening of Hotel National, Moscow *''dates unknown'' *19-21 April - the 49 Jews are killed in the Kishinev Pogrom * Chernoe Znamia * Estonian Chess Championship * Kharovsk * Klavdiievo-Tarasove * Mensheviks * Rahumäe cemetery * Ševčík-Lhotský Quartet * Zimin Opera *''ongoing'' - Central Committee compositions elected by the 1st–3rd congresses of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party Births 11 July - Rudolf Abel, Anglo-Russian Soviet intelligence officer (1971) 25 September – Mark Rothko Mark Rothko ( ; Markus Yakovlevich Rothkowitz until 1940; September 25, 1903February 25, 1970) was an American abstract art, abstract painter. He is best known for his color field paintings that depicted irregular and painterly rectangular reg ..., Russian-American abstract artist (d. 1970) Deaths * 22 May – Dmitry Gamov, Russian general and explorer (b. 1834) Ref ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aram Khachaturian
Aram Ilyich Khachaturian (; 1 May 1978) was a Soviet Armenians, Armenian composer and conductor. He is considered one of the leading Music of the Soviet Union#Classical music of the Soviet Union, Soviet composers. Khachaturian was born and raised in Tbilisi (now the capital of Georgia (country), Georgia). He moved to Moscow in 1921 following the Sovietization of the Caucasus. Without prior music training, he enrolled in the Gnessin State Musical College, Gnessin Musical Institute, and subsequently studied at the Moscow Conservatory in the class of Nikolai Myaskovsky, among others. His first major work, the Piano Concerto (Khachaturian), Piano Concerto (1936), popularized his name within and outside the Soviet Union. It was followed by the Violin Concerto (Khachaturian), Violin Concerto (1940) and the Cello Concerto (Khachaturian), Cello Concerto (1946). His other significant compositions include the ''Masquerade (Khachaturian), Masquerade Suite'' (1941), the Anthem of the Armeni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1906 In Russia
Events from the year 1906 in Russia. Incumbents * Monarch – Nicholas II * Chairman of the Council of Ministers – ** until 5 May – Sergei Witte ** 5 May–21 July – Ivan Logginovich Goremykin ** starting 21 July – Pyotr Arkadyevich Stolypin **Pyotr Stolypin, Russian prime minister from 1906 to 1911. Events * Russian Constitution of 1906 * 1906 Russian legislative election * Markovo Republic * Białystok pogrom * Bloody Wednesday (Poland) * Siedlce pogrom * Vyborg Manifesto Births * 21 January - Igor Moiseyev, Russian choreographer (d. 2007). * 7 February - Oleg Antonov, Soviet aircraft designer (d. 1984). * 1 April - Alexander Yakovlev, Russian engineer and airplane designer (d. 1989). * 4 June - Ivan Knunyants, Soviet chemist (d. 1990). * 5 August - Wassily Leontief, Russian economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999). * 8 September - Andrei Kirilenko, Soviet politician (d. 1990) * 25 September - Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian composer and pianist (d. 1975). * 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Karmen
Roman Lazarevich Karmen (28 April 1978, born Efraim Leyzorovich Korenman) was a Soviet film director, war cinematographer, documentary filmmaker, journalist, screenwriter, pedagogue, and publicist. Biography Karmen was born to a Jewish family in Odessa. His father was the writer (real name Leyzor Korenman) and his mother was the translator Dina Leypuner. Career Karmen was a communist. He documented the Spanish Civil War. Karmen also documented the battles for Moscow and Leningrad in World War II, the First Indochina War, and the rise of communism in Southeast Asia in the 1950s and in South America during the 1960s. Karmen was also granted personal access to the emergence of communist leaders like Vietnam's Ho Chi Minh and Cuba's Fidel Castro, and Chile's socialist president Salvador Allende. Karmen went to Yan'an in 1939, where he met Mao Zedong and other Chinese leaders and filmed during May and June 1939. Style Karmen's documentary methods were both influential and cont ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1898 In Russia
Events from the year 1898 in Russia. Incumbents * Monarch – Nicholas II Events * * * * 1st Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party * 25 April – Signing of Nishi–Rosen Agreement between the Russian Empire and the Empire of Japan concerning disputes over Korea. * Central Committee compositions elected by the 1st–3rd congresses of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party * Founding of influential ''Mir iskusstva'' arts magazine. * Russian Social Democratic Labour Party Births * January 22 – Sergei Eisenstein, film director (d. 1948) * February 20 – Semyon Kirlian, inventor (d. 1978) * March 14 – Arnold Chikobava, Georgian linguist (d. 1985) * July 13 – Ivan Triesault, Estonian-born American actor (d. 1980) * August 12 – Maria Klenova, marine geologist (d. 1976) * September 29 – Trofim Lysenko, biologist (d. 1976) * October 20 – Sergi Jikia, Georgian historian and orientalist (d. 1993 The Uni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Semyon Kirlian
Semyon Davidovich Kirlian (; ; ; 20 February 1898 – 4 April 1978) was a Soviet inventor and researcher of Armenian descent, who along with his wife Valentina Khrisanfovna Kirlian (; 1904—1971), a teacher and journalist, discovered and developed Kirlian photography. Early life Kirlian was born in 1898 Yekaterinodar, Russian Empire (now Krasnodar, Russia) in an Armenian family. He possessed an early interest in, and aptitude for, work with electricity. Just before the Russian Revolution of 1917, Kirlian attended a conference in his home city at which Nikola Tesla gave talks and demonstrations; Tesla was one of Kirlian's predecessors in the field of corona discharge photography. In the 1930s Kirlian earned his living as an electrician in Krasnodar, near the eastern coast of the Black Sea in southern Russia—then the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic (Russian SFSR), part of the Soviet Union. He married Valentina Khrisanovna in 1930. First discoveries By 193 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1912 In Russia
Events from the year 1912 in Russia. Incumbents * Monarch – Nicholas II * Chairman of the Council of Ministers – Vladimir Nikolayevich Kokovtsov Events * Russian Empire at the 1912 Summer Olympics * Brusilov Expedition * Lena massacre The Lena Massacre or Lena Execution () refers to the shooting of goldfield workers on strike in northeast Siberia near the Lena River on . The strike had been provoked by exceptionally harsh working conditions, and when the strike committ ... * 1912 Russian legislative election * Moscow Art Theatre production of Hamlet * Architect Vladimir Semyonov returns to Russia after having defected to London Births Leonid Vitaliyevich Kantorovich: a Soviet mathematician and economist, known for his theory and development of techniques for the optimal allocation of resources. Deaths * * * * References Years of the 20th century in the Russian Empire 1912 by country 1912 in Europe 1912 in Asia 1910s in the Russian Em ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mikhail Zakharov
Mikhail Nikolayevich Zakharov () (5 November 1912 – 19 February 1978) was an officer of the Soviet Navy. He saw action in the Second World War and rose to the rank of admiral. Born in Saint Petersburg, in the Russian Empire in 1912, Zakharov began his naval career in 1930 with service with Coastal Defence Artillery Brigades, before moving into the political commissar, political branch. He was military commissar at the Pacific Fleet (Russia), Pacific Fleet's base at Nikolayevsk-on-Amur during the Operation Barbarossa, German invasion of the Soviet Union, and during the war served on the military councils of the Pacific Fleet, the Volga Military District and the Northern Fleet. He followed this with work as a propagandist and as a senior instructor, and later as inspector of the fleet's political administration. Zakharov served in the political department of the Black Sea Fleet after the war, and in 1956 joined the Pacific Fleet's military council, which he served on for the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1902 In Russia
Events from the year 1902 in Russia. Incumbents * List of Russian monarchs, Monarch – Nicholas II of Russia, Nicholas II Events *1 July - The Admiral Makarov National University of Shipbuilding opens in Mykolayiv, Ukraine, under the name of Mykolayiv Industrial Technical School. *July - Grand Duke Peter Nikolaevich of Russia is created a Knight of the Supreme Order of the Most Holy Annunciation, Order of the Most Holy Annunciation by King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy, during the latter's visit to Russia. *29 August - Grand Duchess Elena Vladimirovna of Russia is married to her second cousin Prince Nicholas of Greece and Denmark. *November - The periodical ''Novy Put'' is launched in Saint Petersburg by Dmitry Merezhkovsky and Zinaida Gippius. *December - The Russian News Agency TASS begins life as the Commercial Telegraph Agency (TTA, Torgovo-Telegrafnoe Agentstvo). Births *8 January - Georgy Malenkov, Leader of the Soviet Union in 1953 (died 1988 in the Soviet Union, 1988) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Artemiy Artsikhovsky
Artemiy Vladimirovich Artsikhovsky () (December 26 (December 13, O.S.), 1902 — February 17, 1978) was a Russian Soviet archaeologist and historian, professor (since 1937), head of the department of archaeology (since 1939) of the Moscow State University, the discoverer of birch bark manuscripts in Novgorod. Corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences, recipient of the USSR State Prize The USSR State Prize () was one of the Soviet Union’s highest civilian honours, awarded from its establishment in September 1966 until the dissolution of the USSR in 1991. It recognised outstanding contributions in the fields of science, mathem ... (1970, 1982 (posthumously)). Academic contribution Artsikhovsky developed the methodology and methods of source study analysis, introduced a general course of archeology into the university program. On July 26, 1951, Artsikhovsky's discovered the first birch-bark writing, which began the study of a new side of the history of local peo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
