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1971 In The Soviet Union
The following lists events that happened during 1971 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: Nikolai Bulganin * Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR: Mikhail Yasnov Events January *January 1 — Veronika Mavrikievna and Avdotya Nikitichna, a comic variety duet of actors, appear in the telecast 'Terem-Teremok'. April *April 19 — The Soviet Union launches ''Salyut 1''."Soviet Sends Another Space Vehicle Into Orbit", ''The New York Times'', April 19, 1971, p4 Births *February 8 — Dmitry Nelyubin, track cyclist (d. 2005) *February 27 — Zaal Udumashvili, Georgian politician *April 3 — Anastasia Zavorotnyuk, Russian actress and television presenter (d. 2024) *April 21 — Valentin Morkov, Russian professional football coach and a former player *July 22 — Mikheil Kavelashvili, 6th President of Georgia *August 5 � ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1971
* The year 1971 had three partial solar eclipses (Solar eclipse of February 25, 1971, February 25, Solar eclipse of July 22, 1971, July 22 and Solar eclipse of August 20, 1971, August 20) and two total lunar eclipses (February 1971 lunar eclipse, February 10, and August 1971 lunar eclipse, August 6). The world population increased by 2.1% this year, the highest increase in history. Events January * January 2 – 1971 Ibrox disaster: During a crush, 66 people are killed and over 200 injured in Glasgow, Scotland. * January 5 – The first ever One Day International cricket match is played between Australia and England at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. * January 8 – Tupamaros kidnap Geoffrey Jackson, British ambassador to Uruguay, in Montevideo, keeping him captive until September. * January 9 – Uruguayan president Jorge Pacheco Areco demands emergency powers for 90 days due to kidnappings, and receives them the next day. * January 12 – The landmark United States televis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mikheil Kavelashvili
Mikheil Kavelashvili ( ka, მიხეილ ყაველაშვილი ; born 22 July 1971) is a Georgian politician and former professional footballer who was sworn in as the sixth president of Georgia on 29 December 2024. His election, the first through an electoral college after constitutional changes in 2017, is being disputed by the Georgian opposition, as well as by significant parts of the Western community. He was the sole candidate for the presidency for the first time in Georgia's history because of the opposition boycott. As a football player, he was a striker who played in the English Premier League for Manchester City and in the Swiss Super League for a range of clubs. He also played for Dinamo Tbilisi and Spartak Vladikavkaz. He was capped 46 times by the Georgian national football team. Football career As with many leading Georgian players, Kavelashvili began his career with Dinamo Tbilisi, emerging from their youth system in 1989. A striker, he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viktor Zhirmunsky
Viktor Maksimovich Zhirmunsky (; 2 August 1891 – 31 January 1971; also ''Wiktor Maximowitsch Schirmunski, Zirmunskij, Schirmunski, Zhirmunskii;'' ) was a Soviet and Russian literary historian and linguist. Life Born in Saint Petersburg in 1891 to a Jewish family, Zhirmunsky was a professor at universities in Saratov and Leningrad, and a member of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union. He was a representative of Russian formal studies, though in certain respects he was less inclined to accept formalism as sufficient for all literary analysis. His critique of the ahistorical nature of formalism, in the introduction to his translation of Oskar Walzel′s ''Die künstlerische Form des Dichtwerkes'' (1919) helped speed the end of Russian formalism's initial phase, as critics began to accommodate their work to the developing ideology of the Soviet regime. Though originally trained in German Romanticism, he started to research the epics of the Asian people of the Soviet Union ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1901 In Russia
Events from the year 1901 in Russia. Incumbents * Monarch – Tsar Nicholas II * Chairman of the Committee of Ministers – Ivan Durnovo Events * 26 May – Russian cruiser Boyarin launched without presence of the Imperial Russian Army. * 7 September – End of the Boxer Rebellion. Births * 17 January – Aron Gurwitsch, a Litvak American phenomenologist. (died 1973) * 4 February – Alexander Werth, writer, journalist, and war correspondent. (died 1969) * 15 May – Boris Berman (chekist), chekist and leading member of the NKVD. * 18 June – Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia, youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II (died 1918) * 20 June – Princess Nina Georgievna of Russia, elder daughter of Grand Duke George Mikhailovich and Grand Duchess Maria Georgievna of Russia who spent her life in exile (died 1974) * 15 August – Prince Dmitri Alexandrovich of Russia, nephew of Tsar Nicholas II. (died 1980) * 12 September ** Shmuel Hurwitz, Russian-born Israel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nadezhda Peshkova
Nadezhda Alekseevna Peshkova (née Vvedenskaya, nicknamed "Timosha"; November 30, 1901 – January 10, 1971) was a Russian painter. She was born, Tomsk, and married Maxim Peshkov, the son of Maxim Gorky. She learned about painting while staying at Gorky's house in Capri in the 1920s. Here she was taught by Pavel Korin, who also later painted her portrait. She remained living in Gorky's house following his death and participated in turning it into the Maxim Gorky Apartment Museum in 1965. She died in Moscow Moscow is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Russia by population, largest city of Russia, standing on the Moskva (river), Moskva River in Central Russia. It has a population estimated at over 13 million residents with .... References {{DEFAULTSORT:Peshkova, Nadezhda 1901 births 1971 deaths Russian painters ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2010 In Russia
1 (one, unit, unity) is a number, numeral, and glyph. It is the first and smallest positive integer of the infinite sequence of natural numbers. This fundamental property has led to its unique uses in other fields, ranging from science to sports, where it commonly denotes the first, leading, or top thing in a group. 1 is the unit of counting or measurement, a determiner for singular nouns, and a gender-neutral pronoun. Historically, the representation of 1 evolved from ancient Sumerian and Babylonian symbols to the modern Arabic numeral. In mathematics, 1 is the multiplicative identity, meaning that any number multiplied by 1 equals the same number. 1 is by convention not considered a prime number. In digital technology, 1 represents the "on" state in binary code, the foundation of computing. Philosophically, 1 symbolizes the ultimate reality or source of existence in various traditions. In mathematics The number 1 is the first natural number after 0. Each natural numbe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vladislav Galkin
Vladislav Borisovich Galkin (; 25 December 1971 – 25 February 2010) was a Russian actor who starred in fifty seven films including several TV serials, such as ''Spetsnaz'' (2002), ''The Master and Margarita'' (2005–2006) and ''Savages'' (2006). Biography Galkin studied acting at the Boris Shchukin Theatre Institute from 1988 to 1992, then studied film directing at the All-Union State Institute of Cinematography in the 1990 where his teacher was Vladimir Khotinenko. On 27 February 2010, Galkin was found dead in his apartment, and the cause of death was said to be cardiac arrest. However, according to his family and friends, he was murdered based on evidence indicating the presence of other people in his room just before his death and the disappearance of $130,000 from his apartment. The police dismissed this version. Galkin's death was mourned by many who demanded finding those responsible for his death. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2011 In Russia
Events in the year 2011 in Russia. Incumbents * President of Russia – Dmitry Medvedev (United Russia) * Prime Minister of Russia – Vladimir Putin (United Russia) Events * January 1 - Kolavia Flight 348: Four people are killed and around 40 injured after a passenger plane explodes in Surgut in eastern Russia. * January 22 - At least two people are killed in a blaze at a shopping centre in the southwest Russian city of Ufa. * January 24 - 2011 Domodedovo International Airport bombing: At least 35 people are killed and 130 injured after a suicide bombing at Domodedovo International Airport in the Russian capital Moscow. * January 26 - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev fires top airport security officials, two days after the 2011 Domodedovo International Airport bombing, suicide bombing at Moscow's Domodedovo International Airport. * February 9 - Serial blasts rock Russia's Grozny, at least five people are wounded. * February 28 - Rosatom, the Russian state nuclear energy corpo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yukos
OJSC "Yukos Oil Company" (, ) was an oil and gas company based in Moscow, Russia. Yukos was acquired from the Russian government by Russian oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky's Bank Menatep during the controversial "loans for shares" auctions of the mid 1990s. Between 1996 and 2003, Yukos became one of the largest and most successful Russian companies, producing 20% of Russia's oil output. In the 2004 ''Fortune 500'', Yukos was ranked as the 359th largest company in the world. In October 2003, Khodorkovsky—by then the richest person in Russia and 16th richest person in the world—was arrested, and the company was forcibly broken up for alleged unpaid taxes shortly after and declared bankrupt in August 2006. Courts in several countries later ruled that the real intent was to destroy Yukos and obtain its assets for the government, and act politically against Khodorkovsky. In 2014, the largest arbitration award in history, $50 billion (€37.2 billion), was won by Yukos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vasily Aleksanyan
Vasily Georgievich Aleksanyan (, ; 15 December 1971 – 2 October 2011) was a Russian lawyer and a former Executive Vice President of Yukos oil company. He headed the company's legal department and represented Mikhail Khodorkovsky when the Kremlin accused the oil tycoon and his managers of money laundering and embezzlement in 2006. Aleksanyan was arrested and charged as an accomplice to tax evasion and money laundering. After refusing to allegedly provide false evidence against other Yukos executives, he served two years in prison while suffering from advanced cancer and AIDS. After a decision by European Court of Human Rights, he was released on a bond on 12 January 2009, dying from complications of AIDS on 2 October 2011. Lawyer and businessman Vasily Aleksanyan graduated from Moscow State University and the Law School of Harvard University as a Master of Laws. In 1992 through 1994 he worked for the USA law firm Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton. In 1995–1996 he was the hea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2008 In Russia
Events from the year 2008 in the country of Russia. Incumbents *President: Vladimir Putin (until 8 May), Dmitry Medvedev (from 8 May) *Prime Minister: Viktor Zubkov (until 8 May), Vladimir Putin (from 8 May) *Minister of Defence: Anatoliy Serdyukov Events * March 2: 2008 Russian presidential election is occurred, Dmitry Medvedev won the election. * May 7: Dmitry Medvedev becomes President of Russia. * May 24: Dima Bilan wins the Eurovision Song Contest 2008 in Belgrade, Serbia * August 7–16: Russia–Georgia war * August 8–11: Battle of Tskhinvali * August 9–12: Battle of the Kodori Valley * August 9/10: Battle off the coast of Abkhazia * August 9–19: Occupation of Poti * August 13–22: Occupation of Gori * February – The Russian group Voina staged the Fuck for the heir Puppy Bear! performance at the Timiryazev State Biological Museum in Moscow to protest at the election of Dmitry Medvedev in the 2008 Russian presidential election. Births Deaths *January 3 * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gennady Bachinsky
Gennady Nikolaevich Bachinsky/Bachynsky (; 1 September 1971 – 12 January 2008) was a Russian TV and radio host and producer who usually collaborated with Sergei Stillavin (Сергей Стиллавин). Early life He was born on September 1, 1971, in the town of Yarovoe/Yarovoye in the Altai region/territory. When he was a child, he wanted to become a clown. In 1994, he graduated from Санкт-Петербургский Государственный Электротехнический Университет, specializing in Автоматика и процессы управления в технических системах (systems engineering). He was Orthodox, and decided to get baptized during his years as a student. He was a member of the Komsomol. Career While studying at the university Санкт-Петербургский Государственный Электротехнический Университет, he organized his first music group. In S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
