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1995 In Russia
Events from the year 1995 in Russia. Incumbents *President: Boris Yeltsin *Prime Minister: Viktor Chernomyrdin *Minister of Defence: Pavel Grachev Events January *January 3 — 1995 Shali cluster bomb attack *January 25 — Norwegian rocket incident April *April 7–8 — Samashki massacre May *May 27 — The 7.0 Neftegorsk earthquake shakes northern Sakhalin Island in Russia with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (''Violent''), leaving 1,989 people dead and 750 injured. Bert robbed a train with the Russian Mob (source?) June *June 14–19 — Budyonnovsk hospital hostage crisis December *December 17 — 1995 Russian legislative election Undated * Pallada Asset Management company is founded. Births *February 16 ** Vladimir Fedoseev, chess grandmaster ** Sergei Prokofyev, footballer *May 12 — Irina Khromacheva, tennis player *June 2 — Aleksandr Sumin, footballer *October 27 — Vladislav Sergeyevich Ozerov, footballer *November 29 — Valery Kolegov, snowb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russia
Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia. It is the list of countries and dependencies by area, largest country in the world, and extends across Time in Russia, eleven time zones, sharing Borders of Russia, land borders with fourteen countries. Russia is the List of European countries by population, most populous country in Europe and the List of countries and dependencies by population, ninth-most populous country in the world. It is a Urbanization by sovereign state, highly urbanised country, with sixteen of its urban areas having more than 1 million inhabitants. Moscow, the List of metropolitan areas in Europe, most populous metropolitan area in Europe, is the capital and List of cities and towns in Russia by population, largest city of Russia, while Saint Petersburg is its second-largest city and Society and culture in Saint Petersburg, cultural centre. Human settlement on the territory of modern Russia dates back to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valery Kolegov
Valery Kolegov (born 29 November 1995 in Tashtagol) is a Russian snowboarder, specializing in Alpine snowboarding. Kolegov competed at the 2014 Winter Olympics for Russia. He was 19th in the parallel giant slalom qualifying round, and was disqualified in the parallel slalom, failing to advance in both. Kolegov won three gold medals and a silver medal across three Junior World Championships. Kolegov made his World Cup A world cup is a global sporting competition in which the participant entities – usually international teams or individuals representing their countries – compete for the title of world champion. The event most associated with the name is ... debut in March 2012. As of September 2014, his best finish is 25th, at a pair of parallel giant slalom events in 2013–14. His best overall finish is 43rd, in 2013–14. References 1995 births Living people Olympic snowboarders for Russia Snowboarders at the 2014 Winter Olympics People from Tashtagol Ru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1949 In The Soviet Union
The following lists events that happened during 1949 in the Soviet Union, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Incumbents *General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union — Joseph Stalin * Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union — Nikolay Shvernik * Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union — Joseph Stalin Events January *January 25 — The Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (CMEA or COMECON) is established by the Soviet Union and other communist nations. *c. January 29 — Stalin and antisemitism: The Soviet media resume a savage propaganda campaign against "rootless cosmopolitans", a euphemism for Soviet Jews, accusing them of being pro-Western and antisocialist March *March 25–28 — Operation Priboi May *May 12 — Cold War: The Soviet Union lifts the Berlin Blockade July *July 10 — 1949 Khait earthquake August *August 29 — The atomic bomb RDS-1 is exploded in the first Soviet nuclear test September ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elena Mikhailovskaya
Elena Konstantinovna Mikhailovskaya (; November 21, 1949, Moscow, USSR – February 4, 1995, Moscow, Russia) was the first female World champion in international draughts. She won this title five times in a row (1973–1977). Before that she was four-time champion of the Soviet Union in Russian checkers (1969–1972). Later she was coaching and heading the Moscow draughts federation. Biography As a child, Elena Mikhailovskaya was enjoying active sports, but at the age of 15 health issues forced her to settle down. She intended to start playing chess seriously but ended up in a draughts club. In about a year she won a personal-team youth championship of the Soviet Union with the Moscow team, and in 1968 she won the individual championship as well. Starting from 1969 she was playing for the Moscow club Lokomotiv Moscow, and the same year she won the senior title of the Soviet Union champion in Russian checkers, defeating in the last game of the tournament the previous holder of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1943 In The Soviet Union
Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January * January 1 – WWII: The Soviet Union announces that 22 German divisions have been encircled at Stalingrad, with 175,000 killed and 137,650 captured. * January 4 – WWII: Greek-Polish athlete and saboteur Jerzy Iwanow-Szajnowicz is executed by the Germans at Kaisariani. * January 10 – WWII: Guadalcanal Campaign: American forces of the 2nd Marine Division and the 25th Infantry Division begin their assaults on the Galloping Horse and Sea Horse on Guadalcanal. Meanwhile, the Japanese 17th Army makes plans to abandon the island and after fierce resistance withdraws to the west coast of Guadalcanal. * January 11 ** The United States and United Kingdom revise previously unequal treaty relationships with the Republic of China. ** Italian-American anarchist Carlo Tresca is assassinated in New York City. * January 12 – WWII: Landing at Amchitka: American forces make an unopposed landing on Amchi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vitaly Parkhimovich
Vitaly Mikhailovich Parkhimovich (, 17 June 1943 – 15 January 1995) was a Soviet rifle shooter. He competed at the 1968 and 1972 Summer Olympics, and won a bronze medal in the three positions event in 1968. Parkhimovich was born in Russia in a family of a career military officer. In 1948 he moved to Belarus Belarus, officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east and northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Belarus spans an a ... where he lived most of his life. During his career he won nine gold and seven silver medals in various rifle events at the world championships. He also won 13 European titles, seven times placing second. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1931 In The Soviet Union
The following lists events that happened during 1931 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Incumbents * General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union – Joseph Stalin * Chairman of the Central Executive Committee of the Congress of Soviets – Mikhail Kalinin * Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union – Vyacheslav Molotov Events March *1–8 March – The 1931 Menshevik Trial is held. April *27 April – 1931 Zangezur earthquake Births *1 January – Anatoli Ivanovich Bogdanov, Olympic shooter (died 2001) *17 January – Yury Rudov, Olympic fencer (died 2013) *21 January – Tatjana Michaylovna Zacharova, production worker, author and politician *22 January – Galina Zybina, Olympic athlete (died 2024) *1 February – Boris Yeltsin, first President of Russia (died 2007) *2 March – Mikhail Gorbachev, last leader of the Soviet Union (died 2022) *13 March – Alisa Aksyonova, museum director *23 March – Yevdokiya Meks ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boris Gurevich (wrestler, Born 1931)
Boris Maksimovich Gurevich (; 23 March 1931 – 10 January 1995) was a flyweight Greco-Roman wrestler from the Soviet Union The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until Dissolution of the Soviet .... He won gold medals at the 1952 Olympics, the 1953 world championships, and the 1958 world championships. Gurevich first trained in gymnastics and later took up wrestling in 1948. He won the Soviet wrestling titles in 1950 and 1955, placed second in 1952, 1959, and 1960, and placed third in 1963. After retiring from competitions he coached wrestlers in Moscow, where an annual international wrestling tournament has been held in his honor since 1996. References External links * * * 1931 births 1995 deaths Olympic wrestlers for the Soviet Union Wrestlers at the 1952 Summer Olympics Soviet male s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1937 In The Soviet Union
Events January * January 1 – Anastasio Somoza García becomes President of Nicaragua. * January 5 – Water levels begin to rise in the Ohio River in the United States, leading to the Ohio River flood of 1937, which continues into February, leaving 1 million people homeless and 385 people dead. * January 15 – Spanish Civil War: The Second Battle of the Corunna Road ends inconclusively. * January 23 – Moscow Trials: Trial of the Anti-Soviet Trotskyist Center – In the Soviet Union 17 leading Communists go on trial, accused of participating in a plot led by Leon Trotsky to overthrow Joseph Stalin's regime, and assassinate its leaders. * January 30 – The Moscow Trial initiated on January 23 is concluded. Thirteen of the defendants are Capital punishment, sentenced to death (including Georgy Pyatakov, Nikolay Muralov and Leonid Serebryakov), while the rest, including Karl Radek and Grigory Sokolnikov are sent to Gulag, labor camps and later murdered. They were i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ali Aliyev (wrestler)
Ali Zurkanaevich Aliev (; born 29 November 1937 – 7 January 1995) was a Soviet The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until Dissolution of the Soviet ... freestyle wrestler. He won five world titles and was the first wrestler from Dagestan to win a world title in freestyle wrestling. He competed at the 1960, 1964 and 1968 Olympic Games, finishing fourth and sixth. After his death, the Russian Wrestling Federation has hosted the annual Ali Aliev Memorial International Wrestling Meeting at the Ali Aliev Wrestling Training Center in Kaspiysk, Dagestan, Russia. External links References 1937 births 1995 deaths People from Gunibsky District Sport wrestlers from Dagestan Avar people Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour Soviet male sport wrestlers Olympic wrestlers for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1910 In Russia
The following lists events that happened during 1910 in the Russian Empire. Incumbents * Monarch – Nicholas II * Chairman of the Council of Ministers – Pyotr Arkadyevich Stolypin Events * 31 January – foundation of the , a moderate conservative party. * 17 June – Khodynka Aerodrome founded. * 15 October – Manchurian plague outbreak in the Russian Far East. * 21 November – Sevastopol Aviation Officers School founded. Births * 23 February –Nina Tikhonova, ballet dancer and teacher (died 1995). * 21 June – Alexander Tvardovsky, writer (died 1971). * 23 July – Pimen (Izvekov), 14th Patriarch of Moscow and all Rus' (1971–1990) (died 1990). * 5 December – Mikhail Semichastny, football player Deaths * 14 April – Mikhail Vrubel, painter (b. 1856). * 29 May – Mily Balakirev, composer (b. 1837). * 24 July – Arkhip Kuindzhi, painter (b. 1841). * 20 November – Leo Tolstoy, writer and philosopher (b. 1828). * Maria Golitzyna, noble, courtier and philanthrop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nina Tikhonova
Nina Alexandrovna Tikhonova (; 23 February 1910 – 4 January 1995) was a Russian-French ballet dancer and dance teacher, who danced with the Ballets Russes and Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo companies. After retiring from her ballet career, she established her own ballet school in Paris. She was awarded the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. Early life Nina Alexandrovna Tikhonova was born on 23 February 1910 in Saint Petersburg to writer and publisher Alexander "Serebov" Tikhonov, and Varvara Vassilievna Zubkova, who had previously been married to Anatole Tchaikevitch. Tikhonova's parents' marriage ended after Varvara became the mistress of Maxim Gorky, who was a friend of Tikhonov. The family was separated during the Russian Revolution, and Varvara's children from both marriages lived with their grandmother in Yekaterinburg, before later returning to Saint Petersburg. At the age of 11, Tikhonova and her elder stepbrother Andre Tchaikevitch fled Soviet Russia, taking refuge first in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
