1918
All-Russian Central Executive Committee’s decree introduces General Military Education for Citizens.
1918 The All-Russian Central Executive Committee endorses the oath for the Red Army.
1961 Leonid Engibarov performs at the Moscow Circus on Tsvetnoy Boulevard for the first time.
1964 Agents of Soviet and British intelligence services are exchanged in Berlin. Konon Trofimovich Molodoy, who had worked in the West as the Canadian businessman Gordon Lonsdale, had been arrested and sentenced to 25 years in prison, was exchanged for the British spy Grevill Wynne, who had been arrested in Penkovsky’s case and sentenced to 8 years.
1970 The first Earth Day is celebrated.
1977 Vyacheslav Fetisov, 19, makes his debut in the Soviet national team at world championships in Vienna in a game against Finland.
1997 Valentin Sych, president of the Russian Ice-Hockey Federation, is murdered on the approaches of his country house at 9 a.m.
2000 The 13th Nika Russian Movie Awards is held in Moscow.
Births
1762 Alexey Grigoryevich Bobrinsky
(1762 — July 2, 1813)
count, major general and illegitimate son of Catherine II and G.G. Orlov.
1773 Fyodor Petrovich Uvarov
(April 21, 1773 or April 27, 1769 — December 2, 1824)
hero of the Patriotic War of 1812 and cavalry general (1813).
1779 Ivan Ivanovich Kozlov
(1779 — February 11, 1840)
poet and translator.
1817 Varvara Nikolaevna Asenkova
(1817 — May 1, 1841)
actress at the Alexandrinsky Theater who became famous as a brilliant comedy performer.
1847 Vladimir Alexandrovich (Romanov)
(1847 — February 17, 1909)
Grand Prince, infantry general, member of the State Council and honored member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences.
1870 Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (Ulyanov)
(1870 — January 21, 1924)
the founder of the Soviet state.
1874 Alexander Alexeevich Bogdanov
(1874 — November 10, 1939)
poet, writer, publicist and revolutionary who took an active part in the Civil War in Siberia and Far East.
1899 Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov
(1899 — July 2, 1977)
famous novelist and entomologist.
1902 Stanislav Gilyarovich Poplavsky
(1902 — August 9, 1973)
army general and Hero of the Soviet Union (1945).
1907 Khabibulla Ibragimovich Amirkhanov
(1907 — May 21, 1986)
physicist, specialist in semi-conductors and corresponding member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences.
1907 Ivan Antonovich Efremov
(1907 — October 5, 1972)
paleontologist and fantasy writer.
1909 Vadim Mikhailovich Kozhevnikov
(1909 — October 20, 1984)
writer (Shield and Sword).
1933 Valery Ivanovich Uskov
(1933)
film director (Outside Competence, Shadows Disappear in Midday, Eternal Call and Ermak).
1939 Yury Dmitrievich Sharov
(1939)
fencer, 1964 Olympic champion in rapier team competition and Honored Master of Sports.
1949 Valery Dmitrievich Gassiy
(1949)
handball player, 1976 Olympic champion and Honored Master of Sports.
Deaths 1867 Alexander Dmitrievich Petrov
(February 12, 1794 — 1867)
Russia’s best chess-player in the first half of the 19th century.
1943 Sergey Dmitrievich Mstislavsky (Maslovsky)
(September 4, 1876 — 1943)
revolutionary, public figure, writer and columnist.
1979 Pyotr Nikolaevich Pospelov
(June 20, 1898 — 1979)
historian, academician (1953) and Hero of Socialist Labor (1958).
2001 Tatyana Mikhailovna Glushkova
(December 23, 1939 — 2001)
poet.
