July 01, 2018

Other Infamous Augusts

OTHER INFAMOUS AUGUSTS

(since 1917)

Year	Day	Event
1917		Failed attempt by General Kornilov to take power to stop Bolsheviks.
1921		Alexander Blok died of an illness and Nikolai Gumilyov is shot.
1936	24	First public Moscow Show Trial ended with the execution of all 16 defendants.
1939	23	Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact signed.
1940		Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia annexed into the USSR.
1941	28	Volga German Republic liquidated. 367,000 Russo-Germans deported to eastern USSR.
	31	Marina Tsvetaeva commited suicide.
1961	13	Construction began on the Berlin Wall.
1969	13	Soviet and Chinese forces clashed near Lake Zhalanashkol.
1979	11	Two Soviet Aeroflot airliners collided in mid-air over Ukraine, killing 178 – the deadliest Russian air disaster ever, tied with crash of October 11,1994.
1983	31	KAL flight 007 shot down over Sakhalin Island.
1988	16	Aurora express train derailed, killing 31 and injuring 100.
1991	19	Coup attempt to overthrow President Gorbachev.
1992	27	Tu-134 passenger plane crashed in Ivanovo Oblast, killing 83.
1996	29	Tu-154 crashed right before landing in Norway, killing all 143 passengers.
1998	17	Russian government defaulted on its debt.
1999	7	Chechen fighters entered Dagestan, triggering the Second Chechen War.
1999	31	Bombing of Moscow’s Okhotny Ryad shopping complex killed 1 and injured more than 40.
2000	8	Bomb exploded in Moscow’s Pushkin Square, killing 13 and injuring 118.
	12	The Kursk submarine disaster.
	27	Fire in the Ostankino Television Tower.
2002		Flooding and tornados in Krasnodar Krai left hundreds dead or missing.
2003	1	Truck bombing of a hospital in Mozdok, North Ossentia killed 50 and wounded 60.
2004	24	Pair of female suicide bombers blew up a Tu-154 and Tu-134 mid-flight, killing 90.
	31	Moscow Metro bombing killed 10 and injured 40.
2006	22	Crash of flight from Anapa to St. Petersburg killed 170.
2007	13	Bomb derailed the Nevsky Express passenger train, injuring 60.
2009	17	Accident at Sayano–Shushenskaya Dam caused flooding and 75 deaths; Suicide car bombing of police headquarters in Nazran killed 20 and injured 138.

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The 22 heroes in this volume were all born in 1917 – Russia’s year of revolution. They lived through Civil War, Collectivization, World War II, the Cold War, and the collapse of the USSR. Indeed, their lives are a living reflection of the past Russian century, and their stories show us a side of history not available in any other resource.

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On This Day

Notable events on this day in Russian history

1948: Mikhail Baryshnikov, dancer, born

1945: Russians liberated the Auschwitz concentration camp, where the Nazis had murdered 1.5 million men, women and children, including more than one million Jews.