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Train Car Museum, Elista

Ochirov's museum is located in a train car that was used to transport Kalmyks to Siberia in 1943. Above, exhibits in the Train Car Museum of the Stalinist Deportation of the Kalmyks.

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On This Day

Notable events on this day in Russian history

1984: Tetris, invented by Russian programmer Alexei Pajitnov, with help from Dmitry Pavlovsky and Vadim Gerasimov, released into the world.

1971: First space station docking, two years before the American Skylab. Soyuz 11 was guided automatically to 100 m, then hand-docked to the Salyut 1 scientific station. Crew remained in orbit 23 days, but perished in accident on reentry.

1893: GUM Department Store opened in Moscow

1874: Ivan Moskvin, actor, born (died 1946)

1812: Ivan Goncharov, writer, born (died 1891)

1799: Modern date for celebration of Alexander Pushkin's birthday.

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