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On This Day

Notable events on this day in Russian history

1986: Space station Mir was launched unmanned from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan

1963: Soviet Union agreed to withdraw several thousand of its troops from Cuba by March 15, 1963

1954: The Crimea is "moved" from Russia to Ukraine on Nikita Khrushchev's initiative

1918: Soviet Central Committee banned private ownership of land, water or natural resources

1899: Yuri Olesha, writer, born (died 1960)

1861: Statute abolishing serfdom is enacted. 20 million serfs are emancipated.

1712: Peter I marries Yekaterina Alexeyevna (the future Catherine I) in St. Petersburg's St. Isaac's Cathedral.

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