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On This Day

Notable events on this day in Russian history

2005: Terrorists assault and capture buildings throughout the city of Nalchik. Russian soldiers surround and enter the city, forcing terrorists to retreat. Some 136 people were killed during the event.

1990: Mikhail Gorbachev officially apologized for massacre of Polish officers at Katyn

1972: Soviet Ilyushin-62 crashed near Moscow airport, killing 176 on board. This was, at the time, the worst disaster in civilian aviation history.

1969: Soviet Union sends third spacecraft into orbit (Soyuz 8) in as many days, putting seven cosmonauts in space.

1933: Mark Zakharov, theater director, born

1905: Russia's 1st revolutionary soviet (council) was established in St. Petersburg, acting as a shadow government.

1843: Gleb Ivanovich Uspensky, writer, born (died 1902)

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