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1979 In The Soviet Union
The following lists events that happened during 1979 in the Soviet Union, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Incumbents * General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union: Leonid Brezhnev (1964–1982) * Premier of the Soviet Union: Alexei Kosygin (1964–1980) Events * 1979 Soviet economic reform * Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, SALT II Treaty * Soviet–Afghan War Births * 19 January – Svetlana Khorkina, Russian artistic gymnast * 22 January – Olga Dolzhykova, Ukrainian-Norwegian chess player and educator. * 26 January - Artem Datsyshyn, Ukrainian ballet dancer (d. 2022) * 1 February - Mikhail Rudkovskiy, former Russian professional football player * 10 April - Yelena Podkaminskaya, Russian actress * 30 July - Denis Churkin (footballer, born 1979), Denis Churkin, former Russian professional football player Deaths *February 6 — Issa Pliyev, military commander (b. 1903 in Russia, 1903) *March 19 — Iskhak Razzakov, 4th Communist Party of Kirghizia, Fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1979
Events January * January 1 ** United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim heralds the start of the ''International Year of the Child''. Many musicians donate to the ''Music for UNICEF Concert'' fund, among them ABBA, who write the song ''Chiquitita'' to commemorate the event. ** In 1979, the United States officially severed diplomatic ties with the Republic of China (Taiwan). This decision marked a significant shift in U.S. foreign policy, turning to view the People's Republic of China as the sole legitimate representative of China. ** The United States and the People's Republic of China establish full Sino-American relations, diplomatic relations. ** Following a deal agreed during 1978, France, French carmaker Peugeot completes a takeover of American manufacturer Chrysler's Chrysler Europe, European operations, which are based in United Kingdom, Britain's former Rootes Group factories, as well as the former Simca factories in France. * January 6 – Geylang Bahru family ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1903 In Russia
Events from the year 1903 in Russia. Incumbents * Monarch – Nicholas II Events * 14 January - Opening of Hotel National, Moscow *''dates unknown'' *19-21 April - the 49 Jews are killed in the Kishinev Pogrom * Chernoe Znamia * Estonian Chess Championship * Kharovsk * Klavdiievo-Tarasove * Mensheviks * Rahumäe cemetery * Ševčík-Lhotský Quartet * Zimin Opera *''ongoing'' - Central Committee compositions elected by the 1st–3rd congresses of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party Births 11 July - Rudolf Abel, Anglo-Russian Soviet intelligence officer (1971) 25 September – Mark Rothko Mark Rothko ( ; Markus Yakovlevich Rothkowitz until 1940; September 25, 1903February 25, 1970) was an American abstract art, abstract painter. He is best known for his color field paintings that depicted irregular and painterly rectangular reg ..., Russian-American abstract artist (d. 1970) Deaths * 22 May – Dmitry Gamov, Russian general and explorer (b. 1834) Ref ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vsevolod Bobrov
Vsevolod Mikhailovich Bobrov ( rus, Все́волод Миха́йлович Бобро́в, p=ˈfsʲevələd bɐˈbrof; 1 December 1922 – 1 July 1979) was a Soviet athlete, who excelled in football, bandy and ice hockey. He is considered one of the best Soviets ever in each of those sports. Originally a football player, he played for CDKA Moscow, VVS Moscow, and Spartak Moscow, and represented the Soviet Union internationally at the 1952 Summer Olympics. After he quit football in 1953 he turned to ice hockey, which he had taken up when it was started in the Soviet Union in 1946. He was one of the first ice hockey players in the Soviet Union, and joined CDKA Moscow, playing for them and VVS Moscow before retiring in 1957. A leading scorer in the Soviet League, Bobrov was one of three players to average more than two goals per game over their career, with the other two players ( Alexei Guryshev and Viktor Shuvalov) his linemates. Internationally he participated with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1920 In Russia
Events from the year 1920 in Russia Incumbents * Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Russian SFSR – Vladimir Lenin Events * Russia Civil War (1918-1920) * Polish-Soviet War (1919-1921) * * * * * * Births * January 1 - Noor Inayat Khan,Russian born Indian espionage spy for Britain * January 14 – Vahe Danielyan, Soviet soldier and concentration camp survivor * July 11 ** Yul Brynner, Russian-born actor, singer, and director ** Zecharia Sitchin, Soviet-born American author * November 29 – Yegor Ligachyov, politician * December 6 – Nikolai Kirtok, World War II fighter pilot Deaths *9 March - Lidija Figner, revolutionary and a prominent member of the Narodniks (born 1853) * 24 September - Inessa Armand, Female revolutionary, French-Russian communist politician, member of the Bolsheviks and a feminist (born 1874) *17 October - John Reed (journalist), American journalist, poet, and communist activist (born 1887 Events January * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aleksei Smirnov (actor)
Aleksei Makarovich Smirnov (; 28 February 1920 – 7 May 1979) was a Soviet and Russian theater and film actor. He performed in more than fifty films between 1959 and 1977 and was a Merited Artist of the Russian Federation. Early life Aleksei Smirnov was born on 28 February 1920, in the town of Danilov, Yaroslavl Oblast, to the Smirnov family: Makar Stepanovich Smirnov and Anna Ivanovna. In the mid-1920s they moved to Leningrad. After her husband's early death Anna Ivanovna had to raise her two children on her own – Aleksei had a younger brother Arkady. The Smirnovs resided in a communal apartment at 44 Petr Lavrov str. As a pupil, Aleksei Smirnov began acting in the school amateur theatre. In 1940 he graduated from the Leningrad Music Comedy Theater school and was admitted into the troupe. Smirnov only acted in one part there – Black Eagle in the operetta ''Rose-Marie'' – before the Great Patriotic War began. The Great Patriotic War In 1941 he left for the front as a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1905 In Russia
Events from the year 1905 in Russia. Incumbents * List of Russian monarchs, Monarch – Nicholas II of Russia, Nicholas II * Prime Minister of Russia, Chairman of the Council of Ministers – Sergei Witte (starting November 6) Events * January 1 – The official opening of the Trans-Siberian Railway. * January 2 – Russo-Japanese War: The Russian Army surrenders at Lüshunkou, Port Arthur in Qing dynasty China. * January 22 (January 9 O.S.) – The Bloody Sunday (1905), Bloody Sunday massacre of demonstrators led by Russian Orthodox Church, Russian Orthodox priest Georgy Gapon trigger the abortive Revolution of 1905. * January 26 ** (January 13 O.S.) Russian Revolution of 1905: The Imperial Russian Army fire on demonstrators in Riga, Governorate of Livonia, killing 73 and injuring 200 people. * March 3 – Tsar Nicholas II of Russia agrees to create the Duma. * March 5 – Russo-Japanese War: Russian troops begin to retreat from Mukden after casualties of 100,000 troops in 3 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikolai Vinogradov
Nikolai Ignatevich Vinogradov () ( – 27 April 1979) was an officer of the Soviet Navy who rose to the rank of admiral. Born in 1905, Vinogradov joined the navy in 1925 and graduated from various naval courses to serve in staff and seagoing positions. Specialising in submarine warfare, he commanded several submarines, before taking command of a submarine brigade during the Soviet-Finnish War. By the German invasion of Russia in 1941, Vinogradov was in command of the submarine forces of the Northern Fleet. Soviet submarines scored a number of success during the war, reflecting on Vinogradov's organisational skills, and various staff appointments and promotions followed. He commanded the Kamchatka Flotilla with later postings including Chief of the Directorate of the Navy for Personnel and Naval Educational Institutions, Chief of Weapons and Shipbuilding of the Navy and Assistant Chief of the General Staff for the and Navy before his retirement in 1968. Vinogradov died in 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1896 In Russia
Events from the year 1896 in Russia. Incumbents * Monarch – Nicholas II Events * 1896 World Figure Skating Championships * All-Russia Exhibition 1896 * Khodynka Tragedy * Ādolfs Alunāns Theatre * Coronation of Tsar Nicholas II Births * January 2 – Dziga Vertov, filmmaker (d. 1954). * April 15 – Nikolay Semyonov, chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1986). * June 29 – Boris Podolsky, physicist (d. 1966). * August 9 – Léonide Massine, ballet dancer and choreographer (d. 1979). * August 27 – Leon Theremin, inventor (d. 1993). * October 17 – Prince Roman Petrovich of Russia (d. 1978). * November 17 – Lev Vygotsky, psychologist (d. 1934). * December 1 – Georgi Zhukov, military leader, Marshal of the Soviet Union (d. 1974). * December 12 – Vasily Gordov, general (d. 1950). Deaths * 13 October – Alexander Theodorowicz Batalin, botanist (b. 1847 Events January–March * January 4 – Samuel Colt sel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aleksandra Troitskaya
Aleksandra Sergeyevna Troitskaya (; 1896–1979) was a Soviet microbiologist-leprologist, candidate of medical sciences. Author of cancer vaccine. Honorary Citizen of Kaluga (1996). Biography Troitskaya was born in Bryankovo (now in Suvorovsky District of Tula Oblast), grew up in Kaluga. In 1917 she graduated from the Kaluga Diocesan School (she also studied with Konstantin Tsiolkovsky). In 1920s she worked as a teacher. In 1934 she graduated from Kharkiv National Medical University. In 1940-1951 a microbiologist, from 1946 Senior Researcher of the Astrakhan Leprosarium. In 1946, at the Kazan Federal University, she defended her thesis on pain biotherapy in the treatment of leprosy. Since 1951 (after retirement) she worked as a microbiologist in the laboratory of the Kaluga Oncologic Dispensary. She discovered new strains of corynebacteria — Corynebacterium Krestovnikova / Troitskaya. Died Troitskaya died in 1979. Buried on Pyatnitskoye Cemetery in Kaluga. Ref ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1906 In Russia
Events from the year 1906 in Russia. Incumbents * Monarch – Nicholas II * Chairman of the Council of Ministers – ** until 5 May – Sergei Witte ** 5 May–21 July – Ivan Logginovich Goremykin ** starting 21 July – Pyotr Arkadyevich Stolypin **Pyotr Stolypin, Russian prime minister from 1906 to 1911. Events * Russian Constitution of 1906 * 1906 Russian legislative election * Markovo Republic * Białystok pogrom * Bloody Wednesday (Poland) * Siedlce pogrom * Vyborg Manifesto Births * 21 January - Igor Moiseyev, Russian choreographer (d. 2007). * 7 February - Oleg Antonov, Soviet aircraft designer (d. 1984). * 1 April - Alexander Yakovlev, Russian engineer and airplane designer (d. 1989). * 4 June - Ivan Knunyants, Soviet chemist (d. 1990). * 5 August - Wassily Leontief, Russian economist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999). * 8 September - Andrei Kirilenko, Soviet politician (d. 1990) * 25 September - Dmitri Shostakovich, Russian composer and pianist (d. 1975). * 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sambo (martial Art)
Sambo is a combat sport, and a recognized style of amateur wrestling governed by the United World Wrestling, UWW in the World Wrestling Championships along with Greco-Roman wrestling and freestyle wrestling. Practiced worldwide, sambo is a martial art with Soviet origins. Many of its moves have been incorporated in other forms of combat sport such as mixed martial arts. Etymology It originated in the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Russian SFSR of the Soviet Union during the 1920s. The word ''sambo'' is an acronym of (), which literally translates to 'self-defence without weapons'. Sambo is a martial art and combat sport developed and used by the Soviet Red Army in the early 1920s to improve their hand-to-hand combat abilities. The sport incorporates various styles of wrestling and other self-defence systems such as Kickboxing, kick-boxing and fencing. Soviet martial arts expert Vasili Oshchepkov is credited as one of the founding fathers. Viktor Spiridono ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anatoly Kharlampiyev
Anatoly Arkadyevich Kharlampiyev (; 29 October 1906 – 16 April 1979), was a Russian researcher of various kinds of national wrestling and martial arts, Merited Master of Sports of the USSR, and Honored Coach of Sports of the USSR. He was one of the founders of Sambo, a martial art technique developed in the Soviet Union (his predecessors in the creation of Sambo were Viktor Afanasyevich Spiridonov and Vasily Sergeyevich Oshchepkov). Kharlampiyev worked as a physical education trainer at the Communist University of the Toilers of the East, and also was a student of boxing, fencing, acrobatics, and mountaineering. In 1938, Kharlampiyev presented Sambo to the USSR All-Union Sports Committee, which recognized the martial art as an official sport. Biography Kharlampiyev's grandfather, Georgy Yakovlevich Kharlampiyev, was a gymnast and boxer. For many years, he collected, studied, and classified various techniques of hand-to-hand combat and self-defense. Kharlampiyev's father, A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
