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Article 107. Supreme Soviet of the Russian Federation is an agency of the Congress of People's Deputies of the Russian Federation and a permanently functioning legislative, administrative, and supervisory agency of state power of the Russian Federation. Article 107 of the Russian Constitution of 1978 (with amendments of 1989-1992), also ...
Death: 27 March 1968, Novosyolovo, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union. Yuri Gagarin was a Soviet cosmonaut famous for being the first human ever to enter space, spending 108 minutes orbiting the globe in ...
The Nazi attack on the Soviet Union in 1941 induced Stalin to enlist the Russian Orthodox Church as an ally to arouse Russian patriotism against foreign aggression. Russian Orthodox religious life experienced a revival: thousands of churches were reopened; there were 22,000 by the time Nikita Khrushchev came to power.
Soviet Union: Poisoning. Walter Krivitsky: defected Soviet intelligence officer 1941-02-10 Washington, D.C. United States: Shot by revolver. Mairbek Sheripov: Chechen nationalist 1942-11-07 Chechnya Soviet Union: Soviet security force: Soviet reprisal raid. Wilhelm Kube: Generalkommissar of Weissruthenien: 1943-09-22 Minsk Soviet Union: Yelena ...
Russia's GDP by purchasing power parity (PPP) from 1991 to 2019 (in international dollars) Russian male life expectancy from 1980 to 2007. With the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact and CoMEcon and other treaties that served to bind its satellite states to the Soviet Union, the conversion of the world's largest state-controlled economy into a market-oriented economy would have been ...
Saturday Mar 9, 1985 to Wednesday Dec 25, 1991. U.S.S.R. The dissolution of the Soviet Union occurred on 26 December 1991, officially granting self-governing independence to the Republics of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). It was a result of the declaration number 142-Н of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union.
The siege of Leningrad was a siege in Leningrad during World War II. [1] The siege started on 8 September 1941, when the last road to the city was severed. Axis forces are repelled 60–100 km (37–62 mi) away from Leningrad. Although the Soviet Union forces managed to open a narrow path to the city on 18 January 1943, the siege was only ...
