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Catherine II of RussiaEmpress of Russia from 1762 to 1796
Joseph StalinLeader of the Soviet Union from 1924 to 1953- RussiaCountry in Eastern Europe and North Asia
Leo TolstoyRussian writer (1828–1910)- Soviet UnionCountry in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991
Dmitri MendeleevRussian chemist (1834–1907)
Marie CuriePolish-French physicist and chemist (1867–1934)
Leonhard EulerSwiss mathematician (1707–1783)
MoscowCapital and most populous city of Russia- Marius PetipaFrench-Russian ballet dancer and choreographer (1818–1910)
Anna PavlovaRussian ballet dancer (1881–1931)- Vaslav NijinskyRussian dancer and choreographer (1889–1950)
Isadora DuncanAmerican dancer and choreographer (1877–1927)
Ilya RepinRussian realist painter (1844–1930)
Wassily KandinskyRussian painter and art theorist (1866–1944)
Kazimir MalevichRussian artist and painter (1879–1935)
Louis KahnEstonian-American architect (1901–1974)
Sergei Prokudin-GorskiiRussian chemist and photographer (1863–1944)- RussiansEast Slavic ethnic group
- CChernobyl disaster1986 nuclear accident in the Soviet Union
Battle of StalingradMajor World War II battle from 1942 to 1943
Russian Civil WarMulti-party war in the former Russian Empire (1917–1922)
Winter War1939–1940 war between the Soviet Union and Finland
Holodomor1932–1933 man-made famine in Soviet Ukraine
ChechensNortheast Caucasian ethnic group
Eastern FrontTheatre of war of European Axis and Soviet Union blocs
Chuvash peopleTurkic ethnic group- Bashkir peopleTurkic ethnic group
Katyn massacreSoviet massacre of Polish military officers and intelligentsia in 1940- House of RomanovImperial dynasty of Russia (1613–1917)
- YakutsTurkic ethnic group in North Siberia
Battle of Kursk1943 tank battle in the Soviet Union
AvarsNortheast Caucasian ethnic group
Ingush peopleEthnic group native to the northeastern Caucasus
Crocus City Hall attack2024 mass shooting and explosion in Krasnogorsk, Russia
BalkarsNorth Caucasian Turkic ethnic group
TuvansSiberian Turkic ethnic group
Kumyk peopleTurkic ethnic group in the North Caucasus
Battle of MoscowWorld War II campaign in Russia
Socialist realismSoviet style of realistic art depicting communist values
SuprematismEarly-20th-century Russian art movement- SSecond Chechen War1999–2009 conflict in Chechnya and the North Caucasus
Battle of Borodino1812 battle of the French invasion of Russia- BuryatsMongolic ethnic group in Siberia
NenetsSamoyedic ethnic group native to northern arctic Russia
KarachaysNorth Caucasian Turkic ethnic group
Ostankino TowerRadio and television tower in Moscow
DarginsNortheast Caucasian ethnic group
Altai peopleTurkic people in Siberia and Central Asia
Mansi peopleIndigenous ethnic group in Russia
Bloody Sunday1905 protest in St. Petersburg, Russia- Khakass peopleEthnic group indigenous to Siberia
- BBeslan school siege2004 Russian hostage crisis and massacre
Crimean KaraitesEthnoreligious group
2017 Saint Petersburg Metro attackTerrorist attack by the Islamist militant group in Saint Petersburg, Russia
Moscow theater hostage crisis2002 terrorist attack and hostage crisis in Moscow
Battle of the Kalka River1223 battle where the Mongols fought against Rus' princes and Cumans- Nivkh peopleEthnic group of far eastern Russia
Battle of the Ice1242 battle of the Northern Crusades on the frozen Lake Peipus
NanaiTungusic ethnic group of northeast Asia
Population transfer in the Soviet UnionTransfer and deportation of people in the Soviet Union
2025 Kamchatka earthquakeMegathrust earthquake in Russia
Circassian genocideMass murder of Circassians by the Russian Empire
Tsar CannonLarge Russian cannon made in 1586- 11988 Spitak earthquakeDevastating earthquake in Armenian SSR, USSR
Tsar BellWorld's heaviest bell, cast in 1735
Battle of Friedland1807 battle of the War of the Fourth Coalition
Battle of the Neva1240 battle of the Swedish–Novgorodian Wars
Battle of Balaclava1854 battle of the Crimean War
Battle of SmolenskBattle on the Eastern Front of World War II
Bagrationi dynastyGeorgian royal dynasty
Domodedovo International Airport bombing2011 suicide bombing in a Moscow airport
Ket peopleEthnic group in Siberia
TofalarEthnic group- 2010 Moscow Metro bombingsIslamist terror attacks
- Volga Germans18th-century German immigrants to the Volga region of Russia
ShorsTurkic ethnic group in southwestern Siberia- Don CossacksEthnic group that originated in Southern Russia
Seventh Russo-Turkish WarSeventh conflict of the Russo-Turkish wars
SybyrsTurkic ethnic group indigenous to Siberia
2022 Crimean Bridge explosion2022 explosion on the Crimean Bridge
Battle of Lake Khasan1938 Soviet-Japanese border clashes
2021 Kazan school attack2021 school shooting in Russia
Russian famine of 1921Famine in the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
First Battle of the Masurian LakesWorld War I battle in 1914
Battle of Rostov1941 battle on the Eastern Front of World War II
MokshasFinnic ethnic group
Ulch peopleIndigenous ethnic group of Khabarovsk Krai, Russia- Ingrian FinnsEthnicity in Finland and Russia
Nakh peoplesEthnolinguistic group
Battle of SmolenskRecapture of the city by the Soviet 39th, 43rd and 10th Guards armies
Battle of ProkhorovkaPart of Battle of Kursk, World War II (1943)
Battle of Alma1854 battle of the Crimean War
1999 Russian apartment bombingsTerrorist bombings in Russia
AgitpropPromotion of ideas through culture- Siege of SevastopolPart of the Crimean War
- Selkup peopleSamoyedic ethnic group of northern Siberia
Kyshtym disaster1957 radiological contamination disaster in the Soviet Union
Udege peopleIndigenous group in Russian Far East
Demyansk Pocket1942 battle of WW2's Eastern Front
Vinnytsia massacre1937–38 mass execution in Ukraine
Crimean Offensive1944 offensive into Crimea by the Red Army during World War II
Battle of Stallupönen1914 battle on the Eastern Front of World War I
Operation Spark1943 Soviet WWII military operation
Soviet famine of 1932–1933Famine that affected the major grain-producing areas of the Soviet Union
Great stand on the Ugra river1480 battle between the Great Horde and the Grand Duchy of Moscow- Battles of RzhevSeries of Soviet operations in World War II
2018 Kemerovo fireShopping mall fire in Kemerovo, Russia
Battle of the CaucasusSeries of Axis and Soviet operations on the Eastern Front of WWII- OroksPeople in the Sakhalin Oblast
- NağaybäkEthnic group in Russian Ural-Volga region
December 2013 Volgograd bombingsTwo suicide bombings in the city of Volgograd, Volgograd Oblast, Southern Russia
Novocherkassk massacre1962 mass killing in the Soviet Union
NegidalsEthnic group
Battle of GumbinnenAugust 1914 battle of WW1's Eastern Front
KumandinsTurkic ethnic group in Siberia
Kishinev pogromAnti-Jewish attack in Kishinev, Russian Empire (19–21 April 1903)
1907 Tiflis bank robberyRobbery of bank stagecoach by Bolsheviks in 1907
Charge of the Light Brigade1854 Crimean War cavalry charge
Kuban CossacksEthnic group
2020 Norilsk oil spill2020 industrial disaster in Russia- MMeryaAncient Finnic-speaking people of the Upper Volga region
Russian avant-gardeRussian and Soviet art movement (approx. 1890–1930)
Mir iskusstvaEarly 20th-century Russian art movement with magazine of the same name
Fire of MoscowPart of the French invasion of Russia
Khodynka TragedyHuman stampede in Russia in 1896
Battle of Grozny1994–95 invasion of the Chechen capital by Russia during the First Chechen War
TeleutsEthnic group
Nedelin catastrophe1960 fatal Soviet launch pad disaster
Ufa train disaster1989 railway accident in Iglinksy District, Bashkir SSR, Soviet Union
Second Battle of the Masurian LakesBattle in 1915 during the First World War on the Eastern front