• 1722 – by decree of Peter I, systematic weather observations began in St. Petersburg.
• 1906 – Georgy Gapon is murdered in the dacha village of Ozerki near St. Petersburg.
• 1907 – Piotr Stolypin exposes a land reform project to the Duma.
• 1925 – the city of Tsaritsyn was renamed Stalingrad (since 1961 – Volgograd).
• 1944 – the liberation of Odessa from German occupation during the Odessa operation.
• 1955 – an agreement is signed between the USSR and China on the construction of a cyclotron and a nuclear reactor in China.
• 1970 – The Russian Orthodox Church grants autocephaly to the American Orthodox Church.
• 1995 – The Party of Beer Lovers is registered in Russia.
• 2010
- Tu-154 crash in Smolensk: 96 people were killed, including Polish President Lech Kaczynski and other state figures.
-In Kamchatka, an avalanche covered a helicopter with German tourists. Of the 18 people, 10 died.
