In St. Petersburg in 1902, Russia’s first trolleybus was tested. Public transport was called “electric car”. In the USSR, the first trolleybus line was built in 1933 in Moscow.
In 1934, the rescue operation of the crew and members of the expedition of the steamer Chelyuskin was completed. The ship was stuck in Arctic ice and the 104 people on board were forced to camp on a drifting ice floe and wait for help. The rescue of the polar explorers lasted two months.
Also in 1934, a major tragedy occurred in Saratov during the construction of a railway bridge over the Volga. When assembling the span structures, the span was deformed and the crossing literally collapsed. About 150 people died.
On April 13, the English inventor Richard Trevithick (1771), who built the world’s first steam locomotive, was born; Russian poet Demyan Bedny (1883); the founder of the Russian camera school Eduard Tisse (1897); circus artist Natalya Durova (1934).
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