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Decembrist Revolt
3,000 soldiers gathered at the senate square and declared their loyalty to Constantine and to the idea of a Russian constitution. When the talk failed, the tsarist army dispersed the demonstrators with weapons, killing at least 60. -
Death Of Nicholas I
Death of Nicholas I results in Alexander II taking the throne. He died of pneumonia. He was the Emperor of Russia from 1825 until 1855. He's know for order and stability at home, and military victories abroad, he is remembered as the most reactionary of Russia’s monarchs, a symbol of militancy and oppression. -
Assassination Attempt On Alexander II
In the spring of 1866, Karakozov arrived in St Petersburg to assassinate Alexander II. He wrote a manifesto to the St Petersburg governor blaming the Tsar for the suffering of the poor: "I have decided to destroy the evil Tsar, and to die for my beloved people." Which made him decide to try to kill Alexander ii -
Grigori Rasputin
Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin was a Russian mystic and self-proclaimed holy man who befriended the family of Tsar Nicholas II, the last monarch of Russia, and gained considerable influence in late imperial Russia -
Death Of Alexander II
Alexander ii was killed in the streets of St. Petersburg by a bomb thrown by a member of the revolutionary “People’s Will” group. It's a group of people who targeted killing the government officials in attempt to promote reforms in the country. The death of Alexander complicated problems, deeply affecting the economic, social and political future of the nation. -
The Khodynka Tragedy
It took place in the Khodynka Field, Moscow. The field was the site of festivities honouring the recent coronation of Emperor Nicholas II. Thousands gathered to celebrate and to, hopefully, receive rumoured gifts of food and a commemorative cup. With growing and increasingly frenzied crowds, the police force on duty for the festival was unable to maintain order and stampede broke out. The stampede resulted in the deaths of 1,389 individuals -
Moscow Tornado
Moscow tornado was only one of three disastrous tornadoes that occurred in central Russia in recorded history. The disaster started as a storm in Tula region. It travelled north and passed through eastern suburbs of Moscow. When the cloud neared remote Moscow suburbs, it formed a tornado. -
Bloody Sunday
Bloody Sunday caused grave consequences for the Tsarist autocracy governing Imperial Russia: the events in St. Petersburg provoked public outrage and a series of massive strikes that spread quickly to the industrial centres of the Russian Empire. The massacre on Bloody Sunday is considered to be the start of the active phase of the Revolution of 1905. -
Tunguska Fireball
The Tunguska event was a large explosion that occurred in Russia, in the morning. The explosion over the populated Eastern Siberian Taiga burned 2,000 square kilometres of forest, yet caused no known human casualties. -
Russian Civil War
The Russian Civil War was a multi-party war in the former Russian Empire immediately after the two Russian Revolutions of 1917, The Russian Civil War started from the Bolsheviks and his enemies. The Bolsheviks are also known as the "The Social Revolutionaries".They were afraid because the Bolsheviks wanted to cause communist revolutions all over the world which caused the war to start. -
Brest-Litovsk Treaty.
The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk was a peace treaty signed on 3 March 1918 between the new Bolshevik government of Russia and the Central Powers (German Empire, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and the Ottoman Empire), that ended Russia's participation in World War I. -
The End Of The Russian Civil
The causes of Russia's Civil War were the failure of provisional government of Kerensky the treaty of Brest-Litovsk angered Russians, and the Bolsheviks wanted to wipe out all their enemies. The outcome was the Bolshevik victory over the Whites and 14,000,000 dead. This im -
Kamchatka Tsunami
The Kamchatka Tsunami was generated by a magnitude 9.0 earthquake on November 4, 1952, in East Russia. The local tsunami, which caused the wave to be 50ft high, caused huge damage to the Kamchatka Peninsula and the Kuril Islands, and left an estimated 10,000 to 15,000 people dead. -
First Communist Party
Malenkov succeeded Stalin as Premier and First Secretary of the Communist Party. -
Astronaut
The Soviet Union launches the first human into space - Yuri Gagarin. -
Soyuz 11
Soyuz 11 was the only manned mission to board the world's first space station, Salyut 1. The mission arrived at the space station on 7 June 1971 and departed on 29 June. The mission ended in disaster when the crew capsule depressurized during preparations for reentry, killing the three-man crew. It was launched on 06/061871 and the crew got killed on 29/061971 -
The Chernobyl Disaster
the worst accident in the history of the nuclear industry occurred in Chernobyl, Ukraine, Russia. After an explosion in a large nuclear power plant, it released more radiation than the atom bomb released in Hiroshima. That's because radioactive fumes leaked for two weeks. It took seven months to build a concrete shelter over the reactor. -
The Economic Impact of the Chernobyl Disaster
The damage directly caused by the accident.The cost of sealing off the reactor. It is crumbling, exposing the environment to contamination again. The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and a group of foreign donors are building are placement. It will be completed in 2017 and cost 2.35 billion euros. The creation of an exclusion zone of 30 kilometers around the power plant. The re-homing of 330,000 people: These were all huge factors in the dent in economy in Russia. -
Russia Withdraws out of Afghanistan
The Soviets lose the war against Afghanistan. -
End of the soviet union
The Soviet Union is dismantled and Russia becomes an independent federation
