** Pyotr Klimuk, Russian cosmonaut

** The Soviet passenger liner Admiral Nakhimov collides with the bulk carrier Pyotr Vasev in the Black Sea and sinks almost immediately, killing 398.

** Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's ballet Swan Lake debuts.

** Pyotr Bagration, Russian general ( d. 1812 )

** Pyotr Klimuk

** Physics – Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa, Arno Allan Penzias, Robert Woodrow Wilson

** Tatyana, Eugene Onegin ( Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky )

** Liza, The Queen of Spades ( Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky )

** Olga, Eugene Onegin ( Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky )

** Monsieur Triquet, Eugene Onegin ( Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky )

** Onegin, Eugene Onegin ( Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky )

** 131st Rifle Division-Major General Pyotr Romanenko

** Pyotr Mikhailovich Saltykov (?- 1690 ), a Russian boyar and close associate of Alexei Mikhailovich

** Pyotr Samoylovich Saltykov (?-?

** Count Pyotr Saltykov ( 1698-1772 ), Russian statesman, son of Semyon

** 17, 099 infantry – 38 guns

** Québec City Jean Lesage International Airport, YQB, 1, 099, 915

The involvement of the Admiral Kuznetsov and Pyotr Velikiy was overshadowed, however, by two ballistic missile launch failures, made more embarrassing because President Vladimir Putin was afloat aboard the Typhoon class ballistic missile submarine Arkhangelsk to witness the tests.

The flagship of the Northern Fleet, the heavy nuclear-powered guided missile cruiser Pyotr Velikiy, is named after Peter I of Russia ( or Peter the Great ).

In 1869 the fleet commissioned the first turret battleship in the world – Pyotr Velikiy.

In 1869, the Russians began the construction of one of the first seafaring ironclads Pyotr Velikiy ( Пётр Великий ).

On the morning of 12 August 2000, as part of a naval exercise, Kursk was to fire two dummy torpedoes at Kirov-class battlecruiser Pyotr Velikiy, the flagship of the Northern Fleet.

In September, 2008, the Russian Navy's nuclear-powered missile cruiser Pyotr Velikiy, accompanied by three other ships of Russia's Northern Fleet, sailed from its base in Severomorsk on a cruise to the Caribbean Sea for a joint exercise with the Venezuelan Navy.

The fleet of ships, headed by the nuclear-powered Pyotr Velikiy, set off from its base at Severomorsk in the Arctic on Monday, September 22.