** Rossiada by Mikhail Matveyevich Kheraskov ( 1771 – 1779 )

** Vladimir by Mikhail Matveyevich Kheraskov ( 1785 )

** Eudoxia Streshneva, Tsarina of Mikhail I of Russia ( d. 1645 )

** Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, Russian writer ( d. 1889 )

** Mikhail Zadornov, Russian stand-up comedian and writer

** Mikhail Kovalchuk, Russian physicist and official

** Cold War: Soviet troops occupy Baku, Azerbaijan, under the state of emergency decree issued by Soviet premier Mikhail Gorbachev and kill over 130 and wound over 700 protesters for national independence.

** Mikhail Gorbachev is elected as the first executive president of the Soviet Union.

** Mikhail Gorbachev arrives in Ottawa for a 29-hour visit.

** Cold War: U. S. President George H. W. Bush and Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev sign a treaty to end chemical weapon production and begin destroying their respective stocks.

** Cold War: Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to lessen Cold War tensions and reform his nation.

** Mikhail Kalashnikov, Russian firearms inventor

** Mikhail Tal, eighth World Chess Champion ( b. 1936 )

** The Soviet Union begins its program of economic restructuring ( perestroika ) with legislation initiated by Premier Mikhail Gorbachev ( though Gorbachev had begun minor restructuring in 1985 ).

** Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as president of the Soviet Union, from which most republics have already seceded, anticipating the dissolution of the 74-year-old state.

** The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty is signed in Washington, D. C. by U. S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.

** The Soviet liner Mikhail Lermontov sinks in the Marlborough Sounds, New Zealand.

** Mikhail Skobelev, Russian general ( b. 1843 )

** Mikhail Bulgakov, Russian writer ( d. 1940 )

** May 28, 1812 – Russian Field Marshal Mikhail Kutuzov signs the Treaty of Bucharest, ending the Russo-Turkish War, 1806 – 1812 and making Bessarabia a part of Imperial Russia.

** Mikhail Gorbachev becomes General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party and de facto leader of the Soviet Union.

** Mikhail Gorbachev visits China, the first Soviet leader to do so since the 1960s.

** In a meeting with Pope John Paul II, President of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev pledges greater religious freedom for citizens of the Soviet Union.

** Cold War: In a meeting off the coast of Malta, U. S. President George H. W. Bush and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev release statements indicating that the Cold War between their nations may be coming to an end.

** Robert Prosky – A Walk in the Woods as Andrey Botvinnik

** Herman of Alaska ( Russian Orthodox Church and related congregations )

** Basil Fool for Christ ( Russian Orthodox Church )

** Russian battleship Imperator Aleksander III Russian warship

** Danube Cossack Host, an Imperial Russian Cossack Host formed from descendants of the Zaporozhian Cossacks

** Vladimirskaya ( Russian Orthodox )

** Romanov sainthood ( Russian Orthodox Church )

** Russian aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov, the only completed ship of this class

** List of Russian rulers: early Grand Dukes and Tsars

** Alexander Nevsky ( Repose, Russian Orthodox Church )

** Russian original was written in 1970, distributed by samizdat, and eventually printed as Восленский М. С., Номенклатура.

** In many languages ( e. g., Czech, English, French, Interlingua, and Russian ), the sets of relative and interrogative pronouns are nearly identical.

** Many languages, such as Bulgarian, Swedish, Norwegian, Frisian, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Polish, Ukrainian, Dutch and most Occitan variants, use trilled rhotics.

** Table of contents, bibliography of On the Origin of Species – links to text and images of all six British editions of The Origin of Species, the 6th edition with additions and corrections ( final text ), the first American edition, and translations into Danish, Dutch, French, German, Polish, Russian and Spanish.

** 101. mendelevium, Md, named after the Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev, credited for being the primary creator of the periodic table of the chemical elements ( 1955 ).

** Romanized Russian: Dogovor o druzhbe, sotrudnichestve i vzaimnoy pomoshchi

** Makharbek Khadartsev, Russian free-style wrestler

** Dmitri Dmitrievich Maksutov, Russian astronomer and inventor ( b. 1896 )

** The First Chechen War ( 1994 – 1996 ) – the conflict was fought between the Russian Federation and the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria.

** The Second Chechen War ( 1999 – ongoing ) – the war was launched by the Russian Federation starting 26 August 1999, in response to the Invasion of Dagestan and the Russian apartment bombings which were blamed on the Chechens.

** Lina Krasnoroutskaya, Russian tennis player and commentator

** Nikolai Pokotylo, Russian singer

** Vera Zvonareva, Russian tennis player

** Lena Katina, Russian singer