** Sergei Kourdakov, former KGB agent

** Sergei Babayan, American classical pianist

** Sergei Beloglazov, Russian free-style wrestler

** Sergei Korolev, Russian space scientist ( b. 1907 )

** Sergei Kiriyenko, former Prime Minister of Russia

** Sergei Kourdakov, former KGB agent ( b. 1951 )

** Sergei Eisenstein, Russian film director ( d. 1948 )

** Sergei Aleksandrovich Yesenin, Russian lyrical poet ( b. 1895 )

** Sergei Nikolayevich Glinka – Russian author, brother of Fedor Nikolaevich Glinka ( d. 1847 )

** Sergei Eisenstein arrives in Hollywood to work for Paramount Pictures ; they part ways by October.

** In the Soviet Union, Politburo member Sergei Kirov is shot and killed at the Communist Party headquarters in Leningrad by Leonid Nikolaev ( it is widely thought that Soviet leader Joseph Stalin ordered this murder ).

** Sergei Leiferkus

** Aleko, Aleko by Sergei Rachmaninoff

** Season opening of Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, in Paris, with the first performances of Igor Stravinsky's Renard and Sergei Prokofiev's Le Fils prodigue.

** Pair skating champions: Marina Cherkasova & Sergei Shakhrai, Soviet Union

** Pairs ' champions: Marina Eltsova / Sergei Bushkov, Russia

** Ice dancing champions: Marina Klimova & Sergei Ponomarenko

** Pair skating champions: Ekaterina Gordeeva & Sergei Grinkov, Soviet Union

** Ice dancing champions: Marina Klimova / Sergei Ponomarenko, Soviet Union

** Pair skating champions: Ekaterina Gordeeva & Sergei Grinkov, Soviet Union

** Ice dancing champions: Marina Klimova / Sergei Ponomarenko, Soviet Union

** Pair skating champions: Ekaterina Gordeeva / Sergei Grinkov, Soviet Union

** Pair skating champions: Ekaterina Gordeeva / Sergei Grinkov, Soviet Union

** Maksim Aleksandrovich Shevchenko, Russian footballer

** 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