* Ufimtsev, Pyotr Ya., " Method of edge waves in the physical theory of diffraction ," Moscow, Russia: Izd-vo.

* 1986 – The Soviet passenger liner sinks in the Black Sea after colliding with the bulk carrier Pyotr Vasev, killing 423.

* 1973 – Soviet Soyuz Programme: Soyuz 13, crewed by cosmonauts Valentin Lebedev and Pyotr Klimuk, is launched from Baikonur in the Soviet Union.

* 1942 – Pyotr Klimuk, Soviet astronaut

However, according to the Soviet Major General Pyotr Grigorenko Voroshilov himself alluded to his Ukrainian heritage and the previous family name of Voroshilo.

By the time of Trotsky's arrival, the St. Petersburg Soviet was already functioning headed by Khrustalyov-Nosar ( Georgy Nosar, alias Pyotr Khrustalyov ), a compromise figure, and proved to be very popular with the workers in spite of the Bolsheviks ' original opposition.

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

There are some who believe that Andropov was behind the deaths of Fyodor Kulakov and Pyotr Masherov, the two youngest members of the Soviet leadership.

* Pyotr Nikolayevich Kropotkin ( 1910 – 1996 ), Soviet / Russian geologist, tectonician, and geophysicist

Notable Russian scientists include Dmitri Mendeleev, Nikolay Bogolyubov, Andrei Kolmogorov, Ivan Pavlov, Nikolai Semyonov, Dmitri Ivanenko, Nikolai Lobachevsky, Alexander Lodygin, Alexander Popov ( one of inventors of radio ), Nikolai Zhukovsky, Alexander Prokhorov and Nikolay Basov ( co-inventors of laser ), Georgiy Gamov, Vladimir Zworykin, Lev Pontryagin, Sergei Sobolev, Pavel Yablochkov, Aleksandr Butlerov, Andrei Sakharov, Dmitry Ivanovsky, Sergey Korolyov and Mstislav Keldysh ( creators of the Soviet space program ), Aleksandr Lyapunov, Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky, Andrei Tupolev, Yuri Denisyuk ( the first practicable method of holography ), Mikhail Lomonosov, Vladimir Vernadsky, Pyotr Kapitsa, Igor Sikorsky, Ludvig Faddeev, Zhores Alferov, Konstantin Novoselov, Fyodor Shcherbatskoy, Nikolai Trubetzkoy etc.

The initiators of the movement were Alexander Busygin ( automobile industry ), Nikolai Smetanin ( shoe industry ), Yevdokiya and Maria Vinogradov ( textile industry ), I. I. Gudov ( machine tool industry ), V. S. Musinsky ( timber industry ), Pyotr Krivonos ( railroad ), Pasha Angelina ( glorified as the first Soviet woman to operate a tractor ), Konstantin Borin and Maria Demchenko ( agriculture ) and many others.

* Pyotr Masherov, secretary of Belarusian committee of the Communist Party of Soviet Union

Pyotr Klimuk and Vitali Sevastyanov set a new Soviet space endurance record of 63 days and the mark for most people in space simultaneously ( seven ) was tied during the mission.

Among those handed over were White émigré-Russians who had never been Soviet citizens, but who had fought for Nazi Germany against the Soviets during the war, including General Andrei Shkuro and the Ataman of the Don Cossack host Pyotr Krasnov.

The flight, manned by Pyotr Klimuk and Valentin Lebedev, was the Soviet Union's first dedicated science mission, and was the first mission controlled by the new Kaliningrad Mission Control Center.

SMERSH was also actively involved in the capture of Soviet citizens who had been active in anti-communist armed groups fighting on the side of Nazi Germany such as the Russian Liberation Army, the Cossack Corps of Pyotr Krasnov, and the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists ( see also forced repatriation ).

* Pyotr Vershigora ( Soviet major general and writer, Soviet partisan leader during WWII )

* Pyotr Parfenovich Vlasov ( 1905 – 1953 ), Soviet diplomat and journalist

During the early Soviet period, under the initiative of architect and restorer Pyotr Baranovsky, old wooden buildings and various artifacts were transported to Kolomenskoye from different parts of the USSR for preservation, so currently Kolomenskoye Park hosts an impressive set of different constructions and historical objects.

* Pyotr Gavrilov ( 1900-1979 ), Soviet war hero, last defender of the Brest Fortress

His doctoral students included some of the most famous Soviet mathematicians: Pavel Aleksandrov, Nina Bari, Aleksandr Khinchin, Andrey Kolmogorov, Alexander Kronrod, Mikhail Lavrentyev, Alexey Lyapunov, Lazar Lyusternik, Pyotr Novikov, Lev Schnirelmann and Pavel Urysohn.

Izhevsk Machinebuilding Plant () Soviet engineer Pyotr Vladimirovich Mokharov ( 1888 – 1934 ).

In late 1945 and early 1946, a group of prominent Soviet scientists, including in particular the future Nobel Prize winner Pyotr Kapitsa, lobbied the government for the creation of a higher educational institution radically different from the type established in the Soviet system of higher education.

* Trepak ( a / k / a " The Russian Dance ") from The Nutcracker by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky ( used to segue to the final commercial break ).

Otherwise, few examples of Mongolian literature from the time of the Mongol Empire have come down in written form: fragments of a song about the mother and the area where one grew up were found in a soldier's grave at the Volga river in 1930, 25 manuscript and block print fragments were found in Turpan in 1902 / 03, Pyotr Kozlov brought some fragments from Khara-Khoto in 1909.

* Пётр / Петро ( Pyotr / Petro, equivalent to Peter, of Greek origin )

* 1994 – Alfa Bank becomes a member of MasterCard / Europay international credit card system and joins the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication ; Pyotr Aven appointed as bank's President ; Alfa Bank becomes the first Russian bank to open a subsidiary in Almaty, Kazakhstan ;

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Knyaz / Prince Pyotr Mikhailovich Volkonsky ) ( May 6, 1776-September 8, 1852, Saint Petersburg ) ( April 25, 1776 O. S.

* Pyotr Velyaminov ( b. 1926 ), Soviet / Russian actor and People's Artist of the RSFSR

* 1878 – Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel, Russian army officer ( d. 1928 )

* 1901 – Pyotr Novikov, Russian mathematician ( d. 1975 )

* 1866 – Pyotr Nikolaevich Lebedev, Russian physicist ( d. 1912 )

* 1876 – Pyotr Konchalovsky, Russian painter ( d. 1956 )

In 1920 after the defeat of the Russian White army of General Pyotr Wrangel, a significant number of emigre soldiers and their families evacuated to Gallipoli from the Crimea.

In 1938, Russian physicist Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa discovered that helium-4 has almost no viscosity at temperatures near absolute zero, a phenomenon now called superfluidity.

* 1894 – Pyotr Kapitsa, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1984 )

* 1866 – Pyotr Pletnyov, Russian poet ( b. 1792 )

* Pyotr Kuznetsov ( 1964 ), a Russian religious leader

Among the executed were Zhdanov's deputy, Aleksei Kuznetsov ; the economic chief, Nikolai Voznesensky ; the Party head in Leningrad, Pyotr Popkov ; and the Prime Minister of the Russian Republic, Mikhail Rodionov.

* 1840 – Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer ( d. 1893 )

* 1805 – Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Schöngrabern – Russian forces under Pyotr Bagration delay the pursuit by French troops under Murat.

Russian geographers who made great contributions to the discipline in this period were: NM Sibirtsev, Pyotr Semyonov, K. D. Glinka, Neustrayev, among others.

* 1911 – Pyotr Stolypin, Russian politician ( b. 1862 )

* April 8 – Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( b. 1894 )

** Pyotr Klimuk, Russian cosmonaut

* November 22 – Russian Prime Minister Pyotr Stolypin introduces agrarian reforms aimed at creating a large class of land-owning peasants.

* November 6 – Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer ( b. 1840 )

* July 9 – Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1984 )

Even when the French were in occupation of the Russian capital Moscow, Russian forces in the south were not recalled but continued their offensive against Persia, culminating in Pyotr Kotlyarevsky's victories at Aslanduz and Lenkoran, in 1812 and 1813 respectively.

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

* November 2 – Pyotr Kotlyarevsky, Russian military hero ( b. 1782 )

* November 16 – Napoleonic Wars – Battle of Schöngrabern: – Russian forces under Pyotr Bagration delay the pursuit by French troops under Murat.

* August 1 ( July 21 in Julian Calendar ) – Russo-Turkish War ( 1768 – 1774 ) – Battle of Kagul: Russian commander Pyotr Rumyantsev routs 150, 000 Turks.