* 1967 – Soviet space program: Soyuz 1 ( Russian: Союз 1, Union 1 ) is a manned spaceflight, Launched into orbit carrying cosmonaut Colonel Vladimir Komarov.

The most controversial change was the scene where the Russian freighter officer Colonel Kashirin valiantly attempts to stop the launch of a nuclear weapon.

The mineral itself was earlier named after a Russian mine official, Colonel Vasili Samarsky-Bykhovets, who thereby became the first person to have a chemical element named after him, albeit indirectly.

One of the characters is Colonel Vavara Novikova ( Russian surnames having masculine and feminine forms ), who accompanies the protagonist and antagonist back in time to their birth so that they can be delivered to the orphanage where their story begins.

The city came under Russian rule after the citadel had been taken by a force under Colonel Konstantin Petrovich von Kaufman in 1868.

Colonel Max Hoffmann, Prittwitz's deputy chief of operations, was well aware of the animosity between the Russian generals, and what it would likely mean for their plans.

Despite his initial scepticism the deal seems to have the support of Russian security-chief Colonel Stok and Hallam in the British government's Home Office.

Lieutenant Colonel Vladimir Peniakoff DSO MC, a Belgian of White Russian descent, was called " Popski " by Bill Kennedy Shaw, the Intelligence Officer of the Long Range Desert Group, because his signallers had trouble with the spelling of his surname.

Coincidentally and simultaneously, a new Russian jamming device begins radio jamming of communications between SAC headquarters and the bomber group with the result that the group commander, Colonel Jack Grady ( Edward Binns ), begins to lead the attack on Moscow.

During the height of the battle, Kutuzov's subordinates were making all of the decisions for him ; according to Colonel Karl von Clausewitz, famous for his work On War, the Russian commander " seemed to be in a trance.

* Colonel Pyat, a Russian emigre officer, also a sometime lover of Una Persson.

Lieutenant Colonel Eduard Totleben, the Russian chief engineer, had began work on these sites early in the war.

Colonel Douglass, with 80 survivors, charged and pushed other Russian cavalry back to the Chernaya.

Colonel, charged in June 2000 of spying for the KGB and the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service ( or SVR ) for over 25 years.

The Finns rose up in guerrilla fighting as far as Hamina ( in Russian " Old Finland "), where the unit of Colonel Sandels was active.

Colonel von Krassow, commander of the Swedish cavalry on the right flank, passed outside the left Russian flank with 12 dragoon squadrons, near the village of Rörsdorf, and engaged the Saxon Cavalry covering the Russian flank.

The authors further quotes Lieutenant Colonel Nils Gyllenstierna of the Norra Skånska cavalry regiment about the fate of the Russian infantry “ på några 100 när massakrerat, emedan vi inte i begynnelsen kunde giva kvarter, eftersom vår vänstra flygel ännu stod i full eld ” translates roughly as “ all but a few hundred were massacred, because at the beginning we could not give quarter, since our left flank was still in full assault ”.

Russia was represented by Nikolai Rumyantsev and David Alopaeus ( Russian ambassador to Stockholm ), while Sweden by Infantry General Kurt von Stedingk ( former Swedish ambassador to Petersburg ) and Colonel Anders Skjöldebrand.

During the Battle of Koljonvirta ( October 27, 1808 ), Duncker together with Colonel Fahlander and Major Malm and only 600 men helped Sandels to utterly defeated a superior Russian force.

Some 56 others were wounded, including Colonel General Valery Baranov, the commander of Russian forces in Chechnya, who lost his leg in the explosion.

With the advent of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation Military Bands Service, Major General Mikhailov's term as its first Director of Music ended in 1993, and was replaced by Lieutenant General Viktor Afanasbev, who was later replaced by the current Sr. Director of Music, Lt. Gen. Valery Khalilov, who was then a Colonel, in 2002.

Oleg Antonovich Gordievsky (), CMG ( born 10 October 1938 in Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union ), is a former Colonel of the KGB and KGB Resident-designate ( rezident ) and bureau chief in London, who was a double agent of the British Secret Intelligence Service ( MI6 ) from 1974 to 1985.

The first special semiautomatic aerial camera was designed in 1911 by Russian military engineer — Colonel Potte V. F. This aerial camera was used during World War I.

** A Russian brigade, initially under the command of Colonel Aleksandr Ivanovich Lentsov, was part of the Task Force Eagle effort.

There, along the east bank of the Southern Bug, opposite the hamlet of Zhitzhakli a few miles north of the Black Sea, he arrived at General Headquarters of the Russian Army.

* 1914 – World War I: Battle of Stallupönen – The German army of General Hermann von François defeats the Russian force commanded by Paul von Rennenkampf near modern-day Nesterov, Russia.

Its first modern incidence in biological warfare were when Scandinavian " freedom fighters " supplied by the German General Staff used anthrax with unknown results against the Imperial Russian Army in Finland in 1916.

Some of them, such as Mikhail Svetšnikov, led Red troops in western Finland throughout February 1918, while other officers were mistrustful of their revolutionary underlings and co-operated with their former colleague General Mannerheim, assisting the Whites in the disarmament of the Russian garrisons in Finland.

On 30 January 1918 General Mannerheim proclaimed to Russian soldiers in Finland that the White army did not fight against Russia: the goal of the White campaign was to beat the Finnish Red rebels and the Russian troops supporting them.

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.

Russian forces under General Bennigsen finally freed the city in 1814.

Among the Bolshevik revolutionaries who brought about the Russian Revolution in 1917, Stalin held the position of General Secretary of the party's Central Committee from 1922 until his death.

During this period, the Russian administrator Vasile Balabanov had control much of the time with General Dootoff.

Chernenko's illness was first acknowledged publicly on 22nd February 1985 during a televised election rally in Kuibyshev Borough of northeast Moscow, where the General Secretary stood as candidate for the Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR, when Politburo member Viktor Grishin revealed that the General Secretary was absent in accordance with doctors ' advice.

Second row: Brigadier general ( United States ) | Brigadier General Harry H. Vaughan, Truman's confidant and military aide ; Russian interpreter Charles Bohlen, Truman naval aide James K. Vardaman, Jr., and ( partially obscured ) Charles Griffith Ross.

During the Civil War the commander cadres were trained at the Nicholas General Staff Academy of the Russian Empire, which became the Frunze Military Academy in the 1920s.

Their military forces, bolstered by forced conscriptions and terror and by foreign influence and led by General Yudenich, Admiral Kolchak and General Denikin, became known as the White movement ( sometimes referred to as the " White Army "), and they controlled significant parts of the former Russian Empire for most of the war.

At the second Siege of Przemysl, the Austro-Hungarian garrison showed an excellent knowledge of siege warfare, not only waiting for relief, but sending sorties into Russian lines and employing an active defense that resulted in the capture of the Russian General Lavr Kornilov.

* Recent celebrity deaths: Alexander Lebed – Russian General who ran for the presidency against Boris Yeltsin ; Ruth Handler – inventor of the Barbie Doll

President of Russia | Russian President Dmitry Medvedev addresses the 64th session of the UN General Assembly on 24 September 2009.

Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (; born 7 October 1952 ) is a Russian politician who has been the General Secretary of the United Russia since 1 January 2008, and the President of Russia since 7 May 2012.

** Russian General Brusilov begins a major offensive in Galicia, initially advancing towards Lemberg.

* March 11 – Ivan Nabokov, Russian General ( d. 1852 )

* April 1 – Nikolai Berzarin, Russian Red Army General ( d. 1945 )

* August 24 – Sergey Akhromeyev, Russian marshall, former Chief of the General Staff of the Soviet Armed Forces ( b. 1923 )