-- For its final change of bill in its London season, the Leningrad State Kirov Ballet chose tonight to give one of those choreographic miscellanies known as a `` gala program '' at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.

* 1934 – In the Soviet Union, Politburo member Sergei Kirov is shot dead by Leonid Nikolayev at the Communist Party headquarters in Leningrad.

When Stalin's purge of the Communist Party and government began in 1934 after the assassination of Leningrad party boss Sergei Kirov, Beria ran the purges in Transcaucasia.

More importantly, Sergey Kirov, a Leningrad party leader, was emerging as popular leader of the moderates.

However, Kirov was assassinated in Leningrad in December 1934, and his death was used by Stalin as a pretext to launch the Great Purge, in which about a million people were to perish as Stalin eliminated all past and potential opposition to his authority.

Another commission, from the Kirov Theater in Leningrad, was the ballet Romeo and Juliet.

** 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 ).

Kirov rose through the Communist Party ranks to become head of the Party organization in Leningrad.

Sergei Kirov, head of the Party organisation in Leningrad, was killed in 1934 ; some believed his death was ordered by Stalin.

Sergey Kirov | Sergei Kirov, Leningrad party leader, and Stalin in 1934.

Starostienko, who worked at the Leningrad Kirov Plant ( LKZ ).

They are the products of different design bureaus ; the T-80 is from the SKB-2 design bureau of the Kirov Factory ( LKZ ) in Leningrad while the T-72 is from the Uralvagonzavod factory in Nizhny Tagil, Russia.

The Kirov Factory in Leningrad began manufacturing a tank which was based on the design of the British Independent in 1932.

The modernisation was carried out in the Leningrad Kirov Plant.

However, he felt that the Kirov Ballet school was the best, so he left the local touring company and bought a ticket to Leningrad .< ref >

After a promising start in the Kirov Ballet in Leningrad, he defected to Canada in 1974 for more opportunities in western dance.

Vologda Oblast borders with Arkhangelsk Oblast in the north, Kirov Oblast in the east, Kostroma Oblast in the southeast, Yaroslavl Oblast in the south, Tver and Novgorod Oblasts in the southwest, Leningrad Oblast in the west, and the Republic of Karelia in the northwest.

A. Badayev, Mikoyan, and Sergei Kirov at a bread factory in Leningrad in 1927

Yagoda may have been involved with the murder of his superior Menzhinsky, whom he was later accused of poisoning, and the popular Leningrad party director and Stalin opponent Sergei Kirov, who was assassinated in December 1934 by Leonid Nikolaev.

Zhdanov enlisted with the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party ( Bolshevik ) in 1915 and was promoted through the party ranks, becoming the All-Union Communist Party manager in Leningrad after the assassination of Sergei Kirov in 1934.

Leonid Nikolaev ( 1904 – December 29, 1934 ) was the assassin of Sergei Kirov, the first secretary of the Leningrad branch of the Communist Party.

It is unknown whether Nikolaev had had prior dealings with the Leningrad branch of the Soviet Russian government, headed by Sergei Kirov.

" On October 15, 1934, he was arrested by the NKVD, allegedly for loitering around the Smolny Institute, where Sergei Kirov, the popular administrator of the Leningrad district, had his offices.

The ballet company was the first to be re-established, becoming known as the Soviet Ballet, with the school re-opening later as the Leningrad State Choreographic School, both remaining in their previous locations.

During the festival, many world-class performers such as soloists and virtuosi, orchestras, dance companies, rock and jazz groups including Ray Charles, Paco de Lucia, Joan Baez, Martha Graham Dance Company, Tanita Tikaram, Jethro Tull, Leningrad Philarmonic Orchestra, Chris De Burgh, Sting, Moscow State Philharmonic Orchestra, Jan Garbarek, Red Army Chorus, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Chick Corea and Origin, New York City Ballet, Nigel Kennedy, Bryan Adams, God Is An Astronaut, James Brown, Elton John, Anathema, Kiri Te Kanawa, Mikhail Barishnikov and Josep Carreras have given recitals and performances at various venues in the city and its surrounding areas ; including the ancient theatres at Ephesus and Metropolis ( an ancient Ionian city situated near the town of Torbalı.

It is better known today from the significantly revised version that was first presented at the Kirov Ballet in Leningrad on 11 January 1940, with choreography by Leonid Lavrovsky and with Galina Ulanova and Konstantin Sergeyev in the lead roles.

Yuri Vladimirovich Soloviev ( 1940 – 77 ) was a premier danseur of the Kirov Ballet, born in Leningrad, Russia.

The Balletmaster Pyotr Gusev staged a new version of Le Corsaire for the Maly Theatre Ballet of Leningrad in 1955.

He graduated from the Leningrad Choreographic School in 1946 and danced as a soloist of the Kirov Ballet until 1962.

Born in Peterhof, Russia, she trained at the Russian Imperial Ballet School in Leningrad ( formerly and currently St. Petersburg ).

His Elo rating shot from 2540 in 1971 to 2660 in 1973, when he shared second in the USSR Chess Championship, and finished equal first with Viktor Korchnoi in the Leningrad Interzonal Tournament, with the latter success qualifying him for the 1974 Candidates Matches, which would determine the challenger of the reigning world champion, Bobby Fischer.

The Leningrad delegation, which supported Zinoviev, shouted " Long live the Central Committee of our party ".

At the same time, Malenkov was accused of being involved in the Leningrad Affair which led to the deaths of innocent party officials.

It is a site of numerous major historical events, including the Battle of the Neva in 1240 which gave Alexander Nevsky his name, the founding of Saint Petersburg in 1703, and the Siege of Leningrad by the German army during World War II.

Operation Barbarossa's failure led to Hitler's demands for further operations inside the USSR, all of which eventually failed, such as continuing the Siege of Leningrad, Operation Nordlicht, and Battle of Stalingrad, among other battles on occupied Soviet territory.

In their calculations they concluded that there was little danger of a large-scale retreat of the Soviet army into the Russian interior, as it could not afford to give up the Baltic states, the Ukraine, or the Moscow and Leningrad regions, all of which were vital to the Red Army for supply reasons and would thus have to be defended.

In May 1985, Gorbachev gave a speech in Leningrad which he admitted the slowing down of the economic development and inadequate living standards.

Another German failure was the Siege of Leningrad, in which the city was fully blockaded on land between 1941 – 44 by German and Finnish forces, suffering starvation and more than a million deaths, but never surrendering.

* 1991 – The name Saint Petersburg is restored to Russia's second largest city, which had been renamed Leningrad in 1924.

** The name Saint Petersburg is restored to Russia's second-largest city, which had been renamed Leningrad in 1924.

Many top architects and civil engineers from Moscow, Leningrad, Kiev and other cities and thousands of workers from all parts of the USSR took part in the rebuilding process which was mostly finished by the mid-1950s.

At Leningrad 1963, the site of the 31st Soviet final, Spassky tied for first with Stein and Ratmir Kholmov, with Stein winning the playoff, which was held in 1964.

The final was against his Leningrad rival Korchnoi at Kiev, and Spassky triumphed (+ 4 − 1 = 5 ), which earned him another match with Petrosian.

On August 1, 1927, the All-Russian Central Executive Committee ( VTsIK ) issued two Resolutions: " On the Establishment of Leningrad Oblast " and " On the Borders and Composition of the Okrugs of Leningrad Oblast ", which transformed Murmansk Governorate into Murmansk Okrug within Leningrad Oblast and made Murmansk the administrative center of Murmansk Okrug.

German forces in Finnish territory launched an offensive against the city in 1941 as part of Operation Silver Fox, and Murmansk suffered extensive destruction, the magnitude of which was rivaled only by the destruction of Leningrad and Stalingrad.

Accordingly, the Moscow and Leningrad Union of Artists was established in 1932, which brought the history of post-revolutionary art to a close.

Thousands attended the two memorial ceremonies which were held in Moscow and in Leningrad.

He set up one of the first seedbanks, in Leningrad ( now St Petersburg ), which survived the 28-month Siege of Leningrad in World War II.

The first modern critical edition of the Shahnameh was prepared by a Russian team led by E. E. Bertel, using the oldest known manuscript copies, dating from the 13th and 14th centuries, with heavy reliance on the 1276 manuscript from the British Museum and the Leningrad manuscript, dated 1333, of which the latter has now been considered a secondary manuscript.