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| 1239 | Daniel |  |
| Kiev The Mongols capture Kiev
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| 1382 | Dimitri | |
| Moscow The Tartars recapture Moscow
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| 1389 | Vasily I | |
| Murom Captures Murom
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| Novgorod Captures Nizhini Novgorod
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| 1447 | Vasily II | |
| Ryazan Captures Ryazan
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| 1460 | Vasily II | |
| Vyatka Captures Vyatka
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| 1478 | Ivan III the Great | |
| Novgorod Moscow captures Novgorod
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| 1485 | Ivan III the Great | |
| Tver Captures Tver
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| 1494 | Ivan III the Great | |
| Novgorod Closes the Hanseatic Kontor & extends rule to the Urals by taking Novgorod
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| Novgorod Earns the name Ivan the Great
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| 1499 | Ivan III the Great | |
| Viatka Moscow captures the principality of Viatka
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| 1505 | Vasily III | |
| Pskov Moscow captures the city-state of Pskov
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| 1514 | Vasily III | |
| Smolensk Moscow captures Smolensk
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| 1521 | Vasily III | |
| Riazan Moscow captures Riazan
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| 1552 | Ivan IV the Terrible | |
| Kazan Captures Kazan
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| 1556 | Ivan IV the Terrible | |
| Astrakhan Captures Astrakhan
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| Kazan Captures Kazan
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| 1571 | Ivan IV the Terrible | |
| Moscow Seizure & burning of Moscow
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| 1581 | Ivan IV the Terrible | |
| Siberia Captures Siberia
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| 1654 | Alexis I Mikhaylovich | |
| Smolensk Russia captures Smolensk & advances into Poland & Lithuania
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| Sep River Berezina Advances as far as the River Berezina
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| Sep Kiev A Russian force captures Kiev
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| Sep Lithuania Captures Lithuania after the battle of Borisov
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| Sep Kiev The Russians capture Kiev
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| 26th Sep Smolensk Captures Smolensk after a 3 month siege
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| 1660 | Alexis I Mikhaylovich | |
| Solensk Captures Smolensk from Poland
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| 1709 | Peter I the Great | |
| Captures Poland & restores Augustus II to the throne
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| 1723 | Peter I the Great | |
| Baku Captures Baku
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| 1743 | Elizabeth | |
| Annexes a part of Finland
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| 1770 | Orlov | |
| Navarino The Russian Fleet sails into the Mediterranean & captures Navarino
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| 1783 | Catherine II the Great | |
| Catherine annexes Crimea, a mere nine years after it had gained independence from the Ottoman Empire as a result of her first war against the Turks
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| Crimea Catherine commissions new fortifications & a vast base at Sevastopol is built
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| Crimea Freed by Russia from Turkish sovereignty & incorporated into the Russian Empire
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| Crimea Russia Annexes the Crimea from Turkey
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| 1784 | Catherine II the Great | |
| Crimea Turkey signs a Treaty ceding the Crimea to Russia
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| 1787 | Potemkin | |
| Ochakov Appointed Commander-in-Chief against the Turkish Army
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| 1788 | Potemkin | |
| Ochakov Captures Ochakov at the mouth of the Danube
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| 1811 | Kutuzov | |
| 10th Feb Belgrade Russia captures Belgrade & the Turkish army
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| 1826 | Paskevich, Ivan Feodorovich | |
| Sep Tirvan Lays siege to Tirvan after the battle of Ganja
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| 1827 | Paskievich, Ivan Fedorovich | |
| 1st Oct Erivan The Russians defeat Persia & capture Erivan
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| 1855 | Gorchakov, Peter Dmitrievich | |
| Kars Russia besieges and occupies the Turkish fortress of Kars
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| 1855 | Nicholas I | |
| Sevatopol Russia besieges and occupies the Turkish fortress of Kars
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| 1865 | Alexander II | |
| Bukhara Russia captures Bukhara, Tashkent, and Samerkand
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| 1865 | Chernyayev, Mikhail Grigoriyevich | |
| Tashkent Captures Tashkent
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| 1868 | Kaufman, Konstantin Petrovich | |
| Samarkand Captures Samarkand
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| 1877 | Alexander II | |
| Kars Russia captures Kars
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| Plevna Russia captures Plevna
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| 1878 | Alexander II | |
| Adrianople Russia captures Adrianople
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| 1897 | Nicholas II | |
| Port Arthur The Russians capture Port Arthur from the Chinese
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| 1900 | Nicholas II | |
| Manchuria Russia captures Manchuria during the Boxer Rebellion but returns it afterwards
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| 1904 | Nicholas II | |
| 6th Dec Port Arthur The Japanese capture Port Arthur
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| 1914 | Nicholas II | |
| 3rd Sep Lemberg The Russians capture Lemberg, Lwow, capital of Austrian Galicia
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| 1914 | Rennenkampf, Paul Karlovitch | |
| 3rd Sep Lemberg The Russians capture Lemberg
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| 1916 | Yudenich, Nikolai Nikolaevich | |
| 16th Feb Erzerum Captures 13,000 prisoners & inflicts casualties of 60,000 killed or wounded
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| 16th Feb Erzerum Leads Russian victory over the Turkish
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| 1917 | Kornilov, Lavr Georgevich | |
| 10th July Halicz Captues Halicz & 2,000 PoWs
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| 1917 | Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov | |
| 24th Oct Petrograd The Government occupies Petrograd & closes down Bolshevik newspapers
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| 25th Oct Moscow Completes the occupation of Moscow
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| 25th Oct Petrograd Declares the triumph of the workers & peasants revolution in Petrograd
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| 26th Oct Kremlin The Military Revolutionary Council troops seize the Kremlin
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| 26th Oct St Petersburg The military revolutionary Council troops seize the Winter Palace
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| 8th Nov Petrograd The Soviets sieze power in Petrograd
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| 1918 | Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov | |
| 18th Feb Dvinsk The Germans capture Dvinsk after Lenin turns down their armistice proposals
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| 18th Feb Lutsk The Germans capture Lutsk after Lenin turns down their armistice proposals
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| 1918 | Trotsky, Leon | |
| 8th Aug Kazan The White Army has captured Kazan & Trotsky mobilizes his command train to relieve it
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| 10th Sep Kazan Commands the re-capture of Kazan from the White Army
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| 12th Sep Simbirsk Commands the re-capture of Simbirsk from the White Army
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| 3rd Dec Valuiki The Red Army occupies Valuiki
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| 6th Dec Dvinsk The Red Army occupies Dvinsk
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| 10th Dec Minsk The Red Army occupies Minsk
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| 1919 | Ikin, Anton Ivanovich de | |
| Jan Caucasus Drives out the Bolsheviks & leads the White counter-revolutionary forces
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| 2nd Sep Kiev Kiev is later recaptured by the Red Army
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| 2nd Sep Kiev The White armies capture Kiev advancing within 250 miles of Moscow
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| 2nd Sep Kiev The White Army is forced back to the Black Sea
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| 1919 | Trotsky, Leon | |
| 3rd Feb Kiev Bolshevik forces, filling the vacuum left by the German withdrawal, take Kiev
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| 1925 | Stalin, Joseph | |
| Don Basin Captures the Don Basin from the Ukraine
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| Kuban Captures the Kuban from the Ukraine
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| 1939 | Stalin, Joseph | |
| Poland is divided between the Germans & the Russians along the River Bug
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| Russia occupies the eastern zone including Galicia & the Polish Ukraine
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| 18th Sep Vilnyus The Russians capture Vilnyus
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| 10th Oct Estonia Forced to accept a "mutual assistance" pact with Moscow
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| 1941 | Timoshenko, Semyon | |
| Jan Lozovaya Captures Lozovaya & discovers a German camp with appalling conditions
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| 1941 | Zhukov, Georgi Konstantinovich | |
| Berlin Commands the Russian forces which capture Berlin
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| 1942 | Stalin, Joseph | |
| 28th June Bessarabia Succesfully demands Romania hand over Bessarabia to Russia, Germany does not object
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| 24th July Rostov The Germans capture Rostov
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| 1942 | Vatutin, Nikolai Fyodorovich | |
| 22nd Nov Kalach Bridge Cuts off the German 6th army's main communications
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| 22nd Nov Kalach Bridge Part of Operation Uranus, captures the only bridge over the Don
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| 1942 | Yeremenko, Andrei | |
| Jan Lozovaya Captures Lozovaya & discovers a German camp with appalling conditions
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| 1943 | Malinowsky, Rodion Yakovlevich | |
| 23rd Oct Dnepropetrovsk Malinowsky captures Dnepropetrovsk
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| 1943 | Petrov, Ivan Efimovich | |
| Kerch Captures the Kerch Peninsular from the Germans, September-October
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| Taman Captures the Taman Peninsular from the Germans, September-October
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| 1943 | Rokossovsky, Konstantin Konstantinovich | |
| Brest Litovsk Commands the Army Group of the Byelorussian Front & captures Brest-Litovsk
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| Lublin Commands the Army Group of the Byelorussian Front & captures Lublin
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| 13th Jan Karpovka The most westerly of the 7 airfields supplying the German sixth army in Stalingrad
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| 16th Jan Pitomnik The only airfield with a night flying to supply the German 6th army in Stalingrad
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| 1943 | Stalin, Joseph | |
| 9th Oct Crimea The Axis complete the evacuation of the Crimea
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| 9th Oct Kuban Peninsula The Russians capture the Kuban Peninsula on the Black Sea
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| 17th Dec Bryansk Stalin announces the Russian capture of Bryansk
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| 25th Dec Roslavl Russians captue Roslavl
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| 25th Dec Smolensk Russians captue Smolensk
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| 1943 | Stalin, Jospeh | |
| 27th Dec Temyruk Russians capture Temyruk, the last held German port on the Black Sea
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| 1943 | Vatutin, Nikolai Fyodorovich | |
| Kharkov Helps capture Kharkhov from the Germans
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| Kiev Helps capture Kiev
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| Ukraine Helps liberate the Ukraine
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| 1944 | Chernyakovsky, Ivan | |
| 11th July Vilna Captures Vilna from the Germans
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| 11th July Vitebsk Captures Vitebsk from the Germans
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| 31st July Kaunas Captures Kaunas from the Germans
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| 30th Aug Grodno Captures Grodno from the Germans
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| 1944 | Gorov, Nikolai | |
| 26th July Narva Captures Narva from the Germans
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| 1944 | Konev, Ivan Stepanovich | |
| 27th July Lwow Captures Lwow
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| 1944 | Malinowsky, Rodion Yakovlevich | |
| 25th Aug River Danube Malinovsky links up with General Tolbukhin's Army in the Danube Delta
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| 1944 | Rokossovsky, Konstantin Konstantinovich | |
| 23rd July Lublin Captures Lublin from the Germans
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| 1944 | Stalin, Joseph | |
| Tuva The Soviet Union annexes Tuva and closes the region to the outside world
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| 9th May Crimea Russia recaptures Crimea by taking Sevastopol
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| 11th July Minsk The way to Poland is open to the Red Army
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| 23rd July Lublin 1st Belorussian front enters Lublin
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| 31st Aug Bucharest Russian forces enter Bucharest
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| 1944 | Zhukov, Georgi Konstantinovich | |
| 31st Aug Bucharest The Soviet Army enters Bucharest capital of Romania
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| 1945 | Berzarin, Nikolai Erastovich | |
| Berlin 1st of the Russian commanders to lead his troops into Berlin
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| 1945 | Konev, Ivan Stepanovich | |
| 15th Feb River Neisse Reaches the Oder-Neisse line
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| 2nd May Berlin With Zhukov shares the honour of capturing Berlin
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| 1945 | Rokossovsky, Konstantin Konstantinovich | |
| Danzig Commands the Army Group of the Byelorussian Front & captures Danzig, April
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| 1945 | Stalin, Joseph | |
| 13th April Vienna Soviet forces take Vienna
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| 21st April Berlin Russian troops reach the suburbs of Berlin
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| 30th April Berlin The Red Army hoists the Red Flag over the Reichstag in Berlin
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| 2nd May Berlin Berlin falls to the Allies
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| 2nd May Berlin Berlin surrenders to the Soviet Army
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| 19th Aug Harbin The Russians occupy Harbin in Manchuria
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| 19th Aug Mukden The Russians occupy Mukden in Manchuria
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| 1945 | Zhukov, Georgi Konstantinovich | |
| 8th May Berlin Directs the capture of Berlin
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| 1948 | Stalin, Joseph | |
| 21st Feb Prague The Czechoslovak Communist Party is ordered to take power in Prague
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| 1960 | Khruschev, Nikita Sergeyevich | |
| Moscow Days before an Allied summit the Russians capture a US U-2 spy plane over Russia
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| 1995 | Yeltsin, Boris Nikolayevich | |
| Grozny Russian troops capture the Chechen capital of Grozny
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