This day in history
1849: Captain 1st Class G.I. Nevelsky’s expedition discovers the strait connecting the Sea of Okhotsk and the Sea of Japan.
1920: The All-Union Book Chamber is founded in the USSR.
1935: The Council of People’s Commissars of the Ukrainian SSR adopts a resolution on physical education at elementary and secondary schools.
1943: Troops of the Voronezh and Steppe Fronts launch the Belgorod-Kharkiv offensive as part of the Battle of Kursk.
1943: Soviet partisan units launch a large-scale operation (to become known as the Railroad War) to destroy the enemy’s rail communications.
1957: The first Soviet ICBM R-7 is launched under Sergei Koroliov’s supervision. 1959: The First International Film Festival opens in Moscow.
1969: A memorial art museum is launched in Chuhuiv (then in Kharkiv Governorate, currently: Kharkiv oblast), the native town of the Russian painter Ilya Repin.
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