🗓 April 23 in Russia:
🔳 1605 - Proclamation of Fyodor Godunov as Russian Tsar.
🔳 1656 - The Council of Russian church hierarchs decided to excommunicate everyone who makes the sign of the cross with two fingers.
🔳 1836 - The first issue of the literary and socio-political magazine “Sovremennik ”, founded by A. S. Pushkin, was published in St. Petersburg.
🔳 1857 — Russian Emperor Alexander II approved the state emblem of Russia — the double-headed eagle.
🔳 1889 - In a letter to his brother Alexander, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov wrote a phrase that became popular: “Brevity is the sister of talent.”
🔳 1911 - The International Aeronautical Exhibition was opened in St. Petersburg.
🔳 1918 - The decree of the Council of People's Commissars of the RSFSR “On the nationalization of foreign trade” was issued, establishing a state monopoly of foreign trade.
🔳 1929 — From April 23 to April 29, the XVI Conference of the CPSU(b) was held, at which the 1st five-year plan was adopted.
🔳 1932 - In accordance with the decision of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks “On the restructuring of literary and artistic organizations,” all writers’ organizations were dissolved, in their place a single Union of Soviet Writers was created.
🔳 1951 - The USSR Olympic Committee was established.
🔳 1954 - The Soviet Union broke off diplomatic relations with Australia after it granted political asylum to defector Vladimir Petrov. They will be restored only in five years.
🔳 1957 - The research station “ North Pole-7 ” was organized under the leadership of V. A. Vedernikov and N. A. Belov.
🔳 1964 - A resolution was issued by the USSR Council of Ministers, according to which recording studios and record factories became subordinate to the Ministry of Culture.
🔳 1964 - The first performance took place at the Taganka Theater.
🔳 1964 - The All-Union Record Company Melodiya was founded.
🔳 1965 - The first Soviet communications satellite, Molniya-1, was launched into space.
🔳 1967 - The Soviet spacecraft Soyuz-1, piloted by Vladimir Komarov, was launched. When returning to Earth due to a ship accident, Vladimir Komarov died.
🔳 1985 - At the Plenum of the Central Committee of the CPSU, a course was announced for the implementation of the economic part of "perestroika".
🔳 1991 - During a meeting in Novo-Ogaryovo, USSR President M. S. Gorbachev and the leaders of 9 republics signed a statement on the principles of the new Union Treaty.
