On April 16 (27), 1765 in the family of an eminent statesman Alexei Vasilyevich Tuchkov was born the future Lieutenant General of the Russian Army, a hero of the Patriotic War 1812 Nikolai Alexeevich Tuchkov.
April 15 (27), 1855 in the town of Korotoyak (toaday - the Voronezh Region), was born Leonid Petrovich Belsky, famous Russian poet, writer, translator and literary critic.
15 (27) April 1887, in Vladivostok by the decision of City Council opened a "free room for reading." This date is the day of foundation of the A. M. Gorky Public Library of Primorsky Krai - one of the oldest and largest libraries in the Primorye Territory.
April 27, 1922 the Presidium of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee (CEC) adopted a resolution on "The Yakut Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic" as a federal part of the RSFSR with the administrative center in the city of Yakutsk. The region was the largest in Russia and the largest administrative unit in the world.
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