On this day

Birth of Ivan III Vasilievich, Grand Duke of Moscow

22 January 1440

22 January 1440 in the family of grand duke of Moscow Vasily II Tyomniy (Blind) was born the son Ivan, Grand Duke of Moscow (from 1462), “The Grand Prince of all Rus”, “gatherer of the Russian lands”.
 

Zemsky Sobor decides to abolish Mestnichestvo (seniority)

22 January 1682

January 12 (22), 1682 under the decision of Zemsky Sobor was abolished mestnichestvo – the system of distribution of state posts in the Russian state in XV–XVII centuries in he military, administrative and court services in the light of man's origin and the official position of his ancestors.

Birth of Grigory Fedotovich Alekseev, Participant of the Great Patriotic War, Hero of the Soviet Union

22 January 1918

Grigory Fedotovich Alekseev was born on January 22, 1918 in the village of Istoshino of Ishimsky Uezd of Tobolsk Governorate, currently Berdyuzhinsky District of Tyumen Region, in a peasant family. He became an orphan at the age of three, and was taken into his aunt’s family. In 1937, he graduated from high school. He then worked as a history teacher at his school, and entered the Pedagogical College in the town of Ishim in absentia.