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July 20 (August 2) 1902, in Baranovichi, Minsk Province, in the family of a railway engineer was born a distinguished Soviet naval commander, Hero of the Soviet Union, George Nikitich Kholostyakov.  

July 24 (August 6), 1917 was formed the 2nd coalition Provisional Government.  

July 26 (August 7) 1803 started the first Russian circumnavigation (1803-1806) of two sailing sloops "Nadezhda" and "Neva" under the guidance of Ivan Krusenstern.

July 26 (August 7), 1835 in Russia was introduced a new university charter, one of the initiators and developers of which was the Minister of Education, S. S. Uvarov.  

27 July (8 August), 1861 under the Ministry of the Interior was established Zemstvo Department for the land arrangement and public administration of peasantry in post-reform Russia.  

On August 23 (September 5), 1905 in Portsmouth (New Hampshire, USA) there was signed the peace treaty that ended the Russian-Japanese war of 1904-1905.

The operation on the defense of the Baltic states in the summer of 1941 was unsuccessful for Soviet armies.

St. Petersburg was founded on May 16 (27), 1703 by Russian emperor Peter I as a fortress named Saint-Peter-burg in honor of Saint Peter, divine patron of the emperor. In 1712-1728 and 1732-1918 St.-Petersburg had been the capital of Russia.

August 29 (September 9) 1790 ended a naval battle near Tendra Cape between Russian squadron under the command of F. F. Ushakov and Turkish Navy ships. Russian Military Glory Day is celebrated on September 11 to commemorate the victory of the Russian fleet under the command of Admiral Fyodor Ushakov over the Ottoman fleet at Cape Tendra in 1790.

On September 12, 1941 in pursuance of the Decree of the State Committee of the USSR № 604 “On the transportation of goods for Leningrad” dated August 30, 1941, the first convoy of ships with food and ammunition for besieged Leningrad arrived on the western shore of Lake Ladoga, to the Osinovetsky Light.

Peter Zaionchkovski, the Russian scientist, Doctor of History, professor, bibliographer, expert of social-economical and political history of Russia of XIX century was born on September 5 (18), 1904.

In the morning of September 8 (19), 1727 55 years old president of Military board, generalissimo, His Serene Highness Alexander Danilovitch Menshikov, the most powerful person in Russia, sworn father-in-law of the Emperor Peter II, received the tsar’s order to stay under house arrest.

9 (20) September 1778, on the island of Ezel (now Saaremaa Island, Estonia) was born the famous Russian naval officer, scientist, explorer, Admiral Faddey F. Bellingshausen.  

During the Russo-Turkish War (1787­–­­1791) the Russian Army won a series of significant victories, among them the victory by the river Rymnik.

11 (23) September, 1800 in St. Petersburg, was born a Russian statesman, historian, director of the Imperial Public Library (1849-1861), honorary member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences (1852), Chairman of the Department of the laws of the State Council (1864-1872), Baron Modest A. Korff.  

Grigory Alexandrovich Potyomkin – Russian statesman and military reformer, diplomat, general-field marshal was born on 13 (24) September.

August 9, 1942 in the Hall of the Leningrad Philharmonic was performed the Seventh Symphony of Dmitri Shostakovich.  

On August 12 1323 at the fortress Orekhovets (Swedish: Nöteborg) after 30 years of military actions the  Treaty of Orekhovets (Treaty of Nöteborg) was signed between the Novgorod Republic and the Kingdom of Sweden, and it was for the first time that the demarcation of the territories between Russia and Sweden was made.

1 (13) August 1836, was established the Office of the Chief Procurator of the Synod to handle cases that were the responsibility of the Chief Procurator of the Synod.

“The Dostoyevsky Family Travels Abroad” is a new exhibition, which has opened at the Fyodor Dostoyevsky House Museum, Small Exhibition Hall (the branch of the Novgorod Museum-Reserve in Staraya Russa, Novgorod Region).

The International Children’s Book Fair will run November 9 – 11, 2018 in Shanghai (China).

The 140th anniversary of the birth of Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, one of the most prominent artists of the Russian art of the 20th century, was marked on November 5, 2018. Unfairly forgotten, even forbidden, he was a genius of his epoch, while his talent was ahead of the time.

November 13, 2018, at 12:00 the Presidential library will host a multimedia exhibition as part of the “Knowledge of Russia” video lecture series, followed by a video lecture on “Man in the Age” timed to the 80th birthday of V. N. Zaitsev (1938–2010).

November 7, 2018 the Presidential Library hosted an open lesson of the winner of "Teacher of the Year of Russia - 2018" All-Russian Contest, Teacher of the Year of the Chechen Republic - 2018, Teacher of social studies at the Kh. I. Ibragimov Mathematical School № 1 in Grozny Alikhan Dinaev.

November 15, 2018 plenary session "Reading in the Digital Age", the IV Conference "Book Policy of Regions" and the solemn ceremony of awarding the winners of the IV All-Russian Contest "The Most Reading Region" will be held at the Senate Square, 3. Following the conference, the Presidential Library will arrange a press scrum.