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1601 - 1603 Russia's worst famine in terms of proportional effect on the population, killing perhaps two million people, a third of the Russian people<br> | 1601 - 1603 Russia's worst famine in terms of proportional effect on the population, killing perhaps two million people, a third of the Russian people<br> | ||
1721- Russia was proclaimed an Empire and became recognized as a world power<br> | 1721- Russia was proclaimed an Empire and became recognized as a world power<br> | ||
1801 – 1825 Russia gained Finland from the weakened kingdom of Sweden in 1809 and of Bessarabia from the Ottomans in 1812. At the same time, Russians colonized Alaska and even founded settlements in California, such as Fort Ross<br> | |||
1847 - 1851 About one million people died of Asiatic cholera<br> | |||
<br><br><br> | 1921 - 1922 The Russian famine, was a severe famine in Russia which killed an estimated 5 million, primarily affecting the Volga and Ural River regions<br> | ||
1922 - The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, together with the Ukrainian, Byelorussian, and Transcaucasian Soviet Socialist Republics, formed the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, or Soviet Union<br> | |||
1932 - 1933 The Soviet famine was a major famine that killed millions of people in the major grain-producing areas of the Soviet Union, including Ukraine, Northern Caucasus, Volga Region and Kazakhstan, the South Urals, and West Siberia<br> | |||
1941 - 1945 During WW II, which included many of the most lethal battle operations in human history, Soviet military and civilian deaths were 10.6 million and 15.9 million respectively accounting for about a third of all World War II casualties<br> | |||
1991 - The USSR was dissolved into 15 post-Soviet states<br> | |||
{{Place|Russia}} | {{Place|Russia}} | ||
[[Category:Russia]] [[Category:History]] | [[Category:Russia]] [[Category:History]] | ||