| This Day in Russian History | |
June 10
- 1949: Future cosmonaut Sergey Andreyevich Chuchin born in USSR.
June 9
- 1672: Birth of Peter the Great (May 30 old calendar)
June 8
- 1975: Russia launched Venera 9 to explore Venus; it was the first vehicle to send back pictures and surface data from this planet.
- 1990: Russian Federation declared that its constitution took precedence over Soviet laws.
June 7
- 1971: Soviet spacecraft Soyuz II docked in space with the Salyut space station.
June 6
- 1971: First space station flight, two years before the American Skylab. Soyuz 11 was guided automatically to 100 m, then hand-docked to the Salyut 1 scientific station.
- 1980: For the second time in a week, U.S. nuclear forces went on red alert following a computer error warning of a Soviet attack.
June 5
- 1991: Two anti-Soviet protesters forced President Mikhail Gorbachev to interrupt his Nobel Peace Prize speech in Oslo.
- 1988: The Russian Orthodox Church, which was officially banned during the Soviet Era, celebrated 1,000 years of Russian Orthodox Christianity. Prince Vladimir declared Orthodoxy the official religion of Kievan Rus' in 988.
June 4
- 1961: Premier Nikita Khrushchev proposed to U.S. President John Kennedy that Berlin should be a free city.
- 1977: Soviet Union published its new draft constitution, which was approved by the Supreme Soviet the following October.
June 3
- 1973: Cosmonaut Vladimir Nikolaevich Benderov dies at age of 48 -- Crash in Tu-144.
- 1990: Presidents Bush and Gorbachev wound up a superpower summit in the United States with agreement on a number of arms control and trade issues.
June 2
- 1734: In the War of the Polish Succession, Russia and Austria finally took Danzig after a siege which had begun the previous October.
- 1957: Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev was interviewed by CBS-TV correspondent Daniel Schorr who became the first to interview the Soviet leader.
June 1
- 1990: President George H.W. Bush and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev signed a bilateral agreement to stop producing chemical arms and to begin destroying stocks by the end of 1992.
- 1996: Ukraine became a nuclear weapons-free nation with the transfer of the last of its warheads to Russia.
