🗓 October 16 in Russia:

🔳 1824 - Alexander Pushkin completed work on the third chapter of “Eugene Onegin” in Mikhailovsky.

🔳 1853 — The Ottoman Empire declared war on the Russian Empire. The Crimean War began.

🔳 1927 - The USSR announced a gradual transition to a 7-hour working day.

🔳 1930 - The first issue of the Moscow News newspaper was published in English.

🔳 1954 - Restoration of Franz Roubaud’s panorama “Defense of Sevastopol”, destroyed during the battle, was completed.

🔳 1959 - In Moscow, the first underground pedestrian crossings were built.

🔳 1962 - The "Yunost" radio station first went on the air. Beginning of the Cuban Missile Crisis.

🔳 1968 - An agreement was signed between the governments of the USSR and Czechoslovakia on the terms of the temporary stay of Soviet troops on the territory of Czechoslovakia.

🔳 1988 - Central Television began showing the Brazilian television series "Slave Isaura", the first "soap opera" in the USSR.

🔳 1990 - The Koryak Autonomous Okrug declared itself a republic.

🔳 1994 - The first drawing of the all-Russian television lottery "Russian Lotto"

🔳 2002 - The All-Russian Population Census of 2002 was completed.