🗓 October 17 in Russia:

🔳 1480 - The historical "Standing on the Ugra River" began, marking the final liberation of Russia from the Mongol-Tatar yoke.

🔳 1659 — In Pereyaslav, the son of Bohdan Khmelnytsky, Yuriy, signed an agreement with Moscow regulating the status of the Cossacks. 

🔳 1713 - The Russian Army defeated the Swedes in the Battle of the Pylkan River.

🔳 1738 — Mikhail Lomonosov sent his first scientific work (“A Sample of Knowledge”) on the transformation of solid bodies into liquids from Marburg to St. Petersburg. 

🔳 1740 — Participants of Vitus Bering's Second Kamchatka Expedition founded Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. 

🔳 1854 — The defense of Sevastopol began. 

🔳 1896 — The premiere of A. Chekhov's play "The Seagull" at the Alexandrinsky Theater ended in complete failure, after which he vowed to write nothing for the stage. 

🔳 1897 — Konstantin Tsiolkovsky announced the construction of a wind tunnel. 

🔳 1918 — The first state Toy Museum in the world was founded in Moscow. 

🔳 1926 — The Murmansk Regional Local History Museum was established. 

🔳 1938 — A decree from the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR established the medals "For Courage" and "For Military Merit." 

🔳 1945 - The city of Königsberg, along with its surrounding territories, was incorporated into the USSR.

🔳 1961 — The XXII Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union opened (lasting until October 31), during which the 3rd Program of the CPSU was adopted and the goal of building a communist society by 1980 was proclaimed. At the same time, the Kremlin Palace of Congresses (constructed in 1960-1961) was opened. 

🔳 1990 — Vneshtorgbank" was established, later becoming VTB Bank. 

🔳 1994 - A 27-year-old journalist, Dmitry Kholodov, was killed in an explosion at the Moscow Komsomolets newspaper office.