🗓 October 5 in Russia:

🔳 1656 – The army of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich, which had besieged Riga during the Russo-Swedish War of 1656-1658, lifted the siege of the city.

🔳 1918 – The Decree of the Council of People's Commissars of the RSFSR "On the Registration, Accounting and Protection of Monuments of Art and Antiquity" was issued. This marked the beginning of the nationalization of public and private museums and collections of art objects.

🔳 1929 – The first sound film screening in the USSR took place in Leningrad. Before this, Soviet cinemas only showed silent films.

🔳 1930 – Arctic explorer Georgy Ushakov completed the discovery of Severnaya Zemlya (Northern Land) and planted the Soviet flag on its western shore.

🔳 1933 – Ukrainian director Les Kurbas was dismissed from the "Berezil" theater in Kharkov for nationalism.

🔳 1939 – Polish Campaign of the Red Army ended.

🔳 1952 – The 19th Congress of the CPSU was opened in Moscow. The All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) [VKP(b)] was renamed the Communist Party of the Soviet Union [CPSU].

🔳 1952 - A mid-air collision occurred over Leningrad (1952).

🔳 1966 – The first concert of the vocal and instrumental ensemble "Singing Guitars" took place on the stage of the assembly hall of Voenmekh (Military Mechanical Institute) in Leningrad.

🔳 1990 – The first issue of the newspaper "Vyatka Region" was published in Kirov.

🔳 1991 – The USSR signed its first cooperation agreement with the International Monetary Fund.

🔳 1993 – Boris Yeltsin banned the activities of opposition parties and newspapers in Russia.