🗓 October 9 in Russia:

🔳 1708 — The defeat of the Levenhaupt Corps by the troops commanded by Peter I in the Battle of Lesnaya during the Great Northern War (1700–1721).

🔳 1731 — The khan of the Junior Zhuz (Western Kazakhstan), Abulkhair, accepted Russian citizenship, thereby beginning the annexation of the Kazakh Khanate to the Russian Empire.

🔳 1760 — The capture of Berlin by Russian troops during the Seven Years' War.

🔳 1773 — The French Enlightenment thinker Denis Diderot arrived as a guest of Russian Empress Catherine II for six months.

🔳 1836 - The first railway trip in the history of Russia took place. A horse-drawn train traveled 27 kilometers between Tsarskoye Selo and Pavlovsk.

🔳 1943 — The complete liberation of the Taman Peninsula, which concluded the Novorossiysk-Taman Operation and the Battle for the Caucasus during the Great Patriotic War.

🔳 1989 — The right of workers to strike was recognized in the USSR.

🔳 1991 — The Russian Booker Prize was established for the best novel in the Russian language.