🗓 October 13 in Russia:

🔳 1827 — Russian troops captured Erivan (Yerevan) during the Russo-Persian War (October 1, Old Style).

🔳 1883 — The All-Russian Theater Society was established, which arose in Petersburg as the "Society for Assistance to Needy Stage Workers."

🔳 1921 — The Kars Treaty of Friendship was signed between the Armenian, Azerbaijani, and Georgian SSRs on one side, and Turkey on the other, with the participation of the RSFSR.

🔳 1930 — The Leningrad Institute of Communications Engineers was established.

🔳 1938 — The Russian poet Osip Mandelstam was sent to a labor camp after being re-arrested on charges of "counter-revolutionary activity."

🔳 1944 - Soviet troops entered Riga.

🔳 1956 - The Ka-18 multipurpose helicopter made its first flight.

🔳 1958 — The labor collective of the Moscow-Sorting station proposed to start a national competition for the title of communist labor brigades.

🔳 1972 — A Soviet Il-62 plane crashed near Moscow on the shore of Lake Ner. 174 people died, making it the largest aviation disaster in the world at that time. The causes of the tragedy remained unknown.

🔳 1973 — A Georgian TU-104 plane crashed near Moscow, killing 122 people, marking the largest disaster involving a TU-104.

🔳 1976 - Chelyabinsk became a million-plus city.

🔳 2005 — Second Chechen War: Islamist attack on Nalchik.