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At Bogatyri/Sinyaya balka , in a skull of Elasmotherium caucasicum, which lived 1.5–1.2 million years ago, a stone tool was found. [8] 1.5-million-year-old Oldowan flint tools have been discovered in the Dagestan Akusha region of the north Caucasus, demonstrating the presence of early humans in the territory of present-day Russia. [9] Fossils ...
The Russian conquest of Central Asia was ... was discovered by Boris Vilkitsky during ... During the International Geophysical Year in 1957–1958 the ...
Russia was home to some of the last surviving Neanderthals, from about 45,000 years ago, found in Mezmaiskaya cave. [41] The first trace of an early modern human in Russia dates back to 45,000 years, in Western Siberia. [42] The discovery of high concentration cultural remains of anatomically modern humans, from at least 40,000 years ago, was ...
Russian Civil War: The Czecho-Slovak Legions began its revolt against the Bolshevik government. 28 May: Armenia and Azerbaijan declared their mutual independence. 8 June: Russian Civil War: An anti-Bolshevik government, the Committee of Members of the Constituent Assembly, was established in Samara under the protection of the Czecho-Slovak ...
In Russia's far northeastern Yakutia region, local scientists are performing an autopsy on a wolf frozen in permafrost for around 44,000 years, a find they said was the first of its kind. Found by ...
A Portrait Person Achievements Image Valerian Albanov ‡ (1881–1919) Russian Navy lieutenant Albanov was one of the only two survivors of the ill-fated 1912–14 Brusilov expedition, the other being Alexander Konrad. They left the ice-bound ship St. Anna and by ski, sledge, and kayak crossed the Kara Sea, reached Franz Josef Land and were finally rescued by Georgy Sedov's Saint Phocas. The ...
(Reuters) - A Russian man was jailed for 17 years after being found guilty of passing classified information to a representative of a U.S. intelligence agency, the TASS state news agency reported ...
The modern history of Russia began with the Russian SFSR, a constituent republic of the Soviet Union, gaining more political and economical autonomy amidst the imminent dissolution of the USSR during 1988–1991, proclaiming its sovereignty inside the Union in June 1990, and electing its first President Boris Yeltsin a year later. The Russian ...