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History of Russia; Timeline of Russian history; List of years in Russia; Events from the year 1870 in Russia. Incumbents ... 1870 in Russia. Add languages ...
This is a list of wars and armed conflicts involving Russia and its predecessors in chronological order, from the 9th to the 21st century.. The Russian military and troops of its predecessor states in Russia took part in a large number of wars and armed clashes in various parts of the world: starting from the princely squads, opposing the raids of nomads, and fighting for the expansion of the ...
Russia's industrial regions included Moscow, the central regions of European Russia, Saint Petersburg, the Baltic cities, Russian Poland, some areas along the lower Don and Dnepr rivers, and the southern Ural Mountains. By 1890 Russia had about 32,000 kilometers of railroads and 1.4 million factory workers, most of whom worked in the textile ...
French invasion of Russia (1812): The French army crossed the Neman River into Russia. 14 September: French invasion of Russia (1812): The French army entered a deserted Moscow, the high-water mark of their invasion. 14 December: French invasion of Russia (1812): The last French troops were forced off of Russian territory. 1813: 24 October
In the late 1870s, Russia and the Ottoman Empire again clashed in the Balkans. From 1875 to 1877, the Balkan crisis intensified, with rebellions against Ottoman rule by various Slavic nationalities, [72] which the Ottoman Turks had dominated since the 15th century. This was seen as a political risk in Russia, which similarly suppressed its ...
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The Russian divisions were organised into corps of 2 to 3 divisions, a corps excluding support and command staff would consist of 20,160 infantry, 2,048 cavalry, 96 field guns and 12 horse drawn guns (this is for a 2 division corps). [48] The Russian army in 1874 contained 754,265 men and by 1 January 1878, this had risen to over 1.5 million men.
The publications of the Royal Geographical Society in 1869 made the arrival of British Pundits at Lhasa known in Russia. [69] The Russian explorer Nikolay Przhevalsky felt there was a British threat to Russian ambitions in Inner Asia, and set out on a series of 1870s expeditions.