USS Alaska (CB-1) a fost prima navă din clasa Alaska de crucișătoare de dimensiuni mari care a servit Marina Statelor Unite la sfârșitului celui de-al Doilea Război Mondial.Cealaltă navă din clasa ei a fost Guam; alte patru nave de acest tip au mai fost comandate, dar nu au fost finalizate până la sfârșitul războiului. Alaska a fost a treia navă a Marinei SUA care a fost numită ...

The Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation (Russian: Министерство обороны Российской Федерации, Минобороны России, informally abbreviated as МО, МО РФ or Minoboron) is the governing body of the Russian Armed Forces.. The President of Russia is the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and directs the ...

Pedro I de Rusia o Pedro I Alekséievich, apodado Pedro el Grande (ruso: Пётр I, Пётр Великий, Пётр Алексéевич; Moscú, 30 de mayo jul. / 9 de junio de 1672 greg. - San Petersburgo, 28 de enero jul. / 8 de febrero de 1725 greg.), [1] fue uno de los gobernantes más destacados de la historia de Rusia, perteneciente a la dinastía Románov.

Russian Post has a system of postal codes (Russian: почтовый индекс, pochtovyy indeks) based on the federal subject a place is located in. Each postal code consists of six digits with first three referring to the federal subject or the administrative division with special status.

Unity Day (also called Day of People's Unity or National Unity Day; Russian: День народного единства, romanized: Denʹ narodnogo yedinstva) is a national holiday in Russia held on 4 November [O.S. 22 October]. It commemorates the popular uprising which expelled Polish–Lithuanian occupation forces from Moscow by a militia from Nizhny Novgorod in …

Grand Duchess Catherine Pavlovna of Russia (Russian: Екатерина Павловна; 21 May 1788 [OS 10 May 1788] – 9 January 1819) later Queen Catharina Pavlovna of Württemberg, was the fourth daughter of Tsar Paul I of Russia and Duchess Sophie Dorothea of Württemberg.She became the Queen of Württemberg upon her marriage to her first cousin Crown Prince William …

Vladimir Putin has served three terms and is currently in a fourth as President of Russia (2000–2004, 2004–2008, 2012–2018 and May 2018 to present) and served as Acting President from 1999 to 2000, succeeding Boris Yeltsin after Yeltsin's resignation.. Putin was also Prime Minister for three months in 1999 and served a full term from 2008 to 2012. . During his …

The State Award System of the Russian Federation has varied and distinct origins. The first being pre-1917 orders of the Russian Empire re-established after the 1991 dissolution of the Soviet Union, the second is from former Soviet orders that were slightly modified and retained post 1991, we also find many completely new awards resembling Imperial awards in basic design since …

On 13 March [1 March, Old Style], 1881, Alexander II, the Emperor of Russia, was assassinated in Saint Petersburg, Russia while returning to the Winter Palace from Mikhailovsky Manège in a closed carriage. The assassination was planned by the Executive Committee of Narodnaya Volya ("People's Will"), chiefly by Andrei Zhelyabov.Of the four assassins coordinated by Sophia …

The Kuril Islands dispute, known as the Northern Territories dispute in Japan, is a territorial dispute between Japan and Russia over the ownership of the four southernmost Kuril Islands.The Kuril Islands are a chain of islands that stretch between the Japanese island of Hokkaido at their southern end and the Russian Kamchatka Peninsula at their northern end.