Twenty main events in the history of Russia

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	862	The beginning of the reign of Rurik in Rus' and the formation of the state
	965	The defeat of the Khazar Kaganate by the army of the Kyiv prince Svyatoslav Igorevich
	988	Baptism of Rus'
	1240	Neva battle - a military conflict between the Russians led by the Novgorod Prince Alexander and the Swedes
	1242	The battle on Lake Peipsi is the battle between the Russians, led by Alexander Nevsky and the Knights of the Livonian Order (“Ice Battle”)
	1480	The final deliverance of Rus' from the Mongol-Tatar yoke
	1552	The capture of Kazan by the Russian troops of Ivan the Terrible, the cessation of the existence of the Kazan Khanate and its inclusion in Moscow Rus'

	1612	the liberation of Moscow from the Poles by the People's Militia of Minin and Pozharsky
	1613	The coming to power in Russia of the Romanov dynasty
	1667	Andrusovsky truce between Russia and Poland. Left -bank Ukraine, Kyiv and Smolensk, departed to Russia
	1700-1721	Northern War - hostilities between Russia and Sweden
	1812	Battle of Borodino - a battle between the Russian army, led by Kutuzov and French troops under the command of Napoleon

	1825	The Decembrist uprising is an armed anti -government rebellion of officers of the Russian army
	1853-1856	Crimean war. In this military conflict of the Russian Empire was opposed by England, France and the Ottoman Empire
	1861	The abolition of serfdom in Russia
	1914	The beginning of the First World War and the entry into it of the Russian Empire
	1917	revolutions in Russia (February and October)
	1918-1922	Civil War in Russia. Ended with the victory of the Bolsheviks and the creation of the Soviet state
	1941-1945	Great Patriotic War (war between the USSR and Germany)
	1961	The first flight of a person into space. The pioneer became Yuri Gagarin from the USSR
	1991	The collapse of the USSR and the fall of socialism
	1993	The adoption of the Constitution by the Russian Federation
	2014	Conflict of Russia and Ukraine, a new refusal of Russia from the trade rules of Western exchanges