Anatoly Chepiga's childhood classmate IDs him, the Kremlin promises to look into it, and Lilia Shevtsova says the Putin regime is rotting Thursday, September 27, 2018 This day in history. On September 27, 2003, a 7.3-magnitude earthquake hit Russia's Altai Republic, killing three people and causing as much as $33 million in damages. It was the strongest recorded earthquake in the region in more than 240 years.