What hapend in Tunguska in 1908 ?
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cute_blondie_angel is correct, although the impact was likely a comet and not an asteroid as there is no impact crater.
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Big Triangle found in Ural mountains in 1842 - about 36 kg (more than 80 pounds)
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La Revolucion Bolchevique es la Revolucion Rusa de 1917, quando los comunistas depusieran al Czar (el rey) de Russia. Russia paso a ser conocida por su nuevo nombre: Union de las Republicas Socialistas Sovieticas.\n\n(Desculpe, no se hablar espanhol...=(
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Komitet Gosudastvennoy Bezopasnosti.\n\nDecember 1917 Cheka \nFebruary 1922 GPU \nJuly 1923 OGPU \nJuly 1934 GUGB \nFebruary 1941 NKGB \nJuly 1941 GUGB \nApril 1943 NKGB \nMarch 1946 MGB \nMarch 1953 MVD \nMarch 1954 KGB
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Imperial Russia is the term used to cover the period of history from the expansion of Russia under Peter the Great, through the expansion of the Russian Empire from the Baltic Sea to the Pacific Ocean, to the deposal of Nicholas II of Russia, the last tsar, at the start of the Russian Revolution of 1917.
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Ur question is not clear.althought russians lauched a dog named  Lika into space  in 1958.Which incidently never came back alive.
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See this site:\nhttp://museum.woolworths.co.uk/1910s-wwbuilding.htm
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"Russia, one of the Allied powers during the war, had problems with its supply routes over sea. The Baltic Sea was locked by the German Navy, while the Black Sea's only entrance was through the Bosporus, which was controlled by the Ottoman Empire."\n\n"By late 1914, the Western Front, in France and Belgium, had effectively become fixed. A new front was desperately needed."\n\n"After the failure of the naval attacks, it had become clear that ground troops were necessary to eliminate the Turkish mobile artillery."\n\nThe Australian and New Zealand Army Corps, "The Anzacs were to land north of Gaba Tepe on the Aegean coast from where they could advance across the peninsula and prevent retreat from or reinforcement of Kilitbahir."
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1896 became permanent in 1902
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Approximately late April/early May through August/possibly September. I used to live in Fairbanks, AK. Smack in the middle of the tiaga.
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Alaska Jan 3rd, 1959\nHawaii Aug 21, 1959
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rusian revolution changes\n\nhttp://www.museum.ru/mirror/vlmp/l_VLMPe.asp\n\n:> peace
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like when? the city is 850 years old, and spend half that time being capital of Russia, so lotsa stuff went down.\n\nhere are just some benchmarks that are not so obvious from general history of Russia\n\n1250 - Founded by Yuri Dolgorukii, who ruled Russia from then-captial Kiev\n\n1533-1580 reign of Ivan the Terrible, who finished consolidating power in Moscow. The city witnesses some gruesome medieval-style executions, hence the "Terrible" nickname.\n\n~1610 As a result of civil war after Ivan's death, Moscow is taken by Polish troops, who are soon kicked out by russian militia\n\n~1710 Peter the Great moves capital to freshly Built Saint Petersburg. Moscow become a provincial city\n\n1812 Napoleon invasion. After a bloody Borodino battle, Russians set fire to the city & abandon it.  Napoleon moves in nonetheless, rans out of food and is forced to retreat in the middle of winter, loosing most of his army.\n\n1924 Communists move capital back to Moscow since St-Petersburg (renamed Leningrad) was too close to border with capitalist Finland.\n\nwinter 1941-1942 Battle of Moscow, outgunned Russian troops aided by Russian winter stop Germans miles away front he city and counterattack.\n\n1991 Hard-line communists attempt a coup against Gorbachev's liberalization. Mass protests in Moscow, headed by Boris Yeltsin. Military moves in, but takes the side of protesters, and the coup fails. Yeltsin uses resulting political capital to disband Soviet Union.\n\n1993 Right-wing parliament starts a standoff with Yelstin, resulting in troops moving in again. This time, fighting erupts, ~100 people die and parliament building is shelled by tanks. Yeltsin prevails, parliament assumes "puppy dog" posture from then on.
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Russia            144,978,573\nUnited States     280,562,489
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im pretty sure it was always russia, but it became the major part of the USSR a couple years later
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Theodore Roosevelt, from 1901 to 1909.
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William Jennings Bryan in 1896, 1900, and 1908