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1953

1959

1965

1971

1977

1983

1989

1995

2001

Basmachi movement

Russian Civil War

Battle for the Donbas (1919)

Likbez

Treaty on the Creation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

Death and state funeral of Vladimir Lenin

1924 Constitution of the Soviet Union

Soviet–Japanese Basic Convention

Treaty of Berlin (1926)

Northern Expedition

First five-year plan (Soviet Union)

Afghan Civil War (1928–1929)

Population transfer in the Soviet Union

Soviet famine of 1930–1933

Soviet–Finnish Non-Aggression Pact

Soviet–Japanese border conflicts

Soviet invasion of Xinjiang

Franco-Soviet Treaty of Mutual Assistance

Montreux Convention Regarding the Regime of the Straits

Spanish Civil War

Battle of Seseña

Siege of Madrid

1936 Constitution of the Soviet Union

Kanchazu Island incident

Battle of Nanking

Battle of Lake Khasan

Baltic Sea campaigns (1939–1945)

Soviet repressions of Polish citizens (1939–1946)

Bombing of Helsinki in World War II

Battles of Khalkhin Gol

German–Soviet Credit Agreement (1939)

Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact

Invasion of Poland

Occupation of Poland (1939–1945)

European theatre of World War II

Battle of the Atlantic

Defence of the Reich

Battle of Lwów (1939)

Soviet invasion of Poland

Battle of Wilno (1939)

Battle of Grodno (1939)

German–Soviet Boundary and Friendship Treaty

Soviet–Estonian Mutual Assistance Treaty

Battle of Szack

Battle of Wytyczno

Soviet–Latvian Mutual Assistance Treaty

Soviet–Lithuanian Mutual Assistance Treaty

Shelling of Mainila

Battle of Petsamo

Battle of Salla (1939)

Battle of Taipale

Battle of Suomussalmi

Battle of Kollaa

Battle of Tolvajärvi

Battle of Summa

Battle of Kelja

Soviet occupation of Latvia in 1940

Occupation of the Baltic states

Battle of Raate Road

Battle of Kuhmo

Czortków uprising

Battle of Honkaniemi

Moscow Peace Treaty

Mediterranean and Middle East theatre of World War II

Masļenki border incident

Soviet occupation of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina

German–Soviet Axis talks

1940–1944 insurgency in Chechnya

June Uprising in Lithuania

Bombing of Königsberg in World War II

Soviet–Japanese Neutrality Pact

Middle East Theatre of World War II

Defense of Brest Fortress

Operation Barbarossa

Eastern Front (World War II)

Battle of Białystok–Minsk

Operation Renntier

Battle of Hanko (1941)

German declaration of war on the Soviet Union

German-Soviet air war 22 June 1941

Battle of Brody (1941)

Battle of Raseiniai

Second Soviet-Finnish War

Bombing of Kassa

Raid on Constanța

Operation Silver Fox

Operation Platinum Fox

Operation Arctic Fox

Operation München

Siege of Mogilev

Baltic operation

Battle of Smolensk (1941)

Leningrad strategic defensive

Pripyat Marshes massacres

Battle of Bengtskär

Arctic convoys of World War II

Finnish invasion of Ladoga Karelia

Battle of Kiev (1941)

Siege of Odessa

Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran

Yelnya offensive

Battle of Porlampi

Finnish invasion of the Karelian Isthmus

Operation Beowulf

Siege of Leningrad

Roslavl–Novozybkov offensive

Battle of the Sea of Azov

Battle of Vyazma–Bryansk

Battle of Moscow

Battle of Bryansk

Crimean campaign

First Battle of Kharkov

Siege of Sevastopol (1941–1942)

Bombing of Gorky in World War II

Tikhvin Offensive

Battle of Rostov (1941)

Winter campaign of 1941–1942

Finnish invasion of East Karelia (1941)

Yelets Operation

Battle of the Kerch Peninsula

Declaration by United Nations

Battles of Rzhev

Demyansk Pocket

Battle of Lyuban

Rzhev–Vyazma Offensive

Yevpatoria assault

Lesoreid uprising

Barvenkovo–Lozovaya offensive

Toropets–Kholm offensive

Vyazma airborne operation

Operation Bamberg

Battle of Suursaari

Operation Hannover

Operation Bustard Hunt

Second Battle of Kharkov

Defense of the Adzhimushkay quarry

Battle of Voronezh (1942)

Battle of the Caucasus

Operation "Seydlitz"

Battle of Someri

Battle of Stalingrad

Battle of Rostov (1942)

Operation Fischreiher

Operation Edelweiss

Battle of Kalach

Battle of Rzhev, summer 1942

Operation Wunderland

Sinyavino offensive (1942)

Kozelsk offensive

Operation Uranus

Battle of Velikiye Luki

Operation Winter Storm

Operation Little Saturn

Raid on Tatsinskaya

Soviet atomic bomb project

Operation Concert

Operation Koltso

Operation Iskra

Ostrogozhsk–Rossosh offensive

Battle of Nikolayevka

Voronezh–Kastornoye offensive

Operation Gallop

Operation Polar Star

Battle of Krasny Bor

Operation Winterzauber

Third Battle of Kharkov

Voronezh–Kharkov offensive

Battle of Sokolovo

Operation Citadel

Battle of Kursk

Battle of Prokhorovka

Operation Kutuzov

Operation Hermann

Donbas strategic offensive (July 1943)

Belgorod–Kharkov offensive operation

Belgorod–Bogodukhov offensive operation

Smolensk operation

Donbas strategic offensive (August 1943)

Battle of the Dnieper

Battle of Lenino

Orsha offensives (1943)

Moscow Conference (1943)

Kerch–Eltigen operation

Battle of Kiev (1943)

Tehran Conference

Gorodok offensive

Battle of Nevel (1943)

Dnieper–Carpathian offensive

Zhitomir–Berdichev offensive

Battle of Romania

Kirovograd offensive

Leningrad–Novgorod offensive

Krasnoye Selo–Ropsha offensive

Battle of Korsun–Cherkassy

Nikopol–Krivoi Rog offensive

Kingisepp–Gdov offensive

Battle of Narva (1944)

Battle for Narva Bridgehead

Rovno–Lutsk offensive

Narva offensive (15–28 February 1944)

Narva offensive (1–4 March 1944)

Uman–Botoșani offensive

Bereznegovatoye–Snigirevka offensive

Polesskoe offensive

Kamenets–Podolsky pocket

Odessa Offensive

Crimean offensive

First Jassy–Kishinev offensive

First Battle of Târgu Frumos

Battle of Gurby

Second Battle of Târgu Frumos

Deportation of the Crimean Tatars

Operation Frantic

Vyborg–Petrozavodsk offensive

Operation Bagration

Battle of Tienhaara

Vitebsk–Orsha offensive

Mogilev offensive

Battle of Tali–Ihantala

Bobruysk offensive

Minsk offensive

Polotsk offensive

Vilnius offensive

Battle of Vyborg Bay (1944)

Battle of Vuosalmi

Šiauliai offensive

Belostok offensive

Lvov–Sandomierz offensive

Battle of Nietjärvi

Lublin–Brest offensive

Battle of Auvere

Narva offensive (July 1944)

Battle of Tannenberg Line

Battle of Ilomantsi (1944)

Kaunas offensive

Battle of Radzymin (1944)

Battle of Studzianki

Tartu offensive

Operation Doppelkopf

Second Jassy–Kishinev offensive

Battle of Turda

Battle of the Dukla Pass

Baltic offensive

Riga offensive (1944)

Battle of Păuliș

Belgrade offensive

Operation Tanne Ost

Tallinn offensive

Moscow Armistice

Battle of Porkuni

Moonsund operation

Battle of Memel

Battle of Debrecen

Petsamo–Kirkenes offensive

Courland Pocket

Gumbinnen Operation

Battle of Carei

Budapest offensive

Battle of Batina

Siege of Budapest

Vistula–Oder offensive

East Prussian offensive

Operation Konrad III

Siege of Breslau

Battle of Poznań (1945)

Heiligenbeil Pocket

Yalta Conference

Lower Silesian offensive

Operation Solstice

Western Carpathian offensive

East Pomeranian offensive

Operation Southwind

Battle of Kolberg (1945)

Operation Spring Awakening

Moravia–Ostrava offensive

Upper Silesian offensive

Nagykanizsa–Körmend offensive

Battle of the Oder–Neisse

Vienna offensive

Battle of Königsberg

Samland offensive

Battle of Berlin

Battle of the Seelow Heights

Battle of Bautzen (1945)

Battle in Berlin

Battle of Halbe

Surrender at Caserta

Bratislava–Brno offensive

Prague offensive

German Instrument of Surrender

Landing at Bornholm

Battle of Slivice

Charter of the United Nations

Potsdam Conference

Soviet–Japanese War

Soviet invasion of Manchuria

Harbin–Kirin Operation

Soviet invasion of South Sakhalin

Battle of Mutanchiang

Seishin Operation

Soviet invasion of the Kuril Islands

Battle of Shumshu

Surrender of Japan

Japanese Instrument of Surrender

Iran crisis of 1946

Nuremberg trials

International Military Tribunal for the Far East

Paris Peace Treaties, 1947

Treaty of Paris between Italy and the Allied Powers

Berlin Blockade

1948 Ashgabat earthquake

Sino-Soviet Treaty of Friendship, Alliance and Mutual Assistance

1951 Polish–Soviet territorial exchange

1952 Severo-Kurilsk earthquake

Death and state funeral of Joseph Stalin

Norilsk uprising

Vorkuta uprising

1954 Geneva Conference

Kengir uprising

Austrian State Treaty

Sino-Soviet split

Khrushchev's Secret Speech

Soviet–Japanese Joint Declaration of 1956

Hungarian Revolution of 1956

Syrian Crisis of 1957

Kyshtym disaster

Expo 58

Laotian Civil War

Antarctic Treaty System

Nedelin catastrophe

Construction of the Berlin Wall

Eritrean War of Independence

Operation Trikora

Novocherkassk massacre

Cuban Missile Crisis

Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty

Rhodesian Bush War

1965 Yerevan demonstrations

Battle of Chawinda

1966 Tashkent earthquake

War of Attrition

Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons

Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia

Sino-Soviet border conflict

Operation Giant Lance

Operation Rimon 20

Four Power Agreement on Berlin

Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty

Ethiopian Civil War

Cuban intervention in Angola

Third Indochina War

Helsinki Accords

Operation Savannah (Angola)

Angolan Civil War

Islamist uprising in Syria

Mozambican Civil War

Strategic Arms Limitation Talks

Soviet–Afghan War

Operation Storm-333

1980 Summer Olympics boycott

Panjshir offensives (Soviet–Afghan War)

Luzhniki disaster

Korean Air Lines Flight 007

1983 Soviet nuclear false alarm incident

United States invasion of Grenada

Battle of Maravar Pass

Second Battle of Zhawar

Chernobyl disaster

Reykjavík Summit

Battle of Arghandab (1987)

Battle of Cuito Cuanavale

Operation Magistral

Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty

Nagorno-Karabakh conflict

Battle for Hill 3234

First Nagorno-Karabakh War

Battle of Afabet

Geneva Accords (1988)

Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan

Spitak earthquake

1989 Fergana pogroms

Ufa train disaster

Malta Summit

1990 Dushanbe riots

Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany

Revolution on Granite

1991 Lithuanian independence referendum

1991 Estonian independence referendum

1991 Soviet Union referendum

1991 Georgian independence referendum

1991 Soviet coup attempt

Dissolution of the Soviet Union

1991 Paris Peace Agreements

Madrid Conference of 1991

1991 Ukrainian independence referendum

Belovezha Accords