Moscow

City

The historic seat of the Muscovite tsars and, from 1918, the capital of Soviet Russia, the Soviet Union and the Russian Federation.

View on map 55.76° N, 37.62° E Wikipedia

Held by

1789 – September 14, 1917 Russian Empire de facto
September 14, 1812 – October 18, 1812 France de facto Military occupation
September 14, 1917 – November 7, 1917 Russia de facto
December 6, 1917 – December 30, 1922 Russia de facto
December 30, 1922 – December 25, 1991 Soviet Union de facto
since December 26, 1991 Russia de facto

Capital of

1728 – 1732 Russian Empire The court of Peter II
since March 12, 1918 Russia
December 30, 1922 – December 26, 1991 Soviet Union

Events here 48

September 15–17, 1771 Moscow plague riot of 1771
June 24 – December 14, 1812 French invasion of Russia
September 14–18, 1812 Fire of Moscow (1812)
June 3, 1896 Li–Lobanov Treaty
December 18, 1905 – January 2, 1906 Moscow uprising of 1905
November 7, 1917 – June 16, 1923 Russian Civil War
July 6–7, 1918 Left SR uprising
May 7, 1920 Treaty of Moscow (1920)
July 12, 1920 Soviet–Lithuanian Peace Treaty
1921 Treaty of Moscow (1921)
February 26, 1921 Russo-Persian Treaty of Friendship (1921)
December 29, 1922 – December 12, 1991 Treaty on the Creation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
December 30, 1922 Declaration of the Creation of the USSR
October 1, 1928 – December 31, 1932 First five-year plan (Soviet Union)
February 9, 1929 Litvinov Protocol
July 25, 1932 – September 17, 1939 Soviet–Polish Non-Aggression Pact
August 19, 1936 – November 17, 1938 Great Purge
August 23, 1939 Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact
September 28, 1939 German–Soviet Boundary and Friendship Treaty
September 28, 1939 Soviet–Estonian Mutual Assistance Treaty
October 5, 1939 Soviet–Latvian Mutual Assistance Treaty
October 10, 1939 Soviet–Lithuanian Mutual Assistance Treaty
March 12, 1940 Moscow Peace Treaty
April 13, 1941 Soviet–Japanese Neutrality Pact
October 2, 1941 – January 7, 1942 Battle of Moscow
October 18 – November 11, 1943 Moscow Conference (1943)
October 30, 1943 Moscow Declarations
September 19, 1944 Moscow Armistice
February 14, 1950 Sino-Soviet Treaty of Friendship, Alliance and Mutual Assistance
March 5–9, 1953 Death and state funeral of Joseph Stalin
February 25, 1956 Khrushchev's Secret Speech
October 19, 1956 Soviet–Japanese Joint Declaration of 1956
August 5, 1963 Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
August 12, 1970 Treaty of Moscow (1970)
April 10, 1972 Biological Weapons Convention
May 26, 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty
September 12, 1990 Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany
July 31, 1991 START I
August 19–21, 1991 1991 Soviet coup attempt
1992 – October 4, 1993 1993 Russian constitutional crisis
January 3, 1993 START II
September 1999 – September 16, 1999 1999 Russian apartment bombings
July 16, 2001 2001 Sino-Russian Treaty of Friendship
May 24, 2002 – February 5, 2011 Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty
October 23–26, 2002 Moscow theater hostage crisis
March 29, 2010 2010 Moscow Metro bombings
February 27, 2015 Assassination of Boris Nemtsov
May 3, 2023 Kremlin drone attack