1765 in Russia

• Monarch – Catherine II

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• Foundation of the Novodevichii Institute.
• Free Economic Society was founded.
• Catherine II promulgated the "Manifesto on the Empire’s General Land Survey".
• The special “Gypsy” regiments were abolished and Roma then registered in the existing “sotni” (Cossack squadrons) and regiments, thus they were given civil rights like the rest of the population.
• Alexander Bezborodko was appointed the Chief of the Office of Little Russia Governor-General Count Peter Rumyantsev.

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• Vasily Malinovsky, Russian diplomat (d. 1814)
• Pyotr Bagration, Russian general (d. 1812)
• Timofei Fedorovic Osipovsky, Russian mathematician (d. 1832)
• Ivan Aleksandrovich Kuskov, Manager of Fort Ross (d. 1823)

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• April 15 – Mikhail Lomonosov, Russian author and scientist (b. 1711)

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