Timeline of Moscow

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The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Moscow, Russia.

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Prior to 16th century

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16th–17th centuries

18th century

19th century

20th century

=1900s–1940s=

=1950s–1990s=

  • 1953 – 5 March: Joseph Stalin dies.{{citation |title=Timelines: History of the U.S.S.R. from 1917 to 1991 |encyclopedia=World Book |location=USA }}
  • 1954 – Hotel Leningradskaya built.
  • 1957
  • Moscow Central Clinical Hospital opened.
  • City hosts Ice hockey world championship
  • City hosts 6th World Festival of Youth and Students.
  • 1959
  • Moscow International Film Festival officially starts with its debut edition.
  • Population: 5,032,000.
  • 24 July: Nixon–Khrushchev Kitchen Debate occurs at the American National Exhibition.
  • 1960
  • Peoples' Friendship University founded.{{Citation |url = https://archive.org/details/moscowbookmapbae00sons |title = Baedeker's Moscow |date = 1995 |publisher = Baedeker |isbn = 978-0671896843 |url-access = registration }}
  • Moscow Ring Road is the new city border. Tushino, Babushkin, Perovo, Kuntsevo, Lyublino became parts of Moscow.
  • Over five million Muscovites are vaccinated in order to end the {{Interlanguage link multi|1959–1960 Moscow smallpox outbreak|ru|3=Вспышка оспы в Москве (1959–1960)}}.
  • 1961
  • Rossiya Cinema built.
  • October: American Committee for Non-Violent Action peace walkers arrive in Moscow.{{cite web |url= http://nvdatabase.swarthmore.edu/ |title=Global Nonviolent Action Database |publisher=Swarthmore College |location=Pennsylvania, USA |access-date=26 December 2013 }}
  • 1962
  • {{Interlanguage link multi|Moscow City Archives|ru|3=Главное архивное управление города Москвы}} established.{{cite web |url=http://www.iisg.nl/abb/rep/D-01.tab2.php |title=Glavnoe arkhivnoe upravlenie goroda Moskvy (Glavarkhiv Moskvy) |work=ArcheoBiblioBase: Archives in Russia |publisher=International Institute of Social History |location=Amsterdam |access-date=30 May 2015 }}[https://books.google.com/books?id=NphkUTKf50oC&pg=PA50]
  • Moscow Domodedovo Airport opens.
  • 1963 – Nuclear Test Ban Treaty signed in Moscow.{{citation |work=New York Times |url= http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/on-this-day/ |title= On This Day |access-date=30 November 2014 }}
  • 1964 – Taganka Theatre founded.{{cite book|editor=Tatiana Smorodinskaya|title=Encyclopedia of Contemporary Russian Culture |year=2007 |publisher=Routledge|isbn=9780415320948 |display-editors=etal}}
  • 1965 – Population: 6,366,000.{{cite book |chapter-url= https://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/products/dyb/1960_round.htm |title=Demographic Yearbook 1965 |year=1966 |publisher=Statistical Office of the United Nations |location=New York |chapter=Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants |quote=Moskva }}
  • 1966 – Gorizont Cinema opens.{{cite web |url= http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/russian-federation/moscow?status=all |title=Movie Theaters in Moscow, Russian Federation |work=CinemaTreasures.org |publisher= Cinema Treasures LLC |location=Los Angeles |access-date=26 December 2013 }}
  • 1968 – 25 August: 1968 Red Square demonstration.
  • 1970 – Population: 6,941,961.
  • 1971 – Great Moscow State Circus auditorium opens.
  • 1979
  • Spartak Tennis Club built.
  • Moscow Virtuosi orchestra formed.
  • 1980 – 1980 Summer Olympics held.
  • 1981 – Moscow International Peace Marathon begins.
  • 1982 – Satyricon Theatre opens its doors.
  • 1985 – Population: 8,642,000.{{cite book |chapter-url= https://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/products/dyb/1980_round.htm |title=1985 Demographic Yearbook |year=1987 |author=United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Statistical Office |location=New York |chapter=Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants |pages=247–289 }}
  • 1988 – Moscow People's Front organized.{{cite journal |title=A House Divided: A Roll-Call Analysis of the First Session of the Moscow City Soviet |author= Terry D. Clark |journal= Slavic Review |volume= 51 |issue= 4 |pages= 674–690 |year= 1992 |jstor=2500131 |doi= 10.2307/2500131 |s2cid= 155247647 }}
  • 1989
  • August: Moscow Music Peace Festival.
  • Population: 8,967,332.
  • 1990
  • Gavriil Kharitonovich Popov becomes mayor.
  • Moscow Federation of Trade Unions and Sobinbank{{cite book |title= Europa World Year Book 2004 |isbn=978-1857432534 |publisher=Taylor & Francis }} founded.
  • Kremlin Cup tennis tournament begins.
  • 1991
  • August: 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt.
  • Moscow Chamber of Commerce and Russian State University for the Humanities established.
  • Prix Benois de la Danse (ballet contest) begins.
  • 1992
  • Moscow Interbank Currency Exchange and Russian Institute of Strategic Studies{{cite web |url=http://thinktanks.fpri.org/ |title=Think Tank Directory |location=Philadelphia |publisher=Foreign Policy Research Institute |access-date=26 December 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131110100006/http://thinktanks.fpri.org/ |archive-date=10 November 2013 |df=dmy-all }} established.
  • Yury Luzhkov becomes mayor.
  • Moscow Times English-language newspaper begins publication.
  • Figure Skating Federation of Russia headquartered in city.
  • 1993
  • Moscow designated capital of the Russian Federation per Constitution.{{cite web |url=http://www.constitution.ru/en/10003000-04.htm |title=Constitution of the Russian Federation |access-date=26 December 2013}}
  • TV-6 begins broadcasting.
  • Moscow City Duma and American Center in Moscow founded.
  • Kazan Cathedral reconstructed.
  • 1995
  • Arch Moscow exhibit begins.
  • Hungry Duck bar in business.
  • Monument erected in Victory Park.{{sfn|Forest|2002}}
  • 1996 – 11 November: Kotlyakovskoya Cemetery bombing.
  • 1997
  • Memorial Mosque built on Poklonnaya Hill.{{sfn|Forest|2002}}{{cite web |author=ArchNet.org |publisher=MIT School of Architecture and Planning |location=Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA |url=http://archnet.org/library/places/one-place.jsp?place_id=2770 |title=Moscow |access-date=26 December 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131227024141/http://archnet.org/library/places/one-place.jsp?place_id=2770 |archive-date=27 December 2013 |df=dmy-all }}
  • Moscow Marathon Luzhniki begins.
  • 1999 – September: Apartment bombing.
  • 2000 – City becomes part of the Central Federal District.{{citation needed|date=April 2015}}

21st century

See also

{{Portal|Russia|History}}

References

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This article incorporates information from the Russian Wikipedia.

Bibliography

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=Published in 16th–18th centuries=

  • {{Citation |publisher = James MacLehose and Sons |location = Glasgow |author = Richard Hakluyt |title = The Principal Navigations Voyages Traffiques & Discoveries of the English Nation |volume=2 |date = 1903 |chapter=(Citie of Mosco) |chapter-url= https://archive.org/stream/principalnavigat002hakl#page/426/mode/2up

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  • {{Citation |publisher =S. Birt |location = London |author = Thomas Nugent |title = The Grand Tour |date = 1749 |chapter=Moscow |volume=2: Germany and Holland

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  • {{Citation |publisher = Printed by J. Nichols, for T. Cadell |location = London |title = Travels into Poland, Russia, Sweden and Denmark |author = William Coxe |author-link = William Coxe (historian) |date = 1784 |oclc = 654136 |chapter-url= https://archive.org/stream/travelspolandrus01coxe#page/260/mode/2up |chapter=Moscow

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  • {{Citation |publisher = J.F.C. Rivington |location = London |author = Richard Brookes |author-link=Richard Brookes |title = The General Gazetteer |edition=6th |date = 1786 |chapter-url= https://archive.org/stream/generalgazetteer00broouoft#page/n427/mode/1up |chapter=Moscow

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=Published in 19th century=

  • {{Citation |publisher = Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown |date = 1819 |location = London |title = The Cyclopaedia |author= Abraham Rees |chapter=Moscow |chapter-url= https://archive.org/stream/cyclopaediaoruni24rees#page/n218/mode/1up

|title-link = Rees's Cyclopædia }}

  • {{Citation |publisher = S. Converse |location = New Haven |author1 = Jedidiah Morse |author-link1=Jedidiah Morse |author2=Richard C. Morse |title = A New Universal Gazetteer |date = 1823 |edition= 4th |chapter-url= https://archive.org/stream/newuniversalgaze00morsrich#page/493/mode/1up |chapter=Moscow }}
  • {{Citation |publisher = Adam Black |location = Edinburgh |title = Universal Geography |author = Conrad Malte-Brun |date = 1827 |chapter=(Moscow) |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LkYNAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA549 |volume=6 |author-link = Conrad Malte-Brun }}
  • {{Cite book |publisher =William Blackwood |date = 1830 |location = Edinburgh |title = Edinburgh Encyclopaedia |editor=David Brewster |chapter=Moscow |chapter-url= https://archive.org/stream/edinburghencyclo14edinuoft#page/n751/mode/1up |title-link = Edinburgh Encyclopaedia }}
  • {{Citation |publisher = J.Duncan |location = London |title = The Modern Traveller |chapter-url =https://archive.org/stream/moderntraveller17condiala#page/118/mode/2up |chapter=Moscow |author = Josiah Conder |author-link=Josiah Conder (editor and author) |date =1830 |volume=Russia }}
  • {{cite book |title=Guide to St. Petersburgh and Moscow |year=1834 |location=London |author=Francis Coghlan |author-link=Francis Coghlan }}
  • {{Citation |date = c. 1845 |location = London |title = Russia Illustrated |chapter=Moscow |chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/russiaillustrate00gilb#page/154/mode/2up |author= Linney Gilbert |oclc=17246545 }}
  • {{cite book |title=Geography |volume=3 |work=English Cyclopaedia |editor=Charles Knight |location=London |year=1867 |chapter=Moscow

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  • {{Citation |publisher = Frederick Warne & Co. |location = London |author = George Henry Townsend |title = A Manual of Dates |date = 1867 |edition=2nd |chapter=Moscow |chapter-url= https://archive.org/stream/manualofdatesdic00townrich#page/676/mode/1up

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  • {{Citation |publisher = William Tegg |location = London |title = Dictionary of Chronology |editor = William Henry Overall |date = 1870 |oclc = 2613202 |chapter=Moscow |chapter-url= https://archive.org/stream/dictionaryofchro00overiala#page/583/mode/1up

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  • {{Citation |publisher = Harper & Brothers |location = New York |author = W. Pembroke Fetridge |chapter-url = https://archive.org/stream/americantravell03unkngoog#page/n283/mode/2up |chapter=Moscow |title = Harper's Hand-Book for Travellers in Europe and the East |date = 1874

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  • {{Citation |publisher = Ticknor and Company |location = Boston, USA |author = Maturin Murray Ballou |date = 1887 |title = Due North; or, Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia |chapter=(Moscow) |chapter-url= https://archive.org/stream/duenorthorglimps00ballrich#page/290/mode/2up

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  • {{Cite book |publisher = John Murray |date = 1888 |location = London |title = Hand-book for Travellers in Russia, Poland, and Finland |edition=4th |chapter-url= https://books.google.com/books?id=AenSXGLDulUC&pg=PA221 |chapter= Moscow

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  • {{Citation |series =Mediaeval Towns |location=London |publisher=J.M. Dent & Co. |author = William Oliver Greener |title = The Story of Moscow |date = 1900

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=Published in 20th century=

  • {{cite book |title=Chambers's Encyclopaedia |location=London |chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/chamberssency07lond#page/324/mode/1up |chapter=Moscow |year=1901

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  • {{Cite book |publisher = Hurst and Blackett |location = London |author= Annette M.B. Meakin |title = Russia, Travels and Studies |date = 1906 |oclc = 3664651 |chapter-url = https://archive.org/stream/cu31924028397929#page/n139/mode/2up |chapter = Moscow

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  • {{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Moscow |volume= 18 |last1= Kropotkin |first1= Peter Alexeivitch |author1-link= Peter Kropotkin |last2= Bealby |first2= John Thomas | pages = 891–894 |date=1910 |ref= {{harvid|Britannica|1910}} |short= 1}}
  • {{Citation |publisher = Ward, Lock & Co. |location = London |title = Haydn's Dictionary of Dates |author = Benjamin Vincent |edition = 25th |date = 1910 |chapter=Moscow |chapter-url = https://archive.org/stream/haydnsdictionary00hayd#page/924/mode/1up

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|title-link = Haydn's Dictionary of Dates }}

  • {{Citation |publisher = Dent |location = London |author = Vasily Klyuchevsky |translator = C. J. Hogarth | translator-link = C. J. Hogarth |title = A History of Russia |date = 1911 |chapter=(Moscow) |chapter-url= https://archive.org/stream/historyofrussia01kliu#page/272/mode/2up

|author-link = Vasily Klyuchevsky }}

  • {{Citation |publisher = Grant Richards |location = London |author = Nathaniel Newnham Davis |title = The Gourmet's Guide to Europe |date = 1911 |edition=3rd |chapter-url= https://archive.org/stream/gourmetsguidetoe00daviuoft#page/388/mode/2up |chapter=Moscow

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  • {{Cite book |publisher = Dodd, Mead and Company |location = New York |title = The Tourist's Russia |author = Ruth Kedzie Wood |date = 1912 |oclc = 526774 |chapter-url = https://archive.org/stream/touristsrussia00wood#page/110/mode/2up |chapter= Moscow

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  • {{Cite book |publisher = L.C. Page |location = Boston |author = Nevin O. Winter |title = The Russian Empire of To-day and Yesterday |date = 1913 |chapter-url = https://archive.org/stream/russianempireoft00wintuoft#page/44/mode/2up |chapter = The Muscovite Capital

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  • {{Cite book |publisher = Karl Baedeker |location = Leipzig |title = Russia with Teheran, Port Arthur, and Peking |date = 1914 |oclc = 1328163 |chapter-url = https://archive.org/stream/russiawithtehera00baed#page/269/mode/2up |chapter= Moscow

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  • {{cite book|editor=Francis Whiting Halsey |series=Seeing Europe with Famous Authors |year=1914|publisher=Funk & Wagnalls Company |title= Russia, Scandinavia, and the Southeast |volume=10 |via=HathiTrust |chapter-url= http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/003345383 |chapter= Moscow

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  • {{cite magazine |magazine=Life |title=Moscow Today |location=USA |author= Walter Graebner |date=11 January 1943 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pk4EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA79 |via=Google Books

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  • {{cite book|editor=W.A. Robson |editor-link=William A. Robson |title=Great Cities of the World: their Government, Politics and Planning |year=1954 |publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-135-67247-8 |chapter=Moscow |chapter-url= https://books.google.com/books?id=4U8gAkKQ3aIC |page=383+

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  • {{Citation |publisher = University of Oklahoma Press |location = USA |title = Moscow and the Roots of Russian Culture |author = Arthur Voyce |date = 1964 |oclc = 1333562

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  • {{Citation |publisher = Novosti Press Agency Publishing House |location = Moscow |title = From Moscow to Yalta (Guide for Motorists) |author = Aleksandr Avdeenko |date = 1968 |oclc = 74861 |chapter=Moscow

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  • {{citation |title=Moscow: The City Around Red Square |year=1978 |volume=153 |work=National Geographic Magazine |location=Washington DC }}
  • {{Citation |publisher = Lonely Planet |location = Australia |title = Russia, Ukraine & Belarus |year = 1996 |ol=16478112W |chapter=Moscow |page= 192+ |chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/russiaukrainebel00nobl#page/192/mode/2up

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  • {{cite journal |title=Moscow and St. Petersburg, a sequence of capitals, a tale of two cities |author= Olga Gritsai and Herman van der Wusten |journal= GeoJournal |volume= 51 |issue= 1/2 |pages= 33–45 |year=2000 |jstor=41147495

|doi= 10.1023/A:1010849220006 |s2cid= 154264277 }}

=Published in 21st century=

  • {{cite journal |title=Unraveling the Threads of History: Soviet-Era Monuments and Post-Soviet National Identity in Moscow |author1= Benjamin Forest |author2= Juliet Johnson |journal= Annals of the Association of American Geographers |volume= 92 |issue= 3 |year=2002 |jstor=1515475 | doi = 10.1111/1467-8306.00303 |pages=524–547

|ref= {{harvid|Forest|2002}}

|citeseerx= 10.1.1.553.5846 |s2cid= 6663929 }}

  • {{cite web |title=Moscow |work=Understanding Slums: Case Studies for the Global Report 2003 |url= http://www.ucl.ac.uk/dpu-projects/Global_Report/a-z.htm |publisher=United Nations Human Settlements Programme and University College London |year=2003

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  • {{cite book|author=Roman A. Cybriwsky|title=Capital Cities around the World: An Encyclopedia of Geography, History, and Culture |year= 2013 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |isbn=978-1-61069-248-9 |chapter=Moscow |page=197+

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  • {{cite book|author=Alexander M. Martin|title=Enlightened Metropolis: Constructing Imperial Moscow, 1762–1855 |year= 2013 |publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-960578-1

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