On this day

On this day

Anniversary of Fort Ross foundation

11 September 1812

August 30 (September 11), 1812 a native of Totma, Ivan Alexandrovich Kuskov, founded the Fort Ross on the Pacific coast of California, for fishing and fur trade. It became the most distant point of the settlement of Russian colonists and the southern outpost of the Russian empire in North America.
 

Birthday of the founder of the Tobolsk Provincial Museum, editor of the Tobolsk Provincial Gazette, Siberian local historian Ivan Nikolaevich Yushkov

11 September 1833

Ivan Nikolaevich Yushkov was born on August 30 (September 11), 1833 in Tobolsk in the family of the priest of the Tobolsk St. Sophia Cathedral, Nikolai Andreevich Yushkov. After graduating from the Tobolsk Theological Seminary in 1852, he was appointed teacher of the parish school in his hometown. In 1853 he was appointed assistant inspector, and then acting inspector. For his diligent service he was awarded the Order of St. Stanislaus, III degree, and St. Anne, III degree.

Alexander Column grand opening in St. Petersburg

11 September 1834

August 30 (11 September), 1834 at the Palace Square in St. Petersburg took place a grand opening of the Alexander Column - a monument dedicated to the victory of the Russian army in the Patriotic War of 1812.