On this day

On this day

Birth of Russian polar explorer, writer, ethnographer Konstantin Dmitrievich Nosilov

29 October 1858

Konstantin Dmitrievich Nosilov was born on October 17 (29), 1858 in the village of Maslyanskoye, Krestovsky volost, Shadrinsky district, Perm province (now Kurgan Region) in the family of a village priest. From 1868 he studied at the Dalmatov Monastery, and later at the Perm Theological Seminary, from which he was expelled “for lack of diligence”.

The first icebreaker in the world “Yermak” was commissioned

29 October 1898

In December 1897 on the initiative and with an active participation of Admiral Stepan Osipovich Makarov on the stocks of the British manufacturing company Armstrong Whitworth, Newcastle on the order of Russia was founded the first icebreaker in the world, which was able to break through a heavy ice up to 2 m thickness.
 

The Russian Communist Union of Youth (RCUY) was created

29 October 1918

The Unions of working youth started to appear in different Russian cities and town during the preparative work for the revolution of 1917. Their principal goal was to draw the youth into   revolutionary struggle.