April 17 (28), 1732 the Senate received an imperial edict to send Captain V. I. Bering to an expedition to Kamchatka, which marked the beginning of the organization of the Second Kamchatka expedition.
Trofim Grigorievich Ryabinin, founder of Ryabinin’s epic tradition, teller of folk tales, one of the most prominent figures among storytellers of the Olonets Province in the 19th century was born April 15 (28), 1801 in the village of Garnitsy, Petrozavodsk District, Olonets Province (at present - the territory of Medvezhyegorsky District, Republic of Karelia).
16 (28) April 1879, Nikolai M. Nemtsov, a Bolshevik revolutionary, an active participant in the 1905 revolution, and a participant in the formation of Soviet power in the Tobolsk province, was born in Tula in a large family of a gunsmith worker.
On April 16 (28), 1895 on the initiative of Transbaikalia Department of the Imperial Russian Geographical Society was founded the Chita Public Library (now Transbaikalia Universal Research Library n. a. A. S. Pushkin).
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