On this day

On this day

The first issue of the Yermak newspaper published in Tyumen

11 May 1912

On April 28 (May 11), 1912 the first issue of the Yermak newspaper was published in Tyumen. It was a progressive, non-partisan, literary, public newspaper, transformed from the newspaper Siberian Trade Intermediary. Yermak was published in Tyumen from April 28 (May 11), 1912 to April 29 (May 12), 1917.

The Constitution of the RSFSR was adopted (1925)

11 May 1925

On May 11, 1925, the All-Russian Congress of Soviets of Workers', Peasants', Cossacks' and Red Army deputies approved the revised text of the Constitution of the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic, formalizing the new state-legal status of Russia as a union republic within the USSR.

The end of Prague Offensive

11 May 1945

On May 11, 1945 in the course of Prague Offensive (6-11 May 1945) the troops of the 1st, 2nd and 4th Ukrainian fronts completed the liberation of Czechoslovakia.