At the beginning of the history of Tobolsk, before the Kremlin's construction, there were formed two independent parts of the city - the prison and the Sophia Court. The first prison was located on the left side of the Pryamsky Vzvoz (street) in 1587, and in 1600 it was moved to the right side of the street. In 1621, the Siberian Archdiocese resided in the place of the former prison. The civil buildings of the Maliy (Voznesensky) Gorod and the churches of the Sophia Court were wooden.
8 (20) May 1818, in Mitau (Jelgava, Latvia), into the family of a merchant of the third guild was born Eduard Ivanovich Totleben, Russian military engineer, adjutant general, honorary member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences, a member of the State Council of the Russian Empire, count.
May 20, 1919 Chairman of the Central Executive Committee Mikhail Kalinin approved the Regulations "On the State Publishing House," according to which, in Moscow, was organized the first major Soviet publishing house under the People's Commissariat for Education of the RSFSR.
On May 20, 1942 by the Decree of the Supreme Soviet Presidium of the USSR was established the Order of the Patriotic War of two classes. It was the very first award instituted during the Great Patriotic War and the first Soviet order that had classes division.
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