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On May 21 (June 1), 1725 under Peter’s the Great testament and the supreme order of Catherine I was established one of the highest awards of the Russian Empire – the Order in honor of Saint Lord and Master Grand Duke Alexander Nevsky.

22 May (3 June) 1876 in Kamenka village, Nizhnelomovsky County, Penza Province was born Nikolai N. Burdenko , a surgeon, a pioneer of Soviet neurosurgery, Academician of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (1939) and the first president of the Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR (1944-46), honorary member of the Royal Society of Surgeons and the Paris Academy of Surgery; Hero of Socialist Labor (1943), winner of the Stalin Prize (1941), Colonel-General of medical services (1944).
 

On May 22 (June 4) 1916 during the World War I was launched one of the largest offensive operations of the Russian Army on the Southwestern front, which enabled to undertake a strategic breakthrough of the enemy’s front —  called “the Brusilov Offensive”.

May 27 (June 8) 1837, in St. Petersburg, in the family of the chief master of ceremonies of the Imperial Court was born Hilarion Ivanovich Vorontsov-Dashkov, count, Russian statesman and military leader, entrepreneur, General of Cavalry (1890); a member of the State Council of the Russian Empire (1881), Chief state horse breeding, the Minister of the Imperial Court and the Chancellor of the Chapter of Russian Imperial and Royal Orders (1881-1897), viceroy of the Caucasus (1905).