On March 17 (28), 1744 was born the duchess Catherine Romanovna Dashkova (born Vorontsova), the director of St.-Petersburg Academy of Science and the President of the Russian Academy.
March 28, 1928 the Presidium of the Central Executive Committee of the USSR adopted a resolution "On the allocation to Komzet of vacant lands in the Amur region of the Far East for the needs of the continuous settlement of toiling Jews."