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On this day

16 August

  • The Battle of Smolensk began

  • The Customs Service was established in Sakhalin

  • Birthday anniversary of Vladimir A. Sukhomlinov, War Minister of the Russian Empire

  • Foundation of Krasnoyarsk

  • Birthday anniversary of Pyotr Ivanovich Sevastyanov, Russian archaeologist, lawyer, founder of the first museum collection of Christian antiquities

  • Russian artist, book illustrator and stage designer Ivan Bilibin was born on that day

  • The Russian military and political figure Alexander Petrovich Khrushchev (1806–1875) was born

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