Russia & the USSR
Explore Russia & the USSR on Ever-When, an interactive timeline of history from the Big Bang to the present day.
Key events on this timeline
- Russian Revolution (1917)
- Founding of the Soviet Union (1922)
- Dissolution of the Soviet Union (1991)
- Peter the Great (1672)
- Reign of Peter the Great (1682)
- Stalin's rule of the Soviet Union (1924)
- Joseph Stalin (1878)
- Vladimir Lenin (1870)
- Lenin's leadership of Soviet Russia (1917)
- Catherine the Great (1729)
- Christianisation of Kievan Rus' (988)
- Napoleon's invasion of Russia (1812)
- Battle of Stalingrad (1942)
- Operation Barbarossa (1941)
- Glasnost and perestroika (1985)
- Reign of Ivan the Terrible (1547)
- Ivan the Terrible (1530)
- Stalin's Great Purge (1936)
- Russian invasion of Ukraine (2022)
- Emancipation of the Russian serfs (1861)
- Mongol invasion of Rus' (1237)
- Mikhail Gorbachev (1931)
- Gorbachev's leadership of the Soviet Union (1985)
- Russian Civil War (1917)
- Ivan III ends Tatar yoke (1480)
- Catherine the Great's reign (1762)
- Siege of Leningrad (1941)
- Holodomor (1932)
- Putin's rule of Russia (1999)
- Vladimir Putin (1952)