1598
(May, Old Style)
Tsar Boris Godunov leaves Moscow with his court and makes a stop in Serpukhov where an army is gathered to repulse attacks of Crimean Khan Kazy-Girey.
1606 (May 2, Old Style)
Marina Mnishek enters Moscow and stops at the Ascension Monastery.
1613 (May 2, Old Style)
Elected Tsar Mikhail Fyodorovich and his mother, nun Martha.
1731 (May 1, Old Style)
Navigation in the Ladoga Lake opens.
1734 (May 1, Old Style)
Empress Anna Ioannovna signs a resolution to build a city at the mouth of the Or river.
1927 The first jet by A.S. Yakovlev (AIR-1), the prominent air designer, makes its maiden flight.
1949 Soviets lift the land blockade of West Berlin.
1961 Mikhail Botvinnik defeats Mikhail Tal and retrieves the title of the world chess champion.
1980 Alexander Mitta’s The Crew starring Georgy Zhzhenov, Leonid Filatov, Anatoly Vasilyev and Alexandra Yakovleva is out.
1991 The last SS-20 missile is dismantled at the Kapustin Yar military range.
1995 V.S. Chernomyrdin is elected chairman of the political council of the Our House Russia party at its constituent session.
1997 Boris Yeltsin and Aslan Maskhadov sign the Treaty on Peace and Principles of Relations between Russia and
Chechen Republic of Ichkeria in Moscow.
1998 President B.N. Yeltsin addresses the people via the Internet.
1999 The final game of a prestigious European tournament takes place in Moscow.
2000 Cosmonaut Sergey Zaletin and Alexander Kalery perform the last space walk from the Mir space station.
2000 Patriarch of Moscow and Russia Alexy II visits Japan on May 12-19.
Births
1898 Nikolay Efgrafovich Sokolov
(1898 – December 15, 1988)
soccer player and Honored Master of Sports (1934).
1909 Yury Osipovich Dombrovsky
(1909 – May 29, 1978)
writer.
1930 Vladimir Ukhov
(1930)
He played Uncle Volodya in the Goodnight, Kids TV show.
1933 Andrey Andreevich Voznesensky
(1933)
poet.
1938 Andrey Alexeevich Amalrik
(1938 – November 12, 1980)
literary man, dissident and author of Will the USSR Survive till 1984
1944 Vitaly Peskov
(1944 – March 12, 2002)
caricaturist.
1983 Alina Kabaeva
(1983)
2004 rhythmic gymnastics Olympic champion and world champion.
Deaths
1854 Mikhail Alexandrovich Fonvizin
(August 31, 1788 - 1854)
Decembrist, major general and nephew of D.I. Fonvizin, the prominent Russian writer
1859 Sergey Timofeevich Aksakov
(October 1, 1791 - 1859)
writer.
1951 Vasily Mikhailovich Alexeev
(January 14, 1881 - 1951)
philologist, specialist in the Chinese language and academician at the Soviet Academy of Sciences (1929).
1972 Arkady Alexandrovich Plastov
(January 31, 1893 - 1972)
painter and People’s Artist of the USSR.
1978 Vasily Vasilyevich Merkuryev
(April 6, 1904 - 1978)
theater and film actor and People Artist of the USSR (1960).
1990 Andrey Pavlovich Kirilenko
(September 8, 1906 - 1990)
Soviet statesman and party functionary, Hero of the Socialist Labor.
1995 Andrey Nikolaevich Boltnev
(January 5, 1946 - 1995)
theater and film actor.
(May 20, 1925 - 2001)
chief designer at the Tu design bureau.
