Calendar 2012 - Notable dates 2012

year 2012 - In Russia:

1150th anniversary of the birth of Russian statehood (Presidential Decree No. 267 of March 3, 2011)
400 years since the expulsion of Polish invaders from Moscow by the militia led by Minin and Pozharsky (October 26, 1612)
200th anniversary of the Patriotic War of 1812, the Battle of Borodino

Under the auspices of the UN:

2011 - International Year of Cooperatives
2011 - International Year of Sustainable Energy for All
2003 - 2012 - United Nations Literacy Decade: Education for All.
2005 - 2014 - United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development.
2005 - 2014 - Second International Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples.
2005 - 2015 - International Decade for Action 'Water for Life'.

975 years ago (1037), the first library of Ancient Rus was founded by Yaroslav the Wise at St. Sophia Cathedral in Kyiv.
865 years ago, the first recorded mention of Moscow (1147).
555 years ago (1457), the first dated printed book, the Psalter, was published in the German city of Mainz. 295 years since the publication (1717) of the literary and pedagogical monument of the early 18th century 'The Honest Mirror of Youth'.
290 years ago (1722), Peter I approved the Table of Ranks for all officials of the Russian Empire.
290 years ago (1722), Peter I issued a decree to establish the prosecutor's office. 'This office is like our eye'.
255 years ago (1757), the Russian Academy of Arts was founded.
150 years ago (September 20, 1862) the Saint Petersburg Conservatory was founded - celebrated by UNESCO.

January:

January 1 - New Year's holiday
January 2 - 175 years since the birth of M.A. Balakirev (1837 - 1910), Russian musician and public figure
January 3 - 120 years since the birth of Tolkien (1892-1973), English writer, philosopher, linguist, author of the magical tales 'The Hobbit', 'The Lord of the Rings'.
4 января - 200 лет со дня рождения Е.П.Ростопчиной (1812 - 1858), поэтессы, писательницы. Поэт П.А.Вяземский называл ее "Московской Сафо".
6 января (?) - 600 лет Жанне Д'Арк (ок.1412 - 1431), французской военноначальнице
January 6 - 140 years since the birth of A.N. Scriabin (1872-1915), Russian composer
January 6 - 125 years since the birth of I.I. Golikov (1887-1915), Russian master of Palekh miniature, founder of the Palekh art.
January 7 - Christmas
January 8 - Children's Cinema Day
January 9 - 215 years since the birth of F.P. Wrangel (1797-1870), a Russian traveler, admiral, and one of the founders of the Russian Geographical Society. Born in Pskov.
January 11 - Day of Reserves and National Parks
January 12 - 105 years since the birth of S.P. Korolev (1907-1966), an outstanding scientist and designer in the field of rocket engineering and astronautics.
January 13 - 135 years since the birth of I.A. Novikov (1877-1959), a Russian writer, author of the novels 'Pushkin in Mikhailovskoye', 'Pushkin in the South', and others.
January 13 - Day of Russian Press
January 15 - 390 years since the birth of Molière (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin) (1622-1673), a French playwright, creator of the so-called high comedy genre.
January 16 - 145 years since the birth of V.V. Veresaev (1867-1945), a Russian prose writer and literary scholar.
January 18 - 130 years since the birth of Alan Alexander Milne (1882-1956), an English humorist writer, playwright, and classic of English children's literature.
January 19 - Orthodox holiday - Epiphany.
January 22 - 130 years since the birth of P.A. Florensky (1882-1937), an outstanding Russian thinker and encyclopedic scholar.
January 23 - 180 years since the birth of Édouard Monet (1832-1883), French Impressionist painter.
January 24 - 280 years since the birth of Auguste Caron de Beaumarchais (1732-1799), French playwright.
January 24 - 100 years since the birth of S.A. Dangulov (1912-1989), Russian writer and journalist.
January 25 - 180 years since the birth of I.I. Shishkin (1832-1898), Russian painter and master of landscape.
January 25 - 130 years since the birth of Virginia Woolf (1882-1941), English writer and theorist of modernism.
January 25 - Day of Russian Students. Tatiana's Day.
January 27 - 180 years since the birth of Lewis Carroll (1832-1898), English writer and professor of mathematics at Oxford University.
January 28 - 115 years since the birth of V.P. Kataev (1897-1986), Russian writer.
January 28 - 125 years since the birth of A. Rubinstein (1887 - 1982), great pianist.
January 31 - 215 years since the birth of F. Schubert (1797 - 1828), great composer.

In January 2012 marks:

175 years ago (1837) the duel of A.S. Pushkin with Dantes took place on the Black River.
165 years ago (1847) the essay by I.S. Turgenev "Khory and Kalinych" was published in the first issue of the magazine "Sovremennik".
70 years ago (1942) the poem by K. Simonov "Wait for Me" was published in the newspaper "Pravda".

February:

February 2 - 200 years since the birth of E. Grebenka (1812-1848), poet and author of the poem "Dark Eyes, Passionate Eyes" (1843).
February 2 - 130 years since the birth of James Joyce (1882-1941), Irish writer and author of the famous novel "Ulysses" (1922).
February 2 - 70 years ago Daniil Kharms (1905-1942) died in captivity, a Russian writer.
February 2 - World Wetlands Day.
February 7 - 200 years since the birth of Charles Dickens (1812-1870), a classic of English literature.
February 8 - 70 years ago, N.P. Maiorov (1919-1942), a Russian poet, died on the front.
February 8 - Day of Remembrance for the Young Anti-Fascist Hero
February 9 - 125 years since the birth of V.I. Chapaev (1887-1919), a legendary hero of the Civil War.
February 10 - Day of Remembrance for A.S. Pushkin. 175 years since his death (1799-1837).
February 14 - Valentine's Day. Day of Lovers.
February 16 - 150 years since the birth of S.T. Morozov (1862-1905), a Russian textile manufacturer and philanthropist.
Maslenitsa. Wide Maslenitsa - from 20.02 to 26.02 in 2012.
February 20 - 160 years since the birth of N. Garin (N.G. Mikhailovsky) (1852-1906), a Russian writer.
February 21 - International Mother Language Day.
February 23 - Defender of the Fatherland Day
February 23 - 255 years since the birth of V.V. Kapnist (1757-1823), a Russian poet and playwright.
February 24 - 120 years since the birth of K. A. Fedin (1892-1977), a Russian writer.
February 25 - 305 years since the birth of Carlo Goldoni (1707-1793), an Italian playwright, author of the comedies 'The Servant of Two Masters', 'The Clever Widow', and others.
February 25 - 190 years since the birth of L.A. Mey (1822-1862), a lyric poet and playwright. His works include the poetic dramas 'The Tsar's Bride', 'The Pskov Woman', and others.
February 25 - 100 years since the birth of V.V. Sanayev (1912 - 1996), a Russian actor.
February 26 - 210 years since the birth of Victor Hugo (1802-1885), a French writer.
February 27 - 110 years since the birth of John Steinbeck (1902-1968), an American writer, author of the novel 'The Grapes of Wrath', Nobel Prize laureate (1962).
February 27 - 205 years since the birth of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882), an American romantic poet, author of the poem 'The Song of Hiawatha'.
February 27 - 80 years since the birth of Elizabeth Taylor (1932 - March 23, 2011), American actress
February 28 - 280 years since the birth of George Washington (1732 - 1799), American statesman
February 28 - 90 years since the birth of Y.M. Lotman (1922-1993), Russian scholar in the field of literary history and aesthetics, cultural studies.

In February 2012 marks:

310 years since the founding (1702) of the Baltic Navy.
175 years ago (1837) M.Yu. Lermontov wrote the final 16 lines of the poem 'The Death of the Poet'.
160 years ago (1852) the Hermitage Museum was opened in St. Petersburg.
135 years ago (1877) the premiere of P.I. Tchaikovsky's ballet 'Swan Lake' took place.
95 years - February Revolution in Russia (1917)

March:

March 1 - World Cat Day
March 2 - 95 years ago (1917) Nicholas II signed his abdication. The fall of the monarchy in Russia.
March 3 - World Writer's Day
5 марта - 500 лет со дня рождения Герарда Меркатора (Герарда ван Кремера) (1512 - 1594), фламандского картографа, географа, создатель "Атласа", включавшего 110 карт европейских стран.
March 6 - 75 years since the birth (1937) of V.V. Tereshkova, the first female cosmonaut.
March 8 - International Women's Day
March 12 - 75 years since the birth of Z. Sotkilava (1937), opera singer, tenor
March 13 - 75 years since the birth of B.C. Makanin (1937), Russian writer.
March 14 - 100 years since the birth of I.A. Rapoport (1912 - 1990), Soviet geneticist who developed 380 new plant varieties
March 15 - 75 years since the birth of V.G. Rasputin (1937), Russian writer
March 15 - World Consumer Rights Day
March 18 - 80 years since the birth (1932) of John Updike, American writer, poet.
March 19 - 90 years since the start of the Shabolovka radio station (1922)
March 21 - World Poetry Day
March 21 - World Earth Day
March 22 - World Water Day
March 24 - 230 years since the birth of O.A. Kiprensky (1782-1836), Russian portrait painter and graphic artist, representative of Romanticism.
March 24 - 135 years since the birth of A.S. Novikov-Priboy (1877-1944), Russian writer.
March 25 - 145 years since the birth of Arturo Toscanini (1867 - 1957), Italian conductor.
March 27 - 200 years since the birth of I.I. Panayev (1812-1862), Russian writer and journalist. Since 1847, he published the magazine 'Sovremennik' together with N.A. Nekrasov.
March 27 - 85 years since the birth of M.L. Rostropovich (1927-2007), outstanding cellist and conductor.
March 27 - International Theatre Day
March 28 - 130 years since the birth of I.A. Ilyin (1882-1954), a Russian religious thinker.
March 28 - 100 years since the birth of M.M. Raskova (1912 - 1943), a Soviet pilot. The first woman in the history of Russia whose specialty is air fleet navigator.
March 31 - 190 years since the birth of D.V. Grigorovich (1822-1899), a Russian writer.
March 31 - 165 years since the birth of P.N. Yablochkov (1847-1894), a Russian inventor.
31 марта - 140 лет лет со дня рождения С.П.Дягилева (1872 - 1929), основателя объединения "Мир искусства", организатора "Русских сезонов" начала 20 века за границей.
March 31 - 130 years since the birth of K.I. Chukovsky (1882-1969), a Russian writer, critic, and literary scholar.

In March 2012 marks:

305 years ago (1707) Peter I issued a decree on the protection of the Fatherland.
290 years ago (1722) by the decree of Peter I, systematic weather observations began in St. Petersburg.
95 years ago (1917) the first issue of the newspaper "Izvestia" was published.
90 years ago (1922) the former ancestral estate of the Hannibals-Pushkins became the State Memorial Museum-Reserve of A.S. Pushkin (Mikhaylovskoye, Pskov region).
70 years ago (1942) the newspaper 'Komsomolskaya Pravda' published for the first time the poem by A.A. Surkov 'In the Dugout'.

April:

April 1 – April Fools' Day
April 1 - 315 years since the birth of Antoine François Prévost (1697-1763), a French writer, author of the novel 'The History of the Chevalier de Grieux and Manon Lescaut'
April 1 – Geologist's Day
April 2 – International Children's Book Day
April 5 - 125 years since the birth of V.I. Goryansky (1887-1949), a poet, playwright, satirist of the Russian diaspora, author of the book 'The Unburnt Bush'.
April 6 - 200 years since the birth of A.I. Herzen (pseudonym Iskander) (1812-1870), a Russian writer, philosopher.
April 7 – World Health Day
April 9 - 100 years since the birth (1912-1997) of L.Z. Kopelyov, a critic, literary scholar, writer of the Russian diaspora.
April 10 - 75 years since the birth of B.A. Akhmadulina (1937), Russian poetess.
April 10 - 85 years since the birth of V.V. Lipatov (1927-1979), Russian writer.
April 12 - 125 years since the birth of E.I. Dmitrieva (née Vasilieva - literary pseudonym Cherubina de Gabriak) (1887-1928), poetess of the Russian diaspora.
April 12 - 100 years since the birth of E.Z. Kopyelyan (1912 - 1975), Soviet actor, People's Artist of the USSR.
April 12 - 85 years since the birth of Harper Lee (1927), American writer.
April 12 - International Day of Human Space Flight.
April 14 - 150 years since the birth of P.A. Stolypin (1862-1911), Russian statesman.
April 15 - Easter. The Resurrection of Christ. Orthodox holiday.
April 15 - 560 years since the birth of Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), the genius Italian painter and scientist of the Renaissance.
April 16 - 100 years since the birth of E.V. Samoylov (1912 - 2006), Russian actor, People's Artist of the USSR, laureate of five State Prizes of the USSR.
April 18 - International Day for Monuments and Sites
April 19 - 120 years since the birth of G.V. Adamovich (1892-1972), writer and literary critic of the Russian diaspora.
April 19 - 110 years since the birth of V.A. Kaverin (1902-1989), Russian writer.
April 20 - 70 years (1942) since the end of the Battle of Moscow (September 30, 1941 - April 20, 1942).
April 21 - 90 years since the birth of Alistair MacLean (1922-1987), Scottish writer and author of adventure novels.
April 22 - 305 years since the birth of Henry Fielding (1707-1754), English novelist and playwright. A major representative of English Enlightenment literature.
April 22 - 105 years since the birth of I.A. Efremov (1907-1972), Russian science fiction writer, author of the socio-philosophical novel 'The Andromeda Nebula' - 55 years since its publication (1957).
April 22 - Earth Day
April 23 - World Book and Copyright Day
April 25 - 105 years since the birth of V.P. Solovyev-Sedy (1907 - 1979), a Russian composer and author of music for over 400 songs.
April 28 - 105 years since the birth of Z.I. Voskresenskaya (1907-1992), a Russian writer.
April 29 - World Day of Sister Cities (last Sunday of April)
April 29 - International Dance Day
April 30 - 235 years since the birth of K.F. Gauss (1777-1855), a German mathematician, astronomer, and geodesist.

In April 2012 marks:

345 years ago (1667) the peasant war led by Stepan Razin began.
100 years ago (1912) the superliner 'Titanic' collided with an iceberg and sank in the North Atlantic (04.15.1912).
75 years ago (1937) the first issue of the magazine 'Theater' was published.
70 years ago (1942) the legendary ace pilot A.I. Maresyev (1916-2001) performed his feat.
20 years ago (1992) the Moscow publishing house 'Vagrius' was founded.

May:

May 1 – Spring and Labor Day
May 2 - 110 years since the birth of Alan Marshall (1902-1984), Australian humanist writer.
May 3 – Sun Day
May 3 – International Press Freedom Day
4 мая - 240 лет со дня рождения Фридриха Арнольда Брокгауза (1772 - 1823), немецкого издателя, основателя "словарной" династии и фирмы "Брокгауз".
May 4 - 100 years since the birth of N.N. Blokhin (1912 - 1993), Russian oncologist
May 5 - 135 years since the birth of G.Y. Sedov (1877-1914), Russian hydrographer and Arctic explorer.
May 7 – Radio Day
May 9 – Victory Day in the Great Patriotic War
May 11 - 195 years since the birth of A.A. Agin (1817-1875), Russian artist, creator of illustrations for "Dead Souls" by N.V. Gogol.
May 15 - International Day of Families
May 16 - 195 years since the birth of N.I. Kostomarov (1817-1855), Russian historian, ethnographer, and writer.
May 16 - 125 years since the birth of Igor Severyanin (1887-1941), Russian modernist poet, translator, and memoirist.
May 18 - International Museum Day
May 19 - 250 years since the birth of Johann Gottlieb Fichte (1762 - 1814), German philosopher
May 20 - 130 years since the birth of Sigrid Undset (1882-1949), Norwegian writer and Nobel Prize laureate (1928).
May 22 - 140 years since the birth of Teffi (N.A. Lokhvitskaya) (1872-1952), poet and writer of the Russian diaspora.
May 23 - 305 years since the birth of Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778), Swedish naturalist and botanist. He gained worldwide fame for the classification system he created for the plant and animal kingdoms.
May 24 - 1185 years since the birth of Saint Cyril, Equal-to-the-Apostles (c. 827-869), father of Slavic literacy.
May 24 – Day of Slavic Writing and Culture
May 27 - All-Russian Library Day
May 27 - 75 years since the birth of A.G. Bitov (1937), Russian writer.
May 28 - 135 years since the birth of M.A. Voloshin (1877-1932), Russian poet, critic, artist.
May 28 - 100 years since the birth of Patrick White (1912 - 1990), Australian writer, Nobel Prize laureate in literature (1973).
May 29 - 225 years since the birth of K.N. Batyushkov (1787-1855), Russian lyrical poet, representative of sentimentalism.
May 29 - 120 years since the birth of I.S. Sokolov-Mikitov (1892-1975), Russian writer.
May 30 - 100 years since the birth of L.I. Oshanina (1912-1996), Russian poet-songwriter.
May 31 - 150 years since the birth of M.V. Nesterov (1862-1942), Russian painter.
May 31 - 120 years since the birth of K.G. Paustovsky (1892-1968), Russian writer.
May 31 - World No Tobacco Day

In May 2012 marks:

320 years ago (1692) the first military ship in Russia was launched, marking the beginning of the creation of the Russian fleet.
300 years ago (1712) Peter I moved the capital from Moscow to St. Petersburg.
185 years ago (1827) the Russian artist O.A. Kiprensky created one of the first lifetime portraits of A.S. Pushkin (it is kept in the Tretyakov Gallery).
145 years ago (1867) the Red Cross Society was founded in Russia.
100 years ago (1912) the first issue of the newspaper 'Pravda' was published.
95 years ago (1917) the Russian Book Chamber was established.
90 years ago (1922) the first issue of the magazine 'Young Guard' was published.
90 years ago (1922) the first issue of the magazine 'Physical Culture and Sports' was published.
70 years ago (1942) the Order of the Patriotic War of the first and second class was established.

June:

June 1 – International Children's Day
June 1 - 80 years since the birth of B.A. Mozaev (1932-1996), Russian writer and publicist.
June 4 – International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression
June 5 – World Environment Day
June 6 – Pushkin Day in Russia
June 6 - Russian Language Day (Celebrated by the UN)
June 7 - 140 years since the birth of L.V. Sobinov (1872 - 1934), Russian opera tenor
June 8 - 175 years since the birth of I.N. Kramskoy (1837-1887), Russian artist and one of the founders of the Society for Traveling Art Exhibitions.
June 9 - International Friends Day (unofficial)
June 9 - 340 years since the birth of Peter the Great (1672-1725), Russian emperor and statesman.
June 9 - 200 years since the birth of Johann Gottfried Galle (1812 - 1910), a German astronomer who first saw Neptune
June 12 - Russia Day
June 13 - 200 years since the birth of I.I. Sreznevsky (1812-1880), the greatest philologist of his time, who created the first dictionary of the Old Russian language.
June 13 - 100 years ago (1912) the State Museum of Fine Arts named after A.S. Pushkin was opened in Moscow.
June 15 - 145 years since the birth of K.D. Balmont (1867-1942), a Russian poet, critic, and representative of symbolism in Russian poetry.
June 17 - World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought. An ecological calendar date.
June 18 - 200 years since the birth of I.A. Goncharov (1812-1891), a Russian writer.
18 июня - 70 лет со дня рождения Д.П.Маккартни (1942), английского музыканта, одного из легендарных "Битлз"
20 июня - 85 лет со дня рождения В.М.Котеночкина (1927 - 2000), российского мультипликатора, режиссера "Ну, погоди!"
June 20 - 80 years since the birth of R.I. Rozhdestvensky (1932-1994), a Russian poet.
June 21 - 215 years since the birth of V.K. Kyukhelbekker (1797-1846), Russian poet and friend of A.S. Pushkin.
June 22 - Day of Remembrance and Sorrow, 71 years since the beginning of the Great Patriotic War and the defense of Brest Fortress (1941)
June 23 - International Olympic Day
June 24 - 100 years since the birth of S.N. Filippov (1912 - 1990), Soviet film actor
June 25 - 160 years since the birth of N.E. Geintse (1852-1913), Russian prose writer, journalist, playwright.
June 26 - International Day Against Drug Abuse
June 27 - Youth Day
June 28 - 435 years since the birth of Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640), great Flemish painter.
June 28 - 300 years since the birth of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778), French writer and philosopher of the Enlightenment, representative of sentimentalism.
June 28 - 145 years since the birth of Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936), Italian writer, playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (1934).
June 28 - 90 years ago V. Khlebnikov (1885-1922), Russian poet, theorist of futurism, passed away.

In June 2012 marks:

200 years ago the Patriotic War of 1812 began.
90 years ago (1922) the first issue of the magazine 'Krestyanka' was published.

July:

July 1 - 105 years since the birth of V. T. Shalamov (1907-1982), Russian writer, poet, author of 'Kolyma Tales'.
July 2 - 135 years since the birth of Hermann Hesse (1877-1962), German novelist, poet, critic, one of the greatest masters of philosophical prose of the 20th century, Nobel Prize laureate (1946).
July 5 - 210 years since the birth of P. S. Nakhimov (1802-1850), outstanding Russian naval commander.
July 6 - 135 years since the birth of A. M. Remizov (1877-1957), writer of the Russian diaspora.
July 6 - 75 years since the birth of V. D. Ashkenazy (1937), renowned pianist and conductor.
July 7 - 130 years since the birth of Yanka Kupala (1882-1942), national Belarusian poet.
July 7 - 125 years since the birth of M.Z. Shagal (1887-1985), a Russian artist.
July 8 - 125 years since the birth of N.V. Narokov (Marchenko) (1887-1969), a writer of the Russian diaspora.
July 8 - 120 years since the birth of Richard Aldington (1892-1962), an English writer.
July 8 - All-Russian Day of Family, Love, and Fidelity
July 10 - Day of Military Glory. Victory of the Russian army under the command of Peter I over the Swedes in the Battle of Poltava (1709)
July 13 - 150 years since the birth of N.A. Rubakin (1862-1946), a Russian bibliographer, bibliophile, and writer.
July 20 - International Chess Day
July 21 - 130 years since the birth of David Burliuk (1882-1967), a poet and publisher of the Russian diaspora.
July 23 - 220 years since the birth of P.A. Vyazemsky (1792-1878), a Russian poet, critic, and memoirist.
July 24 - Day of Equal-to-the-Apostles Saint Olga, Grand Duchess of Russia
July 24 - 210 years since the birth of Alexandre Dumas (father) (1802 - 1870), French writer
July 24 - 100 years since the birth of N.O. Gritsenko (1912 - 1979), Soviet actor, People's Artist of the RSFSR and USSR, Laureate of State Prizes of the RSFSR and USSR.
July 28 - 190 years since the birth of Apollon Grigoriev (1822-1864), Russian poet, translator, memoirist, author of the famous poems 'Oh, at least you speak to me...', 'Two guitars ringing...'
July 29 - 195 years since the birth of P.K. Aivazovsky (1817-1900), Russian marine painter.
July 31 - 75 years since the birth of E.S. Piekha, pop singer

In July 2012 marks:

150 years ago (1862) N.G. Chernyshevsky was arrested and imprisoned in the Peter and Paul Fortress.
85 years ago (1927) the first issue of the magazine 'Roman-Gazeta' was published.
70 years ago (1942) since the beginning (July 17) of the Battle of Stalingrad.
65 years ago (1947) the society 'Knowledge' was founded. The first chairman was Academician S.I. Vavilov (1891-1951).

August:

August 4 - 255 years since the birth of V.L. Borovikovsky (1757-1825), a Russian painter and master of portraiture.
August 4 - 220 years since the birth of P.B. Shelley (1792-1822), an English Romantic poet.
August 4 - 150 years since the birth of S.N. Trubetskoy (1862 - 1905), a Russian philosopher.
August 4 - 100 years since the birth of A.D. Alexandrov (1912 - 1999), a Russian mathematician who discovered methods for studying the metric properties of figures.
August 6 - 80 years since the establishment of the Venice Film Festival (1932).
August 7 - 175 years since the birth of K.K. Sluchevsky (1837-1904), a Russian writer and poet.
August 8 - 85 years since the birth of Y.P. Kazakov (1927-1982), a Russian writer.
August 9 - 130 years since the birth of Sergey Gorny (Otsup Alexander-Mark Avdeevich) (1882-1949), a writer of the Russian diaspora. Born in the town of Ostrov in the Pskov province.
August 9 - 65 years since the birth of S. Rotaru (1947), a pop singer.
August 10 - 100 years since the birth of Jorge Amado (1912-2001), Brazilian writer.
August 12 - International Youth Day
August 14 - 145 years since the birth of John Galsworthy (1867-1933), English writer and Nobel Prize laureate (1932).
15 августа - 225 лет со дня рождения А.А.Алябьева, русского композитора, автора музыки романса "Соловей"
August 17 - 175 years since the birth of Anna Pavlovna Filosofova (1837 - 1912), Russian public figure, owner of the Bogdanovskoye estate (Bezhanitsy, Pskov region)
August 17 - 70 years since the birth of M.M. Magomaev (1942 - 2008), Azerbaijani singer, People's Artist of the USSR
August 19 - 140 years since the birth of M.F. Kshesinskaya (1872-1971), Russian ballerina
August 19 - 75 years since the birth of A.V. Vampilov (1937-1972), Russian playwright, author of the plays "Duck Hunt", "The Elder Son", and others.
August 20 - 185 years ago Charles de Coster was born (1827-1879), Belgian writer.
August 20 - 165 years since the birth of Bolesław Prus (1847-1912), Polish writer, author of the novels "The Doll", "Pharaoh".
August 20 - 80 years since the birth of V.P. Aksenov (1932-2009), a Russian writer.
August 21 - 220 years ago P.A. Pletnev (1892-1865), a Russian poet and critic, was born.
August 21 - 140 years since the birth of Aubrey Beardsley (1872 - 1898), an English artist.
August 22 - 150 years since the birth of Claude Debussy (1862 - 1918), a French composer.
August 23 - Day of Military Glory. The defeat of the German-Fascist troops by the Soviet forces in the Battle of Kursk (1943).
August 25 - 200 years since the birth of N.N. Zinina, a Russian chemist and the first president of the Russian Physical-Chemical Society.
August 28 - 100 years since the start of G.Y. Sedov's expedition to the North Pole (1912).
August 29 - 380 years since the birth of John Locke (1632 - 1704), an English philosopher.
August 29 - 150 years since the birth of Maurice Maeterlinck (1862-1949), a Belgian writer, playwright, philosopher, and Nobel Prize laureate (1911).
August 30 - 100 years since the birth of Yevgeny Nikolaevich Stamo (1912 - 1987), a Soviet architect who built the Olympic Village for the Moscow Olympics of 1980.

In August 2012 marks:

90 years ago (1922) the first issue of the magazine 'Krokodil' was published.
25 years ago (1987) the Council of Ministers of the RSFSR adopted a resolution to establish the State Memorial Museum-Reserve of I.S. Turgenev 'Spasskoye-Lutovinovo' in the Oryol region.

September:

September 1 - Knowledge Day, Peace Day
A new commemorative date in Russia -
September 2 - Day of Military Glory of Russia - Day of the end of World War II
September 1 - Day of Local Self-Government. Celebrated since 1999 by the decision of the Congress of Municipalities.
September 3 - 85 years since the birth of A.M. Adamovich (Ales Adamovich) (1927-1994), Belarusian writer.
4 сентября - 150 лет со дня рождения П.П.Сойкина (1862 - 1938), издателя, который по словам писательницы А.Я.Бруштейн "фанатически верил в высокую полезность книжного дела, в святость его предназначения".
September 4 - 100 years since the birth of G.P. Menglet (1912 - 2001), Russian actor, People's Artist of the USSR, idol of theatrical Moscow.
September 5 - 195 years since the birth of A.K. Tolstoy (1817-1875), a Russian poet, writer, playwright, and author of the historical novel "Prince Silver".
6 сентября - 75 лет со дня рождения Г.Ф.Шпаликова (1937 - 1974), советского киносценариста, автора сценария фильма "Я шагаю по Москве"
September 8 - International Literacy Day
September 8 - Day of Military Glory. The Battle of Borodino (1812)
September 9 - 200 years since the birth of N.N. Goncharova (1812-1863), wife of A.S. Pushkin.
September 10 - 140 years since the birth of V.K. Arsenyev (1872-1930), Russian explorer of the Far East, writer, author of the novel 'Dersu Uzala'.
September 10 - 105 years since the birth of V.I. Nemtsov (1907-1993), Russian science fiction writer.
September 10 - 100 years since the birth of Herluf Bidstrup (1912 - 1988), Danish cartoonist.
September 11 - 150 years since the birth of O. Henry (1862-1910), American writer, master of the short story.
September 11 - 135 years since the birth of F.E. Dzerzhinsky (1877 - 1926), statesman.
September 11 - 130 years since the birth of B.S. Zhitkov (1882-1938), Russian children's writer.
September 11 - 75 years since the birth (1937) of Joseph Kobzon, a pop singer.
September 12 - Day of Remembrance of the Holy Prince Alexander Nevsky.
September 17 - 155 years since the birth of K.E. Tsiolkovsky (1857-1935), an outstanding Russian scientist and inventor, the founder of modern astronautics.
September 17 - 100 years since the birth of Maxim Tank (1912-1995), a national Belarusian poet.
September 19 - 65 years since the birth of V.V. Yerofeyev (1947), a Russian prose writer and essayist.
September 20 - 150 years ago (1862) the Saint Petersburg Conservatory was founded - celebrated by UNESCO.
September 21 - 65 years since the birth (1947) of Stephen King, an American writer.
September 21 - Day of Military Glory. The victory of Russian troops led by Grand Prince Dmitry Donskoy over the Mongol-Tatar forces in the Battle of Kulikovo (1380).
September 25 - 220 years since the birth of I.I. Lazhechnikov (1792-1869), a Russian writer, author of the novels 'The Ice House' and 'Basurman'.
September 25 - 115 years since the birth of William Faulkner (1897-1962), American novelist and short story writer, Nobel Prize winner (1949).
September 26 - 80 years since the birth of V.N. Voynovich (1932), a Russian writer.
September 27 - World Tourism Day
September 29 - 195 years since the birth of A.V. Sukhov-Kobylin (1817-1903), a Russian playwright.

In September 2012 marks:

490 years ago (1522), the first circumnavigation of the globe by Ferdinand Magellan's expedition was completed, proving the spherical shape of the Earth and the existence of a single World Ocean.
190 years ago (1822), the poem 'The Prisoner of the Caucasus' by A.S. Pushkin was published.
175 years ago (1837), the inventor of the telegraph Samuel Morse sent the first telegram.
160 years ago (1852), the story 'Childhood' by L.N. Tolstoy was published in the magazine 'Sovremennik', which immediately brought the young writer authority and recognition in the literary community.
150 years ago, a monument to the Millennium of Russia was unveiled in the Novgorod Kremlin (1862). Sculptor M.O. Mikeshin.
90 years ago (1922), prominent representatives of the intelligentsia were forcibly expelled from Soviet Russia, including the religious philosopher N.A. Berdyaev, L.P. Karsavin, S.L. Frash, N.O. Lossky, I.A. Ilyin, mathematician V.V. Stratonov, historian A.A. Kizevetter, sociologist Pitirim Sorokin, and others.
70 years ago (1942) the publication of A.T. Tvardovsky's poem 'Vasily Terkin' began, which is still considered the best poem about a soldier of the Great Patriotic War.

October:

October 1 - International Day of Older Persons
1 октября - 100 лет со дня рождения Л.Н.Гумилева (1912 - 1992), российского историка, географа, автора работы "Этногенез и биосфера Земли"
October 4 - 165 years since the birth of Louis Henri Boussenard (1847-1910), a French writer and author of adventure novels.
October 4 - 55 years ago (1957) the first artificial Earth satellite was launched in our country. The beginning of the space era.
October 5 - International Teacher's Day
October 6 - 100 years since the birth of Y.A. Flier (1912 - 1977), a Soviet pianist
October 7 - Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin turns 60 (1952), a Russian statesman
October 8 - 120 years since the birth of M.I. Tsvetaeva (1892-1941), a Russian poetess.
October 8 - 105 years since the birth of P.D. Osipenko (1907-1939), a military pilot, the first woman to be awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union (1938).
October 9 - 465 years since the birth of M. Cervantes (1547-1616), Spanish writer of the Renaissance.
October 9 - World Post Day.
October 12 - 100 years since the birth of L. N. Koshkin, Soviet engineer who designed rotary automatic lines.
October 14 - 270 years since the birth of Ya. B. Knyazhin (1742-1791), Russian playwright, poet, representative of Russian classicism. Born into the family of the vice-governor of Pskov.
October 14 - International Standards Day.
October 19 - Day of the Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum.
October 24 - 380 years since the birth of Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (1632 - 1723), Dutch naturalist.
October 24 - 130 years since the birth of Imre Kálmán (1882 - 1953), Hungarian composer.
October 24 - 115 years since the first football match was held in Russia (1897). On October 12, according to the old style, teams from Vasilievsky Island and the Sports Lovers Club competed, the match took place in St. Petersburg.
October 26 - 170 years since the birth of V.V. Vereshchagin (1842-1904), a Russian painter and a prominent battle artist.
October 27 - 230 years since the birth of Niccolò Paganini (1782 - 1842), Italian composer and violinist
October 28 - 110 years since the birth of Evelyn Waugh (1902-1966), English satirical writer.
October 30 - Day of Remembrance for the Victims of Political Repression
October 31 - 380 years since the birth of Jan Vermeer (Vermeer) of Delft (1632 - 1675), Dutch painter
October 31 - 110 years since the birth of E. A. Permyak (1902-1982), Russian writer.
October 31 - Halloween

In October 2012 marks:

520 years ago (1492) Christopher Columbus's expedition discovered San Salvador Island (official date of the discovery of America).
140 years ago (1872) Russian electrical engineer A.N. Lodygin filed a patent for his invention of the incandescent light bulb.
125 years ago (1887) the premiere of P.I. Tchaikovsky's opera 'The Enchantress' took place at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg.
90 years ago (1922) in Moscow, the book and magazine publishing house 'Young Guard' was established, and since 1993, it has been part of JSC 'Young Guard'.
55 years ago (1957), the film 'The Cranes Are Flying' directed by M. Kalatozov was released in the country's cinemas, recognized as one of the best films in world cinema. At the Cannes Film Festival in 1958, the film was awarded the 'Palme d'Or'.

November:

On November 2 - 215 years since the birth of A.A. Bestuzhev-Marlinsky (1797 - 1837), a Russian prose writer, poet, critic, and Decembrist.
On November 3 - 130 years since the birth of Yakub Kolas (1882-1956), one of the founders of modern Belarusian literature.
On November 3 - 125 years since the birth of S.Ya. Marshak (1887-1964), a Russian poet, translator, and classic of children's literature.
On November 4 - National Unity Day
On November 6 - 160 years since the birth of D.N. Mamin-Sibiryak (1852-1912), a Russian writer.
On November 7 - 95 years since the October Revolution of 1917 in Russia
November 7 - 85 years since the birth of D.M. Balashov (1927-2000), a Russian writer, folklorist, and publicist.
November 9 - 180 years ago, Émile Gaboriau (1832-1873), a French writer and one of the founders of the detective genre, was born.
November 11 - 85 years since the birth of Kurt Vonnegut (1922), American novelist.
November 13 - International Day of the Blind. Celebrated on the birthday of French educator Valentin Haüy (1745-1822), who founded the world's first boarding school for the blind in Paris in 1784.
November 14 - 105 years since the birth of Astrid Lindgren (1907-2002), famous Swedish writer, author of 87 books translated into 76 languages.
November 15 - 150 years since the birth of Gerhart Hauptmann (1862-1946), German playwright and novelist, Nobel Prize laureate (1912).
November 16 - International Day for Tolerance.
November 17 - International Students' Day.
November 18 - 225 years since the birth of Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre (1787 - 1851), French artist and inventor, who was a pioneer of photography.
November 18 - 85 years since the birth of E.A. Ryazanov (1927), Russian director.
November 20 - 75 years since the birth of Victoria Tokareva (1937), novelist and screenwriter.
November 20 - Universal Children's Day.
November 22 - 130 years since the birth of Y.I. Perelman (1882-1942), a Russian scientist, founder of the genre of popular science literature, author of the books 'Recreational Mathematics', 'Recreational Physics', and others.
November 22 - 45 years since the birth of V.O. Pelevin (1967), a Russian writer.
November 24 - 380 years since the birth of Benedict Spinoza (1632-1677), a Dutch materialist philosopher.
November 25 - Mother's Day in Russia
November 25 - 450 years since the birth of Lope de Vega (1562-1635), a great Spanish playwright and poet.
November 25 - 295 years since the birth of A.P. Sumarokov (1717-1777), a Russian playwright and poet, a representative of classicism. Voltaire called him 'the glory of his homeland.'
November 26 - World Information Day.
November 26 - 100 years since the birth of Eugène Ionesco (1912 - 1994), a French playwright.
November 28 - 255 years since the birth of William Blake (1757-1827), an English poet and artist, who illustrated Dante's 'Divine Comedy.'
November 28 - 105 years since the birth of Alberto Moravia (1907-1990), Italian writer and public figure.
November 29 - 210 years since the birth of Wilhelm Hauff (1802-1827), a German writer and storyteller.
November 30 - 345 years since the birth of Jonathan Swift (1667-1745), an English satirical writer.

In November 2012 marks:

125 years ago (1887) the novel "A Study in Scarlet" by A.K. Doyle was published, marking the beginning of the popularity of Sherlock Holmes.
95 years ago (1917) the RSFSR was established, now the Russian Federation.
50 years ago (1962) the story "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" by A.I. Solzhenitsyn was published in the magazine "Novy Mir", the first example of Soviet camp prose.
15 years ago (1997) the first issue of the socio-political magazine "Persona" was released.
15 years ago (1997) the all-Russian state channel "Culture" went on air.

December:

December 1 - 220 years since the birth of N.I. Lobachevsky (1792-1856), an outstanding Russian mathematician.
1 декабря - 90 лет со дня рождения В.М.Боброва (1922 - 1979), советского спортсмена. Е.Евтушенко написал о нем: "Шаляпин русского футбола. Гагарин шайбы на Руси", -
December 1 - World AIDS Day.
December 3 - International Day of Persons with Disabilities.
December 4 - 140 years since the birth of Al.Altaev (M.V. Yamshikova) (1872-1959), a Russian children's writer.
December 4 - 90 years since the birth of Gérard Philipe (1922 - 1959), a French actor.
5 декабря - 200 лет со дня рождения Амвросия Оптинского (Александра Михайловича Гренкова) (1812 - 1891), русского религиозного деятеля. Встречи с ним искали известнейшие люди своего времени: Л.Н.Толстой, Ф.М.Достоевский, Вл.Соловьев, А.К.Толстой, М.П.Погодин, Н.Н.Страхов и другие. Любимым изречением о.Амвросия на вопрос: "Как жить батюшка?" - было: " Жить - не тужить, никого не осуждать, никому не досаждать, и всем - мое почтение".
December 6 - 200 years since the birth of N.S. Pimenov (1812 - 1864), a Russian sculptor.
December 6 - 85 years since the birth of V.N. Naumov (1927), a Russian director.
December 7 - 2050 years since the death of Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC), a Roman politician, orator, and writer. Cicero's works are a source of information about the era of civil wars in Rome.
December 8 - 210 years since the birth of A.I. Odoevsky (1802-1839), Russian poet and Decembrist.
December 9 - 170 years since the birth of P.A. Kropotkin (1842 - 1921), Russian revolutionary anarchist.
December 9 - 80 years since the birth of V.E. Maximov (1932-1995), a writer of the Russian diaspora.
December 10 - Human Rights Day
December 12 - Constitution Day of the Russian Federation
December 13 - 215 years since the birth of Heinrich Heine (1797-1856), a German poet and prose writer.
December 13 - 110 years since the birth of Yevgeny Petrov (E.P. Kataev) (1902-1942), a Russian writer who co-authored with I. Ilf.
December 14 - 90 years since the birth of N.G. Basov (1922 - 2001), a Russian physicist and inventor of the laser. Nobel Prize laureate in Physics.
December 15 - 180 years since the birth of A.G. Eiffel (1832 - 1923), a French engineer and designer of the tower in Paris that bears his name.
December 16 - 140 years since the birth of A.I. Denikin (1872 - 1947), a Russian military leader.
December 16 - 80 years since the birth of R.K. Shchedrin (1932), a Russian composer.
December 18 - 65 years since the birth of Steven Spielberg (1947), an American director.
December 20 - 110 years since the birth of T.A. Mavrina (1902 - 1996), a Russian artist, illustrator of works by A.S. Pushkin, laureate of the H.C. Andersen Award (1965) and the State Prize of the USSR (1975).
December 21 - 95 years ago, Heinrich Böll was born (1917-1985), a German novelist, prose writer, and Nobel Prize laureate (1972).
December 22 - 75 years since the birth of Eduard Uspensky (1937), a Russian writer, author of stories and tales for children.
December 23 - 235 years since the birth of Alexander I (1777 - 1825), the Russian emperor.
December 25 - 85 years since the birth of A.E. Rekemchuk (1927), a Russian prose writer, screenwriter, and publicist.
December 26 - 150 years since the birth of S.Y. Nadson (1862-1877), a Russian poet.
December 26 - 150 years since the birth of A.V. Amphiteatrov (1862 - 1938), a writer.
December 27 - 200 years since the birth of Y.K. Grot (1812 - 1893), a philologist, codifier of Russian grammar and orthography.
December 27 - 190 years since the birth of Louis Pasteur (1822-1895), an outstanding French scientist whose work laid the foundation for microbiology and immunology.
December 27 - 180 years since the birth of P.M. Tretyakov (1832-1898), a merchant and philanthropist. He founded the Tretyakov Gallery.
December 28 - 115 years since the birth of I.S. Konev (1897-1973), a Russian military leader, Marshal of the Soviet Union, and twice Hero of the Soviet Union.
December 29 - International Day for Biological Diversity. Date of the ecological calendar.
December 30 - 90 years since the formation of the USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) (1922)
December 31 - 275 years since the birth of Rudolf Erich Raspe (1737-1794), a German poet, historian, and author of the tales of Baron Munchausen.
December 31 - 175 years since the birth of Louis Jacolliot (1837-1890), a French writer and author of thrillers.

In December 2012 marks:

260 years ago (1752) in St. Petersburg, the Naval Cadet Corps was established, whose graduates included many of Russia's greatest navigators.
170 years ago (1842) the first performance of N.V. Gogol's comedy 'The Marriage' took place.
140 years ago (1872) the Polytechnic Museum opened in Moscow.
110 years ago (1902) in Moscow at the MHT, the premiere of M. Gorky's play "At the Bottom" took place.

Exact date of birth not established:

600 лет Жанне Д'Арк (ок.1412 - 1431), французской военноначальнице
225 years since A. Pogorelsky (1787-1836), Russian writer.
150 years since Niko Pirosmani (N.A. Pirosmanishvili) (1862 - 1918), Georgian artist
105 years since Robert Heinlein (1907-1988), American novelist, one of the leading authors of English-language science fiction, a modern classic of science fiction.
105 years since Daphne du Maurier (1907-1989), English writer, master of the modern 'gothic novel'
100 years since Andre Norton (pseudonym of Alice Mary Norton) (1912), American writer, one of the leading authors of children's science fiction.
75 years since Roger Zelazny (1937), American novelist, one of the leading authors of science fiction in the USA.

Anniversary books 2011:

825 years since the poem 'The Tale of Igor's Campaign' (1187)
460 years since the publication of F. Rabelais' novel 'Gargantua and Pantagruel' (1552)
315 years since the book by Charles Perrault 'Mother Goose Tales' (1697)
195 years since A.S. Pushkin's ode 'Liberty' (1817)
190 years since A.S. Pushkin's poem 'The Song of the Wise Oleg' (1822)
185 years since F. Cooper's novel 'The Prairie' (1827)
180 years since A.S. Pushkin's story 'Dubrovsky' (1832)
180 years since N.V. Gogol's story 'Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka' (1832)
175 years since M.Y. Lermontov's poem 'Borodino' (1837)
175 years since the novel by C. Dickens 'The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club' (1837)
170 years since the novel by N.V. Gogol 'Dead Souls' (first volume) (1842), the story by N.V. Gogol 'The Overcoat' (1842)
165 years since the novel by C. Brontë 'Jane Eyre' (1847)
160 years since the novel by I.S. Turgenev 'A Hunter's Sketches' (1852)
155 years since the novel by I.S. Turgenev 'Asya' (1857)
155 years since the novel by G. Flaubert 'Madame Bovary' (1857)
150 years since the comedy by A.S. Griboedov 'Woe from Wit' (1862).
150 years since the novel by Victor Hugo 'Les Misérables' (1862)
145 years since 'The Legend of Ulenspiegel' by Charles de Coster (1867)
145 years since the novel by I.S. Turgenev 'Smoke' (1867)
145 years since the novel by V.V. Krestovsky 'Petersburg's Slums' (1867)
135 years since the novel by L.N. Tolstoy 'Anna Karenina' (1877)
115 years since the play by A.P. Chekhov 'Uncle Vanya' (1897)
110 years since the play by M. Gorky 'At the Bottom' (1902)
105 years ago the collection of stories by Jack London 'Love of Life' was published (1907)
100 years since the first book of poems by Anna Akhmatova 'Evening' (1912)
60 years since the novella by E. Hemingway 'The Old Man and the Sea' (1952)
55 years ago the book by I.A. Efremov 'The Andromeda Nebula' was released (1957)
45 years since the epic novel by G. Marquez 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' was published (1967)
40 years ago the novella by A.N. and B.N. Strugatsky 'Roadside Picnic' was published (1972)