3-04-1885 Yakov Sverdlov is born in Nizhny Novgorod. He will become a leading Bolshevik revolutionary and first chairman of the All-Russian Congress of Soviets [more]
4-04-1913 270 dead in the crackdown on a demonstration by Siberian gold mine workers for better working conditions, the 8-hour day and higher wages. [more]
10-04-1932 Thousands of mostly women mill workers joined a strike against the reduction in rations. [more]
17-04-1912 Tsarist troops shoot dozens of striking gold miners dead near the Lena River in Siberia [more]
19-04-1924 The Kronstadt revolt was crushed by the Red Army commanded by Trotsky: 4,836 sailors were deported, 6,528 arrested, 2,168 executed. 10,000 dead on the Red Army side in repeated failures to retake the city. [more]
22-04-1870 Birth of Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin. [more]