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Cadets are changing the guard at the eternal flame. Behind the flame there is the oldest cemetery in Krasnodar - Vsesvyatskoye. It was founded in early 1830s.

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On This Day

Notable events on this day in Russian history

1962: Two Soviet spacecraft circled Earth in adjacent orbits and were in visual and radio contact.

1946: Zhdanovshchina begins

1903: Natalya Sats, director of the Music Theater for Children, born

1865: Dmitry Merezhkovsky, writer, born (died 1941)

1784: The first Russian colony in Alaska was founded on Kodiak Island.

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