Hello, dear comrade Wolfgang Eggers.

For the New Year holidays, my family and I went to a beautiful city on the banks of the Volga, the birthplace of the great V. I. Lenin - Ulyanovsk. It was there that Vladimir Ilyich was born and lived his first 17 years.

Lenin on the Volga

There are more than 5 museums in the city, one way or another connected with the life of Vladimir Lenin or the Ulyanov family.

Unfortunately, one of the prides of the city - the Lenin Memorial with its rich exposition and the house where Lenin was born has been closed for 5 years due to government bureaucracy.

However, a new revolution will definitely open its doors!

Nevertheless, the residents of Ulyanovsk preserve the memory of their great fellow countryman and the heroic past of their city and the Russian people.

On January 5, I visited Voskresenskoye Cemetery, where on behalf of the Russian Section I erected a red banner and laid flowers at the burial site of five commissars, fighters for Soviet power, brutally shot by the Whites in July 1918.

I have attached photographs below.

In addition, I am writing with a request from the Russian Section.

Back in December, with the support of two comrades, I compiled a list of memorable dates not only for Russian, but also for the entire world history of the labor movement.

Please read it.

(We know that some dates are already in the Red Calendar, so you don't have to look at them).

January 7-17 - 140 years since the Morozov strike.

January 9 - 155 years since the death of A. Herzen (Russian progressive thinker, writer).

January 21 - 101 years since the death of V. I. Lenin and 250 years since the death of Yemelyan Pugachev (Pugachev Uprising).

January 22 - 120 years since Bloody Sunday (Beginning of the Bourgeois-Democratic Revolution of 1905-1907 in Russia).

January 29 - 130 years since Ivan Zhiga (Soviet writer, Bolshevik).

February 3 - 105 years since the death of Vladimir Mikeladze (Georgian Bolshevik).

February 8 - 145 years since Alexander Vedernikov (Leader of the Red Guard of Moscow, Bolshevik).

February 19 - 145 years since Evgeny Kamzolkin (Russian and Soviet artist, author of the "Hammer and Sickle" symbol).

March 12 - 130 years since Vasily Kikvidze (hero of the Civil War, Red commander). March 25 - 100 years since the death of M.K. Vladimirov.

April 2 - 160 years since Pavel Sternberg (Moscow Bolshevik and astronomer).

April 14 - 95 years since the death of V.V. Mayakovsky.

April 15 - 100 years since the death of Gani Muratbaev - the founder of the Komsomol in the Kazakh SSR.

April 22 - 155 years since V.I. Lenin.

May 1 - International Workers' Solidarity Day.

May 2 - 130 years since Anatoly Zheleznyakov (revolutionary, later Bolshevik, sailor who dispersed the Constituent Assembly).

May 9 - 80 years since the Victory in the Great Patriotic War.

May 23 - 120 years since the death of Ivan Kalyaev.

June 3 - 115 years since the death of Nikolai the Dark (proletarian writer).

August 4 - 135 years since Yemelyan Malenkov (Moscow Bolshevik).

August 6 - 100 years since the death of Grigory Kotovsky (Red commander, hero of the Civil War).

September 8 - 645 years since the Battle of Kulikovo (the struggle of the Russian people against the Khan's rule).

September 20 - 115 years since the death of Leo Tolstoy (Progressive Russian writer).

October 3 - 130 years since Sergei Yesenin (Russian and Soviet poet).

October 8 - 545 years since the Stand on the Ugra (the victory of the Russian people over the Khan's rule).

October 16 - 150 years since Lyubov Belkina.

October 31 - 120 years since the death of N.E. Bauman and 120 years of the Markov Republic.

November - 120 years of the Gurian Peasant Republic. November 12 - 120 years of the Starobuyanskaya Republic.

November 16 - 95 years since the death of Kirill Shkulev (proletarian poet).

November 22 - 120 years of the Chita Republic.

December - 120 years of the Lyubotinskaya Republic.

December 8 - 120 years of the Chechelevskaya Republic.

December 9-12 - 120 years of the Aleksandrovskaya Republic.

December 9-27 - 120 years of the Krasnoyarsk Republic.

December 11 - 120 years of the Novorossiysk Republic.

December 12-16 - 120 years of the Shulyavskaya Republic.

December 17 - 120 years since the death and feat of Alexander Ukhtomsky.

December 20 - 120 years since the beginning of the December armed uprising in Moscow.

December 26 - 200 years since the Decembrist uprising.

December 28 - 120 years since the Sochi Republic.

December 30 - 103 years since the founding of the USSR.

(If you have any questions about the dates, let me know).

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