November 11 in the history of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union:.
1765 - At the initiative of Catherine II, the Imperial Free Economic Society was founded to encourage agriculture and house building in Russia (VEO). It is one of the oldest scientific economic societies in the world and the first in Russia.
1837 - The opening of traffic on the first railway in Russia between St. Petersburg and Tsarskoye Selo. The length of the route was 27 km. The trip took 35 minutes. The road became the starting point for the development of rail transportation in the country, while proving the practical advantages of steam traffic and launching large-scale construction of railroads throughout the empire.
1928 - On November 11, a monument-museum to the heroes of the Civil War was opened on the Yuni-Koran hill near the village of Volochivka-1. After the Battle of Volochevsky, the Commander-in-Chief and Chairman of the Military Council of the People's Revolutionary Army, Vasily Konstantinovich Blyocher, issued an order to build a monument over the mass grave of the fallen soldiers.