November 14 in the history of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union:.
1860 Treaty of Beijing signed between Russia and China. The agreement concluded the demarcation of the lands in the Far East and became a continuation of the Aigon and Tianjin agreements. According to its terms, the Ossory region, the area between the Ossory rivers and the sea, was transferred to the Russian Empire.
1907 The Third State Duma began its work in Russia. Most of the seats in it were occupied by the Octoberists, which made it possible to create a more constructive interaction with the government. The agenda centered on the Stolypin reforms, budgetary issues, agricultural policy and the development of local self-government.
1919 Red Army troops occupied Omsk and defeated Admiral Kolchak's troops. The fall of Omsk seriously undermined the position of the white movement in the region.
1920 The last ships of the White Fleet left Sevastopol Bay. This departure of General Wrangel's Russian army out of the country is considered the end of the civil war in southern Russia.
1922 The People's Assembly of the Far Eastern Republic (FER) decided to liquidate the FER and reunite the Far East with the RSFSR.
1936 The hydrometeorological service was organized in the Soviet Union. Its mission was to provide the national economy with data on the weather and the state of the water bodies, which were important for agriculture, transportation, construction and security.
1938 A decision was made by the Central Committee of the Party on propaganda in connection with the publication of "The Short Course on the History of the Communist Party of the All Union (Bolsheviks)".
1939 At extraordinary meetings of the Supreme Council of the Ukrainian SSSR and the Supreme Council of the BSSR, Western Ukraine and Western Belarus were admitted to the Ukrainian SSR and the Belarusian SSR.
1970 The Soviet Union joined the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO).