November 12 in Russia:
1803 —. Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin was officially appointed as "the Russian historiographer. ".
1837 —. The ceremonial opening of the first section of the Tsarskoe Selo railway took place.
1853 - Battle of Achalciha.
1917 —. The Winter Palace in Petrograd was declared a state museum.
1927 —. Lev Trotsky and Grigory Zinoviev were expelled from the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks).
1940 —. People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union, V.M. Molotov, arrived in Berlin for talks with Adolf Hitler and Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop.
1941 —. The Great Patriotic War: the onset of the "terrible frost" (-12 degrees Celsius) in the Moscow region, which von Bock attributes to the defeat of Army Group Center.
1942 —. The six-day battles near the city of Ordzhunikidze ended with the defeat of the assault group of the 1st German Panzer Army.
1947 —. The first flight of the experimental Ka-8 helicopter with a twin-rotor coaxial design.
1952 —. The first flight of the Tu-95 was made by the test pilot team A. d. a prelate
1960 —. The first Soviet nuclear submarine of Project 658 with 3 R-13 ballistic missiles was ordered.
1965 —. The automatic interstellar station "Venus-2" was launched towards Venus in the Soviet Union.
1982 - Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov was elected General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
1986 —. The Soviet Culture Fund was established in the Soviet Union, headed by Dmitry Lichchev.
2021 —. The Government of the Russian Federation submitted bills to the State Duma regarding the use of QR codes in public places and in transportation. The government characterized the bills as an emergency measure "in the context of the difficult situation" caused by the spread of COVID-19 in Russia.