November 13 in Russia:
1,708 —. During the Northern War, Russian soldiers led by Alexander Menshikov stormed and captured Ivan Mazepa's residence, the city of Turin.
1,758 —. The First Moscow Medical Institute was founded (now the First Moscow State Medical University named after I. M. Sechenov).
1851 —. Railway and telegraph communication between Moscow and St. Petersburg was opened.
1872 —. The first edition of "Alphabet" by Leo Tolstoy was published.
1880 —. The first issue of "News of the Exchange" was published - a newspaper about finance, trade, politics and public life.
1902 —. Persia signed a customs agreement with Russia that dropped British goods.
1917 —. The Bolsheviks defeated the rebel army of Kerensky and Krasnov. The beginning of a general strike in Finland.
1918 —. A decision was issued by the All-Russian Central Executive Committee (VTSIK) to cancel the Brest Peace Treaty due to Germany's defeat in the World War.
1918 - Classes began at the Ryazan Infantry Courses for the command staff of the Red Army, which would later become the Infantry School and then the Airborne School (today the Ryazan Airborne Command School).
1921 —. The third studio of the Moscow Art Theater was born from the staging of the play by M. Maeterlincks by E. B. Vakhtengov, which was changed in 1926 to the theater named after Yevgeny Vakhtengov.
1928 —. The Brain Institute was established in Moscow on the basis of the laboratory that studied Lenin's brain headed by the German physiologist Oskar Vogt.
1931 - "Delstroy" was established - a state trust for road and industrial construction in the Upper Kolyma region (from 1938 - the main directorate for the construction of the far north of the NKVD of the Soviet Union "Delstroy"), a special state institute (super organization, "a special type from the Northeast 1930)" of the USA until '90.
1938 —. The business a. A.