November 15 in Russia:
1,741 —. Vitus Bering's second Kamchatka expedition discovers an island later named after him.
1764 - In St. Petersburg, the Academy of the Three Noble Arts, established seven years earlier, became the Imperial Academy of Arts of Russia.
1811 —. Petersburg Charity Council for the Poor was established.
1812 —. The battle for Krasnoy. Twenty days after the French left Moscow, Emperor Alexander I addressed the nation in the "Supreme Manifesto of Thanks to the People for Saving the Motherland."
1815 —. The maiden voyage of the first Russian steamship Elizaveta from St. Petersburg to Kronstadt and back.
1843 —. The rights of the Karaites were guaranteed by the State Council of Russia.
1881 —. Captain 1st Class Alexander Mozhaisky receives a five-year authorization (patent) for an aircraft from the Ministry of Trade and Production.
1905 —. Shooting unruly sailors in Sevastopol.
1912 —. The work of the Fourth State Duma began.
1917 —. Order on the disbandment of the old army.
1917 - "Declaration of the Rights of the Peoples of Russia" is published.
1919 —. The Red Army captured Omsk in Russia.
1922 —. Resolution of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee on the inclusion of the Far Eastern Republic (FER) into the RSFSR.
1923 - Resolution of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee on the transformation of the GPU of the NKVD of the RSFSR into the OGPU under the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR.
1930 —. Maxim Gorky published the famous article "If the enemy does not surrender, he will be destroyed" in Pravda and Izvestia. "This article appeared during the Prompart trial.
1932 —. The Museum of the History of Religion was opened in the Kazan Cathedral in Leningrad.
1933 —. Regular trolleybus service started in Moscow.