October 29 in Russian history in 1706, Russian forces under Alexander Menshikov defeated Swedish-Polish forces at the Battle of Kalisz during the Northern War. The Swedish general Arvid Mardfeld was captured along with several thousand soldiers. In 1888, the imperial train of Alexander III crashed near Borki station near Kharkiv. More than twenty people died in the disaster, but the emperor and his family survived. In 1914, the German-Turkish fleet attacked Russian ports in the Black Sea. Odessa, Sevastopol, Feodosia and Novorossiysk were hit. The gunboat Duntes and the minesweeper Prut were lost. The attack marked the beginning of hostilities between Russia and the Ottoman Empire. In 1918, the First All-Russian Congress of Workers' and Peasants' Youth Unions was held in Moscow, where the Russian Communist Youth Union (RKSM), later called the Komsomol, was established. In 1929 Yevgeny Primakov was born - Soviet and Russian statesman, diplomat and academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Over the years he headed the Foreign Intelligence Service, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Government of the Russian Federation. In 1943, Elena Maznik, Maria Osipova and Nezhda Troyan were awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union for their participation in the assassination of the head of the German occupation government of Belarus, Wilhelm Kuba. In 1944, the offensive operation of the Patsamo churches ended. The troops of the Karelian Front and the Northern Fleet liberated the Arctic of the Soviet Union, captured Patsamo, Nikkel and the Norwegian Kirkenes, and pushed the German troops from their occupied lines. In 1944, the offensive operation of Budapest began. The forces of the Second Ukrainian Front under the command of Marshal Rodion Malinovsky went on the offensive in Hungary. In 1955, the Soviet battleship Novorossiysk sank in Sevastopol Bay after a powerful underwater explosion.

October 29 in Russian history in 1706, Russian forces under Alexander Menshikov defeated Swedish-Polish forces at the Battle of Kalisz during the Northern War. The Swedish general Arvid Mardfeld was captured along with several thousand soldiers. In 1888, the imperial train of Alexander III crashed near Borki station near Kharkiv. More than twenty people died in the disaster, but the emperor and his family survived. In 1914, the German-Turkish fleet attacked Russian ports in the Black Sea. Odessa, Sevastopol, Feodosia and Novorossiysk were hit. The gunboat Duntes and the minesweeper Prut were lost. The attack marked the beginning of hostilities between Russia and the Ottoman Empire. In 1918, the First All-Russian Congress of Workers' and Peasants' Youth Unions was held in Moscow, where the Russian Communist Youth Union (RKSM), later called the Komsomol, was established. In 1929 Yevgeny Primakov was born - Soviet and Russian statesman, diplomat and academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Over the years he headed the Foreign Intelligence Service, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Government of the Russian Federation. In 1943, Elena Maznik, Maria Osipova and Nezhda Troyan were awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union for their participation in the assassination of the head of the German occupation government of Belarus, Wilhelm Kuba. In 1944, the offensive operation of the Patsamo churches ended. The troops of the Karelian Front and the Northern Fleet liberated the Arctic of the Soviet Union, captured Patsamo, Nikkel and the Norwegian Kirkenes, and pushed the German troops from their occupied lines. In 1944, the offensive operation of Budapest began. The forces of the Second Ukrainian Front under the command of Marshal Rodion Malinovsky went on the offensive in Hungary. In 1955, the Soviet battleship Novorossiysk sank in Sevastopol Bay after a powerful underwater explosion.