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1911
Events from the year 1911 in Russia.
Incumbents
Monarch – Nicholas II
Chairman of the Council of Ministers – Pyotr Stolypin (until 18 September), Vladimir Kokovtsov (starting 22 September)
Chairman of the State Council – Mikhail Akimov
Chairman of the State Duma – Alexander Guchkov (until 28 March), Mikhail Rodzianko (starting 23 March)
Deputy Chairman of the State Duma – Mikhail Kapustin
Events
July 2016
3 January - 1911 Kebin earthquake: An earthquake of 7.7 moment magnitude strikes near Almaty in Russian Turkestan, killing 450 or more people.Thousands Dead Or Hurt In Earthquake Pittsburgh Press 1911-01-05 1
18 February - an earthquake in Pamir Mountains blocking the Murghab River by a landslide led to the formation of Sarez Lake
20 February - Bologoye cinema fire ru Пожар в Бологовском кинематографе, 64 dead, most of them (43) are children
In March, the Western Zemstvo crisis was set off when Stolypin's bill to establish zemstvos in the Western gubernias was voted down in the State Council.Haimson, Leopold. The Landed Nobility, the State Council, and P. A. Stolypin (1907–11). Jhu.edu, Indiana University Press, 2019, muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/oa_edited_volume/chapter/3055487. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025. Stolypin threatened to resign unless the Tsar prorogued the Duma and passed the bill by emergency decree under Article 87 of Russia's Fundamental Laws, to which the Tsar agreed, alienating almost everyone.The Fundamental Laws https://www.russianlegitimist.org/the-fundamental-laws 2026-06-11 The Russian Legitimist en-GBStolypins Fall : Revolution or Reform : Orlando Figes http://www.orlandofiges.info/section3_RevolutionorReform/StolypinsFall.php 2026-06-11 www.orlandofiges.info This bill was introduced to help realise Stolypin's nationalist agenda for a "Great Russia" by promoting Russian political and cultural hegemony in the western provinces of the empire.Andriewsky Olga 2023 Dangerous Illusions and Fatal Subversions: Russia, Subjugated Rus΄, and the Origins of the First World War https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/slavic-review/article/dangerous-illusions-and-fatal-subversions-russia-subjugated-rus-and-the-origins-of-the-first-world-war/48F774E1E33A57B68CB12CCE4418367A Slavic Review en 82 2 334–358 10.1017/slr.2023.170 0037-6779 free Waldron Peter http://archive.org/details/betweentworevolu0000wald Between two revolutions : Stolypin and the politics of renewal in Russia 1998 Dekalb : Northern Illinois University Press Internet Archive 978-0-87580-235-0
25 March - murder of Andrei Yushchinsky, a student of the preparatory class of the Kiev Sophia religious school. The authorities (including the Minister of Justice) put pressure on the investigation and contributed to the adoption of a religious-ritual version of the murder. The Jew Mendel Beilis was accused of the crime, but the jury acquitted him. The murder investigation and the ensuing trial, known as the "Beilis case", were widely covered in the Russian and world press.
7 July - North Pacific Fur Seal Convention of 1911\
27 August - CSKA Moscow, a professional multi-sports club is officially founded.Football Dynamo: Modern Russia and the People's Game 978-0-753-51571-6 50 Bennetts Marc March 5, 2009 Virgin Books
14 September - Prime Minister of Russia Pyotr Stolypin assassinated by Dmitry Bogrov in Kiev Opera House.2011-09-07 Solzhenitsyn: Stolypin’s Murder https://markhackard.wordpress.com/2011/09/07/solzhenitsyn-stolypins-murder/ 2026-06-11 The Soul of the East en
29 October–23 November - Russian Invasion of Tabriz, 1911
7 December - Qiqihar Protocol ru Цицикарский протокол between Russia and China on border demarcation in the Argun River area
Gleb Kotelnikov invented the knapsack parachute
Air Intelligence branch of Russia's Airforce is created.
Births
July 2016
2 January - Pavel Rychagov, Soviet air ace, air force general (d. 1941)
22 May - Anatol Rapoport, Russian-born American mathematical psychologist (d. 2007)
23 June - Nikolai Kuznetsov, aeronautical engineer (d. 1995)
1 July - Sergey Sokolov, minister of Defence of the USSR (d. 2012)
9 July - Aleksandrs Laime, Latvian-born Venezuelan explorer (d. 1994)
17 August - Mikhail Botvinnik, 6th World Chess Champion
8 October - Mark Bernes, singer and actor
24 September - Konstantin Chernenko, Leader of the Soviet Union from 1984 to 1985
24 October - Arkady Raikin, stand-up comedian
Deaths
July 2016
15 February - Pavel Grigorievich Dukmasov, general (b. 1838)
27 March - Margarita Savitskaya, actress (b. 1868)
28 March - Mikalojus Čiurlionis, painter and composer of Lithuanian origin
25 May - Vasily Klyuchevsky, historian (b. 1841)
7 September - Friedrich Breitfuss, philatelist (b. 1851)
18 September - Pyotr Stolypin, Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior of the Russian Empire
1 December - Vassily Maximov, painter (b. 1844)
5 December - Valentin Serov, painter
13 December - Nikolay Beketov, physical chemist
References
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