The Great October Revolution, which is by right the most ambiguous event in Russian history marks its 100th anniversary today, November 7, TASS informs. The Revolution triggered off the Soviet Union establishment. On October 25 in the Julian calendar, troops supporting the Bolsheviks and workers’ guard attacked the Provisional Government in Saint Petersburg. A new government was announced after the All-Russian Meeting of Workers and Soldiers’ Deputies’ Council.
A canon of the Peter and Paul Fortress will shoot at noon today in Saint Petersburg.
A pillar in shape of Aurora cruiser will be unveiled in Archangelsk region. Communists in Rostov-on-Don will go on a strike and re-enact the Winter Palace assault. The Lenin Memorial will welcome visitors free of charge in Ulyanovsk, the native land of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin.
An audio performance will be hosted in Museum of V. Lenin in Kazan. The audience will be treated with tea made after the recipe of hundred’s years old and guests will be involved in a physiological game with a detective plot. People will plant Maple Park in honor of the anniversary in Nizhny Novgorod.
Russia is My History park about the history of the region will be opened in Samara.
At the service of Russia: One Family’s History exhibition has started in Kaliningrad.
A meeting for volunteers to Komsomol will be arranged in Ivanovo. The Irkutsk authorities will launch Red trams decorated with Revolution symbols.
Omsk, which used to be the center of the White Russia in 1918, organizes a scientific conference timed with the jubilee.
Post Communications Museum in Chelyabinsk will host an exhibition of the post cards of 20 – 30ies.
Museum of Ural Writers in Ekaterinburg prepared two exhibitions. The first one is called Revolution in Fashion. It recreates fashion of 20ies. The second exhibition is titled Revolution of Childhood. It compares childhood of peasants, nobility and Soviet children.
Six time capsules input on the 50th anniversary of the October Revolution will be opened the Archangelsk region, Rostov-on-Don, Kursk, Apeksin in Tver region and in Vilino, Crimean village.
Demonstrations, meetings, strikes, concerts, exhibitions and flowers’ laying ceremonies to monuments of Lenin and Heroes of the Civil War are scheduled almost everywhere.
Russkiy Mir
