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Elton John was the first Western singer who performed in the USSR. This happened in the month of May, as it was also in May when Russia changed its capital city, when Trotsky 's arrived to the October Revolution or the first visit of a US president to Moscow. We will also remember the last defection of a Soviet pilot or the prototype test of the first tank in history, events that also happened in the third week of May.
May 19 1728: The Russian emperor Peter II moved Russia’s capital from St. Petersburg to Moscow. A few years earlier, his grandfather, Emperor Peter the Great had established St. Petersburg as the country’s capital. The change of Peter II did not last long, because after his death in 1730 St. Petersburg became the capital city again. This situation continued until 1918, when Moscow recovered the role of main city. Peter II is the only czar who is buried in the Moscow Kremlin.
Russian politician and revolutionary Leon Trotsky comes to Petrograd (St. Petersburg) on May 17, 1917 to seize control of the Interdistrict Social Democratic Organization, to later join Lenin and the Bolshevik revolution. Trotsky returned to Russia from New York, where he worked at a Russian newspaper, after receiving news of the October Revolution.
Richard Nixon becomes the first U.S. president to visit the USSR. It was May 22, 1972. During four days, Nixon and Brezhnev signed many agreements, such as the first joint space mission of the Apollo and Soyuz projects, a protocol to prevent incidents between ships of both countries and the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT), on the issue of nuclear armament control.
Nixon and Brezhnev signing the SALT treaty
Alexander Porokhovshchikov tests the first armored tank with continuous track, all-wheel drive and rotating turret on May 18, 1915. Porokhovshchikov’s prototype cost 18,000 rubles and, although it never came into production, it inspired the construction of future tanks around the world.
May 20, 1989: Soviet Captain Alexander Zuyev defected with his MiG 29 fighter plane to the city of Trabzon in Turkey. Zuyev was granted asylum in the U.S. and his aircraft was returned to the USSR by the Turkish government. Already in USA, Zuyev wrote the book "A Top Gun Pilot's Escape from the Soviet Empire". Zuyeb was the last pilot to defect from the USSR. In total, since 1948, six Soviet pilots defected on five planes.
A MiG 29 fighter aircraft
May 23 1987: The government of the USSR takes the decision to stop interfering with the signal of the radio station "Voice of America", which had begun broadcasting to Russia in 1947. Voice of America was funded by the U.S. government and broadcasted to Russia and in Russian thanks to giant antennas located on a Spanish beach. Its mission was to counter Soviet messages with American propaganda.
Elton John and percussionist Ray Cooper perform in a concert in Leningrad on May 21, 1979. They became the first Western musicians to play in the Soviet Union. The ticket price was 13 rubles, when the usual price for a concert was 2,50 rubles.
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