Russian history in the last week of February brings us many space stories: the Russian space agency was born, two dogs broke all records in space and a serious fire in the space station Mir threatened the life of six cosmonauts. Also this week in Russian history: two Soviet submarines travelled around the world without emerging and the Soviet K-19 submarine suffers a serious accident, the war between Sweden and Russia came to an end and Tsar Peter "the Great" opens one of the oldest weapon factories in the world.