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Twix the cat, who was thrown from the train by the conductor, is found dead

The cat Twix, whom the conductor of the Yekaterinburg-St. Petersburg train threw out of the carriage while parked in Kirov, was found dead. It was discovered on January 20 by volunteers who searched for the animal for several days. Twix was found at an intersection a kilometer from the station,... read more

On This Day in History - January 15, 1944

January 15, 1944 #OTD Zinaida Portnova, Soviet teenager, partisan and posthumous Hero of the Soviet Union. Portnova was born in Leningrad on 20 February 1926. She was the daughter of a working-class Belarusian family. Her father worked at the Kirov Plant. She was a seventh-grade student at the... read more

On This Day in History - August 27, 1941

August 27, 1941 #OTD World War II: The Soviet evacuation of Tallinn began. Twenty large transports, eight auxiliary ships, nine small transports, a tanker, a tug, and a tender were organized into four convoys, protected by the Soviet cruiser Kirov, with Admiral Vladimir Tributs on board, two... read more

On This Day in History - January 15, 1944

January 15, 1944 #OTD Zinaida Portnova, Soviet teenager, partisan and posthumous Hero of the Soviet Union. Portnova was born in Leningrad on 20 February 1926. She was the daughter of a working-class Belarusian family. Her father worked at the Kirov Plant. She was a seventh-grade student at the... read more