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On this day

17 August
  • Birth of a famous Cossack chieftain, count Matvei I. Platov

  • Birthday anniversary of Admiral Dmitry N. Senyavin

  • Beginning of the Russian invasion of East Prussia – the first offensive of Russian troops during the World War I

  • Soviet Nuclear-powered Icebreaker Arktika Reaches North Pole

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