Life in this country 50 years ago…

Life in this country 50 years ago…1966… February,3The landing of automatic station "Moon-9" on the planet.Firstly apparatus, which was made by human, not only reached The Moon, but also landed. Firstly the automatic lab, which was made on the Earth, landed on the other planet, transmitted scientific data and photographed details of Moon`s surface. February, 3The opening of the international airline Moscow-Riga-Paris. March, 5Anna Akhmatova died.А́нна Андре́евна Ахма́това - Russian poet, translator and literature critic, one of the most significant figures of Russian literature of XX century. He was Nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature (1965). Her fate was tragic. Three her close friends were subjected to repression: first husband, Nikolai Gumilev, was shot in 1921; third husband, Nikolai Punin was arrested three times and died in the camp in 1953; only son, Lev Gumilyov, spent in detention in 1930-1940's and in 1940-1950-ies more than 10 years. Akhmatova's name was surrounded glory during her life among the admirers of poetry both in the USSR and in exile. March, 8Announcement of International Women's Day on 8 March as a day off.Since 1966, according to the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR on March 8, 1965, International Women`s day bacame a holiday and a day off. October,5The first concert of the group "Singing guitars"In 1966, Anatoly Vasilyev, Yevgeny Bronevitskiy, Lev and Sergei Wildavsky Lavrovskii created group "Singing Guitars". It was the first of group in the USSR.