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The explosion also led to fires in many parts of the city and the docks needed months of repair work to function again. July 17, 1944: Port Chicago Disaster. A munitions explosion that killed 320 people occurred at the Port Chicago Naval Magazine in Port Chicago, California. Nov 27, 1944: RAF Fauld Explosion. Explosion of between 3500 and 4000 ...
Vladimir Vladimirovich Ipatieff, also a talented chemist, remained in the USSR and was punitively arrested after the defection of his father. While living in the USA, the Ipatieffs also adopted two Russian girls. Ipatieff died suddenly in Chicago in 1952. He held over 200 patents and published over 300 research papers. [3]
Marat Yakovlevich Balagula (Russian: Мара́т Я́ковлевич Балагула; 8 September 1943 – 19 December 2019 [1]) was a Russian-American organized crime figure, crime boss, and close associate of the Lucchese crime family and Colombo crime family.
A NASCAR contractor has died after being electrocuted while setting up for the Chicago Street Race. The Cook County Medical Examiner identified the man who died Friday as 53-year-old Duane ...
Pavel Loukianoff was born in San Francisco, California, on August 9, 1948, into an ethnic Russian family of Don Cossack ancestry, [1] who escaped to China after the Russian Revolution, and in the 1940s to the US after the Communist takeover. There he studied at the Ss. Cyril and Methodius Russian Church gymnasia and school.
On Wednesday, Nov. 13, Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg later shared on the social media platform X (formerly known as Twitter) that two people died from injuries they sustained in the explosion.
In his letters to Peter I, Nartov wrote that nowhere in Europe could he find lathe masters comparable to Russian ones. On his way back to Russia, he taught lathe-working to the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm I. After the death of Peter I in 1725 Nartov went to work at the Moscow Mint, where he supervised modernisation of the machinery. In 1727 ...
Zuta (also spelled as "Zoota") was born on February 18, 1888, in the Russian Empire to a peasant family [1] who practiced Orthodox Judaism. He immigrated to the United States around 1913. Living in Chicago , Zuta worked as a junk dealer on the West Side before becoming involved in prostitution .