30 April 1975Fall of Saigon ResponseLeonid Brezhnev
Sees North Vietnam victory as a success for a Soviet backed ally
Historical records for Russia in 1975, rendered directly from the World History Database and ordered by month, day and event.
Sees North Vietnam victory as a success for a Soviet backed ally
Venera 10 launches as part of a paired orbiter-and-lander mission to Venus.
Joins Leonov during the first international crewed docking.
Docks Soyuz 19 with the American Apollo spacecraft.
Meets Gerald Ford during the European security summit and discusses arms control and bilateral relations.
Signs the Helsinki Final Act with leaders of thirty-four other participating states.
Addresses the European security conference and presents détente as a foundation for lasting peace.
Meets French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing during the Helsinki summit.
The achievement marks first images from venus as an important Russian scientific milestone.
Supports the planetary programme that lands Venera 9 on Venus.
Venera 10 lands successfully on Venus and returns measurements from the hostile surface environment.
Venera 10 returns panoramic black-and-white images from Venus, extending the first photographic survey of the planet's surface.
Putin graduates from the International Branch of the Law Department of the Leningrad State University
Serves in the 5th Directorate of the KGB, which combated political dissent in the Soviet Union. Recruited into the KGB. Putin joins the KGB in 1975 upon graduation from university, and underwent a years training at the 401st KGB school in Okhta, Leningrad
Putin graduates from the International Branch of the Law Department of the Leningrad State University
Awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace, founder of the Soviet human rights committee
Awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace, founder of the Soviet human rights committee
Appointed President of the Soviet Academy of Sciences
Is elected a secretary of the Sverdlovsk regional Communist Party committee.
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