1812
"French soldiers, Russian troops falling back from Borodino, and vengeful Muscovites burned down two-thirds of Moscow’s buildings during the occupation of September 2-October 11, 1812" - Colton 1995: 32
1912
Vladimir Semenov — civil engineer, author of Blagoustroistvo gorodov, met Ebenezer Howard in England — begins Prozorovka, now Kratovo, the “first Russian Garden City” (although there was an earlier one built in Riga), more in “Pervyi gorod-sad v Rossii,” Gorodskoe delo, 1912, No. 22: 1398-1403 - Starr 1976: 234, 242
1920
"[Bertrand] Russell's book The Prospects of Industrial Civilization [1923] was written following a visit to Russia in 1920 that he made with a delegation sent by the Trades Union Congress, with the aim of learning directly about the political and economic conditions of the country under a Bolshevik government [on this visit he met Trotsky and interviewed Lenin]. ... Although Russell’s research was not intended as a contribution to a particular discipline, and he had no expertise in social research, he nonetheless conducted a type of fieldwork that drew together his reading of Marxist texts with direct observations of political and working conditions in Russia and of daily life in Moscow." - Barry 2013: 35
1921
Formation of Gosplan: "The first substantial efforts at national planning are generally traced back to GOELRO — the State Commission for the Electrification of Russia (Gosudarstvennaia Komissiia po Elektrifikatsii Rossii) — formed in the midst of the Civil War in early 1920. In one sense, the Commission took up a familiar role of the tsarist government: investing in infrastructure to promote national development and military strength. But it introduced a novel biopolitical proposition that would prove to have shattering implications. Namely, that state-directed infrastructure development must be linked to a total plan for the industrial development of the country as a whole. ... Specific organizations and individuals (first of all Krzhizhanovskii) who were central to GOELRO were also central to the first five-year plan. GOELRO itself was incorporated into Gosplan, the agency formed in early 1921 that, by the second half of the 1920s, became the preeminent planning body in the Soviet Union ... ." - Collier 2011: 49-53
2013
February: "... in February 2013, President Vladimir Putin signed the law on extension of free privatization of housing till 2015." - Shomina and Heywood 2013: 322
