1920 in Russia
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Events from the year 1920 in Russia.
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Incumbents
- Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Russian SFSR â Vladimir Lenin
Events
- Russia Civil War (1918â1920)
- Polish-Soviet War (1919â1921)
- Legalization of Abortion (1920â1936)[1]
- Battle of Warsaw (12-25 August)[2]
Births
- January 1 â Noor Inayat Khan, Russian born Indian espionage spy for Britain
- January 14 â Vahe Danielyan, Soviet soldier and concentration camp survivor
- July 11 â
- Yul Brynner, Russian-born actor, singer, and director
- Zecharia Sitchin, Soviet-born American author
- November 29 â Yegor Ligachyov, politician
- December 6 â Nikolai Kirtok, World War II fighter pilot
Deaths
- 9 March - Lidija Figner, revolutionary and a prominent member of the Narodniks (born 1853)
- 24 September - Inessa Armand, Female revolutionary, French-Russian communist politician, member of the Bolsheviks and a feminist (born 1874)
- 17 October - John Reed (journalist), American journalist, poet, and communist activist (born 1887)
