1934

Categories / Tsarskoe Selo and town of Pushkin. The digital chronological reference book/Chronicle of three centuries/1926 - 1950
1 January. The balloon "Osoaviakhim - 1" was risen at a height of twenty two hundred metres; the Tsarskoye Selo native A.B. Vasenko, a graduate of the Tsarskoye Selo Nicholas Gymnasium, a worker of the Pavlovsk upper-air observatory, was a member of the crew. The finish of the expedition was tragic, stratonauts have perished and they were burried as heroes in the Kremlin Wall in Moscow.

Late July. The English writer Herbert Wells visited A. Tolstoy's house in Detskoye Selo and presented his book "Borba mirov" ("The War of the Worlds") to Tolstoy.

1 December. S.M. Kirov was killed in the Smolny Institute building. On 1 December 1935 the monument to S.M. Kirov was opened near the Reserve Palace (it was destroyed during World War II).

The Cathedtral of St. Sophia was closed for believers. It began working again in 1989. Kirov (real name Kostrikov) Sergey Mironovich
Vasenko, Andrey Bogdanovich
Wells Herbert George
St. Sofia Cathedral at Tsarskoe Selo