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What happened to the Jews in Russia

118 events, 1351 AD to 2024 AD

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14th century

  1. 1351 AD Expulsion of the Jews from Königsberg · Kaliningrad (Königsberg), Russia
  2. c. 1400–1499 AD Expulsion of Jews from Bryansk · Bryansk, Russia

15th century

  1. c. 1500–1650 AD Jews excluded from Moscow for religious enmity · Moscow, Russia

16th century

  1. 1504 AD Violence against Jews in Moscow · Moscow, Russia
  2. 1549 AD Ivan the Terrible refuses Jewish commercial visits to Moscow · Moscow, Russia

17th century

  1. 1610 AD Agreement barring Jews from entering Moscow · Moscow, Russia
  2. c. 1611–1654 AD Sigismund II bans Jewish residence in Smolensk · Smolensk, Russia
  3. 1632–1634 AD Lithuanian Jews exiled to Siberia as prisoners of war · Siberia, Russia
  4. 1654 AD Forced conversion and killing of Jews in Smolensk · Smolensk, Russia
  5. c. 1654 AD Jews at Königsberg limited to short stays with a high toll · Kaliningrad (Königsberg), Russia
  6. 1655 AD Transfer of Jews from Kaluga to Nijni-Novgorod · Kaluga, Russia
  7. 1659 AD Moscow Jews exiled to Siberia · Moscow, Russia
  8. 1676 AD Czar Feodor forbids Jews to remain in Moscow · Moscow, Russia
  9. 1678 AD Jewish merchants excluded from visiting Moscow · Moscow, Russia

18th century

  1. 1727 AD Ban on Jewish leasing of inns and customs in Smolensk · Smolensk, Russia
  2. 1727 AD Expulsion order for Baruch b. Leib and Jews of Smolensk region · Smolensk, Russia
  3. 1738 AD Execution of Voznitsyn and Baruch Leibov in St. Petersburg · Saint Petersburg, Russia
  4. 1741–1762 AD Jews leave St. Petersburg under Czarina Elizabeth's intolerance · Saint Petersburg, Russia
  5. c. 1772 AD Jewish petition to join Moscow merchant guild rejected · Moscow, Russia
  6. c. 1772–1860 AD Confinement of Jewish visitors to the "Jewish Inn" ghetto · Moscow, Russia
  7. 1790–1791 AD Jews barred from the Moscow merchant guild · Moscow, Russia
  8. 1791 AD Smolensk region excluded from Pale; Jewish residence prohibited · Smolensk region, Russia
  9. 1798–1801 AD Imprisonment of Shneur Zalman of Lyady in St. Petersburg · Saint Petersburg, Russia

19th century

  1. 1804 AD Astrakhan province included in the Pale of Settlement · Astrakhan, Russia
  2. c. 1825 AD Nicholas I orders expulsion of Jews from St. Petersburg · Saint Petersburg, Russia
  3. 1825 AD Nicholas I withdraws Jewish residence rights in Astrakhan · Astrakhan, Russia
  4. c. 1825 AD Restrictions on Jewish residence in St. Petersburg · Saint Petersburg, Russia
  5. 1826 AD Ban on Jewish settlement in Siberian border district · Siberia, Russia
  6. 1827 AD Husbands barred from joining exiled Jewish wives · Siberia, Russia
  7. 1827 AD Jewish distillers' residence rights extended (1827) · Russian Empire (several countries) and elsewhere
  8. 1828 AD Restrictions on Jewish merchants' stay and trade in Moscow · Moscow, Russia
  9. 1834 AD Restriction on Jewish merchants' trade licenses in Siberia · Siberia, Russia
  10. 1835 AD Astrakhan and northern Caucasus closed to Jews · Astrakhan, Russia
  11. 1835 AD Exclusion of Jews from the government of Astrakhan · Astrakhan, Russia
  12. 1837 AD Restrictions on Jewish farmers in Siberia · Tobolsk, Russia
  13. 1846 AD Law restricting Jewish settlement in Anapa to craftsmen · Anapa, Russia
  14. 1850 AD Limited visiting rights for Jewish merchants · Astrakhan, Russia
  15. 1853 AD Blood libel in Saratov · Saratov, Russia
  16. c. 1853–1858 AD Confiscation of Jewish books in Saratov investigation · Saratov, Russia
  17. c. 1855–1881 AD Abolition of the Moscow ghetto and residence privileges · Moscow, Russia
  18. c. 1855–1881 AD Jews' right to register in Siberian communities revoked · Siberia, Russia
  19. 1857 AD Siberian Jews permitted to join merchant guilds · Siberia, Russia
  20. 1860 AD Ban on Jewish settlement near Siberian borders · Siberia, Russia
  21. 1860 AD Siberian Jewish children permitted to stay with parents · Siberia, Russia
  22. 1880 AD Residence in the Don province limited to the highly educated · Don Host Oblast, Russia
  23. 1883 AD Anti-Jewish riot in Rostov-on-Don · Rostov-on-Don, Russia
  24. 1883 AD Pogroms in Rostov and Yekaterinoslav · Rostov-on-Don, Russia and elsewhere
  25. 1884 AD Nizhni Novgorod pogrom · Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
  26. 1887–1893 AD Rostov, Taganrog and Yalta removed from the Pale · Rostov-on-Don, Russia and elsewhere
  27. 1888 AD Ban on new Jewish settlement in Rostov and Taganrog · Rostov-on-Don, Russia
  28. 1888–1890 AD Expulsion of Jewish mechanics from St. Petersburg · Saint Petersburg, Russia
  29. 1889 AD Expulsion of Jews from Rostov and Taganrog · Rostov-on-Don, Russia
  30. 1890 AD Total ban on Jewish immigration to Siberia · Siberia, Russia
  31. 1891 AD Expulsion of Jews from Moscow, Russia · Moscow, Russia
  32. 1891 AD Grand Duke Sergei expels Jewish families from Moscow · Moscow, Russia
  33. 1891 AD Moscow synagogue closed and community dissolved · Moscow, Russia
  34. 1891 AD Residence rights of Cantonist descendants abrogated in Moscow · Moscow, Russia
  35. 1891–1899 AD Immigration ban extended to Jews entitled to live outside the Pale · Siberia, Russia
  36. 1892 AD Ban on Jews in the Kuban territory · Anapa, Russia
  37. 1892 AD Residence in Kuban and Tersk limited to graduates and long-registered merchants · Kuban, Russia
  38. 1893 AD Yalta, Taganrog and Rostov excluded from the Pale · Taganrog, Russia and elsewhere
  39. 1896 AD Blood accusation and riot against Jews of Irkutsk · Irkutsk, Russia
  40. 1896 AD Quotas and bans in medical and engineering schools · Saint Petersburg, Russia
  41. 1896 AD Restrictions on Jewish students and railroad employment · Moscow, Russia
  42. 1897 AD Law restricting Siberian Jews to place of registration · Siberia, Russia
  43. 1899 AD Expulsion of Jews from Nijni-Novgorod and Kiev · Nizhny Novgorod, Russia and elsewhere
  44. 1899 AD New restrictions on first-guild Jewish merchants of Moscow · Moscow, Russia
  45. 1899 AD Transbaikalia ban on Jewish residence in the Chinese border zone · Transbaikalia, Russia

20th century

  1. 1903 AD Expulsions in Kiev, the Caucasus, and Moscow · Kyiv, Ukraine and elsewhere
  2. c. 1904 AD Jewish pharmacy and obstetrics students barred from living in Moscow · Moscow, Russia
  3. 1905 AD October 1905 pogrom in Saratov · Saratov, Russia
  4. 1905 AD Pogroms in Bryansk · Bryansk, Russia
  5. 1906 AD Moscow synagogue permitted to reopen · Moscow, Russia
  6. 1915 AD Refugee Jews allowed into inner Russia · Russia
  7. 1917 AD Residence restrictions on Jews of Petrograd abolished · Saint Petersburg (Petrograd), Russia
  8. 1917–1920 AD Pogroms during the Russian Civil War · Southern Russia, Russia and elsewhere
  9. 1918 AD Canonization of the Romanovs · Yekaterinburg, Russia
  10. 1922 AD Gindin affair · Moscow, Russia
  11. 1922 AD Soviet confiscation of the Great Synagogue · Smolensk, Russia
  12. 1940 AD Katyn Forest massacre of Polish officers · Katyn, Russia
  13. 1941 AD Germans establish ghetto for Smolensk Jews · Smolensk, Russia
  14. 1941 AD Jewish revolt at Tatarsk crushed by German forces · Tatarsk, Russia
  15. 1941–1943 AD Gully of Petrushino · Taganrog, Russia
  16. 1942 AD Murder of Bryansk Jews under German occupation · Bryansk, Russia
  17. 1942 AD Murder of about 2,000 Jews of Smolensk · Smolensk, Russia
  18. 1942 AD Over 1,800 Pochep Jews executed · Pochep, Russia
  19. 1942 AD Zmievskaya Balka · Rostov-on-Don, Russia
  20. 1945 AD The massacre of Palmnicken · Yantarny (Palmnicken), Russia
  21. 1948–1949 AD Liquidation of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee · Moscow, Russia
  22. 1952 AD Arrest and execution of Anti-Fascist Committee leaders · Moscow, Russia
  23. 1952 AD Night of the Murdered Poets · Moscow, Russia
  24. 1955 AD Imprisonment of elderly Jews for Hebrew and Israeli literature · Moscow, Russia
  25. 1958 AD Attack on Malakhovka synagogue · Malakhovka, Russia
  26. 1959 AD Anti-Jewish riot in Malakhovka · Malakhovka, Russia
  27. 1959 AD Ban on baking matzot in Saratov · Saratov, Russia
  28. 1960 AD Buynaksk Affair · Buynaksk, Russia
  29. 1960–1963 AD Restriction of burials at the Jewish cemetery in Moscow · Moscow, Russia
  30. 1961 AD Arrest and imprisonment of synagogue chairman Pecherski · Saint Petersburg (Leningrad), Russia
  31. 1961 AD Segregation of foreign visitors in the Great Synagogue · Moscow, Russia
  32. 1961 AD Yeshivah students denied residence registration · Moscow, Russia
  33. 1962 AD Arrest of 25 Jewish youths on Simchat Torah eve · Saint Petersburg (Leningrad), Russia
  34. 1962 AD Arrests of Jews for baking matzah · Saint Petersburg (Leningrad), Russia
  35. 1962–1964 AD Ban on matzah baking in the Leningrad synagogue · Saint Petersburg (Leningrad), Russia
  36. 1962–1965 AD Matzah baking discontinued and then restricted · Moscow, Russia
  37. 1963 AD Confiscation of matzah flour from Jewish homes · Saint Petersburg (Leningrad), Russia
  38. 1963–1969 AD Prohibition and closure of the Jewish cemetery · Saint Petersburg (Leningrad), Russia
  39. 1964 AD Arrests of Jewish youths on Simchat Torah eve · Saint Petersburg (Leningrad), Russia
  40. 1964 AD Attack on the Astrakhan synagogue · Astrakhan, Russia
  41. 1970 AD June 1970 arrests of Jewish activists · Saint Petersburg (Leningrad), Russia
  42. 1970–1971 AD Leningrad hijacking trial of Jewish activists · Saint Petersburg (Leningrad), Russia
  43. 1972 AD Closure of the Cherkizov synagogue · Moscow, Russia
  44. 1978 AD Sentencing of Anatoly Sharansky · Moscow, Russia
  45. 1992 AD Molotov cocktail attack on Hasidic synagogue in Moscow · Moscow, Russia
  46. 1993 AD Vandalism of the Moscow Choral Synagogue · Moscow, Russia

21st century

  1. 2006 AD Bolshaya Bronnaya Synagogue stabbings · Moscow, Russia
  2. 2023 AD 2023 antisemitic riots in the North Caucasus · North Caucasus, Russia
  3. 2023 AD Antisemitic riots in Makhachkala · Makhachkala, Russia
  4. 2024 AD 2024 Dagestan attacks · Derbent, Russia

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