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11 December
Dates in History
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1953—Andrey Makarevich, musician, is born. Singer of one of the oldest Russian rock bands Mashina Vremeni (Time Machine). 
1922—Nikolay Ozerov, sports commentator, is born. | Honoured Master of Sports, 24 times Tennis Champion of the USSR, the most famous Russian sports commentator. Many of his sayings are well-known among Russian people. 
1918—Alexander Solzhenitsyn, writer, is born. | In 1970 he wins the Nobel Prize in literature, and in 1974 the Soviet Government banishes him from the USSR, but in 1994 he returns to his motherland. Solzhenitsyn is considered Russia’s most important “serious” writer nowadays. |
