Events from the year 1920 in Russia.
Incumbents Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Russian SFSR – Vladimir Lenin
Events Russia Civil War (1918–1920) Polish-Soviet War (1919–1921) Legalization of Abortion (1920–1936) Battle of Warsaw (12-25 August) Treaty of Tartu signed with Estonia, ending the Estonian War of Independence (2 February) Execution of Admiral Alexander Kolchak, the White movement's Supreme Ruler, at Irkutsk (7 February) Polish and allied Ukrainian forces capture Kiev in the Kiev offensive of the Polish-Soviet War (7 May) The Tambov Rebellion against grain requisitioning begins (August) An armistice with Poland is signed at Riga, leading to the 1921 Peace of Riga (12 October) Defeat at the siege of Perekop forces Pyotr Wrangel to order the evacuation of his army and civilians from the Crimea, ending organized White resistance in European Russia (November) The Eighth All-Russian Congress of Soviets approves the GOELRO plan for national electrification (22 December)
Births
January 1 – Noor Inayat Khan, Russian born Indian espionage spy for Britain January 14 – Vahe Danielyan, Soviet soldier and concentration camp survivor July 11 – Yul Brynner, Russian-born actor, singer, and director Zecharia Sitchin, Soviet-born American author November 29 – Yegor Ligachyov, politician December 6 – 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)
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