October 15th

On this day – 15th of October 1990 - Mikhail Gorbachev got the Nobel Peace Prize 

Mikhail Gorbachev, who got the Nobel Peace Prize, was the last leader of the former Soviet Union. Gorbachev got the Peace Prize for his effort to end the Cold War. His polices that lead to this was called glasnost (openness) and perestroika (restructuring). The removal of the constitutional role of the communist party lead to the end for the Soviet Union. Gorbachev has also gotten the Otto Hahn Medal peace medal in 1989 and the Harvey prize in 1992.

September 6th

On this day – 6th of September 1991 -  Leningrad was renamed Saint Petersburg

In 1991 was the second largest city in Russia renamed St. Petersburg. The city held the name Petrograd between 1914 and 1924. The reason for this first name change was to eliminate the German words Sankt and Burg. In 1924 was the name changed to Leningrad in honour of Lenins death. In 1991 with the fall of the Soviet Union was the city given back its old name, Saint Petersburg. The city was original named after its founder, Tsar Peter the Great, in 1703 and the city functioned as the capital of Russia between 1713 and 1728.