Russian ancestors for the East Slavs Ross clan. Year 15 end of the century,大公Ivan III, established a centralized state - Moscow Emirates. 1547, Ivan IV, the self-styled "tsar", the so-called Russia. 16-17 century, the Volga River basin, the Urals and Siberia all ethnic groups has joined Russia, making it a multi-ethnic country. The mid-17th century Ukraine and Russia into a unified country. Peter I in August 1689 formally reign. After the 1700-1721 war in the north, Russia to the Baltic Sea have been to the sea, landlocked countries from Russia into coastal States. It rout of the 17th century, Poland and Sweden Bianjianzhu invasion. 1812 Russia eliminated Napoleon's invasion of the armed forces. December 1825 aristocratic revolutionaries held in St. Petersburg intifada (uprising December party member), was suppressed. Russia in February 1861 to abolish agricultural system. 1898 founding of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party (formerly the Communist Party of the Soviet Union), in its Under the leadership of the Russian workers and peasants, the first time in 1905 after the Russian Revolution and the February 1917 overthrow of the bourgeois democratic revolution Romanov dynasty ( February revolution), in the November 7, 1917 October Socialist Revolution achieved a great victory, established the world's first socialist state. November 7, 1917 (Russia calendar October 25) the establishment of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. Republic established, after three years of arduous domestic war, and smash the 14 imperialist countries and the armed intervention of the armed rebellion by landlords and capitalists, and defend the Soviet regime. December 30, 1922, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was officially established, the Russian Federation and Ukraine, Belarus and the Transcaucasian Federation (including Azerbaijan, Armenia and Georgia) joined together. June 12, 1990, Russia's National People's Congress passed the first time, "Russia national sovereignty declaration." December 21, 1991, the former Soviet Union 11 leaders of the Republic of Kazakhstan's capital Almaty in the decision, the former Soviet Union in the UN Security Council seats from Russia has inherited. December 25, the Russian Soviet Federal Socialist Republic of the Supreme Soviet decision will be officially renamed the country "Russia" (Russia). April 16, 1992, the Russian 6th NPC session decided to change the name "Russia", thus restoring the history of the name; on the 17th, the final decision to use two equal status official name "Russia" and "Russia."