Quote of the day
Nothing is impossible in this world. Firm determination, it is said, can move heaven and earth. Things appear far beyond one's power, because one cannot set his heart on any arduous project due to want of strong will.
Mikhail Kalinin
Born: November 19, 1875
Died: June 3, 1946 (aged 70)
Bio: Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin, known familiarly by Soviet citizens as "Kalinych", was a Bolshevik revolutionary and Marxist Leninist functionary, who served as head of state of the Russian SFSR and later of the Soviet Union from 1919 to 1946.