Day on August 27 in the history

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Day of the Russian cinema. On August 27, 1919 the chairman of the board of National commissioners Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Vladimir Ilyich Lenin signed the decree "About transition of photographic and cinema trades and the industries in maintaining the National Commissariat of Education". Into maintaining a commissariat turned all private movie theaters, studios, rolling offices, and also all photo and cinema trade and the country industry...