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Today in History, June 20

By The Moscow Times
View to Rozhdestvenskaya Church and Kanavinsky Bridge.

132 years ago on June 20, 1881, Russia's first public telephone cable was installed in Nizhny Novgorod. Spanning 1,547 meters, the phone line linked Georgievskaya pier with the offices of a local steamship company.

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