1765 in Russia

Events from the year 1765 in Russia

Incumbents

 * Monarch – Catherine II

Events

 * Foundation of the Novodevichii Institute.
 * Free Economic Society was founded.
 * Catherine II promulgated the "Manifesto on the Empire’s General Land Survey".
 * The special “Gypsy” regiments were abolished and Roma then registered in the existing “sotni” (Cossack squadrons) and regiments, thus they were given civil rights like the rest of the population.
 * Alexander Bezborodko was appointed the Chief of the Office of Little Russia Governor-General Count Peter Rumyantsev.

Births

 * Vasily Malinovsky, Russian diplomat (d. 1814)
 * Pyotr Bagration, Russian general (d. 1812)
 * Timofei Fedorovic Osipovsky, Russian mathematician (d. 1832)
 * Ivan Aleksandrovich Kuskov, Manager of Fort Ross (d. 1823)

Deaths

 * April 15 – Mikhail Lomonosov, Russian author and scientist (b. 1711)
 * April 15 – Mikhail Lomonosov, Russian author and scientist (b. 1711)