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Like many interesting Soviet tanks, aircraft, and weapons designs, steady incremental improvements to the initial airplane have greatly extended its service life.
Empress Elizabeth was the first Russian ruler to ban the death penalty. However, during her reign there was a punishment essentially equal to a death sentence – hard labor for life in the construction of a Baltic port.