June 6 in #Russia: 1761 - Mikhail Lomonosov, observing the passage of Venus across the solar disk, discovered the presence of an atmosphere around it. 1919 - The Soviet government declared Nestor Makhno is an outlaw. 1922 - The Main Directorate for Literature and Publishing (Glavlit) was founded in the USSR, responsible for the government's censorship policy. It was liquidated during the years of perestroika. 1922 - The first issue of the monthly literary and artistic journal "Krestyanka