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| 1900 | Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov |  |
| Authorities fail to confiscate his exit visa, gets to Switzerland & forms Iskra |
| Joins colleagues in Switzerland & forms Iskra |
| 24th Dec Leipzig 1st issue of Iskra rolls off the secret Social Democratic press in Leipzig |
| 24th Dec Leipzig 1st printed for distribution by underground network Party agents inside Russia |
| 24th Dec Drew up plans for an oversees newspaper, "The Spark", which has its first publication |
| 1900 | Martov, Yuly Osipovich |  |
| Helps form the Iskra group within the Russian Social Democratic Party |
| 1900 | Struve, Peter Berngardovich |  |
| Pskov Helps publish the 1st issue of Iskra |
| 1903 | Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov |  |
| Geneva Run by Lenin, Plekhanov, Martov, Potresov, Zasulich & Axelrod |
| Geneva The London office joins Geneva |
| 1943 | Zhukov, Georgi Konstantinovich |  |
| 12th Jan Lake Ladoga Launches Operation "Iskra" with the Leningrad garrison moving south along Lake Ladoga |
| 18th Jan Lake Ladoga Links up with the Volkhov front to repel the Germans after their siege of Leningrad |